Friday, March 28, 2025
The second in the York Theatre’s Spring New2NY series is "Who Is Jimmy Pants?," an entertaining spoof of bio-jukebox musical, a genre that could use some taking down. Presented concert-sty…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:07PMWednesday, March 26, 2025
In fact, the play Harmon has written is mainly about the conflict between the grandmother and the mother. While we are never really certain why Ellen and Susan refuse to be in the same room,…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:22PMSunday, March 23, 2025
The new version by Irish playwright Mark O’Rowe uses contemporary and spare language but has made several events more literal as if not trusting modern audiences. The director has made the…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:44PMWednesday, March 19, 2025
Adam Chanler-Berat, Lauren Marcus, Taylor Iman Jones, Jason Tam and Andy Mientus in a scene from “The Jonathan Larson Project” at the Orpheum Theatre (Photo credit: Joan Marcus) Taylor I…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:46PMSunday, March 16, 2025
Who knew that a biographical play could be so witty, entertaining and charming? The latest EST/Sloan Project science play, Michael Walek’s "Have You Met Jane Goodall and Her Mother?" is on…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:33PMThursday, March 13, 2025
The play moves by unexpected twists and turns which are both amusing and engrossing. We never do find out for certain if Dina is a spy or not. However, she does tell Boubs that she was stati…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:24PMMonday, March 10, 2025
Anna Capunay has attempted to write a family drama in order to influence people to try alternatives to chemo and radiation. Unfortunately, in using her own family story, she has not thought …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:55AMFriday, March 7, 2025
While the characters do not change much, they roll through the years dealing with the various crises with various levels of success. However, the play is peppered with one liners and zingers…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:08PMTuesday, March 4, 2025
The author complicates the issue by bringing in autism (Margot) and Alzheimer’s (the unseen father of Adam 2 and Eve 2.) When asked if she would want her autism cured, Margot answers: “I…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:30PMSunday, March 2, 2025
Arthur Miller has always been our major playwright of moral ambiguity, never more so than in his 1968 drama "The Price," now receiving its first Off Broadway revival. The metaphoric title re…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:28PMFriday, February 28, 2025
While Dickson’s production is elegant and pitch-perfect for its 1914 era, the characterizations are partly satiric and off base. While Daniel Marconi is fine as the designing, unprincipled…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:41PMTuesday, February 25, 2025
Bess Wohl’s latest play is the ambitious and engrossing "Liberation," her attempt to investigate the roots of the Women’s Liberation Movement back in the 1970s from a decidedly contempor…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:10AMTuesday, February 18, 2025
The world premiere of Philip W. Chung’s My Man Kono tells the fascinating but little known true story of Toraichi Kono, chauffeur, valet and private secretary to Charlie Chaplin, who was c…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:19PMSunday, February 16, 2025
Conceived, written and directed by Elizabeth Hess, "No Reservation" is a celebration of "the lost feminine to give voice to all who have been discarded, silenced and overlooked.” The perfo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:12PMSaturday, February 15, 2025
Kristen Sieh and Amelia Workman in a scene from Jordan Harrison’s “The Antiquities” at Playwrights Horizons (Photo credit: Emilio Madrid) Jordan Harrison’s plays like Marjorie Prime …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:09PMThursday, February 13, 2025
Mark Moses and Melissa Gilbert in a scene from Lia Romeo’s “Still” at The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture’s Loreto Theatre (Photo credit Maria Baranova) Lia Romeo’s bittersw…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:51PMSunday, February 9, 2025
The play is not very consistent with life in 1949. It is unlikely that middle class married women cursed, smoked marijuana, quoted Simone de Beauvoir or engaged in affairs with other women. …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:25PMFriday, January 31, 2025
Robin Lord Taylor as Tennessee Williams and Brandon Flynn as Marlon Brando in a scene from Gregg Ostrin’s “Kowalski” at The Duke on 42nd Street (Photo credit: Russ Rowland) Tennessee W…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:15PMTuesday, January 21, 2025
When the audience enters the theater, they are asked to fill out a slip of paper with one word that has been on their mind. Part of the show is made up of audience participation and these sl…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:42PMMonday, January 20, 2025
Not only are the paintings massive but they also cover all sorts of modern periods of art without Kissajukian having known their work (abstract work by Picasso, Matisse, Joan Miró, Jackson …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:41PMFriday, January 17, 2025
If only he had carried through on that idea. We will never know if this staging might have worked as Herskovits has sabotaged all that is best in the original and made it both more confusing…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:26PMTuesday, January 14, 2025
Audra McDonald in a scene from George C. Wolfe’s production of “Gypsy” at the Majestic Theatre (Photo credit: Julia Cervantes) Mama Rose in the musical Gypsy, the 1959 collaboration of…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:01PMThursday, December 26, 2024
Must you love your immediate family unconditionally if you know they drive you crazy? And must you show up for family gatherings like Christmas if it always evolves into a vicious fighting m…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:46PMWednesday, December 25, 2024
Typical of Singer stories about 19th century Polish Jewry, these three dramatizations combine Jewish mysticism and demonology with Baker as the narrator of two of the stories while also play…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:33PMTuesday, December 17, 2024
Director Shira Milikowsky keeps increasing the tension as the 85-minute play peels away revelation after revelation. Each man has a guilty secret and may have betrayed a friend which is eati…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:57PMWednesday, December 11, 2024
If one did not read Laura’s extensive program notes in the Playbill given out at the Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre at the A.R.T./New York Theatres, it would not be until three quarters o…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:30PMWednesday, December 4, 2024
The trio demonstrates that their voices are as supple and fine as they ever were. Each gets to play their best suit: Winokur’s loud, clarion voice, Bundy’s wry wit and Butler’s recount…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:39PMMonday, December 2, 2024
Katori Halls’ "The Blood Quilt" is fine as a family drama about warring sisters who both love and resent the mother who has just died. However, as a story of secrets and revelations it tak…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:38PMSaturday, November 30, 2024
There is much rewriting and updating plus uncalled for interpolation like speeches from 'Romeo and Juliet" for Jessica and one of Shakespeare’s sonnets (“My Mistress’ eyes are nothing …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:41PMWednesday, November 27, 2024
Katie Brayben in a scene from Elton John’s new musical “Tammy Faye” at the Palace Theatre (Photo credit: Matthew Murphy) Tammy Faye, the new Broadway musical arriving at the recently r…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:43PMTuesday, November 26, 2024
Besides the fact that many know the story of the Essex (later told in Melville’s "Moby Dick") or the Mignonette told in The Avett Brothers’ album of the same name, Logan has made his mai…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:55PM 
