Monday, May 20, 2019
But, fear not! The Encores! creative team"director John Rando, music director, Rob Berman and choreographer Sarah O'Gleby"found a terrific cast led by Michael Urie in the Phil Silvers' r…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:49PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 16, 2019
"Pepperland," however, will not do anything for Morris' reputation as a choreographer. His dearth of choreographic invention"including constant repetition of a few steps, gestures and pa…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:58PM[SHARE]Monday, May 13, 2019
Ted Chapin, the writer and host of the 92Y Lyrics & Lyricists Series' "A Beautiful Dawning: Oklahoma! at 75," did an impeccable job creating one of the best editions of this important se…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:55PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 7, 2019
Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels still has most of his/her friends and professional acquaintances from the movie version with some new twists:Â Jeff Slater, his playwright roommate (a wond…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:03PM[SHARE]Friday, May 3, 2019
It is a well crafted story of a feisty seventy-something Sheila O'Connor (Nora Chester who does feisty beautifully) whose grandson, physician Brian O'Connor (an earnest Jordan Ahnquist), who…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:47PM[SHARE]For all you philosophy junkies out there"and you know who you are"Tim Blake Nelson's world premiere "Socrates" at The Public Theater, the shining light of The Public's Onassis Festival, is a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:08PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 28, 2019
Likability is in short supply nowadays and the three playwright/performers who created this comedy, based on an actual pamphlet handed to Americans during World War II, have spun the dry, in…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 24, 2019
"17 Border Crossings" is one of the most technically adroit Off-Broadway shows to be seen thanks to the split second cooperation between Phillips' spare scenery design, David Todaro's brilli…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:22PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 17, 2019
With the medley of "My Romance" and "My Funny Valentine," he warmed up and came to a gentle boil with the two songs from "Baby": "At Night She Comes Home to Me" and "With You," both by Richa…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:25PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 16, 2019
By stripping down the show and performing it in a white box theater space with minimal scenery and costumes, the eight actors, doubling up on parts, have fun interpreting Shakespeare's lusci…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Ludovica Villar-Hauser, the play's keen eyed and eared director (and artistic director of Parity Productions the company responsible for this presentation), paces the fine actors for the ult…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:37PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Belilove, who has taught Sara Mearns of the New York City Ballet to perform some of these works, divided the concert into dances to Schubert, Chopin, Brahms and Scriabin, all original Duncan…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:58PM[SHARE]The Experimental Theater Space at the Abrons, a not particularly large black box, was turned into a complex construction site by the "Tilt" creative staff, a truly unique interactive set.…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:42PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 31, 2019
Using the premise of a 1964 recording session that stimulates her many memories, good and bad, the play serves as a moving tribute to Holliday even though it doesn't shy away from the darker…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:15PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 28, 2019
A lot has been made of the parallels between the original 1938 production of "I Married an Angel" for which George Balanchine choreographed the dances for his soon-to-be wife, the glamorous …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Produced in New York City by the China Arts and Entertainment Group Ltd., "Princess Zhaojun" was performed by the members of the China National Opera & Dance Drama Theater. It was di…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:43AM[SHARE]Friday, March 22, 2019
"Vilna," written by Ira Fuchs, is one of the more successful stage dramas to deal with the Holocaust, a notoriously difficult subject to portray on stage. That this play succeeds as well…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:47AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 19, 2019
The Camagűey troupe danced Ruiz's work as if born to his vigorously eclectic style. His choreography is an amalgam of ballet, modern dance, break-dancing, folk dancing and Latin ballr…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:34PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 14, 2019
"A Jewish Joke" brings immediacy to not only the personal and professional effects of the Hollywood blacklist, but to the current onslaught of internet finger-pointing and fear-mongering tha…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:08PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 12, 2019
The production of "Boesman and Lena" at The Pershing Square Signature Center directed with attention to every detail by Yaël Farber is stark and unforgiving in a way that would have been …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:40PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 7, 2019
Unlike the company's 2016 luxuriously staged "Les Fêtes Vénitiennes," also at the Gilman, "Rameau" was purposely staged by Sophie Daneman as if in a village square, simply but effectivel…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:14PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 28, 2019
In "Star Dust," a 2016 ballet tribute to David Bowie, Rhoden displayed his mordantly campy side in a series of scenes, each devoted to a famous Bowie number, beginning with Brandon Gray lead…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 20, 2019
This wasn't just a political statement about gender stereotypes, but a sensitive work of art that made its points through fine choreography, costuming, lighting (smartly designed by Jennifer…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:15PM[SHARE]Monday, February 11, 2019
The creator of "Betty & The Belrays," now at the Theater for the New City, pretty much dares you to compare his well-meaning, but cartoony, new musical to Hairspray, a comparison in whi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:37PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 7, 2019
The two directors/founders of BalletBoyz, Michael Nunn and William Trevitt, directed and photographed the film which also included Pérez's choreography. Although the movie certainly ill…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:42PM[SHARE]Monday, February 4, 2019
Directed with touching simplicity by Henry and choreographed with a lyrical flow by Lorna Ventura, this Anne tells the well-known story utilizing a combination of voiceover readings, project…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:06PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 2, 2019
Director John Collins made the more than seven hour running time a breeze with his attention to detail, moving his cast of office workers/Gatsby characters with such naturalness that, as eac…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:11AM[SHARE]Friday, February 1, 2019
"We'll Have Manhattan: Rodgers & Hart in New York," created and narrated by the soon-to-become Broadway's Tootsie (in the new Broadway musical), Santino Fontana found most of its emotio…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:28PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Casual strolling was suddenly punctuated by dancers bumping and grinding at each other, these full-bodied movements resonating in slightly different ways in each dancer, sometimes leading to…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:21PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Conceived and directed by Coral Cohen, along with musician/composer Zoë Aqua and the cast, Threads illuminates the experiences of a large swath of the Jewish population, beginning with a …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:36PM[SHARE]Monday, January 21, 2019
All four works"particularly the first three"had a certain offhanded similarity, a lack of formal movement ideas and construction, but all four choreographers are clearly students of the scho…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:31PM[SHARE] 
