Friday, August 10, 2018
Gambling, palace intrigue and poetry abounds in playwright Jonathan Leaf's imaginative and engrossing historical drama "Pushkin." In the course of two acts and numerous scenes, the eventful …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:52PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 9, 2018
Translated into English from the Swedish by Charlotte Barslund, Ms. Langseth's trite sexual obsession scenario is reminiscent of the novels of Patricia Highsmith and the French thriller film…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:43PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 7, 2018
That renowned man of the theater Austin Pendleton's concept to adapt and combine portions of William Shakespeare's "Henry VI, Part 3" with Richard III is intriguing and textually successful.…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:21PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 2, 2018
Reveling in their grating vocal affectations, gesticulating at a fever pitch or moving catatonically and projecting snarky personas they hold forth on their revered subject in various permut…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:02PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 28, 2018
This plotless, mostly sung-through exhibition conveys the tumultuous 20th century urban African-American experience through Micki Grant's dazzling score for which she wrote both the music an…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:11PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 26, 2018
A central concern of the play is detailing Wellington's five love interests: a white guy he meets at a hilarious Brooklyn vegan party, an Indian young man, an 18-year-old Muslim food cart ve…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:40PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Its maddening structure, extraneous scenes and superfluous characters diminish but do not totally obliterate the potency of playwright Jerry Small's romantic drama, "Before We're Gone." What…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:58AM[SHARE]Monday, July 23, 2018
As the sleek and black-clad Tanya Marquardt vigorously wraps up her self-written 60-minute autobiographical show "Stray," with her giddy dancing and hurling her ponytail around, the aimless …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:05PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 21, 2018
Mr. Gray infuses his straightforward 70-minute interview treatment with tension, suspense and drama. A third character, Norm Hansen is a 60-year-old straight married board member of Pendarvi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:20AM[SHARE]Friday, July 20, 2018
Street Theatre.
"I'll be delivering the longest soliloquy from any Shakespeare play," Mr. de Rogatis explained about the substitution of Richard III's celebrated opening line for a speech fr…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:41PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Rebecca Aparicio's book is a skillful fictionalization of the true story of Operation Pedro Pan, which facilitated the immigration of over 14,000 children from Cuba to the United States betw…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:15PM[SHARE]Monday, July 16, 2018
Structured as a series of confessional vignettes, Innit begins in the school psychologist's office and alternates between there and Kelly's home. Her 34-year-old mother works at a sandwich s…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:08PM[SHARE]Friday, July 13, 2018
Though designed as an agitprop exploration with one woman as "Bad" and the other as "Good," Ms. Brennan's simple yet effective writing elevates it into a quietly powerful work. The dialogue …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:52PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 8, 2018
Filloux in collaboration with director Amy S. Green have distilled the raw data they gathered into a searing and poignant narrative containing absurdist flourishes that include a talking lab…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:49PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 5, 2018
Mr. Kahn's dialogue is a witty amalgam of up to the minute lingo, well-observed lifestyle data, psychological insights and emotional depth that all realistically and artfully conveys the cha…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:35PM[SHARE]Monday, July 2, 2018
The unison of Jason Robert Brown's accomplished score, Kate Whoriskey's exciting direction and Rennie Harris's vibrant choreography make this New York City Center Encores! Off-Center's re…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:37PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 30, 2018
This is "God Save Queen Pam"'s world premiere and though spirited, it's sluggish at a full length of two and half hours with an intermission. There's repetitiousness, extraneousness and …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:49AM[SHARE]Friday, June 29, 2018
For 85 minutes, we get a take on the gay male experience that includes a randy Midwestern adolescence, waitering and escorting in Manhattan, crystal meth and recovery. Â The writing is wel…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:56PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 26, 2018
With her honeyed and smoky Texan vocal inflections, wearing a short-haired lustrous brown wig and costume designer Rhonda Key's gleaming trim white suit, actress Lisa Hodsoll is phenomenal a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:56PM[SHARE]Harrison's dialogue is well-crafted and often in setup punchline mode peppered with plentiful pop culture references that falls flat. The overall effect is of a rote accumulation of touchsto…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:19AM[SHARE]Friday, June 22, 2018
The audience is frequently called upon to participate onstage and from their seats with one elaborate portion involving their driver's licenses. London vacation photos of Mr. Beckman, a guar…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 20, 2018
The show then become energized when Babatundé describes how Jefferson was discovered by a music executive when he was singing on the Texas streets while holding a tin cup. A recording contr…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:54PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 16, 2018
"This is the world of Magritte," and indeed it is. The play opens with a young woman silently appearing and wearing a flowing white gown, a derby with a flower and a pipe. This takes place o…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:00PM[SHARE]Christopher McLinden as David and Patrick J. Ssenjovu as God's Blessing are both personable but the material inspires their overwrought characterizations to be overwrought. Musician Farai Ma…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 13, 2018
"What a dump" is the immortal opening line of Edward Albee's dramatic masterpiece, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?". In the inane spoof "Everyone's Fine with Virginia Woolf," it's spoke…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:13AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Blonde, of ample physique, and possessed of an appealing matter of fact vocal delivery that soars with range, Mollenkamp has an engaging everywoman persona. She veers from dry humor to raw e…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:09AM[SHARE]In the African-American Abigail, Ms. Quintana creates a complex protagonist who is sympathetic, exasperating and engaging. She is fascinated by the journalist Lorena Hickok who had a storied…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 7, 2018
Artistic director, writer, arranger and host David Loud was at lectern off to the side onstage and passionately delivered his erudite and informative commentary at length. Mr. Loud grew up w…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:29PM[SHARE]Monday, June 4, 2018
Playwright Lizzie Stern has an ear for contemporary discourse and her dialogue is well-crafted. The characters are appealing and are finely detailed. The universal focus is on the relationsh…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:57PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 31, 2018
Mr. Cruz realizes his scenario with his patented style. There's rueful humor, Chekhovian reveries and a sense of the mystical all with a demonstrative Latin sensibility. The dialogue is fill…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Director Shira-Lee Shalit provides breakneck pacing, swift scene transitions and compelling stage compositions that include the presence of the violinist.  The visual and the verbal ar…
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