Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Although the characters never meet in person, they communicate mostly through letters that are spoken by the actors directly to the audience, and then halfway through the play, in texting wh…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:49PMTuesday, October 5, 2021
While Marshall Pailet’s direction is breezy and fastpaced, the dialogue has too many Borscht belt jokes (“Take my Grandma, for instance. No really take her-,” Camp Rosenblatt, “As my…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:45PMWednesday, September 29, 2021
Bedlam’s 2014 production of "Sense and Sensibility," adapted by Kate Hamil from the novel by Jane Austen, and directed by Eric Tucker, set the bar so high for cleverness, originality and w…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:35PMTuesday, September 28, 2021
Martyna Majok writes powerfully and brilliantly about marginalized people, particularly undocumented immigrants living in Northern New Jersey, as in "Ironbound" and her 2018 Pulitzer Prize-w…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:35PMSaturday, September 25, 2021
Holmes’ songs include clever lyrics particularly “Facebook,” “I Can Be That Guy” and "Beautiful Girl in the Front Row.” His expert playing on the keyboard allows him to have duet…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:19AMFriday, September 17, 2021
Performed by a cast of 15 singers and enacted in pantomime by numerous local volunteers all dressed in swimwear, Sun & Sea is a typical day at the beach in which we hear the thoughts of …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:35AMSunday, September 12, 2021
The new play, ironically, does not take place in Rhinebeck, New York, like the preceeding 11 plays but as explained in its subtitle it concerns “Conversations in Angers, France,” the hom…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:09PMMonday, September 6, 2021
As his mother Bete (pronounced Bet–chi), Soria is bigger than life without a great deal of assistance from props, costuming or make-up. When he enters carrying an offering to the stage whi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:40PMWednesday, August 18, 2021
Written and directed by White who is the Obie and Lily Award winning director of "Our Dear Dead Drug Lord" (WP Theater) and "What to Send Up When It Goes Down" (Public Theater, BAM Fisher an…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:10PMWednesday, July 28, 2021
The problem with the show now at The Jerry Orbach Theater is director Tim Drucker’s frenetic, over-the-top staging and the artificially broad presentational style of the acting, similar to…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:39PMSaturday, July 17, 2021
Early in the play, songs are sung by various members of the cast including the anachronistic “The House of the Rising Sun,” (sung twice) set in New Orleans in the twentieth century. The …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:25PMSaturday, June 19, 2021
Aside from the unevenness of the acting, Drance’s production has no consistent tone, shifting from comedy to drama to tragedy and back again. Not all of his interesting ideas are carried t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:11PMWednesday, June 9, 2021
Read by unseen British stage star Juliet Stevenson, "Blindness" is as timely as Albert Camus’ "The Plague" with its story of an epidemic which affects first a community, then a city and fi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:57PMWednesday, May 19, 2021
"Lilies" is an attempt at old-fashioned theater or to couch a modern story in old-fashioned trappings. The problem with the play for modern audiences may be stated in its subtitle, “The Re…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:03PMMonday, May 17, 2021
While the chronology is somewhat convoluted as the text occasionally skips around grouping some similar events (such as two trips to New York City), if you follow along, the script depicts W…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:14PMMonday, April 26, 2021
Directed by the author, "Two Sisters and a Piano" reveals its roots as a radio play from its reliance on poetry and language: this is a cat-and-mouse game in which the participants use words…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:18PMThursday, March 19, 2020
Set in a dark time, "Girl from the North Country" creates a community on stage as do the best plays and musicals. Its tale of lost souls attempting to keep their heads above water is univers…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:43PMTuesday, March 17, 2020
For "Coal Country," an investigation into the April 5, 2010 West Virginia disaster at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch coal mine which killed 29 men, authors Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:36PMSunday, March 15, 2020
Although director/choreographer Kathleen Marshall has given the Transport Group production staged at The Abroms Arts Center a rousing production, the major problem still exists with the stor…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:41PMThursday, March 12, 2020
The inspiration for "About Love" is Ivan Turgenev’s "First Love," one of the greatest of all novellas. Subtitled “a play with songs and music,” that is exactly what it is: a dramatic p…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:02AMTuesday, March 10, 2020
Vivian Neuwirth’s "Mr. Toole" is a fitting tribute to a charismatic teacher and a brilliant author. However, the play, in the form it currently is in, seems to have been shoehorned into a …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:04PMSunday, March 8, 2020
Mixing fiction and fact, new Signature Theatre Residency playwright Lauren Yee’s "Cambodian Rock Band" is an engrossing, entertaining and appalling investigation into the Khmer Rouge’s…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:54PMTuesday, March 3, 2020
Following its opening production of Cy Coleman’s equally rarely seen "Seesaw," J2 Spotlight Musical Theater Company is presenting a fully staged version of "No Strings" as the second produ…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:15AMMonday, March 2, 2020
MCC Theater’s New York premiere of C.A. Johnson’s new play "All the Natalie Portmans" is a lovely work which resembles other such modern coming of age plays from Carson McCullers’ "The…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:01AMWednesday, February 26, 2020
Pearl Cleage’s "Blues for an Alabama Sky" gets a belated New York premiere courtesy of Keen Company in its 20th season. Although seen in many regional theaters since its 1995 premiere at t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:48PMMonday, February 24, 2020
As the centerpiece of its spring season, Classic Stage Company is presenting a repertory of adaptations of two legendary Gothic horror stories: Bram Stoker’s "Dracula" and Mary Shelley’s…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:04PMFriday, February 21, 2020
Now that The Public Theater’s 2019 revival of the late Nzotake Shange’s "for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf" has been critically acclaimed once again…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:23AMTuesday, February 18, 2020
Although J2 Spotlight’s artistic director Robert W. Schneider who staged this show has given it a vigorous production and cast a delightful Gittel in Stephanie Israelson, he is unable to d…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:51PMSunday, February 16, 2020
In making her professional stage debut courtesy of Page 73, Zora Howard has written a powerful kitchen sink drama in 'Stew," as much about making a literal stew as about the emotional stew t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:45PMThursday, February 13, 2020
The Mint Theater Company has rediscovered and championed British actor/playwright Miles Malleson with Conflict and Yours Unfaithfully. Now they have combined two of his one acts adapted from…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:52PMTuesday, February 11, 2020
Bookwriter Jonathan Marc Sherman has wisely kept the story in its period. However, his dialogue is almost word for word lifted from the screenplay which is rather old hat for those of us hav…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:34PM 
