Friday, May 9, 2025
"The United States vs Ulysses" by Colin Murphy is a multi-layered play about a seminal case concerning censorship in publishing. The story is set in 1933 in the studios of the CBS radio show…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:46PMSunday, May 4, 2025
The play is a nicely developing mystery fantasy story about the paranormal, but when the teenage boy is revealed as the Spirit Child, the show goes off track. The idea presented is that the …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:01PMSaturday, April 26, 2025
Clarke's direction is uneven, giving the show a rehearsal or community theater vibe. The narrative line is unclear as to whether the main characters are real or a hallucination of one of the…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:09PMSunday, April 20, 2025
"minor•ity" is a wonder of a play written by francisca da silveira and skillfully directed by Shariffa Ali telling a tale of clashing artistic egos encompassing issues of Black identity, c…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:35PMSaturday, April 12, 2025
Although there are humorous moments, the production doesn't work for various reasons, including characterizations and technical issues with sound reproduction. None of the eight songs are me…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:03PMSunday, April 6, 2025
Jack Serio directs a strong cast of seasoned actors whose personal chemistry gives the ensemble a solidly believable portrayal of their characters. Juan Castano is Edwin, a mid-30s man marri…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:28PMSunday, March 30, 2025
"Remembrance" by Patricia GoodSon is a story about her journey, for more than a decade, in dealing with her mother's Alzheimer's disease. As directed by Joan Kane, it is told from the perspe…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:04PMMonday, March 24, 2025
"Maybe Tomorrow," written by Max Mondi and directed by Chad Austin, is a play about such a place and the person who created it. Inspired by a true story, Austin directs a cast of two in an e…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:39PMFriday, March 21, 2025
The scene with Adam and Eve establishes the structure for the show, with each of the ensuing vignettes being conducted in a call-and-response format. The second explores a list of rules esta…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:19PMFriday, March 14, 2025
It is essential for the audience to become fully engaged with the story and to care about the characters. When that does not happen, the show falls flat. While Homeyer and McGrath make an ef…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:02PMWednesday, March 12, 2025
"Wounded," written by Jiggs Burgess, is a story using a cloak of humor to obscure the pain and dark feelings being hidden by the protagonists. Although referred to as a comedy or dark comedy…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:48PMSunday, March 9, 2025
"Avalona, A Musical Legend," created by Dina Fanai, with music and lyrics, is a concept album with elements of modern opera. While not a musical in the usual sense of that form, it fits in a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:48PMTuesday, March 4, 2025
Urban Stages conducted a Dynamic Duos playwriting competition for one-act, two-character stories covering any subject during their 2023-24 season. Eight plays out of over three hundred submi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:37AMSunday, February 23, 2025
"Safe House" is an amorphous mosaic of sight and sound just out of reach of being any one thing. It is at once a song cycle, memory play, comedy, tragedy, a visual and aural potpourri of sen…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:00PMSunday, February 16, 2025
Doyle’s storytelling skillfully blends didactic commentary with humorous anecdotes, holding the audience’s attention throughout and resulting in a thoroughly satisfying evening of entert…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:57PMFriday, February 14, 2025
"Night Sings Its Songs" by Norwegian author Jon Fosse (pronounced FAH-suh), the 2023 Nobel Prize-winning playwright, explores alienation and emotional disconnection by a couple in a dysfunct…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:16PMWednesday, February 12, 2025
In reading the script, I didn't see how the story made any sense or could have been given a reasonable life on stage. I was very wrong on both scores. The four actors of the ensemble breathe…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:52PMFriday, January 31, 2025
The modern verse translation reasonably maintains a semblance of the Elizabethan iambic pentameter form supported by the ensemble's solid delivery of the lines. People familiar with Elizabet…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:32PMSaturday, January 25, 2025
"Sheltered" by Cate Wiley is a story about what it is to be a homeless woman in a city in the United States. As directed by Liz Peterson, this play tells the stories of these women trapped b…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:33PMSunday, January 19, 2025
"January" presents a story about the emotional impact of the killing of one child by another by weaving together the thoughts and actions of the two single mothers involved and how the natio…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:32PMFriday, January 10, 2025
Charlotte Bennett directs an exquisite cast of three in an exploration of these themes. Nicole Sawyerr solidly leads the ensemble in the lead role of Abigail Waller, a working-class playwrig…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:04PMMonday, December 23, 2024
There are a number of problems with these vignettes, ranging from the individual characterizations of the men involved to the superficial nature of the historical details of the events being…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:59PMSaturday, December 14, 2024
Sarah Blush directs a cast of five in the story of a father and daughter on a road trip from New York City to a storage unit in California. It is a trip that is both se in the present and pa…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:52PMSaturday, November 30, 2024
"Welcome to The Big Dipper" is a musical comedy with music and lyrics by Jimmy Roberts and a book by Catherine Filloux and John Daggett (inspired by the play "All Dressed Up and Nowhere to G…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:28AMSaturday, November 23, 2024
"Woman on a Ledge" is an adaptation by Hershey Felder of harpist Rita Costanzi’s writings about her life. Ms. Costanzi is a world-renowned harpist whose life experiences have been woven in…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:50PMAko's portrayal of Izumo no Okuni combines traditional Japanese dance movements with Western-style acting. The nature of the script limits the impact of her performance. The dialogue is simp…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:31PMFriday, November 15, 2024
"Café Utopia" by Gwen Kingston and directed by Ashley Olive Teague tells the tale of a juice bar that, on the surface, appears to be socially progressive, but behind the scenes, is a differ…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:41PMTuesday, November 12, 2024
Haller has created a world where robots have conquered all of humanity through the ability to copy, with precision, the technical aspects of a functional society. The lack of understanding o…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:05PMSunday, November 3, 2024
Fisher directs a solid ensemble through a production of "Medea" that is a spoof of a college production with a gay man in the role of Jason and a feminist as Medea. It takes place from the l…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:44PMWednesday, October 30, 2024
"Rawshock" is a powerful, insightful, compelling play that lays bare the craven manipulation of corporate healthcare in the name of profits. It is beautifully written by Rita Lewis and super…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:47PMSunday, October 20, 2024
The story weaves together the group's history with flashbacks to their childhood, high school years, and a time immediately after college. It is a show that tries to cover too much territory…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:26PM 
