Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Played as older than either Viola or Sebastian, Elizabeth Heflin is charmingly eccentric as the strong cougar who becomes lovesick and yielding at the sight of Cesario and then Sebastian. In…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 02:49PMTuesday, May 22, 2018
Unlike many of the recent New York stagings, Eyre’s production makes it clear that the thrust of this four act play is an attempt for the Tyrones to exorcise their demons in one alcoholic …
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 11:44PMMonday, May 21, 2018
Hodges’ play is quite lively with each scene dramatizing one point and the cast of characters made up entirely of real people, not all of them still famous. The real problem is with the un…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 05:59PMSunday, May 20, 2018
Every once in a while the exactly right actor is matched with the right role and magic occurs. Such is the case with Juan Francisco Villa as the 34-year-old Tennessee Williams (before he bec…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 11:20PMThursday, May 17, 2018
Although the title covers part of the plot, the play is really a trenchant social history of Britain from 1925 – 1985 in four short sequences, showing the changes that take place in one ho…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 05:08PMMonday, May 14, 2018
Aside from being a tight domestic drama, The Jewish King Lear has several other differences from Shakespeare’s tragedy. Gordin’s Lear has a wife who is sorely put upon and under her husb…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 11:35PMTuesday, May 8, 2018
The play is narrated by Carr through his memories as an doddering 80-year-old man, returning him (and us) to his days as a 30-year-old resident of Zurich. As such he both unreliable, alterin…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 11:32PMTuesday, May 1, 2018
As Cristofer, Juan Castano is riveting in his honesty and his assurance. You could hear a pin drop during several of his monologue confessions as to why he didn’t do as well as he might ha…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 01:33PMFriday, April 27, 2018
What makes the storytelling riveting are the performances by the talented cast. As the free-spirited Beatriz fighting for her life, Rubin-Vega is at her fiercest and she is a memorable three…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 04:51PMTuesday, April 24, 2018
Fey has made two successful changes to theatricalize her original screenplay. The story is now cast as a flashback narrated by best friends Goth Janis (Barrett Wilbert Weed) and Damian (Grey…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 11:50PMMonday, April 23, 2018
In performance, "One Thousand Nights and One Day" is a like a play with songs shoehorned in as none of them forward the story but take the emotional temperature of the characters instead. Wi…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 05:13PMFriday, April 20, 2018
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s latest "King Lear," as directed by Gregory Doran, is one that needs no explanation and no program notes. At one and the same time both medieval and contempo…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 03:19PMWednesday, April 18, 2018
The Q Brothers Collective (made up of GQ, JQ, Jackson Doran and Postell Pringle) is best known in New York for their hip hop variations on Shakespeare: "Othello: The Remix" in 2016 and "The …
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 04:41PMMonday, April 16, 2018
Ethical integrity versus moral turpitude is the theme of Kenneth Lonergan’s "Lobby Hero" now having its Broadway debut at The Second Stage’s newly renovated home, The Helen Hayes Theater…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 01:19PMThursday, April 12, 2018
Rapp’s plays are so different from each other that it is difficult to classify him. As of now he has written conventional dramas, experimental plays, futuristic and science fiction plays, …
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 02:35PMTuesday, April 10, 2018
Disney Theatrical Productions’ long anticipated stage version of the beloved animated film "Frozen" has arrived on Broadway in a lavish and faithful version of the screenplay by Jennifer L…
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Under the assured direction of Maria Mileaf in a production which started at the Hartford Stage earlier this year, Sharon Washington is a captivating and entertaining presence both as she na…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 11:34PMFriday, April 6, 2018
Lauria, best known for his work on "The Wonder Years," makes Simon an immensely private and enigmatic figure. His erratic behavior changes by the moment, keeping Peter (and us) guessing. We …
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 04:31PMWednesday, April 4, 2018
Scenic designer John McDermott has turned the black box space at the Sheen Center into an intimate amphitheater with the audience sitting around three sides of Higgins’ laboratory/study wi…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 12:30AMMonday, April 2, 2018
aithful to the story and like the film, this stage adaptation uses narration from Dinesen’s story. However, not only are the actors used as storytellers, some of the characters also narrat…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 04:16PMTuesday, March 27, 2018
"Admissions" is often very funny like when Sherri has to try to explain why Melville’s Moby Dick is not being taught anymore (a book about a white whale by a dead white guy) and when Charl…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 03:16PMMonday, March 26, 2018
"Education," Brian Dykstra’s new play, is an incendiary investigation into censorship, free speech and responsibility in electric theater. It purports to be about Art as a Weapon but its t…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 11:29PMTuesday, March 20, 2018
Bruce Norris’ plays are so different from each other that you have to take his fingerprints to recognize his hand. His recent New York plays have dealt with racism and gentrification ("Cly…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 04:32PMSunday, March 18, 2018
It would be a pleasure to say that Musicals Tonight! is going out on a high but that would not be accurate. While the book by Ronald Hanmer and Phil Park based on the play by Charles K. Free…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 07:26PMWednesday, March 14, 2018
On the basis of “Is God Is,” Aleshea Harris is a new voice in the American theater whose work bears watching in the future. The play is the latest in a long line of revenge stories from …
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 11:50PMTuesday, March 13, 2018
Casting of Brewer (best known for her several roles on "American Horror Story"), an individual with Down syndrome, is a real coup as she doesn’t have to be inventing a role she knows intim…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 12:35PMMonday, March 12, 2018
Except for the frustration level of the characters, there does not seem to be a movement towards change or catharsis which may partly explain why the play seems so long. Harris and Madigan r…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 05:58PMFriday, March 9, 2018
"Jerry Springer - The Opera" is not for opera purists nor is for people who are easily offended by four letter words and other bad language of which there is a multitude. However, its irreve…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 04:51PMWednesday, March 7, 2018
Originally titled "A Test Case" when the play had its premiere in New York in 1892, it is one of Daly’s many adaptations of European successes, this one based on a German comedy of Blument…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 11:35PMSaturday, March 3, 2018
Jordan Harrison’s "The Amateurs" is certainly an ambitious new play acted to the hilt by its cast of six. However, at times it bites off more than it can handle, at other times its anachro…
Linked From www.theaterscene.net at 10:43PMThursday, March 1, 2018
"Subways Are for Sleeping" is a valentine to New York and projection designer Lacey Erb has created atmospheric slides and streaming video of such iconic locations as Grand Central Station, …
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