Saturday, January 27, 2018
The success of "The Children," currently playing at Manhattan Theatre Club at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, is primarily the result of playwright Lucy Kirkwood's effective and judicious us…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:51PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 17, 2017
Failing to address any meaningful discussion about systemic racism or any significant conversation about the 1970s race riots, "Downtown Race Riot" remains a puzzling foray into the realm of…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:03AM[SHARE]Friday, December 15, 2017
First, what did work for this production is the casting of Jin Ha as Song Liling and Clive Owen as Rene Gallimand. Both actors explored the many levels of their complex characters which resu…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 01:46PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 7, 2017
Inspired by Henry François Becque's 1885 play "La Parisienne," Mr. Willimon's "The Parisian Woman," currently running at the Hudson Theatre, overshadows its important themes of love, trus…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:55PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 6, 2017
Kate Hamill's retelling also explores the seriousness with which people treat love " romantic and otherwise. Hence, this "Pride and Prejudice" is, in Hamill's words, "a screwball comedy."
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 05:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 5, 2017
"Hundred Days" celebrates Saying 'yes' to life and all its uncertainties: celebrates facing the fear of loneliness, rejection, and being able to take each other's troubles "into" each other.…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:27AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 2, 2017
The characters and their conflicts are familiar " even more familiar than they were in the 1970s and 1980s. And the plots and subplots driven by their conflicts are even more recognizable.
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Billy Crudup engages in a dramatic battle with the script and comes up the clear victor, unearthing Mr. Cale's treasures and bringing Harry Clarke to life with inexorable energy and irrepres…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 1, 2017
"Stuffed" addresses the gamut of issues surrounding weight and its gain or loss (intentional or otherwise), including: body-image; clothing; shaming; anorexia-bulimia; dieting; therapy; favo…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:43AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 29, 2017
The play raises rich and enduring questions regarding justice and morality; moral ambiguity; and guilt and innocence. When is it all right to lie to save one's life? How does systemic racism…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 06:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 26, 2017
In addition to the Vietnam Jungle, the play addresses the occupied territories of the childhood home and its basement full of memories; of time and space; between characters; between charact…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:10PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Also compelling is one of Oedipus's final questions, "Do we have to believe everything they tell us?" Equally compelling is the question of the Coro, "Do we lay down and take what the world …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:20AM[SHARE]Monday, October 23, 2017
This is a pleasant musical that celebrates the enduring themes of love, commitment, and "being alive." The cast is uniformly engaging " all triple threats with vocal, acting, and movement …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:27PM[SHARE]Friday, October 20, 2017
Despite the outstanding performances of Arnie Burton and Matt McGrath, the revival of Steven Dietz's "Lonely Planet," currently running at the Keen Company at the Clurman at Theatre Row, fai…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:41PM[SHARE]"Time and the Conways" is a sensitive and courageous exploration of how time (the fourth dimension) teases the fifth dimension and the possibility of alternate universes where, as Alan (play…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:10AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Using the powerful Google Translate platform, all content on Theatre Reviews Limited is now available in ten languages: English; Spanish; Italian; French; German; Japanese; Korean; Bengali; …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 05:25PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 11, 2017
ERA's "Measure for Measure" successfully questions the nature and purpose of law and order and the role of the state in maintaining moral clarity.
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:14AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 10, 2017
At first glance, Philip Dawkins's "Charm," currently playing at MCC Theater at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, is a heartfelt play about Mama Darleena Andrews (played with a spirited transcenden…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:30PM[SHARE]Friday, October 6, 2017
Mary Jane experiences the breadth and depth of transcendence and catharsis at the play's end in a scene rich in magical realism immersed in blessed redemptive release.
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:35PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Under Ms. Spencer-Jones's precise and inventive direction, the ensemble cast of "misfits" and "miscreants" deliver uniformly authentic performances that challenge the status-quo understandin…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:29PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 3, 2017
Watching "Tiny Beautiful Things" at The Public's Newman Theater can be described as experiencing the vicissitudes of the human experience through the kaleidoscopic lens of sheer redemptive g…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:09PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 1, 2017
Duane Boutté, as "Charles Dickens," Michael Laurence as "Thomas Jefferson," and Thom Sesma as "Leo Tolstoy find themselves locked in what they soon discover is a "room" in Heaven " not even…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 06:57PM[SHARE]Friday, September 29, 2017
Under John Doyle's exacting direction, the ensemble cast is uniformly excellent. Their performances " believable and authentic " carefully explore their characters' levels of complexity and …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 12:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 27, 2017
"The Treasurer" is a memory play narrated by The Son who attempts to "confront" his difficult mother in a long-distance relationship by phone and only succeeds in confronting his own deep-se…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:07PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 26, 2017
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Bergur Ingolfsson directs REVOLUTION's energetic and talented cast with precision and depth. The cast creates authentic characters " not caricatures " and Mr. Ingolfsson provides convincing …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:19PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 1, 2013
All the characters in Mr. Kane's delightful tragic-comedic drama are dancing on nails except, perhaps, Luba Fogel (Bryna Weiss) who shares the story of a man dancing on nails in the West Vil…
SOURCE: david.ceoexpress.com at 02:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 25, 2013
BEND IN THE ROAD is a delightful character-driven musical lifted from the framework of the classic 1908 novel "Anne of the Green Gables" by Lucy Maud Montgomery. The musical - like those bef…
SOURCE: david.ceoexpress.com at 04:20PM[SHARE] 
