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]Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Of Passloff's eight works, the newest, "Frolic," (2018) to music by Erik Satlie ("Trois morceau en la forme de poire") came closest in spirit to her classical ballet origins, utilizing whims…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:44PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 10, 2019
The four choreographers whose three works were represented at the Japan Society's Contemporary Dance Festival: Japan + East Asia flung themselves headlong into the modern world of dance with…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:34PM[SHARE]Monday, January 7, 2019
Translator Shane Baker has found excellent Yiddish equivalents for Beckett's language. He understands that Yiddish is a minor key tongue full of sadness, quicksilver tone changes, perfec…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:35AM[SHARE]Monday, December 31, 2018
Brock's work once prized effect over substance, but years of choreographing situation and character-based musicals ("Be More Chill," "Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark") have sharpened his artist…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:01PM[SHARE]Friday, December 28, 2018
A five-day journey to Bear's Ears National Monument in Utah in the company of other dancers, choreographers and Native Americans turned Gotheiner's mind to more serious pursuits resulting in…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:04PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 22, 2018
The troupe attracted a wide-ranging audience to The Sam space at The Flea, even a few youngsters there to see their first live dance performance, and, with the exception of one section, "Thu…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:46AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 19, 2018
That it involves the relatively new phenomenon of gay parenthood gives it an added impact. That it is written with a thorough understanding of the complexities of gay parenthood vs. cons…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:46PM[SHARE]Monday, December 17, 2018
Elice is no stranger to biographical musicals. His "Jersey Boys" is still running off-Broadway. Here he was inspired to divide the eponymous character into three personalities: t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 4, 2018
The flier for "Shadows," subtitled "A Dance Musical," calls it "a Gothic ghost love story," adding, "It's Twyla Tharp meets Stephen King."Â If only. "Shadows," written by Randall David Co…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:03PM[SHARE]Monday, December 3, 2018
Her quietly wry, gently self-deprecating autobiographical lecture demonstration, "Minimalism and Me," was the first half of a program devoted to her early works. These works more often than …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:59PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 28, 2018
"Life X 3" was first seen in 2003 at the Circle in the Square. This revival is tauter and funnier. Perhaps this smaller venue refracts the play in a different way, but these four act…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:00PM[SHARE]Friday, November 23, 2018
Hall is not helped by an over-zealous production that, for some reason, turns the Signature's Irene Diamond Stage into a construction site, complete with drop cloths, ceiling netting and lot…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:39PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 22, 2018
The New York Theatre Ballet performed the lovely, all-female, "Come to Me, Bend to Me" from that musical, a sweet look at pre-wedding preparations in the ancient village of Brigadoon. Th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Designed by Johnny Tilders, the puppet Kong is phenomenal, a 20-foot tall, 2,000 pound marionette operated by the ten-person King's Company, members of the cast assigned to operating the arm…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:34PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's wondrous fairytale, "The Little Prince" ("Le petit prince"), has been filmed as a musical, a cartoon, and a musical cartoon and even occasionally staged live, but…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:53PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Frank J. Avella's "Lured" at the Theater for the New City practices a bit of theatrical legerdemain. Ostensibly about the perils of being gay in today's Russia, Avella takes an unexpe…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:29PM[SHARE]Monday, November 12, 2018
Whiteside isn't exactly misused, but rather underused and under coached. No one should have laughed when he began his transformation into his female alterego. Whiteside, used to the …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:11PM[SHARE]Monday, November 5, 2018
Sonera opens the show with Prinze doing one of his sets at the Improv Club in New York City, 1976, beginning with one of his famous lines, "Looking good!" and continuing with his sardonic co…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:28PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Imported from London, with a number of the original cast members, "The Ferryman" takes place in rural County Armagh, in Northern Ireland in 1981, during a rise of violence of the IRA, right …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:57PM[SHARE]Monday, October 29, 2018
Elegantly inhabiting the small Triad stage, Holland's Linda is clearly a class act, with a smooth, rich, dark voice. Hearing her tale of their days in the twenties cruising the high poin…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:40PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 24, 2018
The K-Arts Dance Company from Korea presented two performances of "Song of the Mermaid," an entertaining full-length ballet choreographed by its artistic director, Sunhee Kim. Song of th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:10PM[SHARE]Monday, October 15, 2018
This M-34 production, under Rutherford's direction, doesn't rise to stratospheric heights. Quite the opposite: Rutherford's direction and writing turns Salome into a fascinating dome…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:23PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Henry's roommate and confidante, Gwen (a solid, appealing Leslie Hiatt) has her own heartache to deal with: Her wife, Diana, has left her, accusing Gwen of infidelity. Gwen and Henry…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Gill expertly writes each character as three dimensional, giving each complex backgrounds, making it clear that each benefits from knowing the others. A mundane Scrabble game is as revea…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:01PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 29, 2018
Jones has become known for applying his wide-ranging choreography and sharp mind to storylines that take on chunks of history"including some shockingly modern history. He displays his sh…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:55PM[SHARE]Friday, September 21, 2018
The intellectual level of "Hurricane"'s characters may not be as high as George, Martha, Nick and Honey's. Nevertheless they reveal their inner psychological turmoil, secret fears, secre…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:49PM[SHARE]Monday, September 17, 2018
"James & Jamesy in the Dark" is apparently the product of a long trial and error rehearsal process according to the aforementioned program notes. The self-involving process, unfortu…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:08PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 16, 2018
You'd need a ten ton truck to haul away all the slings and arrows slung and shot at Donald Trump in "Me the People: Fire & Fury Edition," the red-hot political revue currently on stage …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:20PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 11, 2018
"beep boop," Richard Saudek's hour-long sad-sack romp through modern man's constant love/hate bout with technology, is at HERE, the avant-garde arts center in SoHo. Its deft combination of m…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:49AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 8, 2018
The complexities of this Greek tragedy are shoe-horned into a Gospel service with songs ranging from the thoughtful ("The Invocation") to the formal ("Creon Comes to Colonus") to the awe-ins…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:50PM[SHARE] 
