Tuesday, 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 05:07PMTuesday, May 21, 2024
Christopher Caswell: "Listen to My Heart" took the audience into his confidence as he opened up about his personal life: friends, loves, children and, of course, show business. His show ha…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:13AMMonday, May 20, 2024
Christopher Caswell: Listen to My Heart took the audience into his confidence as he opened up about his personal life: friends, loves, children and, of course, show business. His show had …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:49PMWednesday, May 15, 2024
Christie Perfetti Williams’ genial new play "Bettye and the Jockettes Spinning Records at the Holiday Inn" transports the audience back to the moment Elvis Presley became an international …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:26AMMonday, May 13, 2024
"The Heart of Rock and Roll" at the James Earl Jones Theatre is one of the more pleasant entries in the jukebox musical derby. Using the musical catalog of Huey Lewis and the News, Tyler M…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:44PMThursday, May 9, 2024
"Mother Play," though based on Vogel’s own life, is her most schematic, more an outline barely fleshed out with lots of details rather than the intense emotional revelations of her earlier…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:49PMSunday, May 5, 2024
The play is an expression of the quiet whirlwind within Mary Jane’s soul, exquisitely expressed by the warm McAdams, surrounded by the boundless support of the others. Director Anne Kauffm…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:34PMFriday, May 3, 2024
The transfer to Broadway has brilliantly expanded the show. The new production designed by Riccardo Hernández (scenery), Paul Tazewell (costumes), Lap Chi Chu (lighting) and Charles G. La…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:27PMSaturday, April 27, 2024
David Adjmi’s "Stereophonic" at the Golden Theatre, a transfer under the auspices of Playwrights Horizons, is a minutely detailed, almost minute-by-minute recreation of a recording session…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:59PMSaturday, April 13, 2024
The four patients’ stories occupy the bulk of "Dali’s Dream" in an uneven stream of oddball activities which divert the plot from the more important consideration of the Freud/Dali inter…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:03PMTuesday, April 9, 2024
No one should be sacrosanct or above satirical treatment, not even our heroes. Everyone has feet of clay. Cole Escola in their huge hit "Oh, Mary!" at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in Green…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:28PMFriday, April 5, 2024
"Travels" at Ars Nova isn’t just a story of the many places James Harrison Monaco has been. That’s part of it, the most superficial part. "Travels" is far more: a deep look at the pe…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:28PMTuesday, April 2, 2024
Peter Brynolf and Jonas Ljung, two coolly elegant Swedes—who wrote the show with Edward Af Sillén (also the show’s director)—perform one mind-boggling feat after another, fed by infor…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:08PMFriday, March 29, 2024
For those interested in both theatrical history and the lives of our former artistic heroes, Pendleton doesn’t disappoint, even if he exaggerates and manipulates the facts a bit. He does…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:44PMWednesday, March 27, 2024
"The Look of Love" was filled with Morris’ least complex choreography, relying on repetition, walking, running and soft leg extensions along with simple arm gestures. Considering the sop…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:56AMMonday, March 25, 2024
Dongpo’s travels through life is set forth in the lovely poems—projected in Chinese script and in English—full of observations of nature, sad inner monologues and thoughts intimating t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:45PMThursday, March 21, 2024
In this Roundabout/Scott Ellis production, Amy Ryan’s Sister Aloysius (stepping in for the originally cast Tyne Daly) comes across as less absolute in her suspicions while Liev Schreiber�…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:23PMSunday, March 17, 2024
Kahn has a good ear for the subtleties of each character and the period. However, "Fair Winds" doesn’t handle all the major themes smoothly and the use of the narrator sometimes feels li…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:42AMFriday, March 8, 2024
How the metaphor of rabbits fit into this was puzzling, yet the dreamlike (nightmarish?) rabbit imagery was the strongest visual idea and pervaded the work, from a toy stuffed bunny to grote…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:54PMWednesday, March 6, 2024
Lynn’s dialogue is astute and subtle, following the heartbeat of this strange, but understandable couple lifting it out of soapiness and melodrama. She has written a very modern drama. .…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:14AMSunday, March 3, 2024
This York Theatre Company production at the New World Stages, following a presentation at Goodspeed Musicals in 2016, shoehorns these songs into a book by Lindsey Hope Pearlman from a story …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:52PMThursday, February 29, 2024
"This is not a time of peace" has a stream of consciousness feel effectively handled by the director Jerry Heymann. There is never any confusion about who is who and what they represent des…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:05PM 
