Saturday, August 10, 2019
William Shakespeare’s "A Midsummer Night Dream" is perfect comedy for July or August and adding a meal is an even cleverer idea. Presented jointly by Food for Love Productions and Third Ra…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 10:34PM"Midsummer: A Banquet" is an auditory and oral treat, a light entertainment for this time of year. Using Zach Morris and Victoria Rae Sook’s skillfully adapted abridgment of Shakespeare…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 02:50PMFriday, August 9, 2019
Kelley’s adaptation begins with the murder of Mary which avoids preparing us for the limited life of opportunity that Bigger leads in the Black Belt of Chicago and making him less sympathe…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 01:45PMWednesday, August 7, 2019
Composer-lyricist Joe Inconis’ follow up to his teen favorite, "Be More Chill," is not only a showcase for musical comedy actress Annie Golden but a tribute to the Blaxploitation and Marti…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 01:20PMTuesday, August 6, 2019
While Shakespeare’s "Coriolanus" has a great deal to warn us about as a cautionary tale, it is also not as deep or as poetic a play as his major tragedies. Daniel Sullivan’s production f…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 04:18PMMonday, August 5, 2019
Neil LaBute’s “Appomattox” is the most substantial of the three plays and deals with a topic new to his work. Two long-time friends, Frank, black, and Joe, white, are having a picnic i…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 06:11PMSunday, August 4, 2019
Following up on Luis Alfaro’s critically acclaimed Chicano retelling of Sophocles’ "Oedipus Rex" called "Oedipus El Rey," The Public Theater now stages his equally relevant and timely "M…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 10:28PMSaturday, August 3, 2019
Series A of this year’s Summer Shorts: 13th Festival of New American Short Plays is unified around the theme of death and dying and how it affects the living. Lest you think that this soun…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 09:27PMWednesday, July 31, 2019
It is not until the second act of British playwright Chris Urch’s "The Rolling Stone" that the play catches fire but from then on the drama is explosive, compelling and very disturbing. On…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 12:47PMWednesday, July 24, 2019
The three Havel one acts, known as "The Vanek Plays," though written separately, were originally banned in Czechoslovakia and performed secretly in people’s living rooms as well as being p…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 03:50PMWednesday, July 3, 2019
While Will T.F. Carter’s "Barabbas" is very outspoken on the topic of political corruption in Peru, the play is dramatically weak as so much of it is exposition. In each scene we learn a l…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 08:47AMSunday, June 30, 2019
Matthew Amendt’s new play "The Comedian’s Tragedy" asks the burning question why did Aristophanes, the master of Greek comedy, never write any tragedies. Socrates in Plato’s "Symposium…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 10:56PMLydia R. Diamond’s "Toni Stone" is a tour de force for one actress and Obie Award winner April Matthis gives a bravura performance as the first woman to play professional baseball as part …
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 04:43PMThursday, June 27, 2019
Nottage’s book is faithful to the novel while at the same time reducing some of the melodrama and streamlining the story to reduce the number of characters to a cast of 13. Sheik’s score…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 11:38PMSunday, June 23, 2019
A mash-up of Eugene O’Neill’s "Anna Christie" (set in Manhattan and off the coasts of Provincetown and Boston) and "Desire under the Elms "(with a rural New England setting), the play is…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 10:48PMSaturday, June 22, 2019
Although director Indhu Rubasingham’s production is engrossing and entertaining, this talky and dense play may be difficult to follow for Americans who either do not know or have forgotten…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 09:50PMThursday, June 20, 2019
Director Kenny Leon has made his reputation with trenchant productions of contemporary and new plays by such authors as Lorraine Hansberry, August Wilson, Katori Hall and Lydia R. Diamond. N…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 11:52PMWednesday, June 19, 2019
Kate Hamill who has had success with "Sense and Sensibility" (Bedlam), "Pride and Prejudice" (Primary Stages), and "Vanity Fair "(The Pearl Theatre) has now turned her sights to Louisa May A…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 01:09PMWednesday, June 12, 2019
Under Shinn’s direction, Winstead making her stage debut is very low-key, almost as an observer in her own story. True she works as a therapist, one who tries not to reveal her personal fe…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 11:43PMTuesday, June 11, 2019
The play offers no catharsis as the actors are so low-key throughout, all much too calm even when the stakes are rising. As a result, there is little or no tension even when we realize the p…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 11:22AMFriday, June 7, 2019
Bekah Brunstetter’s new play, "Public Servant," has its heart in the right place. It shares with The Cake, seen earlier this year at Manhattan Theatre Club, the first part of a trilogy wit…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 12:25AMTuesday, June 4, 2019
G. Austin Allen’s set is a larger-than-life closet draped in purple cloth and which also includes a kitchen. To this room comes the older man in his mid-60’s who has discovered that as h…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 11:45PMWednesday, May 29, 2019
Schmidt’s streamlined adaptation of Shakespeare’s Scottish tragedy is played by a cast of seven schoolgirls who meet in an abandoned urban field after school without any set up other tha…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 08:40PMTuesday, May 28, 2019
"Luzia: A Waking Dream of Mexico" is Cirque du Soleil’s 38th original production and its 18th performed under The Big Top. The name is a combination of the Spanish word for light (luz) and…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 11:17PMMonday, May 27, 2019
As David, Chris Dwan does not make one forget the inimitable Grisetti who spun every moment into a comic turn. However, Dwan is charming as the undaunted hero who must deal with problems beh…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 05:11PMFriday, May 24, 2019
Never really losing her cool, Pressley always commands the stage even though scenic designer Alexis Distler has made it difficult by creating a huge private room, beautiful in its understate…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 09:34PMWednesday, May 22, 2019
Not all cult movies need to be made into musicals, particularly those that are dependent on special effects which the cinema does better than the stage. This is demonstrated by the new Broad…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 09:45PMMonday, May 20, 2019
Poet Aziza Barnes’ first play, "BLKS," now at MCC Theater Space is raucous, vulgar, outrageous and contemporary in Robert O’Hara’s hilarious, over-the-top production. Following the adv…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 10:52PMSaturday, May 18, 2019
Christopher Chen’s exquisite and mystical "Passage" being produced by the Soho Rep is inspired by E.M. Forster’s "A Passage to India," borrowing its plot and character relationships. But…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 11:47PMWednesday, May 15, 2019
Witnessing the LOTNY production makes one wonder why "Owen Wingrave" is not performed more often: it has a small cast of eight with juicy roles for all of the characters, evenly divided betw…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 03:30PMMonday, May 13, 2019
As president of International PEN, the worldwide association of writers, from 1966 – 1969, playwright Arthur Miller moved about Eastern Europe freely and witnessed a great many troubling e…
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