Friday, November 2, 2018
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]Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Rooms full of missed opportunities sprawl across Second Stage's Tony Kiser Theatre where Steven Levenson's new play "Days of Rage" is running through November 2018. Mr. Levenson, the award-w…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 08:38AM[SHARE]Friday, October 26, 2018
For ninety minutes, Ms. Schreck rehearses those speeches not for prize money but to remind the audience that the Constitution has been less protective of human rights than its drafters inten…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:14PM[SHARE]Monday, October 22, 2018
The obvious connection to the current debate concerning the place of truth in politics plays well in "The Lifespan of a Fact." The playwrights develop their argument carefully and with the r…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:27PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 16, 2018
DeWanda Wise and Khris Davis are electrifying in their roles as Olivia and Charles. Under Saheem Ali's poignant and surgically precise direction, Ms. Wise and Mr. Davis explore every nerve, …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:25AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 11, 2018
"Hitler's Tasters" is also a gripping extended metaphor for how women who have been victims of sexual violence carry lifelong cultural shame that prevents them from coming forward to tell th…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 04:55PM[SHARE]"Mother Night's" themes are as important in the present as they were when Vonnegut wrote the novel. It is remarkable how relevant the important issues of white supremacism, anti-Semitism, ol…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:40AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 4, 2018
"On Beckett" is about Bill Irwin's process and the metacognition involved in that creative process as he shares the push-pull relationship he has with existentialism's bard. This is a perfor…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:33AM[SHARE]Friday, September 28, 2018
Humor tempered with caring is necessary to pull off something as zany as "Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties." Less humor and more opportunities to care about these Betties seems needed he…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:41PM[SHARE]One would think mounting a Broadway show about snooker would be perilous. Richard Bean's "The Nap," currently running at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, unfortunately co…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:19AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Ms. Rebeck's compelling new play explores in depth Sarah Bernhardt's struggles with playing "Hamlet" and her compassion for being a "thinking" actor who works her craft with "feeling."
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 25, 2018
"I Was Most Alive with You" explores the complex ways we communicate with or without speaking and hearing. Whether our language is English or ASL, how we insinuate, describe, perceive, inte…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:30AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 23, 2018
Tennessee Williams' 1979 play "A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur" connects deeply with all (individuals, governments, nation-states) suffering the malaise of loss or lack of identity and the q…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 04:55PM[SHARE]Friday, September 21, 2018
Currently playing at Walkerspace, The Pond Theatre Company's "The Naturalists" is a compelling look at how one's "secret" past can suddenly and unexpectedly encroach on the present and delay…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:43AM[SHARE]Monday, August 27, 2018
The moral turpitude of those who "consume" is in the spotlight in Lillian Hellman's 1936 "Days to Come" currently running at Mint Theater Company at Theatre Row's Beckett Theatre.
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:41AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 14, 2018
Under Joshua Bergasse's direction, the cast (five men and four women) fills Beowulf Boritt's towering Café set with solo numbers, duets, trios, quartets, quintets and full company numbers t…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 06:40PM[SHARE]Monday, August 13, 2018
The hype surrounding "Be More Chill," including its extensive marketing campaign, and the musical itself cannot and should not be a substitute for the real work required to discover who one …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 31, 2018
During one of many sitcom scenes, crowded on the sofa in matching plaid pajamas provided by Ed, the father-sons quartet share Chinese takeout while trash talking, texting, and drudging up ch…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 01:52PM[SHARE]Since its original presentation by the New York Stage and Film Company and the Powerhouse Theatre at Vassar in 2012, Marcus Gardley's important play has been performed across the country and…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 08:40AM[SHARE]Friday, July 27, 2018
Under Lila Neugebauer's exquisite direction, the actors playing Mary Page each give intriguing performances that focus on the pastiche of one "ordinary" American facing the dangers inherent …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 08:50AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Under Daniel Aukin's carefully executed direction, the characters explore their individual pasts and their histories with family and friends with honesty. Their portraits are authentic.
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:25PM[SHARE]Monday, July 23, 2018
Director Marissa Wolf and the three-member cast grapple successfully with Rinne Groff's demanding script which results in a sometimes mind-spinning tumble into the playwright's wonderland of…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 12:16PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 21, 2018
Although Bertolt Brecht understood the importance and power of the comedic, his writings are overwhelmingly dark and, like a sharp scalpel, cut deeply beneath the facia into the "guts" of th…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:05AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Playwright David Ireland has pushed the plot driven by this character's maniacal temperament to the limit of moral turpitude and beyond.
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 01:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 14, 2018
Mike Lew has assembled characters whose conflicts are engaging and believable and the plot these "problems" drive is complex, layered, and relevant to the conversations about the dynamics of…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 04:47PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 3, 2018
Melissa Errico gives her "split personalities" depth and authenticity and Stephen Bogardus serves as a formidable chauvinistic foil to both women.
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 06:27PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 30, 2018
Under Pam MacKinnon's direction, the superb cast enlivens Jordan Harrison's script as he meanders through perhaps too many issues for one play. The strength of his play lies not in the bicke…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:25PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 26, 2018
The themes of Miles Malleson's "Conflict," currently running at the Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row, could not be more relevant and the playwright's treatment of these themes could not be mor…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:22PM[SHARE]Friday, June 22, 2018
Under Christopher Murrah's deft direction, Angela Pierce leads a brilliant ensemble cast whose intricate conflicts drive a mysterious and often challenging plot with enough twists and turns …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 05:39PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 17, 2018
Angelina Fiordellisi and Michael O'Keefe are wonderful together and give their respective characters a depth and authenticity that often rises above what they are given in Mr. Mee's script.
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 01:44PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 16, 2018
Mr. Byrnes' script does address the promised issues of the ascent of man, including snippets of BBC's Michael Parkinson's 1970s interviews with Jamie's grandfather who affirmed the constant …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 04:18PM[SHARE] 
