Monday, November 27, 2023
Director Matthew “Motl” Didner manages to make what might have been just a well-staged concert of moving songs into a dramatic whole with a deep feeling for the ebb and flow of emotions …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:24PMSunday, November 19, 2023
It takes an artist of the stature and extraordinary talent of Wiest to keep Caswell’s fragmented play from flying off in all directions as it veers from reality to fantasy and from flashba…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:33AMFriday, November 17, 2023
The musical "Harmony," the lovechild of pop music greats Barry Manilow (music) and Bruce Sussman (lyrics and book), has opened at a time when anti-Semitism has peaked once again and lessons …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:08PMThursday, November 2, 2023
Far less mystical that he would have us believe, "Somnole" nevertheless is Charmatz’s honest exploration of his stated theme, although self-indulgence reared its ugly head too often. The…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:41PMTuesday, October 31, 2023
How does a Holocaust-themed play land with such emotional impact as Leslie Epstein’s "King of the Jews" at the HERE Theatre? Based on his novel of the same name, "King of the Jews" is a …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:01PMWednesday, October 25, 2023
The dancers performed their dystopian tasks with great dedication and the occasional display of actual technique. They were all good-looking and clearly into what they believed was an icon…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:44PMTuesday, October 24, 2023
The spine of the work wasn’t the choreography or dancing, but the lines spoken by the dancers as they walked about the stage; however, since the lighting by Crawford was shadowy and the da…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:03PMSunday, October 22, 2023
Sometimes good intentions do not have the best results—at least in theater. Such is the case with "Scrambled Eggs" at the Gene Frankel Theatre. Presented to bring immediacy to the issue …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:35PMTuesday, October 17, 2023
Melissa Etheridge is a bona-fide superstar. So, why is this artist, used to appearing in huge venues, “slumming” in a Broadway theater with a capacity of less than 800? Let’s not loo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:30AMSaturday, October 14, 2023
Does it matter how autobiographical Amy Crossman’s "The Great Divide" at the HERE Arts Center is? A production of the Boomerang Theatre Company, "Divide" is Crossman’s one-person play …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:40PMWednesday, October 11, 2023
The immediate impression of "Gira" was of the semi-circle of lights designed by Gabriel Pederneiras and Paulo Pederneiras (the Grupo Corpo artistic director) and their somber illumination of…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:40AMFriday, October 6, 2023
The Houston Ballet, Julie Kent and Stanton Welch, directors, opened the program with Welch’s genteel "Clear" to music by J.S. Bach. Originally staged on American Ballet Theatre, the Hous…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:24PMMonday, October 2, 2023
Ballet BC, the Canadian-based modern ballet company, began the program with 'The Statement," Crystal Pite’s witty take on a boardroom meeting, a corporate boardroom meeting full of intrigu…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:13PMThursday, September 28, 2023
An alternate title for Albert M. Tapper’s Clifford Odets-esque "Bettinger’s Luggage" might be "The Flood." In Tapper’s period piece, a flood destroyed the eponymous shop, an event arou…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:38AMSaturday, September 23, 2023
Clearly, "Zoetrope" often becomes difficult to follow for non-Spanish speakers. The dearth of realistic sets makes knowing which location is which confusing, despite the occasional descrip…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:26PMMonday, September 18, 2023
Shaye tells of a pot and drug-addicted couple who are totally disgusting parents to a two year old. That’s just not acceptable even though it is told as a funny hippy-dippy anecdote. Eve…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:51PMWednesday, September 13, 2023
Elisha has written a refreshing new take on Anne Frank’s life. Called "Anne Being Frank" (a title that should, perhaps, be reconsidered), the one-person, multi-character show posits a su…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:35PMFriday, September 8, 2023
In "Relapse" ’s most original conceit, a quartet called The Intrusive (Vinny Celerio, Audree Hedequist, Nicole Lamb and Zummy Mohammed) becomes a Greek Chorus, insinuating themselves into …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:17PMMonday, September 4, 2023
Antonio Fini in Ted Shawn’s “The Cosmic Dance of Siva,” performed as part of 2023 Fini Dance Festival at the Ailey Citicorp Theater (Photo credit: Wendy Wild) Joel Benjamin, Critic The…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:27PMWednesday, August 23, 2023
Redman’s "A Séance with Mom" at the Chain Studio Theatre veers dizzyingly from one character to another, characters that include middle-aged Nadine who searches for her Mom; her mom, Guss…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:36PMWednesday, August 2, 2023
"Here Lies Love" unreels like an MTV music video with the emotional content lost in the technique. The real issue of this musical is that it’s impossible to feel anything for the lead ch…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:57PMWednesday, July 26, 2023
Korean Arts Week celebrated the theatrical and fine arts of South Korea, a culture under-represented in New York City compared to, say, those of Japan, China and India. At the David H. Koch …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:08AMTuesday, July 18, 2023
There is an elegiac formality to Buscando. However, other than Juan de Pareja’s name in the title there is little in the choreography that evokes either period or personality. The chor…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:33PMSunday, July 16, 2023
The Nazis persecuted not only Jews, political opponents and its own, but also homosexuals. Jews were forced to wear the infamous yellow stars; gays, the pink triangle. Alan Palmer, in his …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:51PMThursday, July 6, 2023
Terri Hooley (a game, genial Glen Wallace) is both the main character and the narrator of "Good Vibrations: A Punk Rock Musical" at the sparkling Irish Arts Center. How he morphed from Ter…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:58PMThursday, June 29, 2023
"Rock & Roll Man," the new jukebox/biographical musical at the New World Stages has a great deal going for it. The story of legendary Rock & Roll impresario Alan Freed is told in a s…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:26PMFriday, June 23, 2023
New York City Center Encores!’s new production of the musical, directed by Chay Yew, stars another Tony Award winner, the sensational Ruthie Ann Miles, as the determined Margaret Johnson w…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:48PMMonday, June 19, 2023
Spencer Aste in a scene from his one-man show “Wake Up” at the Axis Theatre (Photo credit: Regina Betancourt) Joel Benjamin, Critic Is Spencer Aste a hardworking actor who sold and used…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:42PMSunday, June 11, 2023
"Dancing Spirit" was a gentle ballet choreographed by Ronald K. Brown to a suite of music by Duke Ellington, Wynton Marsalis, Radiohead and War. First one dancer, then two and then the entir…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:52PMThursday, June 8, 2023
The major work of the evening was “Sor Juana,” choreographed by Michelle Manzanales (“in collaboration with the Company”) and performed to a selection of period music including a com…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:18PMTuesday, June 6, 2023
Eerie and irritating in equal measure, Levi Holloway’s "Grey House" at the Lyceum Theatre dredges up the classic plot device of many horror films: strangers stumbling into a den of oddba…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:58AM 
