Sunday, September 24, 2023
Gilman's triteness and predictability combine to poorly serve a talented acting quartet, all of whom originated their roles in a 2022 production of "Swing State" at the Goodman Theatre under…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:55PMThursday, August 17, 2023
As for what's in a name, yes, Ian Shaw is Robert's son, returning the life-giving favor not just through his words but also bodily, portraying his father in "The Shark Is Broken" with a cand…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:26PMTuesday, June 27, 2023
Alex Edelman in a scene from his one-man show “Just for Us” at the Hudson Theatre (Photo credit: Matthew Murphy) Early in his stand-up show Just for Us Alex Edelman pays tribute to Robin…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:43PMThursday, June 15, 2023
Picking the easiest possible creative path, a decision the effort-averse George would no doubt admire, the McSmiths forgo imaginative risk-taking in favor of simply copying their source mate…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:09PMWednesday, June 7, 2023
In its earliest scenes--as a Marvin Gaye record spins on the turntable, Adam Honoré's lighting design pairs naturalistically with Wilson Chin's meticulous set, and Dominique Fawn Hill and D…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:01PMMonday, May 1, 2023
The mesmerizing Jodie Comer, making her Broadway debut in the Olivier Award-winning best new play after starring in the genre-subverting BBC show Killing Eve, portrays Tessa (for which Comer…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:50PMWednesday, April 19, 2023
When it comes to modern adaptations of Shakespeare plays, many theatergoers tend to treat them like a test, mentally annotating plot and character correlations as if their high school Englis…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:48PMMonday, April 17, 2023
In addition to a surfeit of approximate rhymes, the score for Shucked includes a paean to corn and a reprise of the following ready-for-Hallmark advice: "maybe love is like a seed/a little s…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:15AMMonday, March 27, 2023
While Brown's tunefully varied score strives to historically situate the bigoted nightmare we're witnessing within the cultural context of the South's fabricated sense of nobility and victim…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:17PMMonday, March 20, 2023
When it comes to plot, characters, or often both, even the best theater tends to require a suspension of disbelief. Given that it's hardly a sucker's bet for indolent playwrights to pin thei…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:09PMTuesday, March 7, 2023
Absurdist to an increasingly ho-hum degree, Szadkowski and Knox let their imaginations run amok with silly speculations about pre-double-homicide life in the Borden household that are punctu…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:21PMTuesday, February 14, 2023
Writer/director Erica Schmidt's "Lucy" is a play struggling to find a point of view, or perhaps a point of view struggling to find a play. If the latter is true, then that narrative position…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:25AMWednesday, February 1, 2023
Living in his "palatial" rent-controlled apartment on one of Manhattan's most stunning architectural stretches, Walter "Pops'' Washington (Stephen McKinley Henderson) is an aging man of agin…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:07PMThursday, January 26, 2023
And that's the agonizing tension in "Without You;" in his lyrical responses to Larson, Rapp is well aware that it's not a back-and-forth, that Larson can't say anything more than he has alre…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:24AMThursday, December 15, 2022
All of the above occurs prior to the intermission and, if "The Far Country" has a shortcoming, it's that the second half feels like a sequel to what came before rather than a continuation of…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:18PMMonday, December 5, 2022
Adopting the hokey framing device of a concert documentary, Kim turns the impending U.S. debut of a South Korean entertainment company's three hottest acts into a triptych of rigorously gend…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:41PMSunday, November 20, 2022
Still, rest assured, most of what Birbiglia says is funny, even for any fans well aware that Birbiglia is leading us somewhere that is not. Given the eponymous Hemingway allusion, the show's…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:51PMTuesday, November 8, 2022
Ostensibly a comedy, or a tragi-comedy, or a dystopic mashup of "The Wizard of Oz" and "Field of Dreams," Diaz's play could possibly be enjoyed as a befuddling trifle if not for its serious …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:14PMTuesday, November 1, 2022
"Walking with Ghosts" is a decidedly intimate experience, one that seems tailor-made for an off-Broadway theater like the Irish Rep. Price and his production team try to expand the show to B…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:03PMWednesday, October 19, 2022
To be clear, the casting isn't colorblind; it's just casting, with director Miranda Cromwell delicately drawing out a different set of lived experiences from Miller's almost untouched words.…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:46PMWednesday, October 12, 2022
Perhaps because of its prestigious accolade, or just undeniable merit, "Cost of Living" is the first of Majok's heartfelt efforts to make the journey from off-Broadway to on-Broadway in the …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:47AMWednesday, September 21, 2022
Most poignantly, when Drew starts to wonder if maybe their son's survival has been the opposite of a blessing, Andrea expresses horror for a thought that, thanks to Pimentel's touchingly sub…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:18PMThursday, September 1, 2022
Several years after vacating its Broadway home, "Kinky Boots" has settled in to a cozier off-Broadway venue, Stage 42, at a presumed discount for theatergoers, albeit with a much smaller orc…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:50PMSunday, June 26, 2022
Originally broadcast on "Soul!," an early PBS program dedicated to showcasing Black arts and politics, Baldwin and Giovanni's one-on-one echoes contemporary concerns while also remaining dec…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:35PMTuesday, June 7, 2022
An import from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, "Islander" embraces that renowned international jamboree's artistry and experimentalism, most notably by forgoing musicians for sound looping ma…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:41PMSunday, May 8, 2022
The 1975 play "American Buffalo," now onstage at the Circle in the Square Theatre in a crackling revival, remains the quintessential Mamet experience, the one that should be seen to fully ap…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:01PMSaturday, April 30, 2022
Unfortunately, while Wells (Nikki M. James) and Mary Church Terrell (Cassondra James), another renowned Black suffragist, occasionally pop up to offer intersectional insights, they mostly c…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:09PMMonday, April 18, 2022
Essentially, Mouron boils the story down to a couple lines about love and beauty, while eliding any sense of the loss, isolation, and dread that the novella also poetically conveys. Her litt…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:27PMSaturday, March 26, 2022
Despite the familiar visual trappings--mic stand, performer-blinding stage lights, and a dull curtain backdrop--Edelman's deceptively free-flowing talents hew more towards the monologist Spa…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:51PMTuesday, March 8, 2022
Director Ciarán O'Reilly confidently lets the clever cast explore their characters' profound complexities, which means forcing the audience to simply accept a few psychological contradictio…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:13PMSunday, February 27, 2022
Heyman and the rest of the production team quickly turn "Space Dogs" into an exercise of quantity over quality. More lights. More noise. More projections. More props. It's theater as sensory…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:48PM 
