Girelli’s lyrics provide wonderful support to Willett’s choreography. A motif for the song “Valentine” has the dancers in tango movements covering their hearts with their palms. The …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:59PMWalking into the Peter Sharp Theater we have no hint of what is behind what look like opaque vinyl shower curtains from one end of the stage to the other. Within moments of her appearance, d…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:10PMThe success of this play and our ability to navigate the ride relies heavily on the flawless cast led by Troyano herself. She shepherds us through every turn of the script and we willingly f…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:56PMWhile the musicians are exemplary, it is Lipton who does the heavy lifting in the show. With what amounts to a very witty hosting duty, his singing voice is one that is rich and quite comfor…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:56PMDirector Scott Ebersold works wonders with the double-edged sword of the audience knowing full well these performances are colored by the play taking place close to 20 years ago when girls t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:03PMAs long as you come to John Yearley’s "Triptych" with the understanding that grief is a deeply personal and complex emotion and that just because two people are married doesn’t mean they…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:38PMAs both playwright Harry Teinowitz and his co-author Spike Manton spent time in rehab, they carry us through the epiphanies as well as the relapses by injecting humor in every “shot glass�…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:29PM"Bad Kreyòl" is gifted with a pre-show voiceover from the playwright herself: “To love a people is to learn their language.” This speaks volumes for two women who know what they know, a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:55PMThis stunning theatrical work is a creation of the two-member On The Rocks Theatre Co. (Christopher Ford and Dakota Rose), two ingenious artists who have been at work on "The Beastiary" sinc…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:49PMDirector Jared Mezzocchi uses the proximity of the actors to the audience to its best advantage. We don’t even question when one of our ranks is pulled out to play Young Sunny. It adds to …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:50PMGabriel Kahane’s pair of song cycles are a welcome throwback to when lyrics were poetry and told great stories. Think of the 70's when the airwaves were blessed with the voices and songwri…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:28PMFour hardened male plainclothes police officers are being coached for a “suppression hearing” – that is a court proceeding prior to trial to challenge the legality of the evidence take…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:02PMIn this return engagement of the site-specific "The Voices in Your Head" we are often asked to give pause in order to consider how differently we all process our grief. Earlier this summer a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:18PMBetsy Aidem and Colleen Litchfield in Matthew Freeman’s “The Ask” at the wild project (Photo credit: Kent Meister) We are still not done blaming Covid for the upsetting of our routin…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:53AMTarlton’s work is not without promise. As a social critique of people who are surgically attached to their smartphones, it is somewhat spot-on. (Heaven forbid we miss that recent post docu…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:02PMEhrenpreis’ "Clowns Like Me" is sad, but true, and with the help of writer and director Jason Cannon, the brutally honest tale finds all the humor that’s possible. Within a very few minu…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:44AMPerhaps "Midnight Coleslaw’s Tales from Beyond The Closet!!!" ’s tagline “an evening of boner-chilling terror” was not meant to be a typo. The premise of an evening of one-act plays …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:34PMRaja Feather Kelly, an award-winning choreographer of recent Broadway musicals "A Strange Loop" and "Lempicka," as well as "Teeth," the recent Playwrights Horizons success imminently getting…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:49PMSomeone once coined the adage, “Write what you know.” For the past few seasons, we have seen many writers have a lot to say about surviving the Covid lockdown, but none so eloquently a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:54PMKoogler began writing "Staff Meal" in January 2020 and completed the first draft in April 2020…well, he certainly had time on his hands, but so did a lot of people. It’s a wonder we didn…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:47PMAs we are instructed early on, the meal and the service are divided into 15 sections. The Seder is held in the midst, or as a significant part, of the whole of the play. It is then complemen…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:21PMWhile the ensemble cast is excellent throughout, we do feel Taylor Mac’s absence when he goes offstage to change costumes (and that is quite a few times, one more sumptuous than the other …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:15PMThe performances are quite stellar. Jayne Atkinson’s Helen is simply gorgeous. We do see that woman who 30 years ago wore a red dress to a party…and that was enough for Mark and Lorraine…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:34PMPlaywright Kairos Looney has given us a gift in these painfully beautiful moments. We explore a family’s various ways of approaching love for and duty to each other with the result that we…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:02PMSarah Benson’s direction is spot-on, but we find ourselves wishing the closing scene was more than just a plethora of bloody penises. This is where the creatives needed to say, “Okay, th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:54PMEnter young baritone Edwin Joseph. He has that dark curly hair and handsome face, yes, and the crucial understanding of the necessary swagger and selfishness that carries this character thro…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:28PMThe text created by Bogart in collaboration with Maddow and Zimet is a collage of assembled passages from the works of Sartre and de Beauvoir, amongst others. Maddow and Zimet don’t often …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:05PMIt is a rare author indeed that can take uncomfortable material, and by uncomfortable that is, to hear, digest, and process a subject no one likes as a subject of conversation, and then give…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:56AMWhile we are presented with characters who are doing a noble thing and can be touched by what they go through to accomplish their task, Brian Belding’s book and lyrics repeatedly take us o…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:27PMJes succeeds where some other bio-storytellers fail. Jes’ secret is being comfortable in their own skin to relate intensely personal experiences yet create a sense of universality, or comm…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:08AMProbably only David Rabe’s "Sticks and Bones" (part of his Vietnam trilogy that included "The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel" and "Streamers") is as demonstrative as "Lone Star" in its dep…
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