Friday, February 6, 2015
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Why another stage production of the Stephen Sondheim-James Lapine "Into the Woods" while the film version is currently playing? The Roundabout Theatre Company is…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:32PMThursday, January 29, 2015
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Set at some time in the near future, Tom Dulack’s The Road to Damascus (not to be confused with Strindberg’s play of similar name) is set in a world not that…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:23PMTuesday, January 27, 2015
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Although the play is written in the retro form of upper middle class drawing room comedy, it has a serious message and theme. The fear or terror that Edna (Higgi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:33PMThis post is by Victor Gluck
Shadow puppetry, audience participation, actors as animals, talking lions, ladders as boats, a circus with a trapeze artist and a bearded lady, a live drums and …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:00AMFriday, January 23, 2015
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While "Film Chinois" certainly has an interesting premise to create a stage film noir set in turbulent postwar China, the play fails to deliver on its promise to…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:06PMWednesday, January 21, 2015
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Not only does Anita Loos’ adaptation of "Gigi" not make us miss the famous Lerner and Loewe songs, its intimacy and sophistication make it a fine play in its o…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:49PMWednesday, January 14, 2015
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Dying for It, Moira Buffini’s free adaptation of The Suicide, is fine as a drama but the premise makes it a classic farce. Unfortunately, the Atlantic Theater …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:51PMFriday, January 9, 2015
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"Every Brilliant Thing" is a wonderful evening in the theater and a reminder that though life may offer bad or unhappy episodes, that there are wonderful things …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:57PMWednesday, December 24, 2014
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This third Broadway outing of Bernard Pomerance’s "The Elephant Man" has its strengths and its weaknesses. On the one hand, it has Bradley Cooper’s magnifice…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:10AMMonday, December 22, 2014
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Pakistani-American playwright Ayad Akhtar has been having a very good year. His second play, "The Who and the What," had its premiere this summer at Lincoln Cent…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:52PMMonday, December 15, 2014
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While the use of 44 characters (with at least one actor playing as many as five roles) may make this show a bit difficult for the younger children to follow, the…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:54PMWednesday, December 10, 2014
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Whether you regularly go to the opera or not, the Gotham Chamber Opera and Tectonic Theater Project's co-production of El gato con botos is an enchanting theater…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:19AMTuesday, December 9, 2014
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Michael Hardart, who piloted Metropolitan Playhouse's successful productions of "Within the Law," "A Man's World," "The Great Divide" and "Under the Gaslight," h…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:41PMWednesday, December 3, 2014
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Janeites, arise! Take yourself to The Sheen Center for Bedlam Theatre Company's world premiere stage adaptation of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" that is…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:20PMTuesday, December 2, 2014
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"Allegro" was inspired by Thornton Wilder's Our Town which also uses no scenery and uses the actors as a chorus commenting on the action. Aside from the actors a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:30PMMonday, December 1, 2014
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With "Sticks and Bones"' theme of the displacement of the returning American army veteran once again topical due to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the play wo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:43PMThursday, November 27, 2014
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The revival of Terrence McNally's theater comedy, It's Only a Play, has the starriest cast in town. It reunites Tony Award winners Nathan Lane and Matthew Broder…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:44AMTuesday, November 25, 2014
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In the hands of David Staller, founding artistic director of the Gingold Theatrical Group, and The Pearl Theatre ensemble, Shaw's play of ideas becomes a delight…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:55AMMonday, November 24, 2014
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Often credited as the play that proved to the Elizabethans that blank verse was the way to go with stage tragedy, it also heavily influenced contemporary William…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:20AMSunday, November 23, 2014
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Auburn doesn't tell us enough about the back stories of these characters so that the portraits aren't fully drawn, and each scene is structured to reveal only on…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:44AMFriday, November 21, 2014
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Hugh Jackman's charismatic, sinister and charming performance is the only reason to see Jez Butterworth's delicate but thin play, The River, Butterworth's next B…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:46PMMonday, November 17, 2014
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Sarah Ruhl's latest play, The Oldest Boy, having its world premiere at Lincoln Center Theater's Mitzi E. Newhouse, is a magical spiritual investigation into the …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:54PMThursday, November 13, 2014
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This On the Town, with 29 musicians and 31 actors, begins with a huge American flag and the singing of the national anthem, just as would have happened every nig…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:03PMMonday, November 10, 2014
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The Girl Who Came to Supper from the 1963-64 Broadway season was Noel Coward's last musical and the only one in which he wrote music and lyrics to another author…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:55PMThis post is by Victor Gluck
When Terrence McNally premiered Lips Together, Teeth Apart in 1991, the world was in the throes of fear over the AIDS epidemic. This long three-act play about ho…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:29PMFriday, November 7, 2014
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Despite the novel's length of 511 pages, its focus on the music of its period would make this a natural for musicalization. The resulting show is an unusual stag…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:35PMTuesday, November 4, 2014
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The problem with the show is the book by first time librettist John Logan (Red, Never the Sinner) and Brian Yorkey (winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the musical …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:54PMThis post is by Victor Gluck
Underlying all of the storytelling is the archetype of Homer's Odyssey, the story of another journey in another time of war. Many of the characters (Penny, Ulyss…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:30AMThursday, October 30, 2014
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Twenty-two of the 28 songs set to the sophisticated rhythms of composer Eli Bolin are based on the actual texts of these found missives and all of the many notes…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:33PMSunday, October 26, 2014
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The Big Apple Circus' new edition for its 37th Season called "Metamorphosis" is a winner. Breathtaking acts alternate with performances of such skill that all yo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:07PMThis post is by Victor Gluck
Everyone loves Lili and she is back in the crisp, taut, melodic revival of Bob Merrill's Carnival! in a concert staging courtesy of Musicals Tonight!. Aside from…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:15PM 
