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…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:17PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 30, 2019
While MarÃa Irene Fornés'Â "Fefu and Her Friends" is considered a feminist statement, in performance the play seems not to be very revealing about women or their positions other than t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:24PM[SHARE]Friday, November 29, 2019
Having had a success with Of Thee I Sing in 2017, MasterVoices had chosen to stage the sequel with an equally starry cast made up of most of the singers from the previous show in the same ro…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:46PM[SHARE]Monday, November 25, 2019
As produced by Bedlam in association with The Nora, Arthur Miller's 1953 tragedy, "The Crucible," based on the Salem Witch Trials proves to be both riveting and relevant all over again. In t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:47PM[SHARE]Friday, November 22, 2019
Alan Lightman's 1992 internationally best-selling novel "Einstein's Dreams" would seem like an unlikely choice for stage adaptation as the original book is made up of 30 variations on theori…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:53PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 19, 2019
"Truffles: Music! Mushrooms! Murder!!!" is a dinner theater musical mystery set in the very restaurant (The Secret Room) where the audience is having dinner. This return engagement of the lo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:37PM[SHARE]Monday, November 18, 2019
"Slava's Snowshow" is a unique experience. It is clowning of a sophisticated sort with its wordless skits which takes it beyond language. Its set pieces are outrageous enough to transcend an…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:35PM[SHARE]Friday, November 15, 2019
Produced by Transport Group in association with The Public Theater and directed with precision, clarity and simplicity by Transport Group's artistic director Jack Cummings III, this story of…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:54PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 10, 2019
There have been many adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth but none of them probably as entertaining as the new musical "Scotland, PA." Presented in the cartoon style of "Little Shop of Horror…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:46PM[SHARE]Richard Nelson's latest play, "The Michaels" (subtitled a "Conversation During Difficult Times") is a thing of beauty. Low-key like his "Apple Family" quartet and his "The Gabriels" trilogy,…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:02PM[SHARE]Friday, November 8, 2019
As directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel, the play is fast-paced and engrossing and the smell of garlic coming from the stage convinces us that real cooking is going on. The completely working …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:53PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 7, 2019
Plays about lives of quiet desperation are difficult to pull off because you run the risk of boring the audience. Liza Birkenmeier's "Dr. Ride's American Beach House" has all the elements of…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:41PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 3, 2019
Kathleen Chalfant adds another feather to her cap as Emily Dickinson's posthumous editor Mabel Loomis Todd in the world premiere of Rebecca Gilman's new one-woman play, "A Woman of the World…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:38PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 2, 2019
"The Lightning Thief - The Percy Jackson Musical" settles down a bit more in the second act and becomes more engrossing but the damage has been done. The actors in the first act all seem to …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:50PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 29, 2019
While the original production had a great many one-of-a-kind stars supporting Merman, one of the distinctions of the York production is its cast: Montel has been able to obtain the services …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:16PM[SHARE]Monday, October 28, 2019
There has been a recent trend to perform Shakespeare as minimally as possible and with as few actors as possible. However, the question arises what is gained? When the doubling of roles prov…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:45PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 27, 2019
Last seen in New York in 2017, Danish choreographer Mette Ingvartsen has brought a newish work, "to come (extended)" to NYU Skirball Center. To come (extended) is actually a reworking an…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:39PM[SHARE]Friday, October 25, 2019
Tracy Letts' latest play to reach New York via the Chicago Steppenwolf production is the comedy drama, "Linda Vista," in which a 50-year-old white man in San Diego going through a messy divo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:40PM[SHARE]The performances as well as the dialogue are cool and unemotional as you might expect from four professionals used to doing their jobs, until about three quarters of the way through when Win…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:16AM[SHARE]Friday, October 18, 2019
As part of its Fall 2019 Musicals in Mufti Cole Porter Series, The York Theatre Company has smartly revived this 1965 Ben Bagley - Cole Porter revue not seen in New York in 54 years. Pamela …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:14PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 15, 2019
The problem with Vaynberg's play, now being given its Off Broadway premiere, in which she plays the lead female role, is that it has so many interlocking plots that it can give you a headach…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:56PM[SHARE]Monday, October 14, 2019
What is evident is that Zeller writes tremendous roles for actors. Frank Langella won the Tony Award back in 2016 for the title role of "The Father," and "The Height of the Storm" may well w…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Despite the fine writing and acting, these two plays do not stand alone: we are given no backstory to understand the context for these relationships in the longer saga; both plays dealing wi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:42PM[SHARE]Monday, October 7, 2019
When the Gingold Theatrical Group's revival of Bernard Shaw's epic "Caesar and Cleopatra" begins, the characters are wearing white contemporary clothes and sitting on what looks like an exca…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 3, 2019
Still delightful, mainly due to Porter's score, the book by Herbert Fields (who went on to write six more Porter shows) has its charms with its snappy Jazz Age dialogue which makes fun of th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:04PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 1, 2019
Legendary director Peter Brook has always investigated the big questions. In recent years his productions have become more intimate and the questions bigger. In "Why?", written and directed …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:31PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Cusi Cram's "Novenas for a Lost Hospital" (with dramaturgy by Guy Lancaster) presented by Rattlestick Playwrights Theater is an unusual site-specific theatrical event that pays tribute to th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:34PM[SHARE]Monday, September 23, 2019
Co-presented by The Theater at the 14th Street Y, '…it's time…" explored the dynamics of a small group of five"excellent"performers whose existence appeared to be controlled by a large d…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:26PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 21, 2019
The Flea Theater is honoring one of its co-founding members, playwright Mac Wellman, with a five play festival called "Perfect Catastrophes" which includes two world premieres and three revi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:53PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 18, 2019
If you are put off by the idea of women defining themselves based on the men in their lives, then Lois Robbins' one-woman play "L.O.V.E.R." is not for you. However, if you concede that there…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:50PM[SHARE]Monday, September 16, 2019
Cobb is titanic in this piece bringing his resonant voice and impressive physical presence to bear on the most famous classic role for a Black actor in the canon as well as his thoughts abou…
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