Saturday, January 28, 2023
Three solos were stunning in their display of physical endurance. One woman moved forward, repeatedly kicking one leg behind her nearly touching her head with her foot. Another, tall and…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:29PMTuesday, January 24, 2023
The ballerina Natalia Osipova easily transformed herself from spectral to sensuous to eerie in just the first half of her 'Force of Nature" program at the New York City Center. The show—pr…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:11PMSaturday, January 21, 2023
When the older Diamond reaches an existential breaking point, he finally stands up, stage center and takes command of his memories, experiences and his life with an intensely concentrated re…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:26PMTuesday, January 17, 2023
Webre went for acrobatics and precision rather than passion. Perhaps, the Chinese Communist regime frowns upon openly sexual expression in dance. Perhaps Webre can’t summon anything bu…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:35PMTuesday, December 27, 2022
"Darkness: unfolds in many very short scenes with some confusing transitions. Dubashin, the traitor to Russia, finally gets to confront Number One in a knock-down personal battle. The on…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:18PMMonday, December 19, 2022
Matthew López & Amber Ruffin (book) and Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman (music and lyrics) have transformed the written-for-laughs film into a joyous musical, keeping much of the sharp…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:51PMWednesday, December 7, 2022
Under the permissive direction of Garfield-Szita—who also designed the costumes—the cast comes across more as members of a sitcom than a serious drama, not helped by Morgenstein’s depe…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:46PMMonday, November 28, 2022
Ellen Abrams’ new play "Eleanor and Alice – Conversations Between Two Remarkable Roosevelts" explores their superficial courtesies in a series of conversations spanning 1904 until 1962, …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:57AMWednesday, November 23, 2022
"Kimberly Akimbo," David Lindsay-Abaire’s oddball take on the title character’s dishearteningly sad disease, began life as a play back in 2001, reaching New York via the Manhattan Theatr…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:35PMSaturday, November 19, 2022
A touching portrait of a father and his alienated son unfolds in the Manhattan Theatre Club’s "Where the Mountain Meets the Sea" by Jeff Augustin, directed by Joshua Kahan Brody. ... "When…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:20PMMonday, November 14, 2022
LaTanya Richardson Jackson (Samuel L. Jackson’s wife) has directed in a desultory fashion. Long, revealing monologues, the backbone of this particular play, are delivered directly to the…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:12AMThursday, November 10, 2022
Chung has the six characters played by three actors, each playing a parent/child duo switching from one to the other in confusing frequency. In addition, each actor plays a parent of the opp…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:02PMMonday, November 7, 2022
World events have inadvertently raised the significance of the New York City Center’s Annual Gala presentation of the brilliant new staging of the Jason Robert Brown/Alfred Uhry musical Pa…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:53PMSunday, November 6, 2022
You won’t find Vatican Falls on any map about picturesque raging waters. No, Frank J. Avella’s new play, "Vatican Falls," is, instead, a passionate, sometimes humorous, indictment of t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:44AMTuesday, November 1, 2022
The venerable, historic Negro Ensemble Company is presenting an intriguing program at the equally venerable, historic Cherry Lane Theatre: "Our Voices, Our Time: One-Act Play Festival." The …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:19PMSaturday, October 29, 2022
A scene from Twyla Tharp’s “In the Upper Room” at New York City Center (Photo credit: Benjamin Miller) Joel Benjamin, Critic When Twyla Tharp’s ballets are good, they are great: wor…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:00PMMonday, October 24, 2022
It’s not clear what Amaterasu Za’s mission is. If, as Dachs’ program comments indicate, it is to bring Japanese culture to modern audiences, the company needs to be less stodgy and m…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:35PMTuesday, October 18, 2022
Directed by Jeffrey L. Page (who also did the simplistic choreography) and Diane Paulus, this production’s well-meaning gimmick is to have all the historic characters played by a “cast t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:37AMMonday, October 10, 2022
Krevolin is a clever writer, turning Wilder’s American folk tale into a modern comedy/drama with relevance to today’s audiences. Although he often makes his points a bit too obviously …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:51PMMonday, October 3, 2022
"Men of Kyiv," choreographed to high-spirited traditional folk music by Pavlo Virsky, pitted two groups of men—one wearing blue T-shirts, the other yellow, the colors of the Ukrainian nati…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:57PMMonday, September 26, 2022
Perhaps the supreme dance festival in New York City, maybe even in the world, New York City Center’s Fall for Dance 2022 is celebrating its 19th year of presenting a panoply of domestic an…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:50PMWednesday, September 21, 2022
Greenspan isn’t always totally clear when switching points of view, but made up for this by turning the entire, long script into a wonderland of gestures, vocalizations, postures and movem…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:45PMSunday, September 18, 2022
"Love, Sex & Real Estate" moves swiftly, thanks to John D. McNally’s direction. He skillfully manages the quick shifts between romantic liaisons, real estate discussions, Ugo’s you…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:30PMMonday, September 12, 2022
From the clever double entendre title to its fantastical involvement of three famous long dead physicists, Carole Buggé’s "Strings Attached" tries very hard to rise out of the morass what…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:50PMMonday, August 29, 2022
If Samuel Beckett had been a Jew, his "Waiting for Godot"’s Estragon and Vladimir could have emerged as the equally quirky "Two Jews, Talking," in the appealing new two-hander by Ed. Weinb…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:17PMFriday, August 26, 2022
Part of Ramón’s game plan to increase attendance is to create a Randy’s Dandy Coaster Castle mascot. In a move that changes his life, Arlo is drafted to don a hilarious, smelly rat co…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:45PMFriday, August 19, 2022
The second Ashton ballet was "Varii Capricci," his clever take on Bronislava Nijinska’s "Les Biches" from 1924. Her ballet was a tongue-in-cheek comment on the sexually liberated, chic y…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:45PMFriday, August 12, 2022
The dancers were attired in puffy white tutus and black tights, the men bare-chested—chic costumes by the choreographer. They pranced, undulated their torsos, tossed each other around an…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:56PMWednesday, August 3, 2022
A tiny dynamo, Bell Wolff, early in her career, found the perfect role as Ermengarde in several productions of "Hello, Dolly!". She yearned to perform the bigger part of Minnie Faye and near…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:22PMFriday, July 29, 2022
Ng has a far-reaching imagination and spins the many stories and characters of her "Happy Life" with admiral skill and abandon. But it is just too heavy-handedly, head-scratchingly abstrus…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:34AMTuesday, July 19, 2022
The chips fall into place by the end of A Black and White Cookie, perhaps a bit too smoothly, but the path to the ending is well constructed and fascinating. Morgenstein has caught the nuanc…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:00PM 
