Sunday, May 10, 2015
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Director Joe Tantalo's striking, minimalist production has no scenery and virtually no props. It marvelously relies on purely theatrical imaginative devices. …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:34AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 9, 2015
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Instrumental to its success is the thrilling direction of Walter Bobbie. Combining sensitive performances with an inspired sense of stagecraft, Mr. Bobbie crea…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:13AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 7, 2015
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Charlie is an amiable, 31-year-old struggling actor, writer and motivational speaker, who chickens out while calling a woman from a Village Voice personal ad. H…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:55PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 5, 2015
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Sandy Duncan and Don Correia, wearing shabby tuxedos, top hats, and Converse high top sneakers, beautifully dancing and singing, "A Couple of Swells," was one o…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:10PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 29, 2015
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Art critics may certainly analyze and pontificate about the aesthetic value of these works. For devotees of his, they offer an intriguing view into his consciou…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:56PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 23, 2015
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Defaa's direction is imaginative and is aided by the sensational choreography of Rayna Hirt, in creating precise, amazingly arresting production numbers with th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:52PM[SHARE]This post is by Darryl Reilly
Working from Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon's 1995's original concept, Patrick Barlow's adaptation is a witty, tongue-in-cheek, homage that recreates the plot of…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 22, 2015
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Carol Burnett was at in White Plains, on Friday April 17, 2015, to perform her show, An Evening of Laughter with Carol Burnett. Sadly there was not much laughte…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:09AM[SHARE]Friday, April 17, 2015
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"A dance of our actions to your reactions. No one knows the steps yet," explains the charming and funny performer Colin Davis, during his introductory remarks…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:23PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 16, 2015
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An actor in a suit wearing a pony mask and a tail trots out on stage a few times and later appears some more times without the mask to sing. A woman in a burqa…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 15, 2015
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"A la Carte: A Feast of New Plays" is a presentation of The Workshop Theater's leading playwrights that consists of six short plays, all with the theme of food.…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:17AM[SHARE]Monday, April 13, 2015
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With its ravishing, precise dialogue, very fine structure, and expertly imparted exposition, Skylight, is a model of accomplished playwriting. Mr. Hare is know…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:32PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 5, 2015
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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…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:57PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 4, 2015
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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…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:55PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 31, 2015
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"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…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:39PM[SHARE]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…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:09PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 21, 2015
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The concert series Encores! "celebrates the rarely heard works of America's most important composers and lyricists." With "Paint Your Wagon," they have selecte…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:11AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 19, 2015
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Dream sequences, fantasies, and confessional monologues add to the play's eclectic form. There's a rapid montage portion with racing NYC denizens including bus…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:37AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 17, 2015
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The play's scenes alternate between the scientific research institute and the couple's apartment. The theatrical device of having one set representing both …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:58AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 14, 2015
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This play was originally produced in London's West End in 2013. Ms. Mirren was awarded The Olivier and Evening Standard Award as best actress. She is repeating …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 12, 2015
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This hasn't played London's West End, and has not been performed in the United States until now. The Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church's Theatre Fellowship has p…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:12PM[SHARE]Monday, March 9, 2015
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Beaming Broadway musical comedy veteran, Lee Roy Reams presented the final honor, the ASCAP Major Engagement Award to Lillias White. "My grandmother's table was…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:49PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 8, 2015
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The Peccadillo Theater Company has finely and faithfully revived this rarely seen Odets play, the 6th of his plays to be produced in the late thirties. They are…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:45PM[SHARE]Monday, March 2, 2015
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Inspired by real life events of the 1860's and concerned with telling the relatively unknown stories of women pioneers, "Abundance" is highly engrossing, steepe…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:28AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 28, 2015
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Director Mindy Cooper's very well executed transitions between the show's 27 numbers, the personable Scott Siegel's erudite remarks, and the variety of gifted p…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:22PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 22, 2015
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Premiering in 1982 as a one-act play with music, author Eduardo Machado, has now revised and expanded it into a full length musical. The first act is a decent …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:56AM[SHARE]Monday, February 16, 2015
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Venerable and accomplished fixture of the theater, Austin Pendleton has perfectly directed the play. The characters and their relationships have all been minut…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:50PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 14, 2015
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It's a stylized "family secrets" drama, presented with a broad comedic tone. Heightened and arch (often including lengthy florid speeches) the dialogue has sha…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:19AM[SHARE]Monday, February 9, 2015
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Mr. Busch, known as a playwright of campy homages to old movies in which he often plays female roles, was an appropriate and authoritative host. For most of th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:04PM[SHARE]Friday, February 6, 2015
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One of the chief pleasures here is the first appearance in more than 30 years by the legendary Tommy Tune in a New York City musical. Since his Tony Award-winn…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:14PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 31, 2015
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Theatergoers knowledgeable with "Death and the Maiden" will find "Shesh Yak" very familiar territory. Those who aren't will still find this play tediously pred…
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