Monday, May 14, 2018
There’s a brilliant play buried somewhere in Caryl Churchill’s "Light Shining in Buckinghamshire," a bottom-up historical epic about the English Civil War that the acclaimed British writ…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:42AMThursday, May 10, 2018
To be sure, there are examples of talented playwrights who have also been able to tread the boards without tripping over their feet, or tongues. Harold Pinter, Noël Coward, Tracy Letts: the…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:12AMThursday, April 26, 2018
Devised collaboratively by Patch of Blue, a London-based theater company, the play also benefits from a talented supporting cast. Alexandra Simonet makes Hannah’s caretaker fatigue evident…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:05PMFriday, April 13, 2018
But, unfortunately, Ferrentino squanders this intriguing setup, getting lost in existential musings that end up being nowhere near as complicated as her subject matter. The first signs of tr…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:41AMFriday, March 30, 2018
It’s impossible to discuss the history of modern Irish drama without reference to William Butler Yeats, Lady Gregory, and John Millington Synge, who, at the beginning of the last century, …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:45PMMonday, March 12, 2018
Just in time for Easter, TACT/The Actors Company Theatre has adapted and combined two Christmas-themed Damon Runyon short stories into the seasonally inappropriate, but nonetheless very ch…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:58PMTuesday, February 27, 2018
In the semi-autobiographical "Terminus," part of a seven-play cycle set in the fictional town of Attapulgus, Georgia, playwright Gabriel Jason Dean unleashes this intriguing Southern Gothic …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:32PMMonday, January 29, 2018
This comedy/drama/fitful musical also suffers from major tonal challenges, as it strains to push all of our emotional buttons. It’s a shame, because the cast gives it their all. Particular…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:48PMWednesday, January 24, 2018
And that’s essentially the problem with "A Kind Shot." Clocking in at 75 minutes, the “performance” feels more like a motivational speech than a theatrical event. It’s well-meaning a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:44AMMonday, January 15, 2018
Another irony is that while Fury is kind of a bore, another character is not. Yeah, you guessed it. Him. When the president (David O. Friedman) appears in Fury’s bedroom like the Ghost of …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:27AMTuesday, December 19, 2017
Daniel LLewelyn-Williams in “A Regular Little Houdini” (Photo credit: Sheri Bankes) In 1905, the chief constable of the Newport, South Wales, police department declaimed the “impenetra…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:58PMThursday, December 7, 2017
Serving as both narrator and protagonist, Harris portrays Blue, a runaway slave who crossed the Sabine River from Louisiana to Texas in search of his elusive freedom. To tell us everything t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:19AMWednesday, November 15, 2017
Adhering admirably to its cultural mission, Kairos Italy Theater is treating downtown audiences to a double-bill of smartly written Italian one-acts, each exploring the contentious topic of …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:31PMSunday, November 12, 2017
In their new rock musical "Billy and the Killers," lyricist/librettist Jim Shankman and composer Peter Stopschinski channel Nicholas Ray, David Lynch, Elvis Presley, and Dashiell Hammett to …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:26AMThursday, November 9, 2017
With "What We’re Up Against," Theresa Rebeck looks back a quarter century to a time when gender inequality in the workplace was a real problem. Oh, wait…yep, unfortunately, if Rebeck’s…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:39PMMonday, October 16, 2017
Signaling that we’re in for something different, Bauman has redubbed the play "Arden/Everywhere," a hint that home, and the emotional impact of losing it, is at the heart of her reimaginin…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:20PMSunday, October 8, 2017
Most of the humor is at the expense of the Mesquite City Council and its steely-eyed mayor Linda Hadley (Liz Amberly) who could be accurately described as a Margaret Thatcher wannabe, if she…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:57PMWednesday, September 27, 2017
Besides harboring a dwindling dream to become a dancer, thanks to a leg injury, Halliday’s dramatic stand-in, Jack (Tyler Jones), an adoptee, also has to contend with the overwhelming repe…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:05AMMonday, June 6, 2011
Certainly, taking Bergman’s minimal characters and haunting island setting from celluloid to three dimensions was not a ready-made feat.
The post Cliffs Notes Bergman: The Atlantic Theater…
SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 03:45PM 
