Friday, March 8, 2019
Tradition. Culture. Politics. Love. Tevye grapples with these four and more in National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene's "Fiddler on the Roof" currently running at Stage 42.
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:58PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 7, 2019
The characters " all of them " are underdeveloped, mostly static, with less than interesting conflicts. So how could there possibly be an engaging plot? They seem not to care for themselves …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:19AM[SHARE]Manhattan Theatre Club's New York premiere of The Cake, written by Bekah Brunstetter ("This Is Us," "American Gods," The Oregon Trail) and directed by MTC's award-winning Artistic Director L…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:18AM[SHARE]AVENUE Q " winner of three 2004 Tony Awards including Best Musical " is extending its previously announced closing date 4 weeks, due to popular demand, with a new end date set for May 26 at …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:10AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 6, 2019
After a successful and extended run at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Tarell Alvin McCraney's important and engaging "Choir Boy" closes on Sunday March 10, 2019. With o…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:42PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 10, 2019
Afrikaans protagonist Mies Julie (Elise Kibler) and Xhosa antagonist John (James Udom), though childhood friends, are from vastly different social orders. Now in their twenties, they are sep…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 07:47PM[SHARE]Monday, January 14, 2019
The Clubbed Thumb, True Love, and New York Theatre Workshop production of "What the Constitution Means to Me: will come to Broadway this spring for a 12-week limited engagement, beginning pe…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:16AM[SHARE]Friday, January 11, 2019
Award-winning playwright and director Emily Mann, who has served as the Artistic Director and Resident Playwright of the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, New Jersey since 1990, will ret…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 8, 2019
Abby Rosebrock introduces an interesting mélange of broken characters in her new play "Blue Ridge" currently running at Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater. She drops these six d…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:33AM[SHARE]Friday, December 21, 2018
"Network" addresses important themes and raises equally significant enduring questions. "Network" parses the word 'network' in a variety of ways, adding richness and layered depth to the imp…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 12:29PM[SHARE]Monday, December 3, 2018
Josh Cohen's year long (Valentine's Day to Valentine's Day) struggle with the vicissitudes of life is chronicled in eleven musical numbers by an energetic and talented cast that not only sin…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 05:29PM[SHARE]Friday, November 30, 2018
In this revival of "Thom Pain (based on nothing)" at The Pershing Square Signature Center's Irene Diamond Stage, Will Eno steps over, under, and in between the resting places " and the writi…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:21PM[SHARE]Friday, November 2, 2018
"India Pale Ale" remains a stalwart attempt to "see" and "understand" and to stay woke to the social injustices extant just outside (and most likely within) the doors of the theater. The cas…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 01:29PM[SHARE]The journey to achieving Arnold's commendable goals is a universal one as are the hopes and dreams of the characters in "Torch Song." One wishes for even more relevant themes for the LGBTQ+ …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 08:40AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Rooms full of missed opportunities sprawl across Second Stage's Tony Kiser Theatre where Steven Levenson's new play "Days of Rage" is running through November 2018. Mr. Levenson, the award-w…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 08:38AM[SHARE]Friday, October 26, 2018
For ninety minutes, Ms. Schreck rehearses those speeches not for prize money but to remind the audience that the Constitution has been less protective of human rights than its drafters inten…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:14PM[SHARE]Monday, October 22, 2018
The obvious connection to the current debate concerning the place of truth in politics plays well in "The Lifespan of a Fact." The playwrights develop their argument carefully and with the r…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:27PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 16, 2018
DeWanda Wise and Khris Davis are electrifying in their roles as Olivia and Charles. Under Saheem Ali's poignant and surgically precise direction, Ms. Wise and Mr. Davis explore every nerve, …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:25AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 11, 2018
"Hitler's Tasters" is also a gripping extended metaphor for how women who have been victims of sexual violence carry lifelong cultural shame that prevents them from coming forward to tell th…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 04:55PM[SHARE]"Mother Night's" themes are as important in the present as they were when Vonnegut wrote the novel. It is remarkable how relevant the important issues of white supremacism, anti-Semitism, ol…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:40AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 4, 2018
"On Beckett" is about Bill Irwin's process and the metacognition involved in that creative process as he shares the push-pull relationship he has with existentialism's bard. This is a perfor…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:33AM[SHARE]Friday, September 28, 2018
Humor tempered with caring is necessary to pull off something as zany as "Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties." Less humor and more opportunities to care about these Betties seems needed he…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:41PM[SHARE]One would think mounting a Broadway show about snooker would be perilous. Richard Bean's "The Nap," currently running at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, unfortunately co…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:19AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Ms. Rebeck's compelling new play explores in depth Sarah Bernhardt's struggles with playing "Hamlet" and her compassion for being a "thinking" actor who works her craft with "feeling."
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 25, 2018
"I Was Most Alive with You" explores the complex ways we communicate with or without speaking and hearing. Whether our language is English or ASL, how we insinuate, describe, perceive, inte…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:30AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 23, 2018
Tennessee Williams' 1979 play "A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur" connects deeply with all (individuals, governments, nation-states) suffering the malaise of loss or lack of identity and the q…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 04:55PM[SHARE]Friday, September 21, 2018
Currently playing at Walkerspace, The Pond Theatre Company's "The Naturalists" is a compelling look at how one's "secret" past can suddenly and unexpectedly encroach on the present and delay…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:43AM[SHARE]Monday, August 27, 2018
The moral turpitude of those who "consume" is in the spotlight in Lillian Hellman's 1936 "Days to Come" currently running at Mint Theater Company at Theatre Row's Beckett Theatre.
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:41AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 14, 2018
Under Joshua Bergasse's direction, the cast (five men and four women) fills Beowulf Boritt's towering Café set with solo numbers, duets, trios, quartets, quintets and full company numbers t…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 06:40PM[SHARE]Monday, August 13, 2018
The hype surrounding "Be More Chill," including its extensive marketing campaign, and the musical itself cannot and should not be a substitute for the real work required to discover who one …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 31, 2018
During one of many sitcom scenes, crowded on the sofa in matching plaid pajamas provided by Ed, the father-sons quartet share Chinese takeout while trash talking, texting, and drudging up ch…
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