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…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 15, 2019
Making is U.S. debut 19 years after its Scottish premiere in an actual park, Douglas Maxwell's "Decky Does a Bronco" is a worthy addition to the dramatic literature of plays about childhood …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:17PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 14, 2019
Hopkins had added selections from Lewis Carroll (references to the Jabberwock and "The White Knight's Song: The Aged Age Man," the poem which gives her the new title), Emily Dickinson ("I'm …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:43PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Poseidon Theatre Company's "The Cooping Theory 1969: Who Killed Edgar Allan Poe?," described as a "new immersive paranormal experience," is set at the RPM Underground which is more interesti…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:53PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Bess Wohl's new play, "Make Believe," is a fascinating study of how the traumas of childhood affect our adult lives, particularly the damage seen and unseen parents inflict on their offsprin…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:05PM[SHARE]Monday, September 9, 2019
Deborah Whitfield's 'Tech Support" offers a clever idea in order to review feminism in the past century. Unfortunately, her rather superficial approach misses a great many opportunities. The…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:39PM[SHARE]Friday, September 6, 2019
Jonathan Spector's "Eureka Day" now having its East Coast premiere at Walkerspace is a blisteringly satiric and provocative play torn right out of the headlines. Ostensibly about how one pro…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:28PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Described as a multimedia production, "Da Vinci & Michelangelo: The Titans Experience" is actually a lecture by art historian Mark Rodgers to slides of the masterpieces of these two geni…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:34PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 25, 2019
Lenore Skomal's "The Exes" wants to revive the Broadway-style sex comedies of the 1950's and 60's, earlier called boulevard comedy. Unfortunately, not only is the formula passé but televisi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:44PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 10, 2019
William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night Dream" is perfect comedy for July or August and adding a meal is an even cleverer idea. Presented jointly by Food for Love Productions and Third Rail…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:34PM[SHARE]"Midsummer: A Banquet" is an auditory and oral treat, a light entertainment for this time of year. Using Zach Morris and Victoria Rae Sook's skillfully adapted abridgment of Shakespeare's c…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:50PM[SHARE]Friday, August 9, 2019
Kelley's adaptation begins with the murder of Mary which avoids preparing us for the limited life of opportunity that Bigger leads in the Black Belt of Chicago and making him less sympatheti…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:45PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 7, 2019
Composer-lyricist Joe Inconis' follow up to his teen favorite, "Be More Chill," is not only a showcase for musical comedy actress Annie Golden but a tribute to the Blaxploitation and Martial…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:20PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 6, 2019
While Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" has a great deal to warn us about as a cautionary tale, it is also not as deep or as poetic a play as his major tragedies. Daniel Sullivan's production for F…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:18PM[SHARE]Monday, August 5, 2019
Neil LaBute's "Appomattox" is the most substantial of the three plays and deals with a topic new to his work. Two long-time friends, Frank, black, and Joe, white, are having a picnic in the …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:11PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 4, 2019
Following up on Luis Alfaro's critically acclaimed Chicano retelling of Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex" called "Oedipus El Rey," The Public Theater now stages his equally relevant and timely "Mojad…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:28PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 3, 2019
Series A of this year's Summer Shorts: 13th Festival of New American Short Plays is unified around the theme of death and dying and how it affects the living. Lest you think that this sounds…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:27PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 31, 2019
It is not until the second act of British playwright Chris Urch's "The Rolling Stone" that the play catches fire but from then on the drama is explosive, compelling and very disturbing. Once…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:47PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 24, 2019
The three Havel one acts, known as "The Vanek Plays," though written separately, were originally banned in Czechoslovakia and performed secretly in people's living rooms as well as being pas…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 3, 2019
While Will T.F. Carter's "Barabbas" is very outspoken on the topic of political corruption in Peru, the play is dramatically weak as so much of it is exposition. In each scene we learn a lit…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:47AM[SHARE]Sunday, June 30, 2019
Matthew Amendt's new play "The Comedian's Tragedy" asks the burning question why did Aristophanes, the master of Greek comedy, never write any tragedies. Socrates in Plato's "Symposium" equa…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:56PM[SHARE]Lydia R. Diamond's "Toni Stone" is a tour de force for one actress and Obie Award winner April Matthis gives a bravura performance as the first woman to play professional baseball as part of…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:43PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 27, 2019
Nottage's book is faithful to the novel while at the same time reducing some of the melodrama and streamlining the story to reduce the number of characters to a cast of 13. Sheik's score may…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:38PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 23, 2019
A mash-up of Eugene O'Neill's "Anna Christie" (set in Manhattan and off the coasts of Provincetown and Boston) and "Desire under the Elms "(with a rural New England setting), the play is set…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:48PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 22, 2019
Although director Indhu Rubasingham's production is engrossing and entertaining, this talky and dense play may be difficult to follow for Americans who either do not know or have forgotten t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:50PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 20, 2019
Director Kenny Leon has made his reputation with trenchant productions of contemporary and new plays by such authors as Lorraine Hansberry, August Wilson, Katori Hall and Lydia R. Diamond. N…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:52PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Kate Hamill who has had success with "Sense and Sensibility" (Bedlam), "Pride and Prejudice" (Primary Stages), and "Vanity Fair "(The Pearl Theatre) has now turned her sights to Louisa May A…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 12, 2019
Under Shinn's direction, Winstead making her stage debut is very low-key, almost as an observer in her own story. True she works as a therapist, one who tries not to reveal her personal feel…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:43PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 11, 2019
The play offers no catharsis as the actors are so low-key throughout, all much too calm even when the stakes are rising. As a result, there is little or no tension even when we realize the p…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:22AM[SHARE]Friday, June 7, 2019
Bekah Brunstetter's new play, "Public Servant," has its heart in the right place. It shares with The Cake, seen earlier this year at Manhattan Theatre Club, the first part of a trilogy with …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:25AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 4, 2019
G. Austin Allen's set is a larger-than-life closet draped in purple cloth and which also includes a kitchen. To this room comes the older man in his mid-60's who has discovered that as his h…
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