Wednesday, January 10, 2024
Not only is Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' "Appropriate" a classic American family drama with a new wrinkle, it is also a trenchant and scorching look at American racism which is just under the sur…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:58PM[SHARE]Monday, January 8, 2024
Aside from the title not being explained, the Jean Graham-Jones translation seems to end very abruptly. Nothing is settled at the end of its short running time and it certainly feels like mo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:43PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 27, 2023
Joy filled Carnegie Hall with The New York Pops' annual two-night Christmas concert entitled "The Best Christmas of All" led by genial host, music director and conductor Steven Reineke. This…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:04PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 26, 2023
The latest Tennessee Williams revival is the first major New York staging of "The Night of the Iguana" since Roundabout Theatre's 1996 production. Emily Mann's version with a great many well…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:19PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 20, 2023
While the exciting new stage musical Buena Vista Social Club shares the same name with the acclaimed 1999 documentary by Wim Wenders, playwright Marco Ramirez's book for the new show takes a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:41PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 14, 2023
Mary Kathryn Nagle's "Manahatta" now at The Public Theater, just blocks from where most of the story takes place, is a fascinating combination of American history and recent events. Nagle wh…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:47PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Until now it has been believed that the 1937 Joris Ivens-Ernest Hemingway documentary "The Spanish Earth" was paid for by a corporation called Contemporary Historians sponsored by some of th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:46PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 7, 2023
Playing women of a certain age, four women stars of stage and screen who became famous a while ago play friends of a certain age who meet for a birthday brunch in Sandra Tsing Loh's "Madwome…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:48PM[SHARE]Monday, December 4, 2023
"The Jerusalem Syndrome" is a pleasant new musical comedy with some fine clever songs and good comic moments. However, Don Stephenson's production does not take the farcical elements far eno…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:37PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 3, 2023
Michael John LaChiusa's "The Gardens of Anuncia" is an interesting attempt to tell choreographer Graciela Daniele's adolescent story. Unfortunately, as of now the show does not make the case…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:44PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 29, 2023
"Hell's Kitchen" is both ambitious and noble in its intentions. However, as of now the show on the stage of The Newman at The Public Theater is not there yet. With very few characters develo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:43PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 26, 2023
Milo Cramer's delightful solo musical "School Pictures," part of a festival of new one person shows running in repertory at Playwrights Horizons, is wildly inventive, hilarious funny, and ex…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:58PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 25, 2023
As Kenneth/Kate Marlowe, Wade McCollum not only becomes the character but inhabits it. Required to act as narrator as well as performer in both male and female attire, McCollum is totally co…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:53AM[SHARE]Friday, November 24, 2023
The pairing of Broadway legends Sutton Foster and Kelli O'Hara proved felicitous just like the previous pairing of Julie Andrews and Carol Burnett, with each lady using her special gifts: Fo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 21, 2023
Ironically there is no rapport or chemistry between Shannon and Sparks playing friends who have been traveling together for 50 years. As Estragon, in need of sleep and with shoes that don't …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:53PM[SHARE]Friday, November 17, 2023
This being Bedlam famous for its experimental revivals, the second act is handled differently. The audience is asked to leave their seats in the amphitheater and when they return are given o…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 16, 2023
Although playwright Qui Nguyen declared early in his earlier play "Vietgone" that "all characters appearing in this work are fictitious," in his sequel "Poor Yella Rednecks" now at Manhattan…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:08PM[SHARE]Monday, November 13, 2023
Philip Roth's 1995 Rabelaisian novel "Sabbath's Theater" would seem a strange choice for stage adaptation both as it is considered Roth's raunchiest " if not filthiest " book and it moves ar…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:07PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 9, 2023
MasterVoices acquitted itself well in this deliciously comic concert staging of "The Frogs." Why this Stephen Sondheim score is not better known or revived more often remains a mystery after…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:52PM[SHARE]Friday, October 27, 2023
The three plays in the "Meet Miss Baker" Project, "The Price of Thomas Scott" in 2019, "Chains" in 2022 and now "Partnership" in 2023 are quite different. While Partnership is the only one y…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:39PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 25, 2023
The subtitle of Patrick Page's absorbing and informative one-man show "All the Devils Are Here: How Shakespeare Invented the Villain" is an actuate description of the content of his presenta…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:11PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 22, 2023
Not only is Jeremy Tiang's "Salesman 之æ»I" an important document of a classic American play, it is also an illustrative reminder of the cultural differences between China and the U…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 10, 2023
"Jaja" is quite different from Bioh's other plays in that it is also very revealing about life in NYC for African immigrants. Directed by Whitney White who has piloted several major new Blac…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:51PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 8, 2023
Elinor T Vanderburg's "Bloodspot" is a fascinating attempt to create a film noir play for the stage. The visuals do not live up to the script's promise, but it remains entertaining and engro…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:10PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 4, 2023
The 1968 musical 'Golden Rainbow" (the show that gave us the song sensation "I've Gotta Be Me") was so identified with its stars Steve Lawrence and Edie Gormé that it has not been seen in 5…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:37PM[SHARE]Monday, September 25, 2023
Each generation gets its own version of Bram Stoker's Dracula, the classic vampire horror story, that possibly reflects its needs of it own time. The latest version now called "Dracula: …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:26PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 23, 2023
From the playing style, as directed by Josiah Davis, the play seems to be a spoof. Unfortunately, it is not funny though the actors cheerfully mug their way through Horwitz's text as though …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 21, 2023
Ever since Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker adapted 'Uncle Vanya" for a 2012 production at the Soho Rep, her plays like "The Flick," "John" and "The Antipodes" have becomes more…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 20, 2023
Max Wolf Friedlich's "Job" is as tense as a thriller, as compelling as a psychological drama and as up-to-date as tomorrow's headlines. As directed by Michael Herwitz, Peter Friedman and Syd…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:53PM[SHARE]Friday, September 8, 2023
Catherine Waller's one person show, "The Creeps", has all the elements of a successful horror show: a macabre setting, dark lighting, off-beat characters, and strange unexplained going-ons. …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 31, 2023
Visually, the show is not as effective as it might have been considering the play usually includes a great deal of magic. Here there is very little in the way of scenic illusions or legerdem…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:27PM[SHARE] 
