Thursday, March 12, 2020
The inspiration for "About Love" is Ivan Turgenev's "First Love," one of the greatest of all novellas. Subtitled "a play with songs and music," that is exactly what it is: a dramatic present…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Vivian Neuwirth's "Mr. Toole" is a fitting tribute to a charismatic teacher and a brilliant author. However, the play, in the form it currently is in, seems to have been shoehorned into a sh…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:04PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 8, 2020
Mixing fiction and fact, new Signature Theatre Residency playwright Lauren Yee's "Cambodian Rock Band" is an engrossing, entertaining and appalling  investigation into the Khmer Rouge's g…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:54PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Following its opening production of Cy Coleman's equally rarely seen "Seesaw," J2 Spotlight Musical Theater Company is presenting a fully staged version of "No Strings" as the second product…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:15AM[SHARE]Monday, March 2, 2020
MCC Theater's New York premiere of C.A. Johnson's new play "All the Natalie Portmans" is a lovely work which resembles other such modern coming of age plays from Carson McCullers' "The Membe…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:01AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Pearl Cleage's "Blues for an Alabama Sky" gets a belated New York premiere courtesy of Keen Company in its 20th season. Although seen in many regional theaters since its 1995 premiere at the…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:48PM[SHARE]Monday, February 24, 2020
As the centerpiece of its spring season, Classic Stage Company is presenting a repertory of adaptations of two legendary Gothic horror stories: Bram Stoker's "Dracula" and Mary Shelley's "Fr…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:04PM[SHARE]Friday, February 21, 2020
Now that The Public Theater's 2019 revival of the late Nzotake Shange's "for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf" has been critically acclaimed once again, Th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:23AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Although J2 Spotlight's artistic director Robert W. Schneider who staged this show has given it a vigorous production and cast a delightful Gittel in Stephanie Israelson, he is unable to dis…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:51PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 16, 2020
In making her professional stage debut courtesy of Page 73, Zora Howard has written a powerful kitchen sink drama in 'Stew," as much about making a literal stew as about the emotional stew t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:45PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 13, 2020
The Mint Theater Company has rediscovered and championed British actor/playwright Miles Malleson with Conflict and Yours Unfaithfully. Now they have combined two of his one acts adapted from…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:52PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Bookwriter Jonathan Marc Sherman has wisely kept the story in its period. However, his dialogue is almost word for word lifted from the screenplay which is rather old hat for those of us hav…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:34PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 9, 2020
While Simon Stone's adaptation is engrossing for its surprising updates, it never captures the emotions, seeming more like a gimmick that a reworking of the Greek tragedy. With most of the a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:56PM[SHARE]Friday, February 7, 2020
An author can be too close to his or her material so that the real story fails to be revealed. Inspired by his own family events, Buzz McLaughlin's Sister Calling My Name has a fascinating p…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:20PM[SHARE]Friday, January 31, 2020
The New York Pops' latest concert, Find Your Dream, was a glorious tribute to nostalgia. Not only was it an evening of the beloved songs of Rodgers and Hammerstein with selectionsfrom all 11…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:31PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Laura Linney is never one to avoid a challenge. When she last appeared at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre she was alternating in the roles of "Regina" and "Birdie" in the…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:22PM[SHARE]Monday, January 27, 2020
When a playwright adapts a famous, well-known story for the stage the problem becomes how to tell it in a new way that makes it seem unfamiliar and fresh. Otherwise, why bother retelling it …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 23, 2020
On paper the concept should not work: scenes and characters have been cut, a Shakespeare sonnet has been added set to music, as well as a Greek song, and four characters originally written f…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:36PM[SHARE]It is not difficult to see what attracted Metropolitan Playhouse to Ardrey's drama: its message that one cannot shut one's self off from the problems of the world as the America First moveme…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Speaking alternately, the six women talk of food, traditions, love, family, beliefs, ethics, dreams, abuse and New Zealand men. They speak of their dreams of a future and a better life. The …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:44PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 29, 2019
Dion Boucicault's "London Assurance" is still a witty and lively play after almost 180 years. With its farcical elements laid over a drawing room comedy plot, Charlotte Moore's adroit produc…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:23PM[SHARE]Friday, December 27, 2019
Leland Fowler, Jamyl Dobson and Edward Mawere in a scene from Donja R. Love's "one in two" in a world premiere production by The New Group at The Pershing Square Signature Center (Photo cred…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 24, 2019
Samuel H. Levine, Kyle Soller and Andrew Burnap in a scene from Matthew Lopez's "The Inheritance" at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre (Photo credit: Marc Brenner) Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief To…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:16PM[SHARE]Monday, December 23, 2019
A product of the tumultuous thirties whose work was banned by the Nazis even though he was not Jewish, Von Horváth was particularly interested in social criticism of the middle-class and …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:47PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 21, 2019
Beloved television stars Harry Hamlin (L.A. Law) and Stefanie Powers (Hart to Hart) return to the New York stage in Joshua Ravetch's "One November Yankee" which they previously performed at …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:25PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Told in leisurely style, Greater Clements is about the decline (and possible fall) of the American dream. Hunter appears to be saying that this is a long-time coming and its roots go very de…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:49PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 12, 2019
Alyssa May Gold, Rebecca Jimenez, Carmen Berkeley and Malika Samuel in a scene from Alexis Scheer's "Our Dear Dead Drug Lord" at the McGinn/Cazale Theater (Photo credit: Shira Friedman) Vict…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:58PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Tony Triano as Santa Claus in a scene from the Argyle Theatre production of Meredith Willson's "Miracle on 34th Street, The Musical" (Photo credit: Richard Termine) Victor Gluck, Editor-in-C…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:04PM[SHARE]Friday, December 6, 2019
Another way to look at the play is as the twelve stages of man and woman, going Shakespeare five more steps. Unlike Tracy Letts' Mary Page Marlowe, in which the heroine was played by a diffe…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:26PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Having won the 2014 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award for "I and You," this is the fourth production of a Lauren Gunderson play in New York since …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:50PM[SHARE]Monday, December 2, 2019
For those younger members of the audience who do not know Edmond Rostand's classic French play, "Cyrano de Bergerac," the new musical "Cyrano" presented by The New Group at the Darryl Roth T…
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