Thursday, March 23, 2017
The first Broadway revival of Miss Saigon is being marketed as the return of a classic. But, if the show has become an undeniable fan favorite, the production’s impressive visual spectacle…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:54PMWednesday, March 22, 2017
Sam Gold, the innovative director who won a Tony for Fun Home, has cast Sally Field in a new Broadway production of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie that doesn’t include a glass m…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:24AMThursday, March 16, 2017
Danny DeVito, making his Broadway debut, gets the best deal out of The Price. Arthur Miller is not a playwright known for comically colorful characters, yet here’s DeVito as Gregory Solomo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:12PMSunday, March 12, 2017
Come From Away tells the story of the 9,000 residents of Gander, Newfoundland who took care of some 7,000 passengers and crew of 38 airplanes which were forced to land at the local airport…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:54PMThursday, March 9, 2017
Sam Gold, the innovative director who won a Tony for Fun Home, has cast Sally Field in a new Broadway production of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie that doesn’t include a glass m…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:12PMWednesday, March 1, 2017
The Tooting Arts Club’s exceptionally entertaining production of Sweeney Todd, Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s glorious murderous musical, began in 2014 in Harrington’s, one of L…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:32PMMonday, February 27, 2017
The Penitent, David Mamet’s latest play, is about the ethical dilemmas facing a psychiatrist whose patient has gone on a killing spree. At least that’s what it seems to be about, but aud…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:12PMWednesday, February 22, 2017
There is one song by John Kander in Kid Victory that recalls the composer’s collaboration with Fred Ebb in both Cabaret and Chicago – “What’s the Point?” a jaunty, satiric tap-danc…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:36PMThursday, February 16, 2017
“The theatre is gone, but there are new things now,” says Matthew Broderick in Wallace Shawn’s chilling comedy, which imagines a dystopian but familiar society where former theatre peo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:18PMWednesday, February 15, 2017
There are three great reasons to see the New York stage debut of Man From Nebraska, without even knowing what it’s about: Its author Tracy Letts (August: Osage County), its director David …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:48PMTuesday, January 31, 2017
Yen, a bleak British play that opens tonight Off-Broadway, stars Lucas Hedges, Oscar-nominated last week for his role in Manchester by the Sea, and Justice Smith, of the Netflix hip-hop dram…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:36PMThursday, January 26, 2017
In The Liar, the title character wonders whether, given his disposition, he should become a politician. But, if David Ives’ version of Pierre Corneille’s 1644 verse play may benefit from…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:24PMMonday, January 23, 2017
Love puzzles, and messes up, the dozen characters in Tell Hector I Miss Him, a play wonderfully acted by a cast that includes veterans of Orange is the New Black. If the play itself sometime…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:24PMThursday, January 19, 2017
Wakka Wakka, the theater company behind Made in China, says the show is “inspired by true events.” I suspect the true part doesn’t include Mary and her neighbor getting sucked down her…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:24AMSunday, January 8, 2017
About halfway through The Present, an adaptation of Chekhov’s first play, Cate Blanchett, as a Russian general’s widow celebrating her 40th birthday, shoots off a shotgun, dances atop a …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:12PMSaturday, January 7, 2017
The strength of Confucius, a 90-minute dance piece featuring 60 performers from the China National Opera and Dance Drama Theater, is not found in its efforts to present Confucian philosophy …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:06AMSaturday, December 31, 2016
Among the worthwhile moments I saw on stage in 2016, a surprising number became more memorable because of off-stage events. It’s impossible now to remember the Radio City Rockettes perform…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:18AMTuesday, December 20, 2016
My list of ten favorite shows on New York stages in 2016 reflect two unmistakable trends – the use of the stage to present important current issues facing the country, and shows that innov…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:36PMThursday, December 15, 2016
While the Othello at the New York Theatre Workshop can be uncomfortable and even annoying, it is impossible for me to dismiss Sam Gold’s often startlingly effective production, even when D…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:36PMMonday, December 5, 2016
For its third annual holiday appearance on Broadway, The Illusionists, a variety showcase for a rotating group of magicians and stunt performers,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:20AMSunday, December 4, 2016
Dear Evan Hansen has changed now that it’s on Broadway, in ways that make it an even more affecting musical. Ben Platt’s performance, impressive from the get-go, is even better. But what…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:02PMSunday, November 20, 2016
Leigh Silverman, director of the 50th anniversary Off-Broadway revival of Sweet Charity starring Sutton Foster, recently spoke about art being “a tool for education, revolution, and resist…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:42PMMonday, November 14, 2016
An opera with an unwieldy title based on Tolstoy’s War and Peace seemed an unlikely crowd-pleaser, but I was thrilled when I saw it Off-Broadway, first at Ars Nova in 2012, and again in a …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:36PMThursday, November 10, 2016
Had I seen Signature Theatre’s fine revival of Athol Fugard’s most popular play just a few days earlier, I might have appreciated it primarily as a well-wrought work of theater, relegati…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:18PMWednesday, November 9, 2016
The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, a trilogy of plays by Richard Nelson presented in real time at the Public Theater, ends the way it began eight months ago – with the …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:06PMThursday, November 3, 2016
Like Grapes of Wrath, Lynn Nottage’s Sweat offers a devastating look at social and economic breakdown, told not with rants or statistics, but through a riveting tale about good people in a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:48PMMonday, October 24, 2016
The best way to sum up the fourth Broadway revival of The Front Page, the 1928 play about Chicago newspapermen, is the way their ads do: Nathan Lane, John Slattery, John Goodman, Jefferson M…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:31AMSunday, October 23, 2016
Of all the crazed, destructive, female characters that the stage has given us, Susan Traherne may be among the least interesting, at least as performed by Rachel Weisz in the Public Theater …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:31PMThursday, October 20, 2016
When Diane Lane, returning to Broadway after nearly four decades, enters on stage in the Roundabout’s ambitiously reinterpreted production of The Cherry Orchard, her Lubyov seems an imposs…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:09PMMonday, October 10, 2016
I was surprised at how little I laughed during Oh, Hello on Broadway, a comedy act by Nick Kroll and John Mulaney, who have been called “two of the hottest voices in comedy.” They portra…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:16PMSunday, October 9, 2016
The eerie true story of National Geographic photographer Loren McIntyre’s encounter with the elusive Mayoruna tribe while lost in the Amazon rainforest is made stranger still in Simon McB…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:25PM 
