
However, where the Peter Weir film used magical lighting and the atmosphere of the actual filming at Hanging Rock to recreate a mystical, supernatural feeling, the musical instead adds songs…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:07PMMOMIX’s "Alice" returns to the Joyce Theater for the first time since its 2022 premiere and continues to dazzle in its inimitable way with illusion and dance. Choreographer Moses Pendleton…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:05PMAlbert Rhodes, Jr. and Joyce DiDonato in a scene from the Lincoln Center Theater and the Metropolitan Opera production of Gian Carlo Menotti’s “Amahl and the Night Visitors” at the Mit…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:15PMMichelle Williams and Tom Sturridge in a scene from Eugene O’Neill’s “Anna Christie” at St. Ann’s Warehouse (Photo credit: Julieta Cervantes) Successful plays of one era tend to da…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:19PM"Gotta Dance!" is a hugely entertaining revue of dance in the American musical recreating icon moments from 17 Broadway shows including four that started life as MGM movies starring Gene Kel…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:42PMIcke’s version avoids the religious and ethical themes of the original but instead makes it a riveting thriller as the tension rises to almost unbearable heights – even if you know the o…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:40PMAccording to the author’s note, he wrote the play to acquaint theatergoers with the “forgotten war” in Sudan. Unfortunately, as there is no backstory for the leading character the Suda…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:52PMThis World of Tomorrow resembles the films "Back to the Future" (Bert cannot risk changing anything), "Groundhog Day" for its repetition of the same events, and "You’ve Got Mail" in which …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:58PMTalene Yeghisabet Monahon’s new play "Meet the Cartozians," being presented by The Second Stage at The Pershing Square Signature Center, is simply the best new American play in New York th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:21PMWith a three-hour running time (the first act runs two hours straight without an intermission) the play is too long for its repetitiousness having the actors go over the same theater games a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:38PMThe film version starring Burt Lancaster as sleazy yet powerful gossip columnist J.J. Hunsecker (similar to the notorious Walter Winchell) and Tony Curtis as hungry press agent protégé Sid…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:53PMUnlike J.T. Rogers’ Tony Award-winning "Oslo" which handled similar material about the secret Oslo Peace Accord conference, "Kyoto" by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson makes little concession …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:59PMMichael Lepore as the Telegram Boy, Micaela Diamond as Sabina, Ruthie Ann Miles as Mrs. Antrobus, Geena Quintos as the Mammoth and David Ryan Smith as the Dinosaur in a scene from Ethan Lipt…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:06AMIf you know the play, you many have trouble following it as several actors double: Ron Canada plays both John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (Richard’s uncle and Henry Bolingbroke’s father)…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:58PMPatrick Page (back row) and Jason Sanchez, Adrien Rolet and Jake Berne (front row) in a scene from the Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of Rajiv Joseph’s “Archduke” at the Lau…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:20PMTom Pecinka and Marianne Rendón in a scene from Anne Washburn’s “The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire” at The Vineyard Theatre (Photo credit: Carol Rosegg) Playwright Anne Washburn who …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:34PM"Saturday Night Live" has made political satire look easy and has a lot to answer for. "44 – The Musical" written, composed and directed by Eli Bauman, who worked on the Obama campaign in …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:45PMSchiff’s book so slavishly follows her screenplay without adding new material that there is nothing much to wait for. The lyrics by Sanford and Jay alternate between not scanning and extre…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:38PMIn their latest, Shaw’s ever-popular "Pygmalion," Staller has staged Shaw’s never-used prologue created for the 1938 film version which has the gods and goddesses on Mt. Olympus recount …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:48PM"Reunions" is a charming new Edwardian musical made up of two classic one- act plays: James M. Barrie’s 1910 “The Twelve-Pound Look” and the Quintero Brothers’ 1901 “A Sunny Mornin…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:57PMKristolyn Lloyd, Adina Verson, Betsy Aidem and Audrey Corsa in a scene from the Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of Bess Wohl’s “Liberation” at the James Earl Jones Theatre (P…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:49PMPulitzer Prize winning playwright Martyna Majok, who has specialized in plays about the immigrant experience like Ironbound and Sanctuary City, has revised her play Queens first seen at the …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:45PMJames Corden, Neil Patrick Harris and Bobby Cannavale in a scene from Yasmina Reza’s “Art” at the Music Box Theatre (Photo credit: Matthew Murphy) Yasmina Reza’s Art which is turning…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:07PM"Oh Happy Day!" demonstrates an advance of technique over Cooper’s eight-scene sketch evening in "Ain’t No Mo’." However, the new play is much too talky and seems to cover some of the …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:24PMMark Leiren-Young’s timely one-man show, "Playing Shylock" (formerly called simply "Shylock"), has arrived in New York after its premiere run in Toronto in its new version rewritten around…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:29PMWhile Broadway was once filled with plays like this a generation or two ago, "Art of Leaving" now seems very dated. It would have been more believable set back in an earlier decade. Matt Geh…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:13AMThe fourth evening of one-act plays by Academy Award-winning screenwriter and director Ethan Coen is coyly called "Let’s Love!," when by rights it should be called "Let’s Have Sex!" In t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:37PMAlthough William Spatz’s "Truman vs. Israel" depicts a fictional encounter between former President Truman and lawyer and later first Jewish woman congresswoman Bella Abzug in 1953, the pl…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:21PMSamuel Adams as Moritz Weissmann and Ella Stevens as Lexa Kluger in a scene from the Mint Theater Company’s production of the American premiere of Sally Carson’s “Crooked Cross” at T…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:30PMComedian and actor John Leguizamo’s "The Other Americans," his first full-length and full-cast play, aside from his satiric one-person shows, is making its Off Broadway debut and proves to…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:25PMThe Limón Dance Company is celebrating the start of its 80th Anniversary season with a triple bill at The Joyce Theater which in words of artistic director Dante Puleio celebrates “where …
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