It’s a very presentational show. The six ensemble members comprise a sort of group narrator, working in tandem to relate the memories of the Thomas character for the audience—sometimes s…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:38PM"The New One," directed by Seth Barrish, is about Birbiglia and his wife’s decision to become parents, the struggles they go through to arrive at pregnancy, and his fretfulness about how b…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:57PMThe play succeeds in part because it takes such an upbeat view of Steinem and her career. Early in the play, the character proclaims herself to be a “hope-aholic”—and her stalwart opti…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:04PMThere are some fine elements in the portrayal. Arrow’s Kennedy-clan dialect seems believable—though maybe slightly over-baked at points (especially when, late in the play, he sings bits …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:36PMAs for cast standouts, Greenwood excelled both musically and dramatically. His ringing, expressive vocals and crisp diction made him an audience favorite. And he created an effective charact…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:36PMLike his breakthrough 1944 play The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams’ A Lovely Sunday for Creve Couer (1979) is set in a humble St. Louis apartment in the 1930s. It’s another of the m…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:24PMLillian Hellman’s Days to Come (now at the Mint Theater Company) was not a success when it premiered in New York in 1936. In fact, this second play of the Hellman canon (after The Children…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:27AMIf you’re a celebrity actor, the world can easily learn about your life and career. You probably have your own website—and there may even be a fan-site or two out there devoted to you. I…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:25PMMy Life on a Diet, starring Renée Taylor (now at the Theatre at St. Clement’s), is also the name of a book by Taylor, published in 1986. The stage version has been around for a while too.…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:52PMThe plot of the 1965 Broadway musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever centers on reincarnation. A kooky young New Yorker, Daisy Gamble, visits a psychiatrist, Dr. Mark Bruckner, for help …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:57PMIt seems sometimes that every other entertainer working these days has a Trump impersonation at the ready, though many seem to miss the mark by a mile. I’ve never been especially enthused …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:23PMRobert Patrick’s Judas comes to us from 1973, the same year in which his most famous drama, Kennedy’s Children, was first produced. Judas is a sort of modern-dress passion play—it trac…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:09PMIn Henry James’ 1903 novella The Beast in the Jungle, a man named John Marcher fails to connect with a woman who cares for him. Marcher has a premonition that something horrible will befal…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:00PMThere’s been some well-intentioned talk in the last couple of years about how artists might help bridge the chasm between red states and blue, or—maybe even trickier—the gap between re…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:12PMAt a hasty first glance, Alexander V. Thompson’s Pete Rex—staged by The Dreamscape Theatre, in a New York premiere at 59E59 Theaters—may seem a piece of comic whimsy about a world in w…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:53PMBritish playwright Stanley Houghton’s Hindle Wakes (currently at the Mint Theater Company) was written and first performed in the era when Sigmund Freud’s ideas on sexuality were becomin…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:00PMA cheeky little time capsule from 1971, The Workshop Theater’s revival of Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone? provides glimpses of the loose, inventive spirit of the youthful Terrence McNally. I…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:24PMIt’s been said that people congregate in kitchens at dinner parties because the food-prep area is a “backstage” space, somewhere where folks can be their authentic selves. In the kitch…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:08PMWe probably don’t need another reminder right now that a compact brain, the miracle of fire, and a few lines of iambic pentameter are pretty much all that separate us from our prehistoric …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:00PMAmerican musical theater has frequently had a political bent, from the satirical Gershwins-scored Of Thee I Sing (1931) through to Off-Broadway’s current revue Me the People, which skewers…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:25PMWe seem to experience bursts of elation whenever some whiz-bang gerontologist suggests that human life can be extended in ways previously considered impossible. It’s as if we’ve all been…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:00PMThe conscious effort to mainstream the alt-right movement in the Trump era has, of course, troubled many Americans deeply. So it’s understandable that New Yiddish Rep would want to stage R…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:46PMAt the top of Act II of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, when the audience first glimpses the Forest of Arden, the banished Duke Senior (who is hiding out there) pronounces life in th…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:00PMThe new Off-Broadway musical Curvy Widow (at Westside Theatre/Upstairs) shares plot points with one of Broadway’s biggest current musical hits, Hello, Dolly! Both shows present a middle-ag…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:30PMAustrian-born screen star Hedy Lamarr (originally Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler) was often touted as the world’s most beautiful woman. In the monodrama Hedy! The Life & Inventions of Hedy L…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:38PMAccording to program notes for Mint Theater Company’s new production of A.A. Milne’s 1922 play The Lucky One, the British playwright (and, of course, creator of the “Pooh” books) had…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 06:00AMIn her new play, The Antipodes, at Signature Theatre, Annie Baker once again uses the trappings of naturalism to tell a contemporary story that veers at times into the realm of magical reali…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:00PMWilliam Inge’s Come Back, Little Sheba (1950) seems to owe much to the plays of his friend and mentor (and probable sex partner) Tennessee Williams—and in particular to 1944’s The Glas…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:39PMIn the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel, Tennessee Williams’s 1969 one-act (two scene) play, is such a dark, bitter work that it would seem wrong to call seeing it a “rare treat.” But the current …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:27PMNew York Animals, a “play with music” produced by Manhattan’s Bedlam theatre company, takes a look at a collection of New York beasts of various stripes and spots—people whose…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:37AMAt age 10 Avi Hoffman (born Avrum Ber, in 1958) made his theatrical debut in a Yiddish Folksbiene Theater production called Bronx Express. In the decades that followed, the performer, a son …
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