Tuesday, December 22, 2015
"The Hard Nut" is certainly beautiful to behold, its production design based on the work of Charles Burns whose graphic novels feature vividly surreal and haunting images. But, it's also fr…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:14PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 17, 2015
The humorous banter among the four and their slide-splitting re-creation of the Ed Sullivan show, the main feature of the second act, are reason enough to see "Plaid Tidings." Add in their …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:02PM[SHARE]Monday, December 14, 2015
Malcolm Gets, Jerry Dixon, Mario Cantone and Matt McGrath in as scene from "Steve" (Photo credit: Monique Carboni) Joel Benjamin, Critic Although its emotional impact is universal, Mark Gerr…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:04PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 13, 2015
It has taken years and many people, to restore the book and score of the 1923 "The Golden Bride" which was last performed in 1948. A concert performance by the National Yiddish Theatre Fo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:29PM[SHARE]The Peccadillo Theater Company's "A Wilder Christmas" is a gentle and genteel evening of theater: Â two early Thornton Wilder one-act plays, directed with an attention to detail and a leis…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:43PM[SHARE]Friday, December 4, 2015
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Inspired by George Takei's experiences in a Japanese internment camp during World War II, "Allegiance" is a sometimes moving, sometimes stodgy musical about thi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:46PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 2, 2015
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The pleasure of" Night Is a Room" is watching these three expert actors speak Wallace's rich, insightful language which veers from wittily highfalutin to exciti…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:55PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 28, 2015
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Arthur Miller is having a great posthumous 100th birthday! "A View from a Bridge" opened on Broadway to sensational reviews to be followed soon by "The Crucibl…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 26, 2015
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"Shadowland" follows the young girl, played to perfection by Heather Jeane Favretto, on a surreal journey, exposing her fears and pleasures, leaving her forever…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:37PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 24, 2015
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Twyla Tharp is a choreographer who can infuriate and charm audiences in equal measure. (Paul Taylor also comes to mind.) Her choreography is clearly the resul…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:09PM[SHARE]Friday, November 20, 2015
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It was inevitable that legalized gay marriage would lead to plays about gay parenthood. "Dada Woof Papa Hot," Peter Parnell's sweet-natured, but frustratingly …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 18, 2015
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On a portal shaped screen, films of Ms. Guillem (by the very clever Elias Benxon) are soon substituted by Ms. Guillem in the flesh. She disappeared behind this…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:09AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 12, 2015
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The sobriquet "tricks" is probably not a fair or adequate description of the acrobatic feats these fourteen gymnasts displayed. Their tours de force included: …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:10PM[SHARE]Monday, November 9, 2015
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Directed with comfortable assurance and a leisurely sense of timing, this "Sylvia" benefits from a (mostly) strong cast, including three Tony Award winners: Ma…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:53PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 3, 2015
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Holland Taylor and Marylouise Burke in a scene from "Ripcord" (Photo credit: Joan Marcus) The usually hilarious, wickedly witty, Pulitzer Prize-winning David Li…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:26AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 29, 2015
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Two veterans of the most recent revival of On the Town were splendid interpreters of Finn's songs. First, Stephen DeRosa conjured a second-rate out-of-town pro…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:30PM[SHARE]This post is by Joel Benjamin
The Limón Dance Company celebrated its 70th Anniversary by presenting the José Limón International Dance Festival at the Joyce Theater. The Limón da…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:40AM[SHARE]Friday, October 23, 2015
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"South of Gold Mountain," the latest dance work from the iconic Chinatown-based H.T. Chen & Dancers, is a warmhearted, historically-based piece that illumi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:02PM[SHARE]This post is by Joel Benjamin
Mr. Taylor, who was the "stylist" on all works, shared this credit with Mr. Patterson and Andy Corsten. Often the choreography looked like slow-motion Vogue-in…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:11AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 20, 2015
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Now the frail-seeming, but elegant Cicely Tyson and imposing, stout-voiced James Earl Jones have taken on "The Gin Game" and make it totally their own, finding …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:22AM[SHARE]This post is by Joel Benjamin
The choreography, mostly by Emily Smyth Vartanian, tends toward the musically unsophisticated, combining ballet (piqué turns, little jumps, attitude and arabes…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:10AM[SHARE]Monday, October 12, 2015
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The revelation of the play is Mr. Lerner's detailed knowledge of both the orthodox sect and its place in modern Israeli society. He manages to make the age-old…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:44PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 6, 2015
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Two starry new cast members add luster to the show: English musical and opera star Alfie Boe as the tragic Jean Valjean and Tony Award nominee Montego Glover a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:21PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 1, 2015
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Ann Marie DeAngelo, the longtime producer and director of the Career Transition for Dancers: 30th Anniversary Pearl Jubilee, has outdone herself this year with …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:21AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 29, 2015
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Lopez knows these characters and how they speak. He is helped immensely by his director Mike Donahue who allows just enough comic exaggeration without ever let…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:47AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 27, 2015
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Dance historian Doug Fullington of the Pacific Northwest Ballet was the expert who, using slides and excerpts from both the Balanchine and Petipa versions, show…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:17PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 24, 2015
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"Fulfillment" by the always surprising Thomas Bradshaw is about anything but the contentment and success implied by its ironic title. The Flea Theater's produc…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 22, 2015
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Opening this year's Next Wave series at the Brooklyn Academy of Music was the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan's "Rice," a ritualistic ballet conceived and ch…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:17PM[SHARE]Friday, September 18, 2015
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Dendy uses his fertile imagination to tell Manning's story beginning with his repressed childhood, on through enlisting in the Army where he was trained in comp…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:47AM[SHARE]Monday, September 7, 2015
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Anna Ziegler's "A Delicate Ship" is an intelligent, intensely absorbing play that treats its three thirty-something characters like chess pieces moving warily a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:06AM[SHARE]Friday, September 4, 2015
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"Love & Money" is light, literate entertainment, impeccably acted by its small cast led by the charismatic Ms. Anderman. Mr. Paulik amusingly projects his…
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