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 12:37PMSilliness 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 02:37PMPerhaps 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 12:27AMThe 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 11:57AM"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 02:21PM"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 03:56PMWhat 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 02:17PMHands 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 12:45PMGarner 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 01:39PM"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 01:49PMPairing 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 01:13PMDixon 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 04:26PMDavid 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 11:58AMThough 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 04:56PMThree 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 12:29PMThe ballerina Natalia Osipova easily transformed herself from spectral to sensuous to eerie in just the first half of her 'Force of Nature" program at the New York City Center. The show—pr…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:11PMWhen the older Diamond reaches an existential breaking point, he finally stands up, stage center and takes command of his memories, experiences and his life with an intensely concentrated re…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:26PMWebre went for acrobatics and precision rather than passion. Perhaps, the Chinese Communist regime frowns upon openly sexual expression in dance. Perhaps Webre can’t summon anything bu…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:35PM"Darkness: unfolds in many very short scenes with some confusing transitions. Dubashin, the traitor to Russia, finally gets to confront Number One in a knock-down personal battle. The on…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:18PMMatthew López & Amber Ruffin (book) and Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman (music and lyrics) have transformed the written-for-laughs film into a joyous musical, keeping much of the sharp…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:51PMUnder the permissive direction of Garfield-Szita—who also designed the costumes—the cast comes across more as members of a sitcom than a serious drama, not helped by Morgenstein’s depe…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:46PMEllen Abrams’ new play "Eleanor and Alice – Conversations Between Two Remarkable Roosevelts" explores their superficial courtesies in a series of conversations spanning 1904 until 1962, …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:57AM"Kimberly Akimbo," David Lindsay-Abaire’s oddball take on the title character’s dishearteningly sad disease, began life as a play back in 2001, reaching New York via the Manhattan Theatr…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:35PMA touching portrait of a father and his alienated son unfolds in the Manhattan Theatre Club’s "Where the Mountain Meets the Sea" by Jeff Augustin, directed by Joshua Kahan Brody. ... "When…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:20PMLaTanya Richardson Jackson (Samuel L. Jackson’s wife) has directed in a desultory fashion. Long, revealing monologues, the backbone of this particular play, are delivered directly to the…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:12AMChung has the six characters played by three actors, each playing a parent/child duo switching from one to the other in confusing frequency. In addition, each actor plays a parent of the opp…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:02PMWorld events have inadvertently raised the significance of the New York City Center’s Annual Gala presentation of the brilliant new staging of the Jason Robert Brown/Alfred Uhry musical Pa…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:53PMYou won’t find Vatican Falls on any map about picturesque raging waters. No, Frank J. Avella’s new play, "Vatican Falls," is, instead, a passionate, sometimes humorous, indictment of t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:44AMThe venerable, historic Negro Ensemble Company is presenting an intriguing program at the equally venerable, historic Cherry Lane Theatre: "Our Voices, Our Time: One-Act Play Festival." The …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:19PMA scene from Twyla Tharp’s “In the Upper Room” at New York City Center (Photo credit: Benjamin Miller) Joel Benjamin, Critic When Twyla Tharp’s ballets are good, they are great: wor…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:00PMIt’s not clear what Amaterasu Za’s mission is. If, as Dachs’ program comments indicate, it is to bring Japanese culture to modern audiences, the company needs to be less stodgy and m…
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