The Damned: Ivo van Hove Goes About Theatricalizing Visconti by David Finkle

★★★ The challenging story of a steel manufacturing family in 1933 Germany struggling to survive The post The Damned: Ivo van Hove Goes About Theatricalizing Visconti appear…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 2:36pm on July 18, 2018☆⚑

Fire in Dreamland: Rinne Groff's New Drama Has Trouble Igniting by David Finkle

★★★ A woman hoping to make something of her life latches on to an ambivalent moviemaker The post Fire in Dreamland: Rinne Groff’s New Drama Has Trouble Igniting appe…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 9:41pm on July 16, 2018☆⚑

The Saintliness of Margery Kempe: Saint or Sinner? Not Worth Deciding by David Finkle

★ John Wulp stage-adapts a medieval mystic's life at great length to small avail The post The Saintliness of Margery Kempe: Saint or Sinner? Not Worth Deciding appeared first on New Yo…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 9:01pm on July 12, 2018☆⚑

Imperium I: Conspirator, II: Dictator: From London by David Finkle

★★★★ Mike Poulton adapts Robert Harris' Cicero novels for Gregory Doran's surging two parts The post Imperium I: Conspirator, II: Dictator: From London appeared first…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 9:00pm on July 2, 2018☆⚑

Translations, An Ideal Husband, Consent: From London by David Finkle

Gains and loses from Brian Friel, Oscar Wilde and Nina Raine on three crackling stages The post Translations, An Ideal Husband, Consent: From London appeared first on New York Stage Review.

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 11:29pm on June 29, 2018☆⚑

Strictly Ballroom, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Julie: From London by David Finkle

Baz Luhrman's dance flick, Muriel Spark's novel take the stage, Strindberg's Miss Julie doesn't take The post Strictly Ballroom, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Julie: From London appeared fi…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00am on June 26, 2018☆⚑

Sugar in Our Wounds: Salt Effectively Poured in Civil War Wounds by David Finkle

★★★★ Donja R. Love looks unflinchingly at lynchings and their aftermaths in the deep South The post Sugar in Our Wounds: Salt Effectively Poured in Civil War Wounds a…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 9:30pm on June 19, 2018☆⚑

Othello: Ruben Santiago-Hudson's Version Done Wisely and Well by David Finkle

★★★★ Chukwudi Iwuji, Corey Stoll, Heather Lind, Alison Wright gorgeous in the Bard's jealousy screed The post Othello: Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s Version Done Wise…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 9:15pm on June 18, 2018☆⚑

Half Time: Music, Mirror, and a Chance to Dance So-So Senior Hip-Hop by David Finkle

★★★ Jerry Mitchell directs-choreographs Donna McKechnie, Georgia Engel, André De Shields in a not-great Chorus Line take on aging dancers The post Half Time: Music, Mirror…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 3:16pm on June 15, 2018☆⚑

Desperate Measures: The Bard's Measure for Measure Tuned Up by David Finkle

★★★★ Bookwriter-lyricist Peter Kellogg and composer David Friedman go west for a fun and frolicsome take on Shakespeare's "problem" play The post Desperate Measures: …

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 9:15pm on June 13, 2018☆⚑

Everyone's Fine with Virginia Woolf: Everyone? Not So Fast by David Finkle

★ Elevator Repair Service goes at Edward Albee's classic to embarrassing results The post Everyone’s Fine with Virginia Woolf: Everyone? Not So Fast appeared first on New York S…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 8:00pm on June 12, 2018☆⚑

Secret Life of Humans: Humankind's Rise Debated on Human Level by David Finkle

★★★★★ David Byrne's treatise involving culture hero Jacob Bronowski is dramatically ascendent The post Secret Life of Humans: Humankind’s Rise Debated on …

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:06pm on June 7, 2018☆⚑

Tchaikovsky, None But the Lonely Heart: Abundant Musical Heart by David Finkle

★★★★ Eve Wolf's book calls on actors and musicians to prove argument about aural emotions The post Tchaikovsky, None But the Lonely Heart: Abundant Musical Heart appe…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:05pm on May 31, 2018☆⚑

