Saturday, June 15, 2019
After a successful run in 2008 of the musical "Enter Laughing" a revised version of the original "So Long 174th Street" which was a Broadway flop in 1976, The York Theatre Company has revive…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 12:17PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 12, 2019
There is nothing new in "Nomad Motel" and the important themes the play shrouds are ineffectively and weakly developed. The young actors give the play their very best and cannot be held acco…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:25AM[SHARE]Monday, June 10, 2019
Although Christopher Shinn's characters are well developed and their conflicts believable enough, the plot developed by those "problems" is not as believable and suffers from a lack of patho…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:29AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 6, 2019
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts in Dave Malloy's a cappela musical "Octet" currently playing in The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center. A…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:08PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 4, 2019
"I can't abide seeing a body stuffed into the wrong role." " Jo to Meg in "Little Women" Kate Hamill's retelling of Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" plays at Primary Stages at an auspiciou…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 30, 2019
"Pretend that we're the only two people in the entire world, that's what I'm doing, and it all falls into place." " Johnny to Frankie Moonlight " the kind of light that shines into Frankie's…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 29, 2019
Charlotte and Doug Walker's son Kai will be home from prison in three months to begin his court remanded probation. Kai is a white university student athlete who was convicted of raping a bl…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 07:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 21, 2019
Because the playwright chooses to include a compendium of LGBTQ history, the script becomes didactic and cumbersome. Elise Forier Edie would have been better off allowing Trisha to take cent…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 06:24PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 19, 2019
What a pleasant surprise to walk into the Studio space at Cherry Lane Theatre and see a fresh, new look developed for the exciting new production "Original Sound" by Adam Seidel. Scenic desi…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 04:14PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 16, 2019
Happy talk " the type of verbal communication, replete with counterfeit smiles, that too often serves as a replacement for authentic connection between individuals " cascades across the stag…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 9, 2019
Poet-playwright Aziza Barnes puts many ingredients into their script blender to whip up a "comedic look" at the lives of Octavia (Paige Gilbert), Imani (Alfie Fuller), and June (Antoinette C…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 08:30PM[SHARE]Monday, April 29, 2019
High school junior Jeremy Heere (an awkward and amiable Will Rowland) would like his chill factor to be higher. He does not want to be "special," but he just wants "to survive." From his ope…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:40AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Outer Critics Circle, the organization of writers and commentators covering New York theater for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway, announced toda…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 12:31PM[SHARE]Friday, April 12, 2019
Daniel Fish's revival fails to deliver authentic characters with believable conflicts. Despite the admirable and important diverse casting choices, the characters are not interesting " they …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 05:48PM[SHARE]Monday, March 25, 2019
MIRACLE IN RWANDA " the play by Leslie Lewis and Edward Vilga " scheduled to premiere Off Broadway following an acclaimed world tour, with preview performances beginning April 4 prior to an …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:39PM[SHARE]Monday, March 18, 2019
As "The Mother" plays out, scene after scene " with scene/act changes indicated in projections on the back wall in French " Anne continues to give evidence of her shattered emotional state. …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 05:33PM[SHARE]Monday, March 11, 2019
Thanks to Tori Sampson's crisp writing style, it is evident from the start that the audience is being engaged in a retelling of an important Nigerian folktale. This retelling begins with a s…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:33AM[SHARE]Friday, March 8, 2019
Tradition. Culture. Politics. Love. Tevye grapples with these four and more in National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene's "Fiddler on the Roof" currently running at Stage 42.
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:58PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 7, 2019
The characters " all of them " are underdeveloped, mostly static, with less than interesting conflicts. So how could there possibly be an engaging plot? They seem not to care for themselves …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:19AM[SHARE]Manhattan Theatre Club's New York premiere of The Cake, written by Bekah Brunstetter ("This Is Us," "American Gods," The Oregon Trail) and directed by MTC's award-winning Artistic Director L…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:18AM[SHARE]AVENUE Q " winner of three 2004 Tony Awards including Best Musical " is extending its previously announced closing date 4 weeks, due to popular demand, with a new end date set for May 26 at …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:10AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 6, 2019
After a successful and extended run at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Tarell Alvin McCraney's important and engaging "Choir Boy" closes on Sunday March 10, 2019. With o…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:42PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 10, 2019
Afrikaans protagonist Mies Julie (Elise Kibler) and Xhosa antagonist John (James Udom), though childhood friends, are from vastly different social orders. Now in their twenties, they are sep…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 07:47PM[SHARE]Monday, January 14, 2019
The Clubbed Thumb, True Love, and New York Theatre Workshop production of "What the Constitution Means to Me: will come to Broadway this spring for a 12-week limited engagement, beginning pe…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:16AM[SHARE]Friday, January 11, 2019
Award-winning playwright and director Emily Mann, who has served as the Artistic Director and Resident Playwright of the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, New Jersey since 1990, will ret…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 8, 2019
Abby Rosebrock introduces an interesting mélange of broken characters in her new play "Blue Ridge" currently running at Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater. She drops these six d…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:33AM[SHARE]Friday, December 21, 2018
"Network" addresses important themes and raises equally significant enduring questions. "Network" parses the word 'network' in a variety of ways, adding richness and layered depth to the imp…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 12:29PM[SHARE]Monday, December 3, 2018
Josh Cohen's year long (Valentine's Day to Valentine's Day) struggle with the vicissitudes of life is chronicled in eleven musical numbers by an energetic and talented cast that not only sin…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 05:29PM[SHARE]Friday, November 30, 2018
In this revival of "Thom Pain (based on nothing)" at The Pershing Square Signature Center's Irene Diamond Stage, Will Eno steps over, under, and in between the resting places " and the writi…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:21PM[SHARE]Friday, November 2, 2018
"India Pale Ale" remains a stalwart attempt to "see" and "understand" and to stay woke to the social injustices extant just outside (and most likely within) the doors of the theater. The cas…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 01:29PM[SHARE]The journey to achieving Arnold's commendable goals is a universal one as are the hopes and dreams of the characters in "Torch Song." One wishes for even more relevant themes for the LGBTQ+ …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 08:40AM[SHARE] 
