Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Andrew Scott in the one-man show “Vanya” after Anton Chekhov at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (Photo credit: Julieta Cervantes) A playful thought came to mind watching Andrew Scott (Sherloc…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:32PMSaturday, March 15, 2025
Even though the director, Rebecca Frecknall, honors most of the play’s dialogue, Blanche’s heartbreaking confession scene with Mitch (Dwane Walcott), her suitor, revealing the sad roots …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:28PMTuesday, March 11, 2025
So much of "Talking with Angels" is taken up by the rantings of these otherworldly emenations, which are filled increasingly by cryptic, impenetrable spoutings referencing religious imagery,…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:26PMThursday, March 6, 2025
"Tango After Dark" came across as more of a slick cabaret act, albeit one that was performed and staged with professional polish. The dramatically focused lighting by original designer Cha…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:20PMMonday, March 3, 2025
Elliott has directed too realistically, turning "Curse" into a sad melodrama, minus the magic. Maybe Shepard’s odd take on rural goings-on had more of a shocking appeal to sophisticated …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:36PMSaturday, February 22, 2025
Featuring ballet great and former American Ballet Theatre star, Herman Cornejo in the leading role, "Anima Animal" was choreographed by Anabella Tuliano on Cornejo’s ballet concert group f…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:00PMWednesday, February 19, 2025
“Lynchtown” (1936), probably Weidman’s best known work, is an indictment of lawlessness and group anarchy. It is one section of a three-part work called “Atavisms.” Members of the …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:49PMThursday, February 13, 2025
Bitch turns herself inside out in ways sometimes difficult to bear, particularly with her frank, anatomical language, but she communicates her joy and anguish so honestly and unflinchingly t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:15AMSaturday, February 8, 2025
“What an awful name for a musical,” spouts Little Sally (a brilliantly talented Pearl Scarlett Gold) as one of the narrators of the New York City Center Encores’ witty production of th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:30PMTuesday, January 28, 2025
This may not have been a typical program for the Malpaso Dance Company, but the troupe seems to lean towards the darker parts of life. As moving as each of the works are, they all painted …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:07PMSunday, January 19, 2025
The best constructed work was the finale, “Grace” (1999), in which Brown created a Goddess figure come down from Heaven “to spread grace among humans.” In addition to a score by Du…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:23PMSunday, January 12, 2025
The troupe, led by a mother and two daughters—Aparna Ramaswamy, Ranee Ramaswamy (mother) and Ashwini Ramaswamy—presented “Children of Dharma,” based on elements of the famous Hindu e…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:15PMMonday, December 23, 2024
Jenny Lyn Bader’s "Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library" has moved from a successful run at the 59E59 Theater to the intimate WP Theater on the Upper West Side. This is fortunate …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:12PMThursday, December 19, 2024
The main difference is the delightfully over-the-top, campy production that takes the audience into the fertile mind of Mark Morris and his artistic colleagues. The mostly black and white sc…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:40PMSunday, December 15, 2024
The second premiere was a battle of the sexes duet, “Me, Myself and You,” choreographed by Elizabeth Roxas-Dobrish to a Duke Ellington song, “In a Sentimental Mood” sung lustrously b…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:17PMWednesday, November 27, 2024
“Glitter and Be Gay” is not just a Leonard Bernstein aria from Candide, but the perfect description of the campily funny new musical "Death Becomes Her" which just hit the Lunt-Fontanne …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:24AMMonday, November 18, 2024
Can the tale of two families living in Palestine just before the partition that created the State of Israel shine a light on the current status of affairs? Playwright Tom Block’s "Oud Play…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:47PMSaturday, November 9, 2024
"Ragtime," thought of as an unwieldy musical with too many characters and too many themes, hit Broadway in 1998. Based on the 1975 E.L. Doctorow novel of the same name, the many storylines…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:47PMThursday, November 7, 2024
Now, director Jamie Lloyd has taken the clunky—but entertaining—Andrew Lloyd Webber musical "Sunset Blvd." (1993) and stripped it of all realistic scenery—and a few songs—hoping to g…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:14PMFriday, October 25, 2024
Donald Steven Olson’s "The Christine Jorgensen Show," a two-hander, focuses on the creation of her nightclub act. Jorgensen (portrayed by Jesse James Keitel known for "Younger," "Queer a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:39PMMonday, October 21, 2024
Clearly, Hwang’s playwright-within-the-play has been on a colorful journey, full of characters that amuse, anger and move him. Hwang’s genius here is his ability to spin his real life …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:38AMTuesday, October 8, 2024
We’ve come a long way from "Annie Get Your Gun" to the new musical "Distant Thunder" produced by Amas Musical Theatre at the A.R.T./New York Theatres. The Irvin Berlin song “I’m an I…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:20PMTuesday, October 1, 2024
The final work of the evening was Takehiro Ueyama’s “Heroes,” dedicated to the brave, hard-working citizens of Japan who helped pull themselves out of the devastation of World War Two.…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:21PMFriday, September 27, 2024
"The Goldberg-Variations" by George Tabori (written in 1991, now having its belated new York premiere) is a confused and confusing conflation of Bible stories and backstage bickering amongst…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:16PMSaturday, September 21, 2024
“Larina Waltz,” choreographed by Ashley Page to the lilting melodies of Tchaikovsky, opened the program. It was a dynamic expression of the classical ballet bona fides of this youthful…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:44PMMonday, August 12, 2024
"Airport and the Strange Package" effectively combines good old-fashioned paranoia with witty references to Kafka’s literary classic. King and his collaborators have fashioned a frighteni…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:58PMWednesday, August 7, 2024
"Memory" brought back “Untitled,” a masterpiece from 1978. This work had everything that made Pilobolus the world class dance troupe it became. Choreographed by Pilobolus founders Robb…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:42PMWednesday, July 17, 2024
Jakob Karr conceived, choreographed and directed his full-length dance/drama, "Ain’t Done Bad" currently heating up the Irene Diamond Stage at the Pershing Square Signature Center just wes…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:12PMTuesday, June 18, 2024
The Netherlands-based dance troupe Introdans (Roel Voorinthoff, artistic director) exploded onto The Joyce Theater stage in an aptly titled program, "Energy," making a very welcome return to…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:25PMThe tapestry Stone weaves with his multitude of characters—too many to mention here—is always fascinating in its subtle details. Each person stands on his or her own helped by superb p…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:42PMFriday, June 7, 2024
There’s so much fascinating material in "Party Clown of the Rich and Famous" and its companion compendium of four short works, "The Hungry Mind Buffet" that it pains me that the works aren…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:07PM 
