Anna Capunay has attempted to write a family drama in order to influence people to try alternatives to chemo and radiation. Unfortunately, in using her own family story, she has not thought …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:55AMWhile the characters do not change much, they roll through the years dealing with the various crises with various levels of success. However, the play is peppered with one liners and zingers…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:08PMThe author complicates the issue by bringing in autism (Margot) and Alzheimer’s (the unseen father of Adam 2 and Eve 2.) When asked if she would want her autism cured, Margot answers: “I…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:30PMArthur Miller has always been our major playwright of moral ambiguity, never more so than in his 1968 drama "The Price," now receiving its first Off Broadway revival. The metaphoric title re…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:28PMWhile Dickson’s production is elegant and pitch-perfect for its 1914 era, the characterizations are partly satiric and off base. While Daniel Marconi is fine as the designing, unprincipled…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:41PMBess Wohl’s latest play is the ambitious and engrossing "Liberation," her attempt to investigate the roots of the Women’s Liberation Movement back in the 1970s from a decidedly contempor…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:10AMThe world premiere of Philip W. Chung’s My Man Kono tells the fascinating but little known true story of Toraichi Kono, chauffeur, valet and private secretary to Charlie Chaplin, who was c…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:19PMConceived, written and directed by Elizabeth Hess, "No Reservation" is a celebration of "the lost feminine to give voice to all who have been discarded, silenced and overlooked.” The perfo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:12PMKristen Sieh and Amelia Workman in a scene from Jordan Harrison’s “The Antiquities” at Playwrights Horizons (Photo credit: Emilio Madrid) Jordan Harrison’s plays like Marjorie Prime …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:09PMMark Moses and Melissa Gilbert in a scene from Lia Romeo’s “Still” at The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture’s Loreto Theatre (Photo credit Maria Baranova) Lia Romeo’s bittersw…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:51PMThe play is not very consistent with life in 1949. It is unlikely that middle class married women cursed, smoked marijuana, quoted Simone de Beauvoir or engaged in affairs with other women. …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:25PMRobin Lord Taylor as Tennessee Williams and Brandon Flynn as Marlon Brando in a scene from Gregg Ostrin’s “Kowalski” at The Duke on 42nd Street (Photo credit: Russ Rowland) Tennessee W…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:15PMWhen the audience enters the theater, they are asked to fill out a slip of paper with one word that has been on their mind. Part of the show is made up of audience participation and these sl…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:42PMNot only are the paintings massive but they also cover all sorts of modern periods of art without Kissajukian having known their work (abstract work by Picasso, Matisse, Joan Miró, Jackson …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:41PMIf only he had carried through on that idea. We will never know if this staging might have worked as Herskovits has sabotaged all that is best in the original and made it both more confusing…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:26PMAudra McDonald in a scene from George C. Wolfe’s production of “Gypsy” at the Majestic Theatre (Photo credit: Julia Cervantes) Mama Rose in the musical Gypsy, the 1959 collaboration of…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:01PMMust you love your immediate family unconditionally if you know they drive you crazy? And must you show up for family gatherings like Christmas if it always evolves into a vicious fighting m…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:46PMTypical of Singer stories about 19th century Polish Jewry, these three dramatizations combine Jewish mysticism and demonology with Baker as the narrator of two of the stories while also play…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:33PMDirector Shira Milikowsky keeps increasing the tension as the 85-minute play peels away revelation after revelation. Each man has a guilty secret and may have betrayed a friend which is eati…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:57PMIf one did not read Laura’s extensive program notes in the Playbill given out at the Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre at the A.R.T./New York Theatres, it would not be until three quarters o…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:30PMThe trio demonstrates that their voices are as supple and fine as they ever were. Each gets to play their best suit: Winokur’s loud, clarion voice, Bundy’s wry wit and Butler’s recount…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:39PMKatori Halls’ "The Blood Quilt" is fine as a family drama about warring sisters who both love and resent the mother who has just died. However, as a story of secrets and revelations it tak…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:38PMThere is much rewriting and updating plus uncalled for interpolation like speeches from 'Romeo and Juliet" for Jessica and one of Shakespeare’s sonnets (“My Mistress’ eyes are nothing …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:41PMKatie Brayben in a scene from Elton John’s new musical “Tammy Faye” at the Palace Theatre (Photo credit: Matthew Murphy) Tammy Faye, the new Broadway musical arriving at the recently r…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:43PMBesides the fact that many know the story of the Essex (later told in Melville’s "Moby Dick") or the Mignonette told in The Avett Brothers’ album of the same name, Logan has made his mai…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:55PMHow can you make a new play about a couple on a blind date in a bar interesting for today’s jaded audience? In "Strategic Love Play," British playwright Miriam Battye makes them play games…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:56PMArliss Howard and Marisa Tomei in a scene from The New Group’s production of Jessica Goldberg’s “Babe” at The Pershing Square Signature Center (Photo credit: Monique Carboni) If you …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:53PMHelen J Shen and Darren Criss in a scene from the new musical “Maybe Happy Ending” at the Belasco Theatre (Photo credit: Matthew Murphy & Evan Zimmerman) The new musical Maybe Happy …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:26PMFirstly, the play has been shortened to two hours without any intermissions, when most recent productions have been three and a half hours with one intermission. This makes all of the events…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:28PMNevertheless, the play is one of several interesting takes on climate change in the theater recently like "Deep History." As the play evolves we are more and more immersed in the problems of…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:29PMThis is another one of those cut down versions of Shakespeare with only ten actors in total. As result, seven of the ten actors double (one triples). The problem is that almost all of the ac…
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