"Baldwin & Buckley at Cambridge" should stir up controversy as their 1965 topic is still relevant. Such a debate today would have a great deal more ammunition than either of these men ha…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:50PMNeith Boyce’s "The Sea Lady," a Broadway-bound play in 1935, only now having its world premiere at Metropolitan Playhouse is an attempt at a Shavian play of ideas. Based on a 1901 novel by…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:33AMOn what is either a shoestring budget or a conscious effort to strip Henry James’ novel down to its essentials, Randy Sharp’s new adaptation of "Washington Square" is both exciting theat…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:58PMThere are two truisms in life in addition to the one about death and taxes: it takes all kinds of people to make a world and something will get everyone in the end. The world premiere of Gra…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:38PM"Weightless" is an engaging little indie rock musical, little in the sense that it has only three characters plus a narrator and runs only 75 minutes of playing time. The show features the B…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:47PMIf you like your W.W. II history unadulterated, you may object to a love story between a French teenage girl and a Nazi soldier even if they are inexperienced and innocent and unaware of wha…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:39PMIs it possible to be completely truthful in attempting to tell the life of a famous author in a biofilm? That is the premise of Argentinian novelist and playwright Romina Paula’s "Fauna" n…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:46PMAlthough Alan Cumming is a charismatic performer, the distracting video design, the often overpowering music, and the often flashing lighting by Tim Lutkin, gets in the way of viewing the sh…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:10PMThe finished score by Lehrman is 50% music he created based on themes by Blitzstein: pieces of his unproduced 1932 opera "The Condemned" (an earlier work about Sacco and Vanzetti), a march, …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:46PMMark Wilding’s "Our Man in Santiago" is billed as a “raucous political farce” but it is neither loud and noisy nor hilariously funny. Inspired by Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s 1974 articl…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:49PMAside from his ability to create multiple characters with his voice and body language, Strathairn’s physicality is remarkable in aging from a young man to a senior citizen before our eyes …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:35PM"My Onliness," Robert Lyons’ latest stage work, is a musical homage to Polish avant-garde playwright Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (active 1918-1934) but who resurfaced during the 1960’s w…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:58AMA fresh antidote to the usual brassy, loud rock musicals of today, "Los Otros" slows down the tempo and the sound level with a story of the experiences of two people who learn to love, cope …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:28PMPublic Works’ musical adaptation of "As You Like It" is an enchanting evening of summer fun under the stars. Trimmed to a long one act, the story is accessible for both those who know the …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:11PM'Hyprov" is a delightful and surprising evening as there is no telling how it will turn out. Will the Hyprovisers be good at their improvs? Will they stay in character? How will they deal wi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:45PM"Titantique" is the most hilarious musical parody to play New York in many a year. Since international superstar Céline Dion only got to sing one song at the end of James Cameron’s blockb…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:47PMIt is not until the last 15 minutes of Sophie McIntosh’s new play, "macbitches," that a dramatic event takes place. Up until then the play is mostly the chit chat of acting majors talking …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:31PMSamantha Streich and Deijah Faulkner in a scene from “The Inconvenient Miracle: A Mysterious Birth Musical” at The Episcopal Actors Guild (Photo credit: Ahron R. Foster) Victor Gluck, Ed…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:38PMIf you have ever seen a play by Aeschylus, you know how static and slow they are, made up entirely of monologues and choral odes with hardly any action. It was Sophocles and Euripides who ad…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:38PMJake Shore’s "Hit the Wall," though limited in its range, is very successful in its goals. It gives Adam Files and Alexandra Guerrero juicy roles as the aging mentor and the younger studen…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:17PMWhile the play is rooted in its original 1955 period (its language, social mores, references, three-act form), this revival directed by Joe Rosario has attempted to place it in the present f…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:17PMThe second problem is the performance of Amir Arison, star of nine seasons on NBC’s "The Blacklist," and eight Off Broadway dramas, playing both "The Kite Runner"’s narrator and its prot…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:13PMPatina Miller as The Witch in a scene from the New York City Center Encores! Production of “Into the Woods” at the St. James Theatre (Photo credit: Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman for …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:04PMFor its 35th anniversary, PTP/NYC (Potomac Theater Project) continues is exploration of little known British plays by major playwrights with the New York premieres of one acts by Steven Berk…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:23PM"Into the Woods" is not the only fairy tale for adults in New York right now. "Between the Lines," based on the best-selling novel by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer, has been turned into…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:39PMAnd of his behavior Richard continues to explain, “And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover, I am determined to prove a villain.” In this production we see none of this though this sp…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:25PMModern dress "Hamlet" productions can be problematic when the directors don’t plan out all the details. Robert Icke’s staging for London’s Almeida Theatre now at New York’s Park Aven…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:55PMThe Mint Theater Company continues its three play mini-festival of the forgotten plays of Elizabeth Baker with "Chains." Given a polished – maybe too polished – production like the earli…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:30PMSuch an event is the high-tech adaptation at the Baryshnikov Arts Center calling itself "The Orchard," conceived and directed by Igor Golyak, described as based on "The Cherry Orchard" by An…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:44PMComedian Sarah Silverman has turned her bestselling memoir, "The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption and Pee," into a musical with the help of co-book writer Joshua Harmon, author of…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:54PM"Mr. Parker," the latest play by Michael McKeever whose "Daniel’s Husband" has been produced twice Off Broadway, has been given a stylish production by director Joe Brancato who also direc…
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