Chisa Hutchinson’s "Surely Goodness and Mercy" has its heart in the right place but as produced by Keen Company at the Clurman Theatre it is not a play at all but an after school movie scr…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:39PMJeremy O. Harris’ “Daddy” is the work of a unique voice, a little self-indulgent in its length, and a little underwritten in its characterizations. It attempts to shock with its use of…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:00PMBoth plays deal with young husbands who are coping with new fatherhood as well as their new responsibilities and their relationships with the dominant male figures in their lives. In Stephen…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:27PMBeing described as a “theatre event,” the unwieldy titled "Rocco, Chelsea, Adriana, Sean, Claudia, Gianna, Alex" is a throwback to the happenings and performance art of the 1960’s, wit…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:14PMMolly Gordon and Colton Ryan in a scene from MCC Theater’s new musical “Alice By Heart” (Photo credit: Deen van Meer) Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief MCC Theater has opened its second an…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:44PMHowever, the play may not be to the taste of regular Mint theatergoers as it seems much more dated that the usual lost masterpieces rediscovered at this esteemed venue. Thomas Scott is so ri…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:34PMHoward Lindsay and Russel Crouse’s 1946 Pulitzer Prize winning political play, "State of the Union," should be, by all accounts, dated in its depiction of the 1948 presidential political c…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:24PMThe York Theatre Company is to be applauded for taking the risk of staging this famously controversial musical in its New York premiere. It is also fulfilling its mission to bring to the sta…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:47PMMystery writer Patricia Highsmith ("Strangers on a Train," "Carol," "The Talented Mr. Ripley") was famously alcoholic, depressive, misogynistic and racist. She was unique as an international…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:02PMWith the audience sitting ringside on three sides of the new theater, and performed by Masden and Belcher at the top of their game, The Light is thrilling theater. Their Gen and Rashad are b…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:46PMClark has chosen to direct the play as though it were drawing room comedy. Beginning and ending the play with a game of cards, there is the suggestion that for Edgar and Alice this is all a …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:59PMIt has been well publicized that the Harper Lee estate filed a lawsuit in February 2018 alleging that the play deviated too much from the novel. They should not have worried. As directed by …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:18PMThe 1970 play was originally adapted by playwright Saul Levitt (who previously turned the Pulitzer Prize winning novel "Andersonville" into a successful trial play) from Berrigan’s free ve…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:15PMThe York production has been directed and adapted by Marc Acito who has condensed the original two act script into a long one-acter. Realizing that the original setting of 1948 for a tenth y…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:52PMIf this family seems familiar, Winkler wrote about them in her 2016 play, "Kentucky," set seven years ago, when Hiro returned home for the first time from NYC in order to stop her sister’s…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:56PMIn recent years the play has not fared with such acclaim. A 2008 Broadway revival starring Frank Langella eliminated the narrator character of The Common Man, the play’s cleverest device, …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:31PMThough not in the same class with Alan Jay Lerner’s masterpiece, "My Fair Lady," "Carmelina" has a similar theme: how a young woman reinvents herself. While the three soldiers are under th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:25PMWhile Jessica Dickey’s "The Convent" may not have any new answers and may cover familiar material, it does so with such vitality and theatricality, that it becomes a memorable experience.…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:45PMSix actors, three men and three women, in a company of seven, play many roles in this fluid production designed by Anna Driftmier that uses several different doorways, on-stage props and f…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:41PMHumorist and journalist Calvin Trillin has made his wife Alice Stewart Trillin, educator, writer, mother and muse, famous from such books as "Alice, Let’s Eat," "Travels with Alice" and "F…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:18PMIrish actors Niall Buggy and David Ganly returning to their original roles play two murderers sharing a cell in Dublin’s Montjoy Jail. The fiftyish PJ (Ganly) and the sixtyish Christy (Bug…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:24PMIreland gives a big performance that is almost larger than life. From the moment we meet her, she commands the stage. Watch how intently she listens to the others or how you can hear her tho…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:42PMWhile "Clueless, The Musical" is never less than slick and professional in the best possible way, for those who know the iconic film it offers no surprises so slavishly does it follow the …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:48PMNothing is what it seems in Jeremy 0. Harris’ startling and explosive "Slave Play" which investigates where race and sexual relationships intersect. What we have been watching in the play�…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:51PMIn the course of this unusual performance piece, the actor and the audience learn a bit of Farsi, the author’s native language, and actor and author share stories of their lives and likes,…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:52PMIntended for young people and their families, the jokey dialogue will amuse teenagers as well as teach them about the glass ceiling that talented women have had to fight against up until the…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:48PMDirector Ivo Van Hove’s stage version of the Paddy Chayefsky cult film "Network" gives Bryan Cranston the role of a lifetime as Howard Beale, the UBS news commentator who has a nervous bre…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:55PMThe holiday season is in for an irreverent satirizing in Gary Apple’s musical comedy "Christmas in Hell," a rude and entertaining fable for adults. With book, music and lyrics by Apple, a …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:33PMThe world premiere of "The Apple Boys: A Barbershop Quartet Musical" is a delightful show that pays tribute to this uniquely American art form. In a mash-up of history it also recognizes a g…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:20PMOne of the beauties of the book by Mills and Reichel is that all of the characters in the large dramatis personae are very well defined and we have no trouble knowing who is who. Reichel’s…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:02PMTom Stoppard, our most cerebral modern playwright, has finally written a play that one would have expected from him all along. "The Hard Problem," his first play in ten years, is literally a…
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