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…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 01:52PM[SHARE]Since its original presentation by the New York Stage and Film Company and the Powerhouse Theatre at Vassar in 2012, Marcus Gardley's important play has been performed across the country and…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 08:40AM[SHARE]Friday, July 27, 2018
Under Lila Neugebauer's exquisite direction, the actors playing Mary Page each give intriguing performances that focus on the pastiche of one "ordinary" American facing the dangers inherent …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 08:50AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Under Daniel Aukin's carefully executed direction, the characters explore their individual pasts and their histories with family and friends with honesty. Their portraits are authentic.
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:25PM[SHARE]Monday, July 23, 2018
Director Marissa Wolf and the three-member cast grapple successfully with Rinne Groff's demanding script which results in a sometimes mind-spinning tumble into the playwright's wonderland of…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 12:16PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 21, 2018
Although Bertolt Brecht understood the importance and power of the comedic, his writings are overwhelmingly dark and, like a sharp scalpel, cut deeply beneath the facia into the "guts" of th…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:05AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Playwright David Ireland has pushed the plot driven by this character's maniacal temperament to the limit of moral turpitude and beyond.
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 01:00PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 14, 2018
Mike Lew has assembled characters whose conflicts are engaging and believable and the plot these "problems" drive is complex, layered, and relevant to the conversations about the dynamics of…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 04:47PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 3, 2018
Melissa Errico gives her "split personalities" depth and authenticity and Stephen Bogardus serves as a formidable chauvinistic foil to both women.
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 06:27PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 30, 2018
Under Pam MacKinnon's direction, the superb cast enlivens Jordan Harrison's script as he meanders through perhaps too many issues for one play. The strength of his play lies not in the bicke…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:25PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 26, 2018
The themes of Miles Malleson's "Conflict," currently running at the Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row, could not be more relevant and the playwright's treatment of these themes could not be mor…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:22PM[SHARE]Friday, June 22, 2018
Under Christopher Murrah's deft direction, Angela Pierce leads a brilliant ensemble cast whose intricate conflicts drive a mysterious and often challenging plot with enough twists and turns …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 05:39PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 17, 2018
Angelina Fiordellisi and Michael O'Keefe are wonderful together and give their respective characters a depth and authenticity that often rises above what they are given in Mr. Mee's script.
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 01:44PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 16, 2018
Mr. Byrnes' script does address the promised issues of the ascent of man, including snippets of BBC's Michael Parkinson's 1970s interviews with Jamie's grandfather who affirmed the constant …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 04:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 14, 2018
After its previous three-time extended sold out run at the York Theatre Company, "Desperate Measures" is back Off-Broadway and the antics of rabble-rousing Johnny Blood are as bodacious and …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 08:57AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 13, 2018
The playwright's attempt to find Martha at the end of Albee's play "destroyed by this idea of motherhood, of not living up to this very traditional idea of what it means to be a woman" and t…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:47AM[SHARE]Friday, June 8, 2018
Ms. Ensler attempts to continue that commitment in "Fruit Trilogy," Abingdon Theatre Company's final mainstage production of its twenty-fifth anniversary season. Currently in its "New York p…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:27PM[SHARE]Monday, June 4, 2018
Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), global leader in music rights management, has extended the application deadline for The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Librettists Workshop to Friday, June 8th…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:30PM[SHARE]This lyrical and lushly realized play is part of poet, filmmaker and playwright Donja R. Love's exploration of queer love at pivotal moments in Black history.
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 12:34PM[SHARE]Friday, June 1, 2018
Condola Rashad explores the layers of Saint Joan's character with a finesse that leaves little of "The Maid's) personality undefined. The journey from soldier to prisoner to saint is beatifi…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:35PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 29, 2018
The New York Theatre Workshop has revived this critically important 1976 drama at an opportune time. Like Tony Kushner's "Angels in America," Caryl Churchill's "Light Shining in Buckinghamsh…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:10AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 26, 2018
Ciarán O'Reilly directs with his keen eye for subtlety and with his steady hand of encouragement. He teases from the exceptional cast the nuances of each character, especially important i…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 12:12PM[SHARE]Monday, May 14, 2018
In an explosive unison Greek-Chorus, the girls share their wish that society would urge the importance of their personal individuality as much as their sexually stereotyped identities. It is…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:51PM[SHARE]Monday, May 7, 2018
Miriam Buether's inventive set and Paul Gallo's surreal lighting allow the audience to be reflected in the set's transparent wall. The audience not only "listens in" to the conversation: the…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:30AM[SHARE]Friday, May 4, 2018
Under Jack Cummings III's careful direction, the cast captures the essence of Tennessee Williams' seminal work in the Classic Stage/Transport production. Each member of the ensemble cast dev…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Outer Critics Circle, the organization of writers and commentators covering New York theater for out-of-town newspapers, national publications and other media beyond Broadway, announced toda…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 01:12PM[SHARE]Friday, April 20, 2018
Under Jo Bonney's fluid direction, the scenes move seamlessly from one to the other. A sliding panel (sometimes more than one) signals the scene changes allowing the action to proceed withou…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 05:31PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 19, 2018
This story of a mother and daughter " both who have lost their ways and their centers " find their ways to break down all the walls that have separated them in the past and start over as "li…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 04:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Under Daniel Aukin's captivating direction, the engaging cast reveals the depth of meaning and the layers of rhetorical argument in Joshua Harmon's explosively honest and intriguing script. …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 12:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Under Trip Cullman's discerning and originative direction, the action moves carefully from scene to scene with the tension created by the unfolding conflicts of the characters driving an eng…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 12:02PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 3, 2018
Under Michael Greif's exacting and precise direction, the action moves forward smoothly with clarity and determination. The cast of eighteen, many of whom play multiple roles, are uniformly …
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