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This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief
Since Bedlam theatre company arrives on the radar in 2013, theatergoers have left their performances as devoted fans. Beginning with acclaimed p…
This post is by Eric Grunin
Gotham Chamber Opera's hour-long program at the Metropolitan Museum, entitled "The Tempest Songbook," took these truisms into account by alternating Shakespeare s…
This post is by Joel Benjamin
There is audience participation; a huge orchestra"conducted by Patrick Vaccariello"that keeps rising from the depths, acrobatic choreography, and, most of all t…
This post is by Jean Ballard Terepka
As part of their splendid yearlong Bicentennial Celebrations, the Handel and Haydn Society of Boston have been presenting major choral works that have fi…
This post is by Darryl Reilly
Director Paul Dobie's staging gives the show a fast pace and well utilizes the small playing area, which is the upstairs cabaret theater of The Stonewall Inn, t…
This post is by Joel Benjamin
What became clear over the course of the four performances under review attended were the subtle changes in Mr. Taylor's work over the years, how his works have…
This post is by Darryl Reilly
In the course of Mr. Siegel's erudite remarks, the work of key figures responsible for these often classic musicals recurred. Composer and lyricist Cole Porter…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief
The best revival of the season to date, Roundabout's On the Twentieth Century is as streamlined and fast-paced as the actual train and twice as …
This post is by Stefan Woych
Haythem Noor, Amir Babayoff, Bryan Burton, Nicole Kontolefa and Jonathan Raviv in a scene from "Martyrs Street" (Photo credit Lee Wexler/Images of Innovation) Th…
This post is by Daniel J. Lee
Through a series of five two-character scenes, Atik's play charts the evolution (or lack thereof) of sex in humanity. While one segment depicts Adam and Eve fum…
This post is by Chip Deffaa, Editor-at-Large
Although I usually focus on performances in New York in this column, this week I'm leading with commentary on a couple of shows I've just caught …
This post is by Darryl Reilly
"Who Are You," recorded by The Who, starts off "The Book of Moron." It's a well-crafted 80-minute theater piece of observational stand up comedy written and per…
This post is by Jean Ballard Terepka
Eleonor Sandresky is not the first composer to be attracted to Parthenia's affinity for collaboration with contemporary music-writers. Her new piece, "Jo…
This post is by Darryl Reilly
Lyrics & Lyricists artistic director Deborah Grace Winer was the show's host. Charming, and with dry humor and passion, Ms. Winer delivered informative and…
This post is by Joel Benjamin
In Doug Wright's "Posterity" at the Atlantic Theater Company two monumental cultural figures of 19th century Norway lock horns in a battle of wits and sensibili…
This post is by Jack Quinn
Raja Feather Kelly TheaterScene.net had the pleasure of interviewing Raja Feather Kelly, the choreographer behind an exciting new dance commission being presented …
This post is by Stefan Woych
Josh Doucette, Hugh Sinclair and Jordan Kaplan in a scene from "Irreversible"Â (Photo credit: Red Fern) In July 1945, the first atomic bomb, as a test, was det…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief
Bathsheba Doran's new drama, "The Mystery of Love & Sex," now at Lincoln Center Theater's Mitzi E. Newhouse, is yet another play whose titl…
This post is by Eric Grunin
"John & Jen" has very little dialog and almost no action that isn't described in the lyrics, so it's only fair to point out that it probably delivers as much…
This post is by Joel Benjamin
The maternal ending was considered problematical in 1988, but seems less of a copout in 2015. In fact, the feminist thrust of the play has also dulled in the e…
This post is by Jean Ballard Terepka
The pieces chosen by Crawford for this concert represented the very best of the Viennese Classical period: each piece in the evening's repertoire was a u…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief
Director Anna D. Shapiro, usually associated with heavier dramas from such authors as Kenneth Lonergan, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Tracy Letts, Bruce…
This post is by Darryl Reilly
The concert series Encores! "celebrates the rarely heard works of America's most important composers and lyricists." With "Paint Your Wagon," they have selecte…
This post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief
Sometimes stage properties that have been forgotten are lost for a good reason. "Hazel Flagg" is one of those shows. Jule Styne completists, how…
This post is by Stefan Woych
As principal narrator, Justin Flagg is charismatic and easily engages the audience in a sing along. He is impressive playing a number of instruments and wearing …
