Thursday, November 19, 2015
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In this centennial of the birth of jazz great Billie Holiday, The New York Pops November concert was devoted to Harlem Renaissance ladies like E…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:37PM[SHARE]Monday, November 16, 2015
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The title refers to three generations of women whose lives have been derailed by early pregnancies. When the play begins, we are in the modest h…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:46PM[SHARE]This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief
Handled as stand-up comedy, Story tells us that he did not at first accept Dr. Gray's theories until he heard one of his lectures, and then he b…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:53AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 12, 2015
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For the first half of Stephen Karam's "The Humans," the Blake family Thanksgiving seems to be nothing but a banal seasonal gathering. And then s…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:34PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 10, 2015
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Kate Baldwin (John & Jen, Giant, Big Fish, Finian's Rainbow) as self-absorbed country western star Tammy Tripp gives a big bravura performa…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:18PM[SHARE]Monday, November 9, 2015
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Roundabout Theatre Company has commissioned yet another new stage adaptation from British playwright Helen Edmondson, whose previous plays also …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:31PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 5, 2015
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New Worlds Theatre Project's mission is to present English language translations of Yiddish plays as comparable to their contemporaries Chekhov …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:29PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 4, 2015
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Twenty-two years after writing "First Lady Suite," four linked musicals about Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Truman, Mamie Eisenhower, Jacqueline Bouvi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:27PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 1, 2015
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"Perfect Arrangement," Topher Payne's first play to reach New York, is a well-crafted and engrossing play with much to say and has been magnific…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:33PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 31, 2015
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The surviving original creators, book writer Sherman Yellen and lyricist Sheldon Harnick, have written a new streamlined version of the show now…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:20PM[SHARE]Friday, October 30, 2015
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Initially based on Plautus' Roman comedy, "Amphitryon," "Out of This World" is an uneasy mix of 1950's slang and idiom, and classic Greek themes…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:54PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 27, 2015
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Havergal's adaptation is unusual in that it uses four male actors to play 25 roles including the central role of Aunt Augusta, with all the acto…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:13PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 25, 2015
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Robert O'Hara's "Barbecue" may seem like a series of sleights of hand, but as a satirist of American culture, the playwright has a good deal to …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:58PM[SHARE]Friday, October 23, 2015
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What is most remarkable about Caryl Churchill's time traveling comedy "Cloud Nine" is that this prescient play about sexual politics and repress…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:52PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 22, 2015
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From the evidence of Colgan's Musicals Tonight! production, "Oh, Kay!" not only still works in the original but has a glorious score including s…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:41AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 20, 2015
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With a cast led by downtown icons Joey Arias and Julie Atlas Muz, "Sisters' Follies" includes life size puppets, flying ghosts, music and dance,…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:23PM[SHARE]Monday, October 19, 2015
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Although Arthur Miller grew up in a Jewish family, none of his characters with the exception of the antique dealer in The Price are explicitly J…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:23PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 15, 2015
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The New York Pops' 33rd season opened with a joyful tribute to one of the legendary songwriting teams of Broadway. Entitled "My Favorite Things:…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:10PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 13, 2015
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The production includes the Broadway debuts of British screen and television stars Clive Owen and Kelly Reilly, and a return of British stage st…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:44PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 11, 2015
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Sunny Knable's music is romantic and lilting. He has called his style a cross between Stephen Sondheim and Benjamin Britten. In this he does him…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:19PM[SHARE]Friday, October 9, 2015
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Jean Webster's classic epistolary novel of the coming of age of a college age girl at the beginning of the twentieth century, "Daddy Long Legs,"…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:09PM[SHARE]Monday, October 5, 2015
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If this story sounds familiar, it is the plot of the classic thirties screwball comedy "The Awful Truth" which starred Cary Grant and Irene Dunn…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 30, 2015
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The annual "The Pumpkin Pie Show" is back for its 17th year. Performed with no sets and no costumes, it has been described as "bedtime stories f…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:13PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 29, 2015
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If you thought Bedlam's artistic director Eric Tucker had created physical productions for his acclaimed acting troupe in the past, think again.…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:45PM[SHARE]Monday, September 28, 2015
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When American born Londoner Harold Chapin was killed in W.W. I in 1915, he was a highly regarded actor, stage manager and playwright, although n…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 24, 2015
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Could Dennis Richard's new play "Radio Mystery 1949" be inspired by the Mad Bomber George Metesky who terrorized New York in the 1940's and 1950…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 22, 2015
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The play is told mainly in monologues by both actors on microphones, alternating with rehearsal scenes from the Gertrude/Hamlet confrontation. T…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:07PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 16, 2015
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Romantic comedy was once the staple of Broadway. Today it turns up more often in the movies. When it appears on the stage it is fairly unusual t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:34PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 15, 2015
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Having commissioned evenings of one act plays by major American playwrights based on the short stories of Anton Chekhov and the sonnets of Willi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:51PM[SHARE]Monday, September 14, 2015
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Experimental playwright/director Maxwell has a uniquely personal vision of theater. He has said in interviews that he directs his actors to be "…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:38PM[SHARE]Friday, September 11, 2015
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Aside from the wonderfully eclectic score by Almond (jazz, pop, Latin, blues, Broadway, gospel, folk music, etc.) who also acted as narrator and…
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