Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Helen J Shen and Darren Criss in a scene from the new musical “Maybe Happy Ending” at the Belasco Theatre (Photo credit: Matthew Murphy & Evan Zimmerman) The new musical Maybe Happy …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:26PMSunday, November 17, 2024
Firstly, the play has been shortened to two hours without any intermissions, when most recent productions have been three and a half hours with one intermission. This makes all of the events…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:28PMTuesday, November 12, 2024
Nevertheless, the play is one of several interesting takes on climate change in the theater recently like "Deep History." As the play evolves we are more and more immersed in the problems of…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:29PMMonday, November 11, 2024
This is another one of those cut down versions of Shakespeare with only ten actors in total. As result, seven of the ten actors double (one triples). The problem is that almost all of the ac…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:08PMSunday, November 3, 2024
David Pittu, Victoria Clark and John Ellison Conlee in a scene from the MasterVoices concert production of the Gershwins’ “Strike Up the Band” at Carnegie Hall on October 29, 2024 (Pho…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:50PMThursday, October 31, 2024
Following her star turn as “Celine Dion” in "Titaníque" which she co-wrote, Marla Mindelle has a new role in "The Big Gay Jamboree," another parody musical which she co-wrote with Jonat…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:38PMTuesday, October 29, 2024
Adam Driver in a scene from Kenneth Lonergan’s “Hold on to Me Darling” at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (Photo credit: Julieta Cervantes) Film and stage star Adam Driver has stepped into …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:54PMSunday, October 27, 2024
Although the play is graceful and appealing, it is mainly presented in narrative form with Delia played by Julianna Margulies in New York and Peter Gallagher playing Dr. Peter Rutter, her su…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:21PMSaturday, October 26, 2024
Wilder’s experimental play uses no scenery except for two tables, some chairs, a piano and usually two ladders for the upstairs bedroom windows of the young people. Here, however, Leon and…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:45PMWednesday, October 23, 2024
Directed by Annette Mees, "Deep History" is a real eye opener but it is not depressing. Finnigan is so upbeat and compelling a storyteller it is not possible not be pulled into events as he …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:32PMTuesday, October 22, 2024
Lloyd Suh writes quirky historical plays from a unique perspective as ironic comedies. In "Franklinland," the latest entry in the EST/Sloan Project, commissioning and developing plays about …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:17PMMonday, October 21, 2024
James Ijames’ new play now at The Public Theater is quite different from his satiric Pulitzer Prizing-winning "Fat Ham" which appeared there two years ago. "Good Bones" is a realistic de…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:55PMThursday, October 17, 2024
While "Sump’n Like Wings" is a lovely little play about a feisty 16-year-old girl who wants her independence in the 1913-16 period just after Oklahoma became a state, unfortunately Raelle …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:47PMTuesday, October 15, 2024
As in Ayad Akhtar’s plays "Disgraced," "JUNK" and "The Who and the What," all of which have been produced by the Lincoln Center Theater, "McNeal" is always interesting, always arresting. U…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:53PMWednesday, October 9, 2024
The problem with the show is two-fold: first, it doesn’t have anything new to say about dating other than trying to turn it into a cabaret commentary, and visually the show looks the same …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:57PMThursday, October 3, 2024
While the play is compelling, the question is what is the message? Is the play asking would we have done what the son did? The father is quoted by the son as calling him a traitor while the …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:05PMMonday, September 30, 2024
The spate of Sondheim shows both this past season and opening this fall is given prime place in this musical revue. Unsurprisingly, the new "Merrily We Roll Along" which ran all of last seas…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:13PMThursday, September 26, 2024
Quintero who obviously knows his Greek plays and Greek mythology is extremely faithful to the original myth and to Euripides’ play. What he has added is a contemporary vernacular all in rh…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:53PMWednesday, September 25, 2024
However, in the sweeping new musical epic retitled Monte Cristo, canny and adept librettist Peter Kellogg ("Desperate Measures," "Penelope") has streamlined the story, reduced the number of …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:56AMMonday, September 23, 2024
While "That Parenting Musical" will not tell you anything you didn’t already know, it is a pleasant and undemanding way to spend an evening. The six attractive performers four of whom appe…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:06PMThursday, September 19, 2024
Of course, with Farrow and LuPone under the direction of six-time Tony Award winner Jack O’Brien, this is an occasion for cheering although this comedy drama, a cross between a female ver…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:44PMTuesday, September 17, 2024
The libretto by the composer and musicologist Walter Simmons is very faithful to the O’Neill play, almost entirely dialogue taken from the original script. Unfortunately, they chose to sho…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:06PMSaturday, September 14, 2024
While "Counting and Cracking" is an unforgettable epic of a family and a country, it is also a study of the fight for democracy and the lengths people will go to fight for their beliefs. The…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:00PMTuesday, September 10, 2024
Levin’s lyrics have unusual and surprising rhyme patterns which add to their interest. The powerful score with music by Ron Abel (who also plays a mean piano with the orchestra of five whi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:05PMThursday, September 5, 2024
However, instead of telling Fleming’s story in chronological order, it travels backwards and forwards in time beginning with Fleming’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech in Stockholm in 1945,…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:47PMMonday, September 2, 2024
The revue alternates between skits by James Hindman and Lynne Halliday and songs with music by Jeffrey Lodin (who is also the music director at the piano) and lyrics by Mark Waldrop, the int…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:16PMMonday, August 26, 2024
"Hurricane Season" is the sort of vanity production in which one assumes that the author thinks he or she has invented the next step in the avant-garde. Unfortunately, Estes’ production wi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:07PMSaturday, August 17, 2024
Foster is a joy as the princess from the swamps who can swim, lift weights, dance all night, commit multiple contortions as she tries to get a good night sleep, and field any disaster that c…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:58PMTuesday, August 13, 2024
Doménica Feraud who has also written "Rinse, Release" has made a career of writing about very human psychological problems. While "Someone Spectacular" is rather untheatrical in its present…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:58PMThursday, August 8, 2024
The dynamic and exciting dances include the five elements of voguing: catwalk, duckwalk, hand performances, floor performances and spins and dips in various combinations. The competitions wh…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:48PMMonday, August 5, 2024
Seemingly not trusting the material, director Brian Mertes has used all kinds of stage gimmicks including having the two actors photographed live by a team of three videographers whose equip…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:16PM 
