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Seriously, using a childhood favorite to throw existential dread into the increasingly lined faces of Gen-Xers isn't a bad idea. At times, it's even brilliant. By respectively casting the no…
The style and tone of "re the Bennet Girls Ok?" has been updated to contemporary language with the women using "like" and multiple curse words including the F-bomb so that although we see wo…
"Nothing Like Broadway!" combines modern sensibilities with some old-fashioned influences into a unique and charming show. The narrative follows Milo, played by Tyler Tanner ("The Lightning …
Under the weight of the show's ambition, Dylan Mulvaney is a star. Not in the manufactured influencer sense, but in the time-honored theatrical tradition of the charismatic truth-teller who …
As a playwright Tim Blake Nelson has always been interested in moral and ethical problems in such play as "The Grey Zone," "Eye of God" and "Socrates." His latest play "And Then We Were No M…
It has taken nearly three decades, but Naomi Wallace's feverish proletarian dreamscape "Slaughter City" has finally carved its way onto a New York stage"and in doing so, has made a queasily …
Though it ends on a note of ambiguity"as any good speculative work should"'The Glitch" is resoundingly clear in its testament to the power of theater to interrogate our technological anxieti…
Despite its noble-hearted objective to discourage random acts of violence (well, at least among the working class), Punch suffers from "A Clockwork Orange" problem. Jacob (Will Harrison) is …
Although the advance press materials suggest that Ali Keller's "(un)conditional," the 2024 Lighthouse Series winner at SoHo Playhouse, is about wife swapping, it is, in fact, about two coupl…
Actors and musicians Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson have written a dynamic, exciting new two-character hip-hop musical in "Mexodus," a telling of the little known story of the Undergrou…
Among her most haunting and meditative works is the slim yet searing "From Trinity to Trinity," an autobiographical pilgrimage undertaken in 1999 to the Trinity Site in New Mexico where the …
The production by Adult Film, in association with BKE Productions, incorporates a multimedia approach to telling the story, based on a translation and adaptation by John Christopher Jones, w…
The conceit is clever: each performance takes place in a real home, the precise address dispatched only the day before, like a speakeasy or secret society. A password grants entry. There's a…
You may recall that on January 13, 2018, Hawaii residents including tourists received an alert that a ballistic missile had been spotted on the way to the islands. You may also recall that i…
As TheaterScene.net approaches its 24th anniversary, I've been reflecting not only on the shows we cover but also on how they speak to one another across the season. Sometimes two production…
"Blood Orange" by Abigail Duclos is a play dealing with the ultimate consequences of trauma in the lives of two adolescent girls, with a third acting as a contrast. Vernice Miller skillfully…
Whether Anthony Anello's "let's talk about anything else" is a dark comedy, or a thriller with horror overtones, or drama about the effects of guilt, it is the sort of play that doesn't need…
The latest revival has been directed by Simon Godwin, artistic director of Washington, D.C.'s Shakespeare Theatre Company, in a co-production with Theatre for a New Audience. This revival us…
There's a palpably tragic tension between Edgar and Mira, which the play's quartet of writers--Sherry Stregack Lutken, Lisa Helmi Johanson, Morgan Morse, and David M. Lutken--naturally let d…
Director Ryan Cunningham has helped Ms. Ali shape the show into a strong piece of theater. There are sound cues (it's raining so you hear rain, that sort of thing) and it helps make it feel …
"The Essentialisn't" is a complex piece. Davis explores a world of uncertainty and finds her voice while seeking to answer one question: can you be Black and not perform? This question is ul…
Jennifer Kidwell's "we come to collect: a flirtation, with capitalism" is not so much a theatrical production as it is a revelation"an offering, a conjuring, a glittering séance of self-exa…
Ted Lange's "Lady Patriot" reunites the author/director with his cast mates from The Love Boat series, Jill Whelan and Fred Grandy. Leaving that aside as it has little to do with his new his…
And by the time we arrive at "Fantasmas""his 2024 HBO series that feels less like television and more like a guided tour through the psyche of a queer mystic armed with a glitter pen and a p…
The background on the story indicates that "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain was an inspiration for the story, but the only connections to that book seem to be the idea of t…
