Friday, December 21, 2018
Director Ivo Van Hove's stage version of the Paddy Chayefsky cult film "Network" gives Bryan Cranston the role of a lifetime as Howard Beale, the UBS news commentator who has a nervous break…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:55PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 19, 2018
The holiday season is in for an irreverent satirizing in Gary Apple's musical comedy "Christmas in Hell," a rude and entertaining fable for adults. With book, music and lyrics by Apple, a wr…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 13, 2018
The world premiere of "The Apple Boys: A Barbershop Quartet Musical" is a delightful show that pays tribute to this uniquely American art form. In a mash-up of history it also recognizes a g…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 12, 2018
One of the beauties of the book by Mills and Reichel is that all of the characters in the large dramatis personae are very well defined and we have no trouble knowing who is who. Reichel's d…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 6, 2018
Tom Stoppard, our most cerebral modern playwright, has finally written a play that one would have expected from him all along. "The Hard Problem," his first play in ten years, is literally a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:35PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 5, 2018
"Quicksand," Nella Larsen's 1928 award-winning first novel, has been given an ambitious, epical stage adaptation by Everyday Inferno Theatre Company working out of the IRT Theater. While Reg…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:21PM[SHARE]Friday, November 30, 2018
In a time of fake news, these timely and topical questions are raised in the delightful new Broadway play "The Lifespan of a Fact," a dramatization by Jeremy Kareken & David Murrell and…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater is presenting a theatrical event by Idaho theater poet Samuel D. Hunter ("The Whale," "A Bright New Boise," "The Few," "Pocatello," "The Healing," "The Harves…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:06PM[SHARE]Monday, November 26, 2018
While Alex Roe's minimalist production is both sharp and engrossing, the play offers viewers several problems. Aside from the three main characters, the play has 23 other speaking roles with…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:05PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 25, 2018
Ostensibly about domestic abuse, the evidence is all offstage and we must surmise this from the defeated condition of the heroine Irene played by Ms. Daly. Her husband Gerry (John Procaccino…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:31PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 24, 2018
In offering a window on a world most New York theatergoers know little about, Hansol Jung's Wild Goose Dreams is a fascinating look at Korean culture. On the other hand, what appears to be a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:59PM[SHARE]Monday, November 19, 2018
Both a theatrical surprise and a very accomplished dramatic work, Patricia Ione Lloyd's "Eve's Song" is one of the best theatrical experiences to be had in New York at this time. With a cast…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:51PM[SHARE]Friday, November 16, 2018
As proven elsewhere, Steven Levenson is expert at depicting young people in crisis on stage. "Days of Rage" is very real in its handling of a group of people of similar beliefs living togeth…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:52PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Played by Pascale Armand, known for her Tony nominated Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in "Eclipsed," Angela is the heroine of Lauren Gunderson's new one-woman play, "Natur…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:35PM[SHARE]Monday, November 12, 2018
What begins as light comedy in Michael McKeever's well-made play "Daniel's Husband" becomes deadly serious in this cautionary tale. If the plot seems familiar, this is a return engagement of…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:05PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 8, 2018
Playwright Jaclyn Backhaus made an auspicious splash with her adventurous and inventive 2016 play Men on Boats about Major John Wesley Powell's 1868 Colorado and Grand Canyon expedition whic…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:43PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 7, 2018
The witty score with music and lyrics by Schwartz is a collection of both pastiche songs based on numbers Merman made famous and new ones that fit her style that suggest other famous songs. …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:49PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 1, 2018
Jane Anderson's "Mother of the Maid" would probably not be very compelling without Glenn Close's Isabelle Arc as the play itself is following the dots in filling in the little that is known …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:47PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 30, 2018
In her own time, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 " 1950) was a rock star and a best-selling author until illness and postwar culture dimmed her luster. Still she fascinates with her bohem…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 28, 2018
Although Donja R. Love describes his new play "Fireflies," his second world premiere in New York in 2018, as a "surrealistic voyage through Queer love during pivotal moments in Black History…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:53PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Adam Gwon's song cycle, "Ordinary Days," became a cult hit when it opened the Roundabout's Black Box Theatre in 2009 for a run of ten weeks. So successful was the show that it is one of the …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:48PM[SHARE]Friday, October 19, 2018
Solondz's mordant wit makes this the darkness of tragicomedies. Brooke and Jay's delusions so typical of white entitlement are entire their own. When we finally hear from Brittany, she turns…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:57PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 17, 2018
However, the play's humor is very mild. The jokes are on the level of "My steeple is drooping! I swear this never happened to me before," from Pastor Peters, and "George Washington dined on …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:47PM[SHARE]Friday, October 12, 2018
Set in a dark time, "Girl From the North Country" creates a community on stage as do the best plays and musicals. Its tale of lost souls attempting to keep their heads above water is univers…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:45AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 11, 2018
In dramatizing the story of Wernher von Braun, James Wallert's "The Winning Side" makes compelling the concept of ethics in science: should we admire a mathematical genius who has had antith…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 10, 2018
It would be a pleasure to report that A.R. Gurney's last play entitled "Final Follies" performed with two early works, is one of his best, but that is not the case. As directed by David Sain…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:19PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 3, 2018
"Bernhardt/Hamlet" is structured as a backstage comedy. Sarah rehearses with French stage star Constant Coquelin playing both The Ghost and Polonius, worries that she is losing 29-year-old l…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:54PM[SHARE]Monday, October 1, 2018
What gives "A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur" its special cachet in the Williams canon is that its storyline and heroine called Dorothea very much suggest a prequel to A Streetcar Named Desir…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:34PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 30, 2018
Previous experiments from this adventurous theater group helmed by artistic director Eric Tucker include two versions of Twelfth Night performed in repertory, Hamlet and Saint Joan performed…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:09PM[SHARE]Friday, September 28, 2018
Stranger still is the choice of Angelica Page to play Dickinson who looks rather too healthy to be the famously thin and sallow-faced writer known from the one famous photograph. She makes D…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 27, 2018
If these characters sound familiar, they are based on real people who populated Albany politics four decades ago. "The True," a world premiere play by Sharr White ("The Other Place," "The Sn…
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