Friday, July 4, 2025
"Lowcountry" by Abby Rosebrock, author of 'Blue Ridge" seen at Atlantic Theater Company in 2019, has a great deal going for it: a fine cast, a play told in real time, scenic design in keepin…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:22PMMonday, June 30, 2025
'Duke & Roya" is an engrossing rom-com with a geo-political background, the sort of story that Hollywood specialized in during World War II. Charles Randolph-Wright’s new play makes us…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:31PMSaturday, June 28, 2025
"Mike and Mindy’s Wild Weekend Jam," the musical returning Off Broadway in a bigger version than before, has a sophisticated score and unsophisticated book. The title is a bit of a misnome…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:41PMFriday, June 27, 2025
Already seen at 200 venues across North America, "Bear Grease," the all Indigenous musical, arrives in New York for a three-month residency. While its subtitle declares that it is a “reima…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:16PMThursday, June 26, 2025
"Beau The Musical" is not only absorbing as a story, the songs help to move the story along, something few musicals accomplish these days. The multi-talented cast is splendid, while the stor…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:25PMSunday, June 22, 2025
Montréal’s physical theater troupe The 7 Fingers has made their third visit to New York with Passengers and the wait has been worth it. Using circus events, music, dance and monologues, "…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:49PMFriday, June 20, 2025
"Prosperous Fools" is like those 1960s and 70s East Village happenings where one never knew what was coming next. Taylor Mac’s tremendous imagination could use some reining in but his sati…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:28PMThursday, June 12, 2025
A farming couple who have been married 50 years go out into their western Kentucky field to watch a lunar eclipse. Nothing much happens but, on the other hand, they review their entire lives…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:55PMTuesday, June 10, 2025
Conducted expertly by Tiffany Chang in a new chamber orchestration by Roland Freisitzer, this three-character opera is inspired by the lush romantic sound of Richard Wagner and Richard Strau…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:40PMMonday, June 9, 2025
Creating his third outstanding and needed adaptation in conjunction with director Jesse Berger ("The Government Inspector," 2017; "The Alchemist," 2021), Jeffrey Hatcher has salvaged yet ano…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:36PMFriday, June 6, 2025
Although Cobb makes references to Iago, Othello’s, second-in-command, and Barbary, the maid to Desdemona’s late mother who brought her up, Nine Moons does not tell us anything we don’t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:19PMSaturday, May 31, 2025
In the title role, Amber Iman makes a sensational return to Off Broadway after her Tony Award and Drama League-nominated performance in "Lempicka" last season. This beautiful statuesque actr…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:00AMMonday, May 19, 2025
And what does it all mean? The new musical takes on pop fandom, celebrity, the Internet, MTV, pop culture, influencers, Gen Z and everything in between. "The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse" is…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:20PMUnfortunately, The Fire Weeds’ production directed by Jaclyn Bethany (who appears in both plays) is very uneven. An attempt at expressionism handled differently in each does not work for t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:08AMWednesday, May 14, 2025
The show at The Players Theatre is not exactly the same show that played in London's West End with book by Shaun McKenna and Steven Dexter which like the original novel was set in San Franci…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:36PMFriday, May 9, 2025
Not only is the show authentically written with Spanish sprinkled throughout, (much of it perfectly obvious as to its meaning,) but Sergio Trujillo’s superb production which he has both di…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:55PMTuesday, May 6, 2025
Not seen on Broadway since 1982 but racking up 26 productions up to that time since its New York premiere in 1879, the Roundabout Theatre Company’s new version of the Gilbert and Sullivan …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:31PMWednesday, April 30, 2025
At this vantage point 55 years after its premiere, like the Wilson plays which intentionally cover the previous 100 years, "Ceremonies in Dark Old Men" feels like an historical play wedded t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:32PMTuesday, April 29, 2025
Unfortunately, while the carnival atmosphere in the field above the cave increases, the musical is mostly a waiting game: if and when Floyd Collins will be brought up from the deteriorating …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:31PMSaturday, April 26, 2025
At times the show directed by Stroman seems to be a satire or a parody, while the choreography by Bergasse mostly looks like ersatz Bob Fosse which seems inappropriate for the Marilyn Monroe…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:30PMTuesday, April 22, 2025
The cumulative effect of the four plays is greater than the sum of its parts. The quartet of plays seems to demonstrate Caryl Churchill in a new mode. While the plots are slight, the themes …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:37AMSaturday, April 19, 2025
While Belflower’s play is clever and insightful, it is also contrived and manipulative attempting to shoehorn almost every feminist hot button topic into one story overlaying "The Crucible…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:06AMWednesday, April 16, 2025
However, it is not just the remarkable video design which uses sometimes up to six screens to convey the action of the story plus live action, but we get inside of the head of protagonist Do…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:21PMSaturday, April 12, 2025
The Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ "Purpose" follows on the heels of their magnificently staged "August: Osage County," but unlike that dysfunctional fam…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:41PMFriday, April 11, 2025
Except for a couple of main characters, the people in his life seem to come and go making it a little bit difficult to follow. While the opening of each act is in the form of a Technicolor m…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:11AMMonday, April 7, 2025
If only film star George Clooney and his co-script writer Grant Heslov had hired an actual playwright to adapt their acclaimed screenplay for the 2005 film "Good Night, and Good Luck." for t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:25PMEric Bogosian’s "Humpty Dumpty" was first written 25 years ago and premiered at the McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton, in 2002. At that time the idea of quarantining due to a local or nat…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:44PMMonday, March 31, 2025
While most of the audience will probably not have graduated in the last ten years (though you never know), the play speaks to all of us about the closeness and personal relationships of our …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:45PMThe new musical attempts to out Monty Python "Monty Python" by creating a full-length show and story in their style, although its origins also go back to British Music Hall where there is al…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:51PMFriday, 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 04:22PM 
