Friday, 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 07:05PMMonday, February 26, 2024
Does the New York City Center Encores! new production of "Jelly’s Last Jam" hold up against the original Broadway production (1992-1993) which starred Gregory Hines (Tony Award), Savion Gl…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:04PMTuesday, February 20, 2024
Like her masterful Sinatra solo for Mikhail Baryshnikov, “Brel” takes Cornejo from a strolling meditating figure (“Quand On N’A Que l’Amour”) to an anguished lover (“Ne Me Quit…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:53PMFriday, February 16, 2024
The host company, WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company ended the short, well-run program with the longest work, the three-part “Eternal NOW.” It also had the most complex costumes, …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:56PMThursday, February 8, 2024
The Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre (CAMT) is presenting “an innovative re-interpretation of a classic, combining live performances with puppets” at the resourceful Theater for …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:30PMTuesday, January 30, 2024
Of course, in true American musical theater form the elegant Princess has been transformed into the bedraggled and uncouth Winnifred (Foster, in her best goofy guise, proving her talent know…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:05PMThursday, January 25, 2024
This hotbed of virtuosity, indeed, made his troupe one gorgeous community of physically exuberant and fearless citizens. Whether he communicated any deeper existential or human truths prob…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:35PMFriday, January 19, 2024
Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE, the Brooklyn-based dance company founded in 1985 is back at the Joyce Theater presenting two works by Brown showing off the exuberance, sensuality and technical bri…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:13PMMonday, January 15, 2024
Harmon meticulously fuses the domestic ups and downs of this bright, well-educated extended family with the overwhelming and unavoidable social upheavals that surround them whether it’s th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:39PMFriday, December 29, 2023
How the ten dancers of Momix create so many beautiful and mysterious images is a credit to artistic director Moses Pendleton and his associate Cynthia Quinn who, along with the dancers, crea…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:29PM 
