Wednesday, February 15, 2017
While 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 01:20AMSaturday, February 11, 2017
The only real high-tech exchanges take place only three times during the run of the show. At the performances of February 6, 9 and 17, one of the roles in "Camera Obscura" will be performed …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:40PMThursday, February 9, 2017
Unfortunately, Policoff’s book is too cluttered with characters too allow for much development. While some of his lyrics are clever, most are prosaic and heavy-handed. As played by music d…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:01PMMonday, February 6, 2017
However, it is Ives’ joy in language that is the most infectious. The rhymed couplets keep coming and surprising us over and over again (bitter/twitter; prize/rhapsodize, jocular/interlocu…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:42PMSaturday, February 4, 2017
The show began with Arlen’s first hit, “Get Happy,” 1930, and ended with his 1939 score for the MGM film, "The Wizard of Oz." The first half of the evening was devoted to Arlen’s sta…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:31PMFriday, February 3, 2017
There are many questions that the author fails to answer. Although the boys have not attended school in years and Bobbie has been diagnosed as ADHD and should be in the British equivalent of…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:07PMMonday, January 30, 2017
While the jokes may be hoary, Unger’s production has cut down on the show’s sentimentality and given it a sharp edge which elevates the material. As the heroine Ruth, Runofsson is genuin…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:15PMSaturday, January 28, 2017
Director Ruben Santiago-Hudson has himself won a Tony Award for his performance in Wilson’s "Seven Guitars" and has directed acclaimed Off Broadway revivals of "The Piano Lesson" and "Seve…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:27PMOne problem is that the play (unlike Noel Coward’s "Design for Living" or Somerset Maugham’s "The Constant Wife" which cover similar territory) is neither witty not clever, and none of t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:41AMMonday, January 23, 2017
On the one hand, it is a punch in the gut dramatizing the cold hard facts of disintegrating with this disease; on the other, the non-linear time scheme is difficult to follow, offering more …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:13PMSaturday, January 21, 2017
Upton’s version solves some problems and creates others. Updated to the 1990’s, the play is no longer about life in Tsarist Russia but the post-Perestroika world of Glasnost. While the o…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:33PMTuesday, January 10, 2017
Never before seen on mainland U.S.A, the current show is an amalgam of the four existing shows ("P.F.C. Mary Brown;" "Hi, Yank!;" "About Face" and "OK, USA") of the six that were written. Di…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:08PMSet in The Afterlife, a crossroad between Heaven and Hell, the play presupposes a trial of Luther on the grounds of being guilty of “the unforgiveable sin.” The prosecuting attorney is T…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:24PMSaturday, January 7, 2017
While Harms has a fine ear for dialogue, the play moves by revelation and incident. Consequently, it plays like a sophisticated soap opera as every scene brings a new wrinkle not previously …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:53PMThursday, January 5, 2017
In keeping with Sullivan having been hit over the head, the cast is clothed in a motley collection: a combination of late Victorian and Japanese styles. Some are in all Japanese, some in all…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:09PMSaturday, December 31, 2016
Surprisingly, Eleanor Reissa’s production for New Yiddish Rep has made some debatable choices which damage the power of the play. First of all and most obviously, although not a word has b…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:41PMWednesday, December 28, 2016
The real reason to see the new "Sweet Charity," its third major New York revival, is for Sutton Foster’s bravura performance. Aside from nightclub singer Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes, Fos…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:47PMSaturday, December 24, 2016
Green’s dry delivery is in the Coward manner, crisp, almost spoken to the music, with impeccable diction. Shrubsole’s accompaniment supports him without ever getting in the way. The most…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:23PMFriday, December 23, 2016
We knew it was a great novel, but who knew Leo Tolstoy’s "War and Peace," Part I, would make such an exciting and innovative electro pop-rock opera? Not that the epic novel isn’t a fanta…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:23PMWednesday, December 21, 2016
Two ways to invigorate Shakespeare in our time is to either cast actors not identified with classical roles or to reset the play in some unfamiliar setting. Sam Gold’s magnificent producti…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:30PMSaturday, December 17, 2016
Seven musicians of Egypt’s Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra have been sent to Israel to open the new Arab cultural center at Petah Tivah. Due to a mix up at the border, they end up i…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:58AMSaturday, December 10, 2016
Rockwell who also choreographed has turned each of the songs into an extravagant, go-for-broke production number. Best are Wardell’s “Noel’s Lament” in which he reveals he wants to b…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:57PMTuesday, December 6, 2016
"This Day Forward" shows much tighter control than many of Nicky Silver’s early anarchic plays. However, aside from offering a few wonderful characters in Malka and the older Irene, the pl…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:20PMSaturday, December 3, 2016
The framework is a fictional fiftieth anniversary party given in a New York art gallery by collaborating media/visual/performing artists Malik “Mk Ultra” (Christopher Livingston) and Jim…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:43PMWednesday, November 30, 2016
It isn’t until the second act of Dan Gordon’s stage adaptation of "Terms of Endearment," based on both the Larry McMurtry novel as well as the Academy Award-winning screenplay by James L…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:57PMMonday, November 28, 2016
Moore’s adaptation successfully uses the small, recently renovated stage of the Irish Repertory Theatre so that even with 13 actors the performance area always looks populated with the peo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:44PMMonday, November 14, 2016
Told in real time from five to seven PM on Election Day, November 8, 2016, not much happens in the play but as the Gabriel women talk, they reveal their hopes, their fears, their desires and…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:02PMBen Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s "The Front Page" remains the quintessential comedy about the tabloid newspaper racket. Jack O’Brien’s production plays it safe while a more brazen and…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:21PMSaturday, November 12, 2016
"Sweat," which won the 2016 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, is reputed inspired by interviews conducted by playwright Nottage and director Kate Whoriskey in Reading, Pennsylvania, named the poo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:48PMTuesday, November 8, 2016
Not only does Nguyen have a unique sensibility and style, but the story is told entirely from the Vietnamese-American point of view, one not often seen on our stages. We hear the Americans a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:14PMSaturday, November 5, 2016
Whether you see one or both of Gurney’s "Two Class Acts," these are provocative plays of ideas on topics of the day. The playwright continues to demonstrate that he has a wise and discerni…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:08PM 
