Tuesday, 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 01:14PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 06:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 06:46PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 10:47AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 01:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 12:50PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 12:35PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 02:41PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 11:01PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 12:09PM[SHARE]Monday, 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 11:27PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 07:51PM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 contradict…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:13PM[SHARE]Sunday, 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[SHARE]Thursday, February 17, 2022
It's just that, as the fictional Eva supplants the non-fictional Ann onstage, the play reverses course and sacrifices its human scale back to the rhetorical, with pro-life Eva and pro-choice…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:29PM[SHARE]Monday, February 7, 2022
But, again, O'Hara does these actors no favors, forcing them to contend with incongruous historical information while also depriving them of the greatest acting benefit O'Neill's four-act pl…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:27PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 14, 2021
Cue the Irish Rep and its remounting of artistic director Charlotte Moore's musical "The Streets of New York," which the theatre first premiered twenty years ago in the aftermath of Septembe…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:52PM[SHARE]Monday, November 22, 2021
Performed as one long 80-minute monologue, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing also offers actor Jenn Murray little, if any, respite, laying on her shoulders complete responsibility for telling ev…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:57PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 20, 2021
Previously only known for his novels and short stories, first-time playwright Kevin Barry brings the same full-hearted doom and gloom to the stage in "Autumn Royal" that was evidenced in his…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:36PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 10, 2021
More concert than musical, the 80-minute show's libretto adds little to its cast album, with the lyrics of each queen's autobiographical song also pruning their individual histories to a poi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:07PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 11, 2021
Since it's difficult to make fun of something that was never meant to be taken seriously in the first place, Hogue and director Nick Flatto are often left to spin their wheels by simply reha…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 5, 2020
To review dramatist/lyricist/composer Ethan Lipton's "Tumacho" almost feels like missing the point of this endearingly oddball "play with songs," a comic pastiche of Western and horror trope…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:46PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 20, 2020
It might be about 90 years too late, but writer/director Ciarán O'Reilly is throwing a good old-fashioned Irish wake, with poems, songs, and a slice of barmbrack (Irish sweet bread) or ea…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:29AM[SHARE]Monday, February 10, 2020
Bess Wohl's "Grand Horizons" opens with a pas de deux of marital inertia as Nancy (Jane Alexander) and Bill (James Cromwell), two near-octogenarians wasting their twilight days in a so-calle…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:40PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Created and first performed during the run-up to the 2018 national referendum that eventually led to the amendment's repeal, Maz and Bricks, a part of the Origin Theater Company's 1st Irish …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:16PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 15, 2019
Given the personal nature of Morissette's artistic output, it might be surprising to learn that the Broadway version of Jagged Little Pill doesn't take the easy biographical route for its bo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:05PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 26, 2019
Campbell Scott as Ebenezer Scrooge and Dashiell Eaves as Bob Cratchit in a scene from Jack Thorne's new adaptation of "A Christmas Carol" at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre (Photo credit: Joan Mar…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Told as a series of alternating, interlocking monologues, there is a "Rashomon"-esque quality to "Pumpgirl" that grows more obvious as the play's story comes into focus. Not only do the rela…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:10PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 31, 2019
Like a great many history plays, Harvey Fierstein's "Bella Bella" is as much about the present as the past, paralleling everything that's gone wrong now with what went wrong then. Unsurprisi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:08AM[SHARE]Monday, October 28, 2019
To be sure, Serafina and Alvaro's romance is less than credible, but director Trip Cullman wisely commits to it completely, recognizing that Williams really hasn't given him any other choice…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:27PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 26, 2019
The first act of Anna Moench's "Mothers" concludes with a genuine shock as the playwright startlingly upends all of our expectations. Visually punctuated by Wilson Chin's suddenly not-so-sta…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:19PM[SHARE] 