Peace for Mary Frances: Sometimes Death and Dying Go On Too Long by David Finkle

★★★ The wonderful Lois Smith, directed by Lila Neugebauer, in Lily Thorne's well-cast death watch The post Peace for Mary Frances: Sometimes Death and Dying Go On Too Long …

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:02pm on May 23, 2018☆⚑

The Beast in the Jungle: Henry James' Work Dances on Uncertain Feet by David Finkle

★★★ Susan Stroman, David Thompson and John Kander get Irina Dvorovenko, Tony Yazbeck on their toes The post The Beast in the Jungle: Henry James’ Work Dances on Uncer…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 9:20pm on May 23, 2018☆⚑

A Pink Chair (In Place of a Fake Antique): Wooster Group on Tadeusz Kantor by David Finkle

★★★★★ A fascinating tribute to the late, great Polish director/author and his Cricot 2 company The post A Pink Chair (In Place of a Fake Antique): Wooster Grou…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 3:16pm on May 21, 2018☆⚑

Turning Off the Morning News: New Durang Satirical Sketch Sketchy by David Finkle

★ Emily Mann directs favorite Durang actor Kristine Nielsen, others to skimpy payoff The post Turning Off the Morning News: New Durang Satirical Sketch Sketchy appeared first on New Yo…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 8:05am on May 16, 2018☆⚑

Twelfth Night: The Quality of Shakespeare's Comedy Woefully Strained by David Finkle

★ The usually exceptional Maria Aitken runs into trouble directing a cast working overtime to no avail. The post Twelfth Night: The Quality of Shakespeare’s Comedy Woefully Stra…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 7:30pm on May 13, 2018☆⚑

Long Day's Journey into Night: O'Neill's at Breakneck, Breakheart Pace by David Finkle

★★★★★ Richard Eyre brilliantly directs Jeremy Irons, Lesley Manville, Rory Keenan and Matthew Beard The post Long Day’s Journey into Night: O’Neill&…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 8:31pm on May 12, 2018☆⚑

The Gentleman Caller: Tennessee Williams, William Inge Oddly Coupled by David Finkle

★★ Playwright Philip Dawkins roams freely through the famous playwrights' related lives The post The Gentleman Caller: Tennessee Williams, William Inge Oddly Coupled appeared fir…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00pm on May 10, 2018☆⚑

Light Shining in Buckinghamshire: Caryl Churchill's History Lecture by David Finkle

★★★ Rachel Chavkin directs a talk-heavy look back at Oliver Cromwell's civil war The post Light Shining in Buckinghamshire: Caryl Churchill’s History Lecture appeared…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 9:00pm on May 7, 2018☆⚑

Summer and Smoke: Ireland, Darrow Set Fire to Williams' Hot Drama by David Finkle

★★★★★ Jack Cummings III stunningly directs the play that established the very idea of off-Broadway The post Summer and Smoke: Ireland, Darrow Set Fire to Wil…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 7:15pm on May 3, 2018☆⚑

Unexpected Joy: Mothers, Daughters Vie, Singing Joyful Tunes by David Finkle

★★★★ Bill Russell writes the songs, Janet Hood the book for a maybe likely story of tolerance The post Unexpected Joy: Mothers, Daughters Vie, Singing Joyful Tunes ap…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 7:00pm on May 3, 2018☆⚑

Travesties: Tom Stoppard's Brilliant Comedy Brilliantly Revived by David Finkle

★★★★★ Tom Hollander heads a just about perfect cast, directed just about perfectly by Patrick Marber The post Travesties: Tom Stoppard’s Brilliant Comedy …

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 8:00pm on April 24, 2018☆⚑

The Metromaniacs: David Ives Tickles a Rhyming French Mini-Classic by David Finkle

★★★ Alexis Prion is the now-all-but-forgotten comic writer whose spoof is reworked The post The Metromaniacs: David Ives Tickles a Rhyming French Mini-Classic appeared fir…

SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 7:00pm on April 22, 2018☆⚑