Wednesday, February 21, 2018
Songs jostle with playlets, usually with topical references.  This is a good lineage to be part of and "Broad Comedy," the bumpy new show at the SoHo Playhouse, succeeds mostly due to…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:59PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 20, 2018
"Body" dovetails Ensler's personal agonizing battle with cancer and her involvement with a feminist group in the Democratic Republic of Congo where women have faced violence, rape and almost…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:40PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 8, 2018
Produced as part of the Flea's Season of Women, Del Rosso's freshman effort shows great promise. Under Marina McClure's insightfully freewheeling direction the members of The Flea's resi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:13PM[SHARE]Monday, January 29, 2018
The first work on the program was "Indomitable Waltz" (2016) choreographed by Aszure Barton to dark hued music by the Balanescu Quartet and Nils Frahm. Barton achieved a graceful, yet dr…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:58AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 23, 2018
The main event, however, is the performance of Harris who doesn't just imitate Baker but uses her own gifts to illuminate the multitalented cult figure. It's as if Baker has brought out …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:09PM[SHARE]Monday, January 22, 2018
"NEW BODIES" (2016) choreographed by Melnick was initiated by Sara Mearns in a summer workshop at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. Skilled classical ballet dancers who were interested in expan…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:33PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 21, 2018
Kyoung H. Park's "Pillowtalk" mixes the mysteries of passionate, but flawed, love with the realities of racism in today's society, specifically, Brooklyn, New York, where Sam (Basit Sh…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:49PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 13, 2018
Yazbek's songs"ranging from the darkly comic "Welcome to Nowhere" (sung by the town folk) to Dina's romantically tinged "Omar Sharif" and ending with the upbeat, danceable "Concert" played a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:30PM[SHARE]Monday, January 8, 2018
The famous Chinese ability to subsume themselves in crowds was evident in the flowing choreography for the mass "flight" of the Ibis across the stage. The precision of the corps de balle…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:21AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 28, 2017
Fairchild speaks well and communicates much with his physique, but his choreography is repetitive and uninventive. Here was a chance to breathe new life into a too familiar character.Â�…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:48AM[SHARE]Saturday, December 23, 2017
The middle work, "Walking Mad," choreographed by the Swede, Johan Inger, has inadvertently taken on an urgency and timeliness. Always a surreal study of off-handed violence, the current …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:19PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 17, 2017
Despite a brilliant display of achingly detailed acting"reason enough for connoisseurs of acting to rush to this production directed by James Macdonald"its uneasy blend of a frightening nucl…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:07PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 2, 2017
In "Lines," the videos were straightforward representations of Mr. Selden, clad in a loose-fitting red outfit, pausing his image in dramatic moments while in the second work, "Untranslatable…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:07PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 28, 2017
This time Gotheiner put his dancers through a faux competition that fell in mood somewhere between "Dancing with the Stars' and "Shark Tank," combining eager striving with off-handed sadism.…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:09PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 25, 2017
Big Dance Theater, conceived and directed by Annie-B Parson, presented "17c" at the BAM Harvey Theater. The work somehow combined the diary of Englishman, Samuel Pepys, the works of Marg…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:14PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Guirgis and Brokaw manage to find the back-handed humor and pathos of this scene which sets the mood for a profane and scatological play that hits the audience between the eyes with its fres…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 9, 2017
Hanging over this presentation is, as indicated, the film which divides the audience into those who did not see it and must take or leave Bourne's clever version and those who saw it and com…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:19PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 4, 2017
The Wallenda family's act is the climax of a show that is held together by Ringmaster Ty McFarlan and the ongoing antics of Grandma the Clown and Joel Jeske aka Mr. Joel. The big-voiced …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:53PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 29, 2017
During the jam-packed ninety minutes of "This One's For the Girls," the foursome run through a batch of songs that show the ups and downs of the last one hundred or so years through the eyes…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:51PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Martha Graham called her dancers "athletes of God."Â Watching David Greenspan perform all the roles in a six-hour marathon performance of Eugene O'Neill's 1928 melodrama, Strange Interlud…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:30PM[SHARE]Monday, October 23, 2017
The highlight of the program was watching the world-renowned premier danseur David Hallberg perform a work specially commissioned for him by Fall for Dance. Mark Morris, the equally famo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Ruth Sullivan, Allison Threadgold and Patrick Hamilton in a scene from "Tomorrow in the Battle"Â (Photo credit: George McClintock) Joel Benjamin, Critic The flier for Kieron Barry's drama …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:14PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Michelle Dorrance, this troupe's director, has become a force in tap dance because she understands both its legacy and its future. She played Pied Piper to a large troupe of very talented da…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:29PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 7, 2017
Each was asked about their first audition. Marilyn D'Honau couldn't remember, although she clearly made an impression on Robbins who subsequently used her in "Gypsy." Tony Mordente, just an …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:42PM[SHARE]Ingvartsen has a record of intellectualizing her work taking all the juice out of them in the process. "7 Pleasures""a misnomer if there ever was one"takes her dry, over thinking to the extr…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:13PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 3, 2017
Twyla Tharp (Photo credit: Robert Whitman) Joel Benjamin, Critic "The more things change, the more they stay the same," goes the old French proverb. That describes the Twyla Tharp Dance …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:05AM[SHARE]Monday, October 2, 2017
Having spent nearly five hours in the company of Ms. Parks' parade of these beautifully written characters I find myself conflicted about these plays. She is brilliant at generating fire wit…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:11PM[SHARE]Friday, September 29, 2017
Faustin Linyekula in a scene from "In Search of Dinozord" (Photo credit: Agathe Poupeney) Joel Benjamin, Critic It takes chutzpah"or artlessness"to begin a show with five minutes of torturou…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Disguised as a snazzy cabaret act, set against constantly projected images from a sleazy Eighties public access talent show"from which the show's title is derived"the short, intense performa…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:55PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 12, 2017
On a multi-tiered set that takes advantage of every square inch of the tiny Medicine Show Theatre"designed by the authors"Ms. Kostek narrated Dietrich's life story, from middle class childho…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:56PM[SHARE]Ms. Grossman tended toward overuse repetition of movements and arm gestures. Emotional states were supported by little else than the titles and her husband's gemlike scores. "No Words," to a…
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