Thursday, May 11, 2023
MasterVoices concluded its 2022-23 season with a lovely concert staging performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's rarely seen comic opera "Iolanthe (or The Peer and the Peri)" staged and conduc…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:23PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 9, 2023
Sean Hayes, up till now best known for his Emmy Award-winning performance as Jack McFarland on "Will and Grace," gives a titanic performance as humorist, raconteur and pianist Oscar Levant o…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:22PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 3, 2023
Directors Noah Brody and Emily Young, both of the Fiasco Theater, have neatly trimmed the dialogue and some of the minor characters so that the play comes in at two hours and 15 minutes. How…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:25PM[SHARE]Monday, May 1, 2023
Larissa Fasthorse's "The Thanksgiving Play" gives a good tweaking to those who are so hung up on political correctness that they dare not make a decision. On the other hand, the play reminds…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:38AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 26, 2023
While the playlets seem too slight to have much dramatic weight as they are mainly about one minute long, they do have a cumulative effect summing up a year that was like no other in recent …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:30PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 22, 2023
The latest collaboration by composer lyricist Albert M. Tapper and bookwriter Tony Sportiello, "On the Right Track," proves to be a charming chamber musical for three performers playing seve…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:39PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 20, 2023
Unfortunately, though Sorkin may have made this "Camelot" more politically correct, scientifically accurate and less supernatural, it is much less entertaining and magical than earlier produ…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:36PM[SHARE]Friday, April 14, 2023
Gunderson uses two actors to play Emilie and writer Voltaire who was her mentor, companion and lover, and then three actors to play everyone else, from Emilie's mother, husband and daughter,…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:28PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 9, 2023
Mary Elizabeth Hamilton's Smart has an interesting premise but does not carry out its goal turning quickly into a domestic drama and later a bittersweet love story. The two acts seem to be t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:46PM[SHARE]Friday, April 7, 2023
"Life of Pi" is a unique theatrical experience with its animal puppetry, depiction of days on the ocean, and bringing to life an Indian city, circa 1977. It tells a fantastical story with br…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:44AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 5, 2023
Although the women grow up and change over the 26 years we see them, Heifner's book tends to stay away from politics and the women's movement other than mentioning markers like Kennedy, Nixo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:58PM[SHARE]Friday, March 31, 2023
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of its original film release, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks has turned "The Harder They Come," the cult Jamaican film that starred later…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:56PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 29, 2023
The book of "Bad Cinderella" plays like a series of unfunny "Saturday Night Live" sketches. Laurence Connor (who also directed the earlier London production) has given the show no particular…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:57PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 25, 2023
Unfortunately, Monohon's play which takes its cues from Miller's drama, assumes a thorough knowledge of "The Crucible" and leaves out a great deal of information that would make it easier to…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:22PM[SHARE]The problem with this production is that although the characters' behavior is utterly outrageous on the verge of satire, Berger has directed in so flat and bland a style, that shocking lines…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Not for everyone, this minimalistic theatrical event is performed entirely in Japanese with English language supertitles above the stage so that for non-Japanese speakers it requires reading…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:35PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 19, 2023
Like Ivo van Hove's pared-down revival of Arthur Miller's "A View from the Bridge," Jamie Lloyd's new Broadway production of Henrik Ibsen's 1879 "A Doll's House" uses no sets or props and al…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:51PM[SHARE]Friday, March 17, 2023
While playwright Scovell has a facility for language, she does not have the wit to mimic Wilde's classic one-liners. Instead, she borrows expressions from the play and attempts to imitate th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 14, 2023
While this first New York revival of the 1995 "Crumbs from the Table of Joy" does not reach the heights of Nottage's later Pulitzer Prize-winning plays, "Ruined" and "Sweat," it proves to be…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:13PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 12, 2023
Eric Bogosian's latest play to reach New York is his 2008 "1+1" which feels like a made for television movie written without taking into consideration the #MeToo movement that has occurred s…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:09PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 11, 2023
Shayok Misha Chowdhury's "Public Obscenities" having its world premiere at the Soho Rep is an immersive story into Bengali culture in Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta. Directed by the aut…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:36PM[SHARE]Monday, March 6, 2023
Unfortunately, the latest revival now at the BAM Harvey Theater cannot be counted as having reversed the play's fortunes. It still seems vastly overwritten and verbose as it attempts to cove…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:41PM[SHARE]Alexander Zeldin's "LOVE" seems much longer than it actually is due to much silence and the reenactment of everyday tasks usually skipped onstage in plays. There is little dialogue and what …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:18AM[SHARE]Friday, March 3, 2023
Aside from the problem of which translation from the Russian to use, the thorny problem with American productions of the plays of playwright Anton Chekhov is how to deal with the fact th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:46PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Originally entitled "Francie Nolan," the same as the title character of her later "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," but unrelated to that story except for sharing its Brooklyn setting, the play do…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 28, 2023
The second play of Samuel D. Hunter's residency at Signature Theatre is the first New York revival of his 2011 Obie Award winning 'A Bright New Boise," not seen by too many people in its sho…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:39PM[SHARE]Friday, February 24, 2023
Although British playwright Simon Stephens has written three musicals with composer/lyricist Mark Eitzel, formerly of the indie rock band American Music Club, Cornelia Street, set on a quiet…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:46AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 21, 2023
The latest play to reach New York by Anna Ziegler, author of 'Photography 51," "Boy," "The Last Match" and "Actually," has a complicated structure she appears to have invented. "The Wanderer…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:45PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 19, 2023
The problem with rediscovering lost plays from the past is that works that are 100 years old may have gotten dated or express views no longer held. Back in the 1920's, Harlem Renaissance aut…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:51PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 14, 2023
When the Countess Olivia played by glamorous Christina Sajous declares "How wonderful!" in the final scene of The Classical Theatre of Harlem's return engagement of its production of William…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:20PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 31, 2023
Unfortunately, this is musical comedy and does not need operatic voices, Lawrence being famously a singer with a very small range, while Kaye came from cabaret and night club. With all of th…
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