A plea for understanding the pain of being Muslin-American, Sevan's First Down at the 59E59 Theaters focuses on the plight of an adored football player who decides to kneel and pray during t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:27PM[SHARE]In her selection of the movements and structure of "Four Quartets," Tamowitz chose to ignore the depth and imagery of the poems, producing a cool Merce Cunningham-like ballet that glided alo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:27AM[SHARE]Wheeldon and Pulitzer Award-winning playwright Lynn Nottage make every effort to hide the fact that MJ is a jukebox musical, despite the fact that the first notes of every song elicited loud…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:59PM[SHARE]Who knew that SPAM has figured so importantly in Korean and Korean-American cuisines? Jaime Sunwoo's "Specially Processed American Me" tells that story and much more. "Specially Processe…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:55AM[SHARE]Let's start with the best:Â The great Joshua Henry's 11 o'clock number, "William's Song," a gut-wrenching revelatory song sung by the title character's emotionally distant father. Â Hen…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:31PM[SHARE]The New Yiddish Rep's (David Mandelbaum, artistic director) production of the Yiddish language "Di Froyen (The Women)" is a bittersweet, anger-inducing portrait of modern day Chasid women ca…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:23PM[SHARE]Turning the plight of New York City's homeless into a game is an iffy proposition to say the least. At best, the audience for the theatrical effort, "Addressless: A Walk in Our Shoes," l…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:18AM[SHARE]He used the gimmick of preparing to perform the very show he was performing for his audience in the Cabaret Theater of the Theater for the New City; but by the end of his fascinating and gru…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:45PM[SHARE]Parsons' first work on the program was the tour de force solo "Balance of Power" performed by the phenomenal Zoey Anderson. Clad in Barbara Erin Delo's brilliantly colored tight costume"…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:40PM[SHARE]If you are a Princess Diana completist, "Diana: The Musical" will satisfy your needs along with the deeper Spencer and The Queen and all the innumerable documentaries about this ill-fated fa…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:50PM[SHARE]When Sonny Marie Lee stepped onto the stage of the Actors Temple Theatre as the eponymous "The Bronx Babe" I thought she was putting the audience on, acting the stereotypical, Noo Yawk accen…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:05PM[SHARE]Unfolding from a stand-up comedy routine""A prisoner walks into a bar…!""and set in a comedy venue designed with ingenuity and style by Walt Spangler, Turtle veers from hokey to horrible h…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:07PM[SHARE]"Caroline, or Change" is an important musical, more now than in 2004. It should be seen. The Roundabout production, though somewhat flawed, still communicates the complicated relatio…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:41AM[SHARE]Now there's "Swan Lake Rock Opera" created by Mirit Shem-Ur (book and lyrics), Tsedi Sarfati (director and dramaturge) and Sharona Pick (music production and additional music). The show …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:59AM[SHARE]Before the dancers appeared live, "Dance" commenced with a burst of Glass' iconic, pulsating music"here pre-recorded, originally performed live"and a still from LeWitt's original video proje…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:26PM[SHARE]The final work on Program 1 was its finest. A.I.M. By Kyle Abraham presented its director's "Our Indigo: If We Were a Love Song," a deeply moving paean to the darker meanings of love.Â�…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:23PM[SHARE]DiMurro writes with an acute sense of the rhythm of New York speech and its old-school jargon, helped by director William Roudebush's complementary sense of timing, not to mention four exper…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:54AM[SHARE]The dances on this program are perfect examples of the Denishawn aesthetic which combined what was then exoticism with impeccable theatricality. The Denishawn troupe was very much of its…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:43PM[SHARE]Benjamin Viertel directs "Between the Bars" brilliantly finding the balance between theatricality and reality. Each character emerges as distinct and multidimensional, even the guards wh…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:41AM[SHARE]It is to the credit of the entire cast"dressed in Anthony Paul-Cavaretta's period tunics and flowing robes"that Lackey's sometimes over-the-top dialogue lands credibly. Two other elements el…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:24PM[SHARE]As the opaquely complicated plot played out on the stage, the three lead dancers (Ranee, Aparna and Ashwini Ramaswamy) took turns displaying impeccable Bharatanatyam technique: Â feet ador…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:54PM[SHARE]Sadly, these promises aren't kept in this mishmash of plots and characters that never quite meshes into a viable whole; it remains an unsteady comedy/fantasy never morphing into a smooth-run…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:08PM[SHARE]"Roles and Rules of Comedy," six short comedic bits of fluff written and directed by Harold Dean James is a character-driven view of contemporary New York City. Presented at the elegant …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:34PM[SHARE]It's unlikely that New York City will ever see these five troupes sharing a stage again. This was a festive occasion despite being uneven in tone and not particularly representative of a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:41PM[SHARE]It is definitely worth a gander for both its subject matter and its performer, the disarming and immensely talented Jon Peterson who also adapted the one-man play from Chip Deffaa's original…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:00PM[SHARE]Hamilton Clancy, the artistic director of The Drilling Company, joins forces with his assistant director Karla Hendrick to stage The Two Noble Kinsmen in a modern-dress version that makes th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:14PM[SHARE]She gets to sing everything from the Patsy Kline classic "Crazy," "Respect" (made famous by Aretha Franklin), and "Summertime" from Porgy and Bess to generous, beautifully acted scenes from …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:01AM[SHARE]In what might just be the best stage role of her career, Jackie Hoffman plays the multi-faceted Ariana in E. Dale Smith's "Fruma-Sarah (Waiting in the Wings)" at Nancy Manocherian's the cell…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:00PM[SHARE]The Icarus of Icarus and Amina is a poster of Henri Matisse's brilliantly colorful abstraction of that Greek mythological character who soared too close to the sun, and Amina (Sidney Caruth …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:28PM[SHARE]Havel's Audience represents CAMT's first foray into modern Czech literature having previously staged imaginative productions of folk material. This visit to contemporary theater, unfortu…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:46PM[SHARE]Written by Krista Knight and Brinegar, Sloppy Bonnie follows its title character (played with irresistible zest by Amanda Disney) as she lays waste to everything and everyone in her path, le…
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