Tuesday, July 18, 2023
There is an elegiac formality to Buscando. However, other than Juan de Pareja’s name in the title there is little in the choreography that evokes either period or personality. The chor…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:33PMSunday, July 16, 2023
The Nazis persecuted not only Jews, political opponents and its own, but also homosexuals. Jews were forced to wear the infamous yellow stars; gays, the pink triangle. Alan Palmer, in his …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:51PMThursday, July 6, 2023
Terri Hooley (a game, genial Glen Wallace) is both the main character and the narrator of "Good Vibrations: A Punk Rock Musical" at the sparkling Irish Arts Center. How he morphed from Ter…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:58PMThursday, June 29, 2023
"Rock & Roll Man," the new jukebox/biographical musical at the New World Stages has a great deal going for it. The story of legendary Rock & Roll impresario Alan Freed is told in a s…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:26PMFriday, June 23, 2023
New York City Center Encores!’s new production of the musical, directed by Chay Yew, stars another Tony Award winner, the sensational Ruthie Ann Miles, as the determined Margaret Johnson w…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:48PMMonday, June 19, 2023
Spencer Aste in a scene from his one-man show “Wake Up” at the Axis Theatre (Photo credit: Regina Betancourt) Joel Benjamin, Critic Is Spencer Aste a hardworking actor who sold and used…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:42PMSunday, June 11, 2023
"Dancing Spirit" was a gentle ballet choreographed by Ronald K. Brown to a suite of music by Duke Ellington, Wynton Marsalis, Radiohead and War. First one dancer, then two and then the entir…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:52PMThursday, June 8, 2023
The major work of the evening was “Sor Juana,” choreographed by Michelle Manzanales (“in collaboration with the Company”) and performed to a selection of period music including a com…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:18PMTuesday, June 6, 2023
Eerie and irritating in equal measure, Levi Holloway’s "Grey House" at the Lyceum Theatre dredges up the classic plot device of many horror films: strangers stumbling into a den of oddba…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:58AMThursday, May 25, 2023
Eboni Booth’s "Primary Trust" at the Roundabout Theatre Company’s Laura Pels Theatre is a genial, gentle tale of a genial, gentle young man and his difficulty negotiating the speed bumps…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:49PMSunday, May 21, 2023
Abortion, pro or con? The Blessed Unrest theater company has taken on this thorny issue. Steven Wangh’s "Misconceptions"—an ironically perfect title—unfolds in the form of a series o…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:19PMSunday, May 14, 2023
"shadow/land" by Erika Dickerson-Despenza is a play about the August 2005 disaster, Hurricane Katrina. It is the first episode of a ten-part magnum opus. "shadow/land," though, is more than …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:18AMThursday, May 11, 2023
Under the direction of Chad Austin, Droxler uncannily becomes not only Williams (and all of Williams cinematic characters who each serve up different helpful advice), but also his father Ed;…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:26AMSunday, May 7, 2023
When Mary-Mitchell Campbell’s baton brought out the first notes of the "Oliver!" overture from the Encores! Orchestra, the memorable tunes just flowed and didn’t stop until more than two…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:17PMFriday, May 5, 2023
Auburn (Pulitzer Prize winner for Proof) has a knack for writing complex female characters. That knack hasn’t failed him in "Summer, 1976." Diane, the lustrous Laura Linney, is an aloo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:47AMMonday, May 1, 2023
The Company soon loses its way as bunk beds self-destruct, lines get mangled, Peter Pan flails about in failed attempts to fly and crocodiles and mermaids parade about on skateboards. If thi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:48PMMonday, April 24, 2023
A short documentary film about the fabulous actress, composer, pianist and wife of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Hazel Scott, preceded the new ballet, "Sounds of Hazel," choreographed by Tiffany…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:37PMThursday, April 13, 2023
Silliness and whimsy can often be admirable qualities in a play, but not when taken to the degree playwright Julia Izumi has in her new work, "Regretfully, So the Birds Are," a co-production…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:37PMThursday, April 6, 2023
Perhaps it’s the difficulty of finding dancers who can perform the intricate, body isolation moves so emblematic of Fosse’s very individual style, but to those who know and experienced h…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:27AMTuesday, March 28, 2023
The Israeli Artists Project, dedicated to bringing the art and artists of Israel to American audiences, has mounted a production of Anat Gov’s "Best Friends," a zippy portrait of three bes…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:57AMSunday, March 19, 2023
"Água," making its American debut, created in 2001 during a residency in Brazil, is a work of great beauty, humor and creativity —and dishearteningly, an overlong dance/theater work. Ev…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:21PMFriday, March 17, 2023
"Dear World," the not terribly successful 1969 Jerry Herman musical based on Jean Giraudoux’s "The Madwoman of Chaillot" (1945), was basically a vehicle for the brilliant Angela Lansbury.�…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:56PMThursday, March 16, 2023
What makes "Elyria" intriguing is how its American location affects the hidebound ritual social rules of its Southeast Asian characters. That all the characters emerged from an African dia…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:17PMMonday, March 6, 2023
Hands down Emily Feldman’s "The Best We Could (a family tragedy)," at the Manhattan Theatre Club, wins the most ironic title of the year. Not one character does the best he or she could …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:45PMTuesday, February 28, 2023
Garner is a wonderful actor, shifting easily and subtly from one character to another, her voice, posture and gestures are just right. She avoids being maudlin and thereby makes her narrativ…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:39PMSunday, February 19, 2023
"Pictures from Home," a stark, but eventually moving vision of a family, is based on the photo memoir of the same name by Larry Sultan. Sharr White, the playwright, has taken Sultan’s ex…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:49PMMonday, February 13, 2023
Pairing The New York Pops with Broadway star Heather Headley brought out the best in each. The energy zipping between the orchestra’s music director Steven Reinecke and Headley was palpa…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:13PMFriday, February 10, 2023
Dixon Place, a mecca for LGBTQ culture in the quickly gentrifying Lower East Side, is offering a return of the campy play, "The Village! A Disco Daydream," written by Nora Burns, a dizzy, so…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:26PMMonday, February 6, 2023
David Greenspan, the shape-shifting thespian, has taken on yet another multi-character play, as if his one-man "Strange Interlude" and his more recent "Four Saints in Three Acts" whet his ap…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:58AMThursday, February 2, 2023
Though only an hour long, Deborah Hay’s Horse, the Solos (2021), set on the dancers of Cullberg (founded in 1967 as the Cullberg Ballet by the late, eminent Swedish choreographer Birgit Cu…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:56PMSaturday, January 28, 2023
Three solos were stunning in their display of physical endurance. One woman moved forward, repeatedly kicking one leg behind her nearly touching her head with her foot. Another, tall and…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:29PM 
