Sunday, December 1, 2019
Maddeningly alternating between being an absorbing historical drama and a grating exercise in self-indulgence, Â "A Bright Room Called Day"Â is author Tony Kushner's reimagining of his 1…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:59PM[SHARE]Friday, November 29, 2019
Yes, Mr. Foote's eloquent take on the souring of the American Dream has shades of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman," but with his idiosyncratic and powerful command of dramatic writing h…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:07PM[SHARE]An old man who is an homage to Noam Chomsky is metamorphosed into an owl through the aid of a cloth mask and a print costume with a technician behind him flapping the wings, accompanied by t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:06AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 23, 2019
The late NYC performer's 60th birthday was commemorated by a lovely concert at The Duplex with the proceeds benefitting Big Brothers Big Sisters of America.
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SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:52PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Following a comically exaggerated shootout, the two men make out. A cowgirl and a Mexican woman get together. At one point performers blindfold audience members for a brief bit. There's a hu…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:37PM[SHARE]Monday, November 18, 2019
Solea Pfeiffer in a scene from New York City Center's revival of "Evita" (Photo credit: Joan Marcus) Darryl Reilly, Critic Abandoning elaborate scenery and projections for her spirited decon…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:50PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 17, 2019
The Reverend Al Sharpton, Angela Davis, and Sonny Carson are among the two dozen celebrities, cross section of New Yorkers, and male and female integral figures of diverse ethnicities that a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 14, 2019
The life of the prolific theater producer whose career began in the 1940's is chronicled in this eventful and entertaining show business documentary.
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SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:25AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 12, 2019
Seven vibrant and diverse women of color take the stage and speak, sing and dance at the start of this shining revival of author Ntozake Shange's landmark play, "For Colored Girls Who Have C…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:00PM[SHARE]Monday, November 11, 2019
Revolutionary War patriots Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Richard Henry Lee, John Hancock and Benjamin Franklin are eerily represented by male and female black performers wearing tweaked 18th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:14AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 9, 2019
A seated actor dressed all in black wearing a beret beats a conga drum on a confined playing area. Other actors in period costumes sit at small cabaret tables and chairs as thick wafts o…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:39PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 6, 2019
LBJ's ambitious social programs in the United States of the 1960's being sidetracked by the folly of the Vietnam War and his mishandling of the unrest caused by the Civil Rights Movement, ha…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:25PM[SHARE]Monday, November 4, 2019
The enduring resonance of its source material is evident in "An Enchanted April" during this uneven stage musical adaptation. Lasting two hours and 45 minutes with an intermission, its initi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 31, 2019
Mr. Burnam's futuristic conceit is engrossing and the theme of a repressed figure looking back at a more joyous way of life is potent. The present day portions are amiable but only fitfully …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:28PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Hillary Clinton wearing a glittery red pantsuit leading a Gene Kelly/Stanley Donen-style production number set in a Busby Berkeleyesque recreation of a McDonald's with giant sparkling French…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:37PM[SHARE]Searching Facebook recently, I discovered that a brilliant, colorful and unsung creative figure I encountered in my youth, died earlier this year.
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SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:39PM[SHARE]Monday, October 28, 2019
"The Cosby Show," "Home Improvement" and "Roseanne" are among Mr. Williams' prominent credits as a television writer and producer. Williams also has had several plays produced and has direct…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 24, 2019
As is Mr. Friel's The Faith Healer, Molly Sweeney is a monologue play. Here, instead of being separated in individual acts, the three characters appear on stage together without interacting,…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:36PM[SHARE]Monday, October 21, 2019
Admirers of the legendary performer should be enthralled by this quite probably definitive chronicle of her life and career that's written with zest.
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SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 20, 2019
Admirers of the legendary performer should be enthralled by this quite probably definitive chronicle of her life and career that's written with zest.
The post Book review: "Still Here: The …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:44PM[SHARE]Friday, October 18, 2019
Bearded, bald and utilizing a pronounced Irish accent, the physically imposing Jeffrey Bean is towering as John. The beaming Mr. Bean's delightful bonhomie gives way to harrowing anguish as …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:56PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 17, 2019
This is the latest edition of creator, writer and director Gerard Alessandrini's enduring musical spoof skewering present and past NYC theater that he inaugurated- in 1982 and has had over 2…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:15AM[SHARE]Monday, October 14, 2019
A mulatto slave is sodomized with a large black dildo while in a canopy bed by his master's wife who is decked out in Madonna-style dominatrix regalia. A white indentured servant fellates th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:55AM[SHARE]Numb from two straight-through hours of far-right speechifying emoted in perpetual semi-darkness, the audience at "Heroes of the Fourth Turning" then endures a ghastly aria of despair by a L…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:27AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 9, 2019
A downer by its nature, "Nothing Gold Can Stay" is playwright Chad Beckim's heartbreaking 95-minute family drama depicting the ravages of rampant opioid addiction in the present day United S…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 3, 2019
It's 1948 and we're in an Italian prison where "The Beast of Rome," German SS Colonel Herbert Kappler (1907-1978) is serving a life sentence for war crimes. Kappler was the Chief of Police o…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:38PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 29, 2019
Though off-putting, "Sunday"'s periodic non sequitur choreographic interludes become a respite from its bad writing and grating performances. For no discernable reason, characters stop sp…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:30PM[SHARE]Katsura Sunshine is the stage name of this charismatic 49-year-old Toronto-born performer who relocated to Japan and apprenticed to a Rakugo artiste. Mr. Sunshine eventually became a notable…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:02AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 22, 2019
Halfway through the abstract hijinks there are fleeting references to terrorists, getting in trouble for bringing a little knife on an airplane and vague political debates as the tone grows …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:29PM[SHARE]Friday, September 20, 2019
The shaven-headed, athletic and charismatic Derren Brown is a well-known personality in the United Kingdom due to his award-winning theatrical and television presentations. With his resoundi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Ms. Backhaus'Â writing is erudite, well-shaped and imaginative but isn't funny which is problematic considering it's intended as a barbed comedy until its heartfelt metaphysical conclusion…
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