Monday, August 15, 2016
Richard Alfredo’s 'The Dark Clothes of Night," a brilliant parody/homage to film noir and hardboiled fiction, the third play of Summer Shorts – Series B, is so good it alone is worth the…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:32PMFriday, August 12, 2016
While "Troilus and Cressida" is rarely staged, Daniel Sullivan’s production full of bombs and smoke suggests that in our time of endless wars it speaks to us again, and the play’s cynici…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:24PMMonday, August 1, 2016
As might be expected LaBute’s new one act, "After the Wedding," contains a shocker. However, when it arrives in Maria Mileaf’s production, it is so matter-of-fact that it has little or n…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:29PMSaturday, July 30, 2016
While "A Class Act" covers material dramatized elsewhere, Norman Shabel’s play, seen at The Playroom earlier this year, is always absorbing, always unpredictable. The seven member cast is …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:53PMWednesday, July 27, 2016
Inspired by the playwright’s attending a silent spiritual retreat at an upstate New York institute in the woods, this is an absorbing play which immediately causes the viewers to listen in…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:29PMTuesday, July 26, 2016
Playing his most mature role to date, Radcliffe, late of Harry Potter, is charming as he begins as an introverted, reticent Englishman and then slowly panics as he realizes the extent to whi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:51PMThursday, July 21, 2016
While the play can be a tour de force, Kathryn Luce Garfunkel is so one dimensional that her Flora has little weight. She exudes languidness and laziness, but fails to make Flora anything ot…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:34PMWednesday, July 13, 2016
Three-time Tony nominee Brian Murray returns to the New York stage for the first time in four years as a retired professor of parapsychology who has put aside his own career to foster that o…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:20PMThe production team uses most of the same people who were involved with the show’s 2014 run at Theater 80 St. Marks as well as four of the eight actors. Directing again, Evan Pappas keeps …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:55PMTuesday, July 12, 2016
The most remarkable thing about the Encores! Off-Center revival of the late Elizabeth Swados’ 1978 musical "Runaways" is that it is as fresh as when it was written almost four decades ago.…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:23PMTuesday, June 28, 2016
Samuel D. Hunter’s latest play, "The Healing," is a commission by Theater Breaking Through Barriers, dedicated to advancing the work of performers with disabilities. Not surprisingly, the …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:05AMTuesday, June 21, 2016
Only a 30 page treatment and five songs remained from the original show by the Johnstone brothers, writer Will B. and composer Tom. Diamond has written new lyrics for music by Tom Johnston a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:09PMMonday, June 20, 2016
Now having its American premiere in repertory with "Confusions," one of Ayckbourn’s earliest plays, with the same actors in both, the production which is directed by the author is from the…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:51PMSaturday, June 18, 2016
Aside from the obvious misogyny of Shakespeare’s comedy for modern audiences, there is the problem of the heroine’s unpalatable final speech in which she berates women for not being more…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:33AMFriday, June 17, 2016
Adam Rapp’s plays are often about loners and people outside of mainstream society. "The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois" now at Atlantic Stage 2 in a production directed by the author fall…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:32PMWednesday, June 15, 2016
"Now I Ask You" turns out to be comedy of pretentious New York bohemians in 1916, while "Recklessness" is a Strindbergian psychological revenge play. While both have hints of the more famous…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:31PMMonday, June 13, 2016
Although "Hamilton" had been nominated for 16 awards in 13 categories, it failed to break the record of Mel Brooks’ "The Producers" which remains the all-time winner with a total of 12. Ha…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:37PMSunday, June 12, 2016
'Universal Robots" uses historic characters like journalist and playwright Capek and President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia, characters taken from Capek’s play like Rossum, Helena and Radius,…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:17PMTuesday, June 7, 2016
Maggie Lacey as Nora Helmer and John Douglas Thompson as Torvald Helmer in a scene from “A Doll’s House” (Photo credit: Gerry Goodstein) Was Swedish playwright August Strindberg a miso…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:36AMSunday, June 5, 2016
This is heady theater and demands concentration. However, the excellent cast of four made of Geneva Carr (Theatre World Award winner for "Hand to God"), Charlie Cox (Netflick’s" Daredevil"…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:03PMTuesday, May 31, 2016
As with many CSC productions, the modern dress costumes (here designed by Ann Hould-Ward) are entirely in black and white. A small handful of props are used (a tin of buttons, an onion) but …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:04PMSunday, May 29, 2016
British film star Rupert Everett gives a bravura performance as playwright and author Oscar Wilde in the Chichester Festival Theater revival of "The Judas Kiss" by David Hare now at the BAM …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:01PMSaturday, May 28, 2016
Completing New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players’ 40th Season was a rare revival of 1884 "Princess Ida," the team’s eighth operetta and the only one in which the dialogue is in blank …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:45PMSaturday, May 21, 2016
The production of "Indecent" now on the stage of the Vineyard is remarkable on many levels, not the least which is how engrossing it is considering the events are all historical record and t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:56AMMonday, May 16, 2016
Stylish and stylized, the stage design includes Es Devlin’s white box of a set which transforms instantaneously into apartments, offices, restaurants, discos, a health club, a locker room,…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:10PMTuesday, May 10, 2016
On the ferry, audience members listen to a previously downloaded soundscape which includes a voice-over by Katie (played by Emma Meltzer) who has always seen ghosts and ends up investigating…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:42PMSunday, May 8, 2016
The problem with the new show with a libretto by first timers Claudia Shear and Tim Federle now at the Broadhurst Theatre is that it is all so bland - which is not true of the novel which ha…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:46PMSaturday, May 7, 2016
Staged by director/choreographer Doug Varone, "Dido and Aeneas" was amusingly presented in modern dress with Varone’s dancers playing the ensemble in both operas and pantomiming unseen pro…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:24PMSaturday, April 30, 2016
Red Bull Theater which has specialized in Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedies has moved on to the 18th century with Marc Vietor’s exquisite and stylish revival of "The School for Scandal," …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:38AMFriday, April 29, 2016
Shanahan’s adaptation has a great many delicious one-liners and double-entendres (“I don’t go out for mutton when I can have filet mignon at home;” “Keep referring to me as a plate…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:59PMTuesday, April 26, 2016
While many of the scenes are right on target, others seem too metaphoric and anarchic to make much impression, while others take on too many targets to make their point. The best ones deal w…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:52PM 
