Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow are such consummate stage performers that they could read the phone book and keep us mesmerized. As directed by Joe Mantello in Lucas Hnath’s "Hillary and C…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 11:33PMFriday, April 19, 2019
"Be More Chill," the dazzling and inventive musical based on the cult Young Adult novel by Ned Vizzini, has made a successful transfer to Broadway Lyceum Theater with the same cast and an ex…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 02:10PMWednesday, April 17, 2019
Like John Doyle’s reconceived musical revivals ("Allegro," "Passion," "Pacific Overtures," "Carmen Jones," "The Cradle Will Rock"), Fish’s production is minimalist but with a difference.…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 12:05PMMonday, April 15, 2019
Those who loved The Mad Ones’ "Miles for Mary" which had an extended run at Playwrights Horizons last year after its premiere at The Brooklyn Starr in 2016, will be greatly disappointed by…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 11:57PMSunday, April 14, 2019
Delving into black life and attitudes now, the play is hilarious - but not laugh-out-loud funny. Unfortunately, in Stevie Walker-Webb’s fine production at The Public’s LuEsther Theater, …
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 11:25PMThursday, April 11, 2019
The show also uses the 3D holographic technology called IceMagic which attempts to bring us the late Oscar Hammerstein II as a hologram enacted and spoken by actor Bob Meenan. Aside from an …
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 11:49PMWednesday, April 10, 2019
A three and half hour play with only three actors spanning 163 years might not be your idea of entertainment, but the National Theatre’s production of "The Lehman Trilogy" is one of the mo…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 11:27PMSunday, April 7, 2019
In Mara Nelson-Greenberg’s new play, "Do You Feel Anger?," which had its world premiere at the 2018 Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville, she has attempted…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 10:13PMFriday, April 5, 2019
Not seen in New York since 1965, John Webster’s Jacobean revenge play, "The White Devil," has been given a juicy, vigorous modern dress production by Red Bull Theater which specializes in …
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 04:31PMWednesday, April 3, 2019
Shakespeare’s politically charged Roman tragedy, "Julius Caesar," has always been a touchstone for inflaming emotions. In earlier times, monarchs used to ban the play when uprisings were i…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 10:35PMMonday, April 1, 2019
Playwright Thomas Bradshaw seems to have taken literally the dictum in theater to “Astonish!” His plays like "Burning," "Intimacy," "Job," and "Fulfillment," to name only a few seen in N…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 11:37PMSunday, March 31, 2019
John Guare’s career as a playwright has had three stages. His early plays were examples of Theater of the Absurd with an American accent. Later his plays became more realistic, sometimes b…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 09:50PMThursday, March 28, 2019
If Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s "Fleabag" sounds familiar, it may be because of the cult television show now in its second season adapted from this one-woman play. Having premiered at the Edinbu…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 04:55PMTuesday, March 26, 2019
You can hear a pin drop during Michael McKeever’s "After," an exciting, riveting play about the aftereffects of bullying. During the final scene in Jo Brancato’s production now at 59E59 …
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 11:52PMTuesday, March 19, 2019
Although there is a great deal of talent behind the new musical Superhero at Second Stage Theater, it unfortunately makes little impact. It doesn’t help that the thin book by Tony Award wi…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 10:57PMSunday, March 17, 2019
Huppert, the consummate actress, commands the stage at all times, making all the other performers pale in comparison. As Anne, she travels from familiar to sarcastic to manic to depressed to…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 11:47PMBrunstetter overloads the issue in the play by making Jen have doubts about being in love with a woman against her parents’ religious teachings, even though she cannot imagine life without…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 11:42PMThursday, March 14, 2019
Chisa Hutchinson’s "Surely Goodness and Mercy" has its heart in the right place but as produced by Keen Company at the Clurman Theatre it is not a play at all but an after school movie scr…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 11:39PMWednesday, March 13, 2019
Jeremy O. Harris’ “Daddy” is the work of a unique voice, a little self-indulgent in its length, and a little underwritten in its characterizations. It attempts to shock with its use of…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 11:00PMFriday, March 8, 2019
Both plays deal with young husbands who are coping with new fatherhood as well as their new responsibilities and their relationships with the dominant male figures in their lives. In Stephen…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 11:27PMMonday, March 4, 2019
Being described as a “theatre event,” the unwieldy titled "Rocco, Chelsea, Adriana, Sean, Claudia, Gianna, Alex" is a throwback to the happenings and performance art of the 1960’s, wit…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 11:14PMMolly Gordon and Colton Ryan in a scene from MCC Theater’s new musical “Alice By Heart” (Photo credit: Deen van Meer) Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief MCC Theater has opened its second an…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 05:44PMFriday, March 1, 2019
However, the play may not be to the taste of regular Mint theatergoers as it seems much more dated that the usual lost masterpieces rediscovered at this esteemed venue. Thomas Scott is so ri…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 05:34PMThursday, February 28, 2019
Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse’s 1946 Pulitzer Prize winning political play, "State of the Union," should be, by all accounts, dated in its depiction of the 1948 presidential political c…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 02:24PMTuesday, February 26, 2019
The York Theatre Company is to be applauded for taking the risk of staging this famously controversial musical in its New York premiere. It is also fulfilling its mission to bring to the sta…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 11:47PMFriday, February 22, 2019
Mystery writer Patricia Highsmith ("Strangers on a Train," "Carol," "The Talented Mr. Ripley") was famously alcoholic, depressive, misogynistic and racist. She was unique as an international…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 11:02PMWednesday, February 20, 2019
With the audience sitting ringside on three sides of the new theater, and performed by Masden and Belcher at the top of their game, The Light is thrilling theater. Their Gen and Rashad are b…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 08:46PMSaturday, February 16, 2019
Clark has chosen to direct the play as though it were drawing room comedy. Beginning and ending the play with a game of cards, there is the suggestion that for Edgar and Alice this is all a …
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 04:59PMIt has been well publicized that the Harper Lee estate filed a lawsuit in February 2018 alleging that the play deviated too much from the novel. They should not have worried. As directed by …
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 03:18PMThursday, February 14, 2019
The 1970 play was originally adapted by playwright Saul Levitt (who previously turned the Pulitzer Prize winning novel "Andersonville" into a successful trial play) from Berrigan’s free ve…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 11:15PMTuesday, February 12, 2019
The York production has been directed and adapted by Marc Acito who has condensed the original two act script into a long one-acter. Realizing that the original setting of 1948 for a tenth y…
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