In Head of Passes, Phylicia Rashad portrays Shelah, a woman so religiously devout she objects to Deviled eggs. Her faith is tested in the Public Theater’s well-acted, richly atmospheric pr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:07PMDry Powder is a play about a private equity firm that tries to buy a luggage company, but it is not as dry as it sounds, and not just because its cast includes John Krasinski (formerly of Th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:33PMDarja, the central character in Ironbound, never leaves a barren bus stop on an ugly stretch of post-industrial New Jersey, but Martyna Majok’s rich play about a poor immigrant feels alway…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:58PMIn It Can’t Happen Here, one of the candidates for president of the United States declares “the people are sick to death of political chatter…It’s time to ACT” — and promises…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:04AMWhat’s most impressive about the Broadway production of Eclipsed, Danai Gurira’s forceful drama about the effect of war on five women in Liberia, is that it is opening on Broadway at all…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:40PMIn a Presidential campaign year that includes headlines like CNN’s recent “Donald Trump defends size of his penis,” one welcomes the premise behind Richard Nelson’s new three-play …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:09PMDanai Gurira is best known for slicing off the heads of zombies in The Walking Dead, but that is about to change. Her play Eclipsed is opening on Broadway March 6, starring Oscar-winner Lu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42PMThere are two main differences between the candidate debates on TV and the one in Old Hats, in which Bill Irwin and David Shiner don too-white teeth and try to one-up each other: 1. These cl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:28PMThe most intriguing element in the new production of O’Neill’s Hughie, which marks Forest Whitaker’s Broadway debut, is Christopher Oram’s set. This is not just because the hotel lob…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:22AMThe Humans, Stephen Karam’s nuanced slice-of-life drama that unfolds during a family’s Thanksgiving dinner, has transferred intact to the Helen Hayes, in a production that has become eve…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:42PMRobert Sean Leonard was 20 years old when he portrayed one of the boarding school students inspired by teacher Robin Williams in the movie Dead Poets Society. In Prodigal Son, John Pa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:21PMFive years after the Gershwin brothers debuted Porgy and Bess, a Gershwin protégée born Vladimir Aleksandrovich Dukelsky (aka Vernon Duke) composed the all-black musical Cabin in the Sk…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:26AMAllee Willis has a special interest in the cast album of the Broadway revival of The Color Purple that will be released on February 12th. She wrote the music and lyrics, along with two fello…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:39PMGrease Live was so smartly cast and so inventively staged — and so much communal fun — that it was easier to forgive the fact that it was still Grease, a dopey, dated, leather-de…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:05PMI and You, Lauren Gunderson’s two-character play that now has opened in New York, has been produced in some 20 theaters around the country (including Olney Theatre Center), receiving awar…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:51PMOn Day 1 of Year 1 of BroadwayCon, being held for three days at the Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan, we learned: “It’s like Comic Con but with more jazz hands and green face pa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:33PMOur Mother’s Brief Affair begins with Linda Lavin in a mother’s deathbed confession to her grown gay twin children, but by the end, two hours later, playwright Richard Greenberg has spru…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:08PMKecia Lewis is nearly heroic as Mother Courage in the Classic Stage Company’s production of Brecht’s anti-war epic – not the way she’s playing the character, but the actress herself,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:39AMDominique Morisseau was moved to write Skeleton Crew, her compelling play about a group of Detroit auto workers, after the playwright met a woman who was reduced to living in her automobile …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:57PMSlamming doors and plates of sardines were all I could recall from the last time I saw Noises Off, and that’s a good summary of the third Broadway production of Michael Frayn’s slapstick…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:45PMMy list of ten favorite shows on New York stages in 2015 tilt towards Broadway musicals – five out of “ten” – which is in great contrast to my top ten lists last year and the year…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:12PMNear the end of The Color Purple, Cynthia Erivo, as Celie, sings “I don’t need you to love me….I’m beautiful, yes I’m beautiful, and I’m here” – which provokes the audience t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:57PMLazarus, the hottest ticket right now in New York, is a startling new musical, featuring 18 songs written by David Bowie (four of them new), a production directed by auteur-du-jour Ivo van H…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:27AMIn his first original musical on Broadway in a decade, Andrew Lloyd Webber has chosen to adapt a movie with a plot that could hardly be sillier, and supplies a new score that could hardly be…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:30PMDavid Mamet’s China Doll involves two dramas. There’s the one on stage starring Al Pacino as an old billionaire in something of a cynical primer on wealth and political ambition. Then th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:03PMThe Wiz Live! eased on down the road Thursday, the best-attended Broadway try-out in history. Next year, director Kenny Leon is planning a Main Stem transfer of the production, although it�…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:40AMA View From The Bridge, one of Arthur Miller’s most popular plays, has been on Broadway four times before, most recently just five years ago, starring Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:14PMTwo separate revivals of plays by Arthur Miller on the centennial of his birth illustrate two core aims of his work: “I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to cha…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:14PMMisery on Broadway is the latest adaptation of Stephen King’s story about a writer who’s imprisoned by a berserk fan. It’s not as good as either King’s novel nor the movie, but it’…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:09PMThe publicists ask for the review to run no earlier than 7:30 Sunday Nov 15 Misery Review: Bruce Willis’ Broadway Debut in Faded Copy of Stephen King Misery on Broadway is the latest adapt…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:08PMSome 120,000 Japanese-Americans were incarcerated a few months after Pearl Harbor, by order of President Roosevelt. George Takei and his family were among them. The actor, best known as …
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