Monday, November 12, 2018
What begins as light comedy in Michael McKeever’s well-made play "Daniel’s Husband" becomes deadly serious in this cautionary tale. If the plot seems familiar, this is a return engagemen…
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Playwright Jaclyn Backhaus made an auspicious splash with her adventurous and inventive 2016 play Men on Boats about Major John Wesley Powell’s 1868 Colorado and Grand Canyon expedition wh…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 11:43PMWednesday, November 7, 2018
The witty score with music and lyrics by Schwartz is a collection of both pastiche songs based on numbers Merman made famous and new ones that fit her style that suggest other famous songs. …
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 03:49PMThursday, November 1, 2018
Jane Anderson’s "Mother of the Maid" would probably not be very compelling without Glenn Close’s Isabelle Arc as the play itself is following the dots in filling in the little that is kn…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 05:47PMTuesday, October 30, 2018
In her own time, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 – 1950) was a rock star and a best-selling author until illness and postwar culture dimmed her luster. Still she fascinates with her boh…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 01:06PMSunday, October 28, 2018
Although Donja R. Love describes his new play "Fireflies," his second world premiere in New York in 2018, as a “surrealistic voyage through Queer love during pivotal moments in Black Histo…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 11:53PMWednesday, October 24, 2018
Adam Gwon’s song cycle, "Ordinary Days," became a cult hit when it opened the Roundabout’s Black Box Theatre in 2009 for a run of ten weeks. So successful was the show that it is one of …
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 03:48PMFriday, October 19, 2018
Solondz’s mordant wit makes this the darkness of tragicomedies. Brooke and Jay’s delusions so typical of white entitlement are entire their own. When we finally hear from Brittany, she t…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 04:57PMWednesday, October 17, 2018
However, the play’s humor is very mild. The jokes are on the level of “My steeple is drooping! I swear this never happened to me before,” from Pastor Peters, and “George Washington d…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 10:47PMFriday, October 12, 2018
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…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 12:45AMThursday, October 11, 2018
In dramatizing the story of Wernher von Braun, James Wallert’s "The Winning Side" makes compelling the concept of ethics in science: should we admire a mathematical genius who has had anti…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 01:02PMWednesday, October 10, 2018
It would be a pleasure to report that A.R. Gurney’s last play entitled “Final Follies” performed with two early works, is one of his best, but that is not the case. As directed by Davi…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 04:19PMWednesday, October 3, 2018
"Bernhardt/Hamlet" is structured as a backstage comedy. Sarah rehearses with French stage star Constant Coquelin playing both The Ghost and Polonius, worries that she is losing 29-year-old l…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 11:54PMMonday, October 1, 2018
What gives "A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur" its special cachet in the Williams canon is that its storyline and heroine called Dorothea very much suggest a prequel to A Streetcar Named Desir…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 04:34PMSunday, September 30, 2018
Previous experiments from this adventurous theater group helmed by artistic director Eric Tucker include two versions of Twelfth Night performed in repertory, Hamlet and Saint Joan performed…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 06:09PMFriday, September 28, 2018
Stranger still is the choice of Angelica Page to play Dickinson who looks rather too healthy to be the famously thin and sallow-faced writer known from the one famous photograph. She makes D…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 04:03PMThursday, September 27, 2018
If these characters sound familiar, they are based on real people who populated Albany politics four decades ago. "The True," a world premiere play by Sharr White ("The Other Place," "The Sn…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 01:35AMTuesday, September 25, 2018
Considering the repetitiveness of the material and the fancifulness of the play, Megan McQueen as Rosie Ramirez and Kevin Rico Angulo as Det. Jimmy Marks make a great deal more of their char…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 03:42PMWednesday, September 19, 2018
The actual subtitle of Silverman’s play gives one pause: “In Essence, A Queer and Occasionally Hazardous Exploration; Do You Remember When You Were in Middle School and You Read About Sh…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 11:42PMMonday, September 17, 2018
While Barry was to become famous writing plays about the very rich, the Whites are of the middle class and live on earned money. In the play’s second act, eight months have passed, and mon…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 10:42PMFriday, September 14, 2018
Gingold Theatrical Group’s "Heartbreak House" is an interesting but misguided attempt to update Shaw’s Edwardian masterpiece and make it seem more relevant to our times. Despite the stel…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 04:24PMSunday, September 9, 2018
Using a format that has worked for him before in his George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein evenings, Hershey Felder has returned to 59E59 Theaters in a charming biographical musical as legen…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 09:03PMFriday, August 31, 2018
Although "Smokey Joe’s Café" has been seen in New York before, the new production now at Stage 42 is an entirely different incarnation of the show that still holds the record for Broadway…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 03:14PMThursday, August 30, 2018
The mellow sound of Brandt’s score proves to be easy listening, but the individual musical numbers do not build to any dramatic climaxes so that the show seems tamer than material concerni…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 05:41PMWednesday, August 29, 2018
"Days to Come" fills in the gap in Hellman’s career between her first play, the controversial "The Children’s Hour," and the immediate successors, the hugely commercial hit and often rev…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 04:40PMMonday, August 27, 2018
"Be More Chill" is an impressive musical version of Ned Vizzini’s cult novel. Not only does it reproduce the plot on stage, it also gives it a high tech look that dramatizes the story wher…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 10:58AMThursday, August 23, 2018
The clever invention is that each of them has a best friend who only they can see and hear: Neurosis (Brennan Caldwell) is Frank’s best buddy, a more cautious, nervous version of Frank, an…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 02:08PMMonday, August 20, 2018
If the show plays like it was written by a committee, in fact, it has been. The book is by producer/ writer Ken Davenport and The Grundleshotz who turn out to be a group of performers and wr…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 06:03PMFriday, August 17, 2018
Comedian/monologist Mike Birbiglia, best known for "Sleepwalk with Me," has the remarkable knack of finding humor in autobiographical crises that shouldn’t be funny but in his hands are up…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 10:05PMFriday, August 10, 2018
Shaina Taub’s joyful and sunny updated musical version of Shakespeare’s comedy, "Twelfth Night," is back in a full production courtesy of Free Shakespeare in the Park and Public Works wh…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 10:58PMThursday, August 9, 2018
Under Michael Mayer’s fast-paced direction, "Head Over Heels" starts badly and busily but eventually slows down to a delightful Elizabethan parody on love and gender. While not all of The …
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