4,024 stories from http://www.theaterscene.net
The play isn't just about social climbers but those who want to game the system and live beyond their income, and their sense of entitlement rivals that of the 1990's. However, this is 1901 …
Neil Pepe's production of Simon Stephens' "On the Shore of the Wide World" will not please all. The pace is consciously slow " like the life lived by these characters. However, the wait is w…
Barnes' choreography is a delightful blend of ballet, modern dance and stylized movement. She and Bass are highly skilled and have a great chemistry together that recalls that of an accompli…
In fact, Harry Feiner's marvelous, you-are-there set design for "The Violin" made me think of 'American Buffalo" (set in a shabby pawn shop) before the first words of the play were even utte…
Disguised as a snazzy cabaret act, set against constantly projected images from a sleazy Eighties public access talent show"from which the show's title is derived"the short, intense performa…
Darryl Reilly, Critic "I have to go to LA, to lose the Oscar to Don Ameche," was William Hickey's explanation about his upcoming absence from his scene study class at HB Studio in New York C…
The affable Gerardo Rodriguez is hilarious as José and brings great dramatic depth to the role. As Joe, the personable Andrew Blair utilizes his geeky but appealing persona to humanize the …
This 1877 operetta, now celebrating its 140th anniversary, has been reduced to the nine major roles and the chorus has been eliminated. The result is a streamlined version that moves along a…
Although the plot has been reset in Loveless, Texas and New Orleans, Louisiana, circa 1929, it is an improvement over the original story as a romantic comedy: Shakespeare's version ends with…
The awkwardly titled "The Rape of the Sabine Women, by Grace B. Matthias" has problems beyond its nomenclature. What, if anything, is it ultimately about? Though it claims to be a "satirical…
Dazzling hand puppets, stick puppets, marionettes and shadow puppets that are projected onto screens, which were all created by Godwin, depict this gallery of archetypal characters. Thes…
As Blixen, Pelletier is riveting as she wraps her cocoon around the unsuspecting but susceptible young man. Catlike and sinuous as she stalks him and the stage, she is cajoling, seductive, m…
Sigourney Weaver, who acted in Gurney's plays Mrs. Farnsworth and Crazy Mary, periodically appeared onstage with her husband Jim Simpson. Mr. Simpson was the former Artistic Director of The …
Luis-Daniel Morales as Charlie, David Triacca as Guy, and Jeb Kreager as Manning in a scene from "In a Little Room" (Photo credit: Zachary Zerlin Photography) Darryl Reilly, Critic It's 30 m…
On a multi-tiered set that takes advantage of every square inch of the tiny Medicine Show Theatre"designed by the authors"Ms. Kostek narrated Dietrich's life story, from middle class childho…
Ms. Grossman tended toward overuse repetition of movements and arm gestures. Emotional states were supported by little else than the titles and her husband's gemlike scores. "No Words," to a…
In interviews, Ruhl says she intends this play as a gift to her mother who played Peter Pan in Iowa as a teenager. As noble as this goal is, "For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday" never co…
The newly reconstituted New York City Opera opened its second full season with a shared production of Puccini's rarely performed "La Fanciulla del West" created in collaboration with the Tea…
In the first half of her career, Barbara Cook was a top leading lady in musical theater, famously originating roles in such Broadway shows as "The Music Man" and "She Loves Me." (Decades lat…
The title comes from T.S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men," the one that famously includes the line: "This is the way the world ends/Not with a bang but a whimper" - which is exactly how Falls the S…
Ms. Zelman-Doring's cryptic scenario of deeply close twin siblings (Ana offers to masturbate Simon when he is tied up in a chair)  is out of Sam Shepard and her dialogue is a pleasing …
Performed by The Bats, the resident company of The Flea Theater, the world premiere of "Inanimate" is the inaugural production in their new home on Thomas Street, between Church and Broadway…
As in one of Alan Bennett's "Talking Heads" monologues, Stapleton offers a richly detailed portrait of an ordinary person that revels in the mundane. She also adds the arresting device o…
Mr. Klingenstein beautifully and simply renders his fictional account with exquisite detail and emotion. Klingenstein's dialogue is precise and filled with sharp epigrams. It's all a…
Exquisitely produced by the Mint Theater, Jonathan Bank's direction is leisurely and slow, which undercuts the theatricality of all but the last and the most satisfying one, 'The King of Spa…
