Monday, March 16, 2020
Van Hove's energetic cast is too often lost among the video images which is sad because they are a wonderfully scrappy group of actor/dancer/singers who give their all. (I’m told that th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:26PMThursday, March 12, 2020
If one were to come to conclusions about the Netherlands after seeing the three ballets presented by the Nederlands Dans Theater at the New York City Center, the Netherlands would clearly co…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:20PMFriday, March 6, 2020
This illustrates the biggest problem with "Suicide Forest": it takes on too many issues, jumping from social to sexual to mythological to intimate family subjects. Making the play even m…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:07AMThursday, February 27, 2020
Music director Andy Einhorn who conceived the show was a genial, informed host. Having worked as the music supervisor and music director for the most recent revival of "Hello, Dolly!," h…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:54PMTuesday, February 18, 2020
Could there be five more self-involved, selfish, self-deceptive characters than those who populate Lily Akerman’s "The Commons" at the 59E59 Theaters? No, these five roommates aren’t e…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:40AMMonday, February 17, 2020
"Goy Friendly" is clearly meant as a light entertainment with lecture-demonstration components and succeeds as such. It’s delightful spending time with this superb raconteur, even if he …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:48AMSunday, February 9, 2020
Hosted by the Graham Company’s elegant director Janet Eilber, the program began with some historical comments after which two groups of dancers, one representing the Graham technique from …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:45AMWednesday, February 5, 2020
“The legend returns” claimed the fliers and posters for "Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake"’s short season at the New York City Center. That proclamation wasn’t far from the truth. "S…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:58PMDavid Alan Grier, Blair Underwood and Billy Eugene Jones in a scene from Charles Fuller’s “A Soldier’s Play” at the American Airlines Theatre (Photo credit: Joan Marcus) Joel Benjami…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:16PMWednesday, January 29, 2020
The 92nd St. Y’s Lyrics & Lyricists, one of New York’s leading propagators of the Great American Songbook, featured the witty and sardonic songs of E.Y. “Yip” Harburg in its most…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:00PMMonday, January 27, 2020
"Romeo & Bernadette," a fresh take on Shakespeare’s oft-adapted tale of love, is an unabashed valentine to inter-era romance. Shakespeare’s Romeo (cutie-pie Nikita Burshteyn, perfe…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:14PMTuesday, January 14, 2020
Wataru Kitao in Suguru Yamamoto’s “The Unknown Dancer in the Neighborhood” at The Japan Society (Photo credit” Ayumi Sakamoto) Joel Benjamin, Critic Suguru Yamamoto’s solo dance/th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:52AMFriday, December 27, 2019
By stripping the story of local color—even the projections show little but an anonymous seascape—the creative team does ill by "Sing Street. " Take away the Irish accents, the 1980’s …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:32AMThursday, December 19, 2019
Israeli-born choreographer Zvi Gotheiner created "Maim ('Water' in Hebrew)," a somber meditation on water, drought, misery, community and survival for seven members of ZviDance, all brillian…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:34PMFriday, December 13, 2019
Ensemble Signal, Marjorie Folkman, Daniel Pettrow and Kristen Foote in a scene from “Peter & the Wolf,” costumes by Isaac Mizrahi, choreography by John Heginbotham (Photo credit: Dan…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:00PMWednesday, December 11, 2019
After marveling at Ken Jennings’ power of memorization, one has to admire his ability to deliver the entire text of "The Gospel of John" with unwavering clarity and devotion to its meaning…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:09PMMonday, December 9, 2019
Goldfaden’s escapist musical fantasy combines bits and pieces from many sources: the Cinderella fairy tale; Gilbert-and-Sullivan-esque rapid-fire, tongue twister songs; old-fashioned (even…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:25PMWednesday, November 27, 2019
His more abstract ballets for The Chase Brock Experience, such as its current presentation at Theatre Row, "The Four Seasons" to the Vivaldi score (a revival from 2006), did not fare quite a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:11AMSunday, November 24, 2019
Do we really need another Jukebox Musical on Broadway—another hum-along, sing-along, déjà vu, vaguely autobiographical songfest? When the subject is as charged up as Tina Turner, the ans…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:47PMTuesday, November 19, 2019
Artistic director Enrique Cruz DeJesus presented a performance of Alpha Omega in preparation for the troupe’s fiftieth anniversary season next year. This concert featured two works by th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:18PMSaturday, November 16, 2019
Tiffany Mills’ "Not then, not yet," a world premiere dance/theater work at The Flea proposed a dark, slightly chaotic view of relationships and alienation choreographed on her own troupe, …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:26AMWednesday, November 13, 2019
In 1957 Truman Capote disingenuously misled the legendary actor Marlon Brando into opening up to him under the guise of helping to publicize the soppy melodrama, Sayonara which Brando was th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:07PMTuesday, November 5, 2019
In a counterintuitive casting coup, handsome Jonathan Groff stars as the nebbish Seymour Krelborn who works at Mushnik’s (a funny, kvetchy Tom Alan Robbins) failing flower shop on Skid Row…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:04PMWednesday, October 30, 2019
On Broadway every once in a while writing, acting, directing and the technical production come together to profound, memorable effect. Adam Rapp’s "The Sound Inside" at Studio 54 is a su…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:36PMMonday, October 21, 2019
"Games" shines a light on the long forgotten stories of two Jewish athletes in post-World War I Germany, a Germany that slid into National Socialism by the 1930’s, effecting the lives of H…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:16PMWednesday, October 16, 2019
Monica Bill Barnes totally changed the mood with her thoroughly delightful “The Running Show” which used physical contests as a metaphor for dance. Barnes stood in the midst of sixteen…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:33AMMonday, October 14, 2019
The final work, “Unveiling” by Sonya Tayeh, director of Tayeh Dance, known now as the choreographer of the Broadway hit 'Moulin Rouge!," used a trio which appeared to be about a female (…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:02PMThursday, October 10, 2019
It is Ginger Grace as Amanda that is the crowning glory of this production. Though slender and frail looking, she is still a powerful, if bothersome figure, memories of a golden southern b…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:21AMThursday, October 3, 2019
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s "The Little Prince" (1943) has been studied, analyzed, and staged as any number of plays, ballets, musicals and an unsuccessful film. So, it was with great in…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:00PMThese four characters are, unfortunately, not interesting enough to fill a 90-minute musical, especially one that covers territory better served by other shows like "A Chorus Line," "Fame" a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:30PMSunday, September 22, 2019
Quite simply, Rubberband, the Montreal-based dance troupe’s season at The Joyce Theater was a spectacular success. Directed by Victor Quijada, Rubberband performed his "Ever So Slightly,…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:54PM 
