Tuesday, September 12, 2017
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…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:14PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 7, 2017
The title comes from T.S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men," the one that famously includes the line: "This is the way the world ends/Not with a bang but a whimper" - which is exactly how Falls the S…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Nora Sørena Casey's "False Stars," part of this year's Corkscrew Festival at the Paradise Factory, starts slowly but gradually grows more involving as all the interconnections between the…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:36PM[SHARE]Monday, August 21, 2017
Projected titles indicate place and year"beginning with Arles, 1888 and progressing until van Gogh's suicide"which we hear as an offstage gunshot"in July of 1890. The audience is treated to …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:31PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 19, 2017
The songs never come up to the title song made famous by Marlene Dietrich who's mentioned several times during the play. Antin's attempt at playful seduction, "Take Me Home Tonight," sung by…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:41PM[SHARE]Watching Evans being bossed around by the tall beanpole Russel Norris, whether in an office job, cleaning a park or waiting on tables, was to watch classic comedy performed with brilliant, b…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:43PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Antyon LeMonte, Honey Davenport, Jay Knowles and Kevin Aviance in a scene from "Trinkets" (Photo credit: Lola Flash) Joel Benjamin, Critic In an era where RuPaul has turned drag/cross-dressi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:11AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 9, 2017
Mark Finley, the director, knew enough to keep the play charmingly low-key with just enough animated physicality to illustrate the story. Finley clearly understood all of Strothmann's be…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:47AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 27, 2017
Vermillion writes distinctive characters who each have their own language, but fails to make his story believable or emotionally gripping by turning it into something closer to the surreal, …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:37PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 25, 2017
The three-part ballet is considered Balanchine's tribute to the three major artistic influences in his professional life:Â the French school, the Russian school and, of course, his own Am…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 23, 2017
The joy of Stoppard's writing comes to the fore as the second act characters debate what happened in the first act, too often getting it all wrong, misinterpreting the evidence or jumping to…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:58PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Hapless Rostom (a perfectly cast Michael Propster who wears his emotions close to the surface) is low man on the totem pole in a nameless construction company and is removed from his comfort…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:55PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 16, 2017
"Trump Lear" turns out to be a gem, a brilliant gem with many facets that shine an intensely comic light on Trump. It's a brutally honest x-ray as only a comedy can be, a sardonic, scary, fu…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:05AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Shannon and Brendan are first seen in her simply decorated apartment in 1994 on her 41st birthday just before Brendan's departure for Phoenix to join his significant other Ted (who doesn't a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:56PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 5, 2017
Richard Strauss' surprisingly lighthearted score was first staged as a ballet in 1924 to a libretto he also wrote. Strauss is, of course, best known for his serious, dark operas ("Salome…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:27PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 4, 2017
In eighteen short sections, Pendleton and his dancers evoke images of the western deserts of the U.S., using whatever means necessary, be it skateboards, puppetry, classical Indian dance, ac…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:35PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 2, 2017
Johnson's choreographic ethic borders on the minimalistic, repeating some basic movements, particularly certain arm gestures, in all of the works. In two of the three ballets, it works, …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Soon little rends in the fabric of normalcy became apparent.  Bits of dialogue are repeated senselessly and the five revelers keep returning to the same positions (three on a couch, o…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:01PM[SHARE]Martita Goshen's love of horses, one in particular, and nature in general, is a driving force in "Sanctuary," her gentle and genteel dance recently performed by her troupe, Earthworks at the…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:27AM[SHARE]Monday, June 26, 2017
Loaded with many characters and incidents, "Terezin" focuses on two sisters, Alexi (Natasa Petrovic) and Violet (Sasha K. Gordon) who, along with their father, Kurt (Sam Gibbs, playing his c…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:55PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 25, 2017
Two likeable people, James (Michael Jinks) and Claire (Bebe Sanders) meet online, have dinner in a local pub owned by Steve (Andrew McDonald) and take the Underground home. That's about it. …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:39AM[SHARE]Friday, June 23, 2017
By eliminating most of the extended fantasy elements of the play, they reduced the storyline to the domestic turbulence of two couples and a deservedly ugly portrait of Roy Cohn. Add in a vi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:45PM[SHARE]Betts' "Invincible" has been compared to Alan Ayckbourn's work. Although there are similarities, particularly in Betts' ear for capturing the jargon of his characters and his feel for so…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:19AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Featuring an energetic, game cast headed by bigger-than-life Ashley D. Kelley as the title character, "Bella" follows this "big booty Tupelo girl," as she travels (under an assumed last name…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:43AM[SHARE]Friday, June 16, 2017
"A Hunger Artist" takes morbid subject matter and turns it into a metaphorical look at obsession and human suffering. By focusing on one hunger artist, Luxenberg and Levin manage to make…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:05AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 14, 2017
The ostensible theme of Sperling's series of performances at the Baryshnikov Arts Center was climate change. Had spectators not read that in the program they would have come away from Sp…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:08PM[SHARE]Friday, June 9, 2017
Wearing pale, simple but elegant costumes with small colorful patches around the hips (designed by Sue Julien and Brenner) the dancers in "Soul River/Blues" entered singly at first up a diag…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:33PM[SHARE]Friday, June 2, 2017
Company member, Omar Román De Jesús choreographed the third world premiere, "Daniel," to a multiple-sourced score. He took his eight dancers through a dramatic visit to those on the a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:35AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 30, 2017
The opening scenes augurs well, hinting at the deeper emotional motivation for Salome's future behavior, her decision to avoid romantic involvement. As the lights gradually rise to reveal …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:14PM[SHARE]Friday, May 26, 2017
The adept cast is led by Zainab Jah in the title role. In the one detail in which Parks' play matches "The Elephant Man," Ms. Jah, a shapely, lovely actress, transforms herself into Venus r…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 23, 2017
There was a mysterious coolness about "Close-Up" which, according to a program note by Ms. Cornfield, was meant to delve into the personalities of her five dancers, doing this by assigning v…
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