Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Retro Productions’ 50th anniversary revival of Paul Zindel’s "And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little" put the spotlight on an almost forgotten play that is worthy of revival. Shay Gines’ p…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:42PMMonday, May 8, 2017
The two leads David Spadora and Morgan Cowling are charming but that isn’t really enough to carry the show. The script isn’t too kind to their parents. As Big Harry, Lenny Wolpe is overb…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:24PMFriday, May 5, 2017
Although the play seems to have something to say about economics and political systems, it is simply a very light romantic comedy making use of elements of change during the Great Depression…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:47PMThursday, April 27, 2017
Written by the same team that created the musical version of "Grey Gardens" (Doug Wright, book, Scott Frankel, music, and Michael Korie, lyrics) which gave Ebersole the two best roles of her…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:41PMSunday, April 23, 2017
As the ageing matinee idol who never forgets to check his appearance in the mirror, Kline plays a man who is always acting, both on stage and off. His animated physicality in his roles has a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:43PMWednesday, April 19, 2017
The play seems to be in the genre of the classic Western movie though highly poeticized and slow-paced. It resembles the 60’s films of Sergio Leone and Sam Peckinpah but with much less plo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:49AMMonday, April 17, 2017
In between the scenes between the two men in Beau’s living room, Rufus records Beau’s reminiscences of his life and times. In this way, Sherman gives us a review of what things were like…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:12PMSaturday, April 15, 2017
Theaterworks NYC’s stage version of Rick Riordan’s best-selling novel, "The Lighting Thief," about Percy Jackson and other demi-gods, first seen in 2014, has returned in an expanded two …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:56PMTuesday, April 11, 2017
Tucker’s production uses seven actors playing 20 named characters plus members of the ensemble: the women (Joey Parsons and Hamill play one each, good girl Amelia Sedley and bad girl Becky…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:28PMSunday, April 9, 2017
The scenic design with original concept by the late Adrian Vaux, production design by Totie Driver & Matt Kinley, and projections by Luke Halls is as eye-filling as a movie would be. Th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:25PMThursday, April 6, 2017
The show has a great many topical references to celebrities of 1939 (Minsky, Sophie Tucker, Tallulah Bankhead, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt) not all of whom still ring any bells for most t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:35PMTuesday, April 4, 2017
Rob Nagle (who created the role in the Los Angeles production) plays “compassionate conservative” North Carolina Senator Charles Whitmore who is up for reelection in a statistical dead h…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:44PMSaturday, April 1, 2017
Don’t blame singer Jo Lampert who gives a passionate performance as the Maid of Orleans. Unfortunately, she hasn’t been given anything very interesting to sing in this mostly sung-throug…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:59PMTuesday, March 28, 2017
Bated Breath Theatre Company specializes in original works inspired by and in partnership with museum collections and exhibitions. However, this show about the fate of the “Haddie Weisenbe…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:39AMTuesday, March 21, 2017
And what of the play which had its world premiere at the Public Theater in 2005? Parsons’ uneven production cannot keep this long play from seeming unwieldy. In fact, using so many actors …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:43PMMonday, March 20, 2017
The score which has been drawn from the four previous New York productions of Anything Goes plays like a Cole Porter greatest hits parade and almost all of the songs are among his most popul…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:10PMAlthough the play demonstrates a surface knowledge of the genre and the period, it wants to have it both ways: it takes place in 1840 in a desolate mansion on the Yorkshire Moors but the cha…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:53AMWednesday, March 15, 2017
Steven Levenson’s "If I Forget" is the kind of family drama that doesn’t get written much anymore: one that has something to say other than just depicting a dysfunctional situation. Not …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:52PMTuesday, March 14, 2017
Sam Gold’s revival of "The Glass Menagerie," the fifth major production of the play in New York since 2005, is such a one. He has decided to remove all of the historical relevance as well …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:02PMWednesday, March 8, 2017
Thornton Wilder’s "The Skin of Our Teeth" with its benign belief in the resilience of the human condition is unlike any other American play you are likely to see. Both heavily influenced b…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:27PMMonday, March 6, 2017
In addition to the swiftness of the storytelling and the use of contemporary language, Jackson uses a sort of upstairs-downstairs approach. Aside from what is happening to the royals, we als…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:01PMIt would be difficult to imagine anything darker than the content of the second musical collaboration by John Kander and Greg Pierce having its New York premiere at the Vineyard Theatre. Pos…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:35AMSaturday, March 4, 2017
Based on a story by lyricist/bookwriter/producer B.G. DeSylva (“Good News,” “The Best Things in Life Are Free,” “The Varsity Drag”), this musical satire sends unworldly, teetotal…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:48PMWednesday, March 1, 2017
Having played such indomitable women as Mama Rose and Maria Callas, Daly slips into the role of the Madwoman of Chaillot which fits her like a glove with her crisp, authoritative delivery. A…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:43AMSunday, February 26, 2017
Nevertheless, while the play is startlingly not politically correct, the acting is of a high caliber. In the title role, Regina Gibson (who appeared last season in the rediscovered operetta …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:43PMFriday, February 24, 2017
However, as the title implies it is also a very verbose, long-winded affair giving an excellent cast made up of such veterans as Matthew Broderick, John Epperson (a.ka.a Lypsinka), Jill Eike…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:43PMThursday, February 23, 2017
Birney seems to have cornered the market on sensitive, ordinary guys and his performance is similar to his awarding-winning “Erik” in The Humans. However, here he is extremely sympatheti…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:15PMMonday, February 20, 2017
The evening is narrated by Saki (played by an appealing and suave David Paisley) talking to us from the trenches of France, in 1916. His five soldiers (played by Phoebe Frances Brown, Ellen …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:51PMWednesday, February 15, 2017
Illusionist/actor Geoff Sobelle’s show is a combination of happening, art installation, and a meditation on the role objects have in our lives. Using audience participation, objects both h…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:13PMOne of the remarkable things about the theater songs of Kurt Weill is that like the later songs of Stephen Sondheim they are all really little one act plays which give the performers a great…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:04PMWhile the play is at times Pinteresque, it is talky in a way Pinter never is, explaining everything over and over, covering the same ground again and again. Nothing much happens other than t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:20AM 
