Sunday, March 18, 2018
It would be a pleasure to say that Musicals Tonight! is going out on a high but that would not be accurate. While the book by Ronald Hanmer and Phil Park based on the play by Charles K. Free…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:26PMWednesday, March 14, 2018
On the basis of “Is God Is,” Aleshea Harris is a new voice in the American theater whose work bears watching in the future. The play is the latest in a long line of revenge stories from …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:50PMTuesday, March 13, 2018
Casting of Brewer (best known for her several roles on "American Horror Story"), an individual with Down syndrome, is a real coup as she doesn’t have to be inventing a role she knows intim…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:35PMMonday, March 12, 2018
Except for the frustration level of the characters, there does not seem to be a movement towards change or catharsis which may partly explain why the play seems so long. Harris and Madigan r…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:58PMFriday, March 9, 2018
"Jerry Springer - The Opera" is not for opera purists nor is for people who are easily offended by four letter words and other bad language of which there is a multitude. However, its irreve…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:51PMWednesday, March 7, 2018
Originally titled "A Test Case" when the play had its premiere in New York in 1892, it is one of Daly’s many adaptations of European successes, this one based on a German comedy of Blument…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:35PMSaturday, March 3, 2018
Jordan Harrison’s "The Amateurs" is certainly an ambitious new play acted to the hilt by its cast of six. However, at times it bites off more than it can handle, at other times its anachro…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:43PMThursday, March 1, 2018
"Subways Are for Sleeping" is a valentine to New York and projection designer Lacey Erb has created atmospheric slides and streaming video of such iconic locations as Grand Central Station, …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:48PMThursday, February 22, 2018
Although an interesting idea, James Inverne’s "A Walk With Mr. Heifetz" has lofty ambitions which it is unable to fulfill. While the advertisement proclaims that these two encounters “ch…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:13PMTuesday, February 20, 2018
Marcus Gardley’s "X: Or, Betty Shabazz V. The Nation" is a powerful indictment of forces within a movement which help to destroy it. Performed by The Acting Company under the direction of …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:27PMSunday, February 18, 2018
The cast seems to have been mostly chosen for their comic skills rather than their singing skills. Nevertheless, Josh Waldren and Matthew Fairless as the visiting travelers turn “Dear Old …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:53PMFriday, February 16, 2018
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: three people walk into a bar where they are known by the drinks they order. Only in Kate Benson’s new play "[Porto]," the unnamed bar is in a gen…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:29PMThursday, February 15, 2018
"Bar Mitzvah Boy" may not be a top-drawer Jule Styne musical, but Jack Rosenthal’s original story and David Thompson’s new book are excellently observed to have the ring of truth. The fa…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:43PMFriday, February 9, 2018
Playwrights Horizons has a real winner with the first entry in its new Redux Series bringing back worthy Off Off Broadway plays for a longer run Off Broadway. First up is "Miles for Mary," a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:40PMWednesday, February 7, 2018
We are never told the name of the play being rehearsed or who the characters in the play within the play are. In the second act, the performers dressed in their costumes for Gabriele’s pla…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:10PMTuesday, February 6, 2018
Whereas Kennedy became famous with plays that use myth, history, surrealism and Theater of the Absurd to tell their stories, this play tells a realistic tale in poetic form, its very brevity…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:40PMSunday, February 4, 2018
Stanley Houghton’s once controversial "Hindle Wakes" explodes everything you have ever been taught about the double standard and the place of women in society. The irrefutable logic of the…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:19PMFriday, February 2, 2018
Greg Pierce, the author of "Slowgirl" and "Kid Champion," has often tackled hot button issues. Here in Cardinal being given its world premiere at Second Stage Theater, he takes on urban rene…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:49AMWednesday, January 31, 2018
While the new cut-down version (performed concert style with book in hand) with nine actors instead of the original 36, now covers 100 years, rather than the sixty in the original show, it s…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:45PMThe best reason to see Isobel Mahon’s "Party Face" is to see the ever-lovely Hayley Mills who used to play mischievous teens and now is playing busy-body mothers. The play is diverting tho…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:30PMFriday, January 26, 2018
The problem with Laura Braza’s production is the lack of chemistry between Vasile Flutur’s Jericho and Hannah Sloat’s Julie. While Jericho should be charming and seductive, Flutur is o…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:54AMThursday, January 18, 2018
John Haidar’s energized production turns this material into a tour de force for Campbell and Lynch who are continually moving about spewing volumes of words, almost choreographed by moveme…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:41PMMonday, January 8, 2018
Washington, D.C.’s acclaimed Happenstance Theater is making is New York debut with its 2015 show "BrouHaHa," which has been seen previously in Baltimore, Maine and New Haven. Taking for it…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:48AMSaturday, December 30, 2017
Along with some contemporary updating which always gets a laugh, Albert Bergeret’s direction is sharp and shrewd and his conducting of Sullivan’s sprightly and animated score is equally …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:59PMSaturday, December 23, 2017
Giving a performance of the caliber of his earlier Shakespeare’s Globe portrayals of the Countess Olivia in "Twelfth Night" and the title role of "Richard III" which also played Broadway�…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:12AMThursday, December 21, 2017
While not as memorable as several previous Fiasco Theater productions, this "Twelfth Night" takes a while to get where it is going. After winding up the plot in the first half, it settles do…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:55PMWednesday, December 20, 2017
Moses’ famously crowded and contentious career is glossed over except for his final battle with Jacobs over the Lower Manhattan Expressway. "Bulldozer" doesn’t even give a good summary o…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:42PMFriday, December 15, 2017
The themes of Rajiv Joseph’s latest political play are not only valid but relevant in today’s climate. However, "Describe the Night" is too convoluted for its own good and attempts to ma…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:20PMAnton Chekhov once advised that if you show an audience a gun you are required to have it go off. Set on September 8, 1976, Seth Zvi Rosenfeld’s new play, "Downtown Race Riot," being given…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:18PMWednesday, December 13, 2017
William Nicholson’s "Shadowlands" is one of those subtle plays that grows on you as it evolves and weaves its own spell. Based on a true story of one the most improbable love stories of th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:43PMTuesday, December 12, 2017
Inspired by Henri Becque’s notorious 1885 "La Parisienne," credited as the first Naturalistic French play, Willimon has taken its plot, characters and themes of sex, adultery, betrayal and…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:38PM 
