Brock's work once prized effect over substance, but years of choreographing situation and character-based musicals ("Be More Chill," "Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark") have sharpened his artist…
Darryl Reilly, Critic "I'm not a real dancer but in this play, I celebrate my health." Bina Sharif emotionally said to the audience following the curtain call of her self-written play, Dream…
While "Clueless, The Musical" is never less than slick and professional in the best possible way, for those who know the iconic film it offers no surprises so slavishly does it follow …
Nothing is what it seems in Jeremy 0. Harris' startling and explosive "Slave Play" which investigates where race and sexual relationships intersect. What we have been watching in the play's …
"The Prom" is giving Broadway something it's been lacking for years, which is a high-spirited, old-fashioned musical comedy, where the cast's energy spills out over the footlights, and is th…
A five-day journey to Bear's Ears National Monument in Utah in the company of other dancers, choreographers and Native Americans turned Gotheiner's mind to more serious pursuits resulting in…
For tonight's special New Year's Eve shows, Raven will give a nod to NYC evenings past, performing classic pop and American Songbook standards that run the range from "Fly Me to the Moon" to…
In the course of this unusual performance piece, the actor and the audience learn a bit of Farsi, the author's native language, and actor and author share stories of their lives and likes, a…
Intended for young people and their families, the jokey dialogue will amuse teenagers as well as teach them about the glass ceiling that talented women have had to fight against up until the…
But these speeches are only a part of the soundscape. The production is suffused with music"all of it a cappella vocalizing by the cast. We hear barracks songs, patriotic songs, hymns and dr…
He attended Lehigh University. He enlisted in the Navy and served in and around China during World War Two. After the war, he married Alberta Saby of Allentown, Pennsylvania; they were marri…
The troupe attracted a wide-ranging audience to The Sam space at The Flea, even a few youngsters there to see their first live dance performance, and, with the exception of one section, "Thu…
Some novels are more stage-worthy than others, and "C.S. Lewis'Â The Screwtape Letters" is not among those that are. As adapted for the stage by Max McLean--who also directs the production…
Director Ivo Van Hove's stage version of the Paddy Chayefsky cult film "Network" gives Bryan Cranston the role of a lifetime as Howard Beale, the UBS news commentator who has a nervous break…
A hard-edged picaresque fable is what playwright Lynn Nottage came up with in her enjoyable, "Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine" that premiered in 2004. A two-time Pulitzer-Prize win…
The holiday season is in for an irreverent satirizing in Gary Apple's musical comedy "Christmas in Hell," a rude and entertaining fable for adults. With book, music and lyrics by Apple, a wr…
That it involves the relatively new phenomenon of gay parenthood gives it an added impact. That it is written with a thorough understanding of the complexities of gay parenthood vs. cons…
Darryl Reilly, Critic There were so many exceptional original plays among the 144 productions that I reviewed for Theaterscene.net in 2018. In addition, several solo shows were outstanding, …
Though it was common practice centuries ago, perhaps the final take-away from "Bitter Greens"--a new play by Clea DeCrane--is that an actor should not perform in her own work. In the play, D…
Elice is no stranger to biographical musicals. His "Jersey Boys" is still running off-Broadway. Here he was inspired to divide the eponymous character into three personalities: t…
Mr. Goode's structure is creatively simple, the eight reindeers offer their foul-mouthed sometimes conflicting testimony one by one. Rudolph is unable to appear as he is confined to a padded…
The multimedia performance art event "Sleeping Beauty Dreams" opened its two-night run at the Beacon Theatre on December 14, 2018. Audiences gain insight into the dream world of Princess Aur…
Gradually, as the course of a year passes, we learn about the characters' trouble-filled off-stage lives: Rory is coping with being part of a broken family; Bernard suffered loss early in li…
The world premiere of "The Apple Boys: A Barbershop Quartet Musical" is a delightful show that pays tribute to this uniquely American art form. In a mash-up of history it also recognizes a g…
Darryl Reilly, Critic "Nothing brings you closer than almost breaking a hip together!" cracks performer John Burns about his later in life romance that culminated in marrying his husband. "Y…