Sunday, September 25, 2022
If you like your W.W. II history unadulterated, you may object to a love story between a French teenage girl and a Nazi soldier even if they are inexperienced and innocent and unaware of wha…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:39PMSaturday, September 24, 2022
Is it possible to be completely truthful in attempting to tell the life of a famous author in a biofilm? That is the premise of Argentinian novelist and playwright Romina Paula’s "Fauna" n…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:46PMThursday, September 22, 2022
Although Alan Cumming is a charismatic performer, the distracting video design, the often overpowering music, and the often flashing lighting by Tim Lutkin, gets in the way of viewing the sh…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:10PMTuesday, September 20, 2022
The finished score by Lehrman is 50% music he created based on themes by Blitzstein: pieces of his unproduced 1932 opera "The Condemned" (an earlier work about Sacco and Vanzetti), a march, …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:46PMMonday, September 19, 2022
Mark Wilding’s "Our Man in Santiago" is billed as a “raucous political farce” but it is neither loud and noisy nor hilariously funny. Inspired by Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s 1974 articl…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:49PMSaturday, September 17, 2022
Aside from his ability to create multiple characters with his voice and body language, Strathairn’s physicality is remarkable in aging from a young man to a senior citizen before our eyes …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:35PMSaturday, September 10, 2022
"My Onliness," Robert Lyons’ latest stage work, is a musical homage to Polish avant-garde playwright Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (active 1918-1934) but who resurfaced during the 1960’s w…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:58AMMonday, September 5, 2022
A fresh antidote to the usual brassy, loud rock musicals of today, "Los Otros" slows down the tempo and the sound level with a story of the experiences of two people who learn to love, cope …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:28PMSaturday, September 3, 2022
Public Works’ musical adaptation of "As You Like It" is an enchanting evening of summer fun under the stars. Trimmed to a long one act, the story is accessible for both those who know the …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:11PMTuesday, August 23, 2022
'Hyprov" is a delightful and surprising evening as there is no telling how it will turn out. Will the Hyprovisers be good at their improvs? Will they stay in character? How will they deal wi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:45PMMonday, August 22, 2022
"Titantique" is the most hilarious musical parody to play New York in many a year. Since international superstar Céline Dion only got to sing one song at the end of James Cameron’s blockb…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:47PMSunday, August 21, 2022
It is not until the last 15 minutes of Sophie McIntosh’s new play, "macbitches," that a dramatic event takes place. Up until then the play is mostly the chit chat of acting majors talking …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:31PMMonday, August 15, 2022
Samantha Streich and Deijah Faulkner in a scene from “The Inconvenient Miracle: A Mysterious Birth Musical” at The Episcopal Actors Guild (Photo credit: Ahron R. Foster) Victor Gluck, Ed…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:38PMSaturday, July 30, 2022
If you have ever seen a play by Aeschylus, you know how static and slow they are, made up entirely of monologues and choral odes with hardly any action. It was Sophocles and Euripides who ad…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:38PMFriday, July 29, 2022
Jake Shore’s "Hit the Wall," though limited in its range, is very successful in its goals. It gives Adam Files and Alexandra Guerrero juicy roles as the aging mentor and the younger studen…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:17PMTuesday, July 26, 2022
While the play is rooted in its original 1955 period (its language, social mores, references, three-act form), this revival directed by Joe Rosario has attempted to place it in the present f…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:17PMMonday, July 25, 2022
The second problem is the performance of Amir Arison, star of nine seasons on NBC’s "The Blacklist," and eight Off Broadway dramas, playing both "The Kite Runner"’s narrator and its prot…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:13PMWednesday, July 20, 2022
Patina Miller as The Witch in a scene from the New York City Center Encores! Production of “Into the Woods” at the St. James Theatre (Photo credit: Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman for …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:04PMMonday, July 18, 2022
For its 35th anniversary, PTP/NYC (Potomac Theater Project) continues is exploration of little known British plays by major playwrights with the New York premieres of one acts by Steven Berk…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:23PMThursday, July 14, 2022
"Into the Woods" is not the only fairy tale for adults in New York right now. "Between the Lines," based on the best-selling novel by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer, has been turned into…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:39PMMonday, July 11, 2022
And of his behavior Richard continues to explain, “And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, I am determined to prove a villain.” In this production we see none of this though this sp…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:25PMMonday, July 4, 2022
Modern dress "Hamlet" productions can be problematic when the directors don’t plan out all the details. Robert Icke’s staging for London’s Almeida Theatre now at New York’s Park Aven…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:55PMMonday, June 27, 2022
The Mint Theater Company continues its three play mini-festival of the forgotten plays of Elizabeth Baker with "Chains." Given a polished – maybe too polished – production like the earli…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:30PMSunday, June 26, 2022
Such an event is the high-tech adaptation at the Baryshnikov Arts Center calling itself "The Orchard," conceived and directed by Igor Golyak, described as based on "The Cherry Orchard" by An…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:44PMThursday, June 16, 2022
Comedian Sarah Silverman has turned her bestselling memoir, "The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption and Pee," into a musical with the help of co-book writer Joshua Harmon, author of…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:54PMWednesday, June 8, 2022
"Mr. Parker," the latest play by Michael McKeever whose "Daniel’s Husband" has been produced twice Off Broadway, has been given a stylish production by director Joe Brancato who also direc…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:15PMMonday, June 6, 2022
Following the lead of Francis Ford Coppola’s "Apocalypse Now," Siting Yang has updated Conrad’s "Heart of Darkness" to the present but left the story mainly set in Africa. In "Sky of Dar…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:38AMWednesday, June 1, 2022
"Romeo & Bernadette" is a musical comedy worthy of the name that delivers on all counts. Mark Saltzman’s spoofing of the old story is great fun and his lines are very clever. The score…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:48PMMonday, May 30, 2022
James Ijames’ "Fat Ham" (all puns intended) is the latest and most successful modern riff on the Bard turning Hamlet into an expression of the Black experience while at the same time havin…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:45PMMonday, May 23, 2022
Although playwright Anchuli Felicia King’s plays have been performed in London, Washington, D.C., Staunton (Virginia), Melbourne, and Sydney, her Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-nominated "Gol…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:46PMSunday, May 22, 2022
While this is not an in-depth interpretation and at times seems a bit superficial, Will Pomerantz’s production of "Three Sisters" is a true ensemble making it appear that these people have…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:10PM 
