Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Eve Wolf's play is essentially a monodrama, with John Noble portraying the title character. The production is a rich one, both visually and aurally. It features an abundance of live music, p…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:06PM[SHARE]Monday, January 7, 2019
The supernatural scenario is a little like something one might find on an eerie episode of Alfred Hitchcock's old TV anthology. Unfortunately, it all comes off as fairly stilted and heavy-ha…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:45PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 2, 2019
In the plus column, it was easy on the eyes. Scenic designer Lou Anne Gilleland created agreeable though not particularly elaborate sets: a rocky stretch of seashore for the first act and a …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:11PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 23, 2018
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…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:59AM[SHARE]Friday, December 14, 2018
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…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:25PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 9, 2018
It's a very presentational show. The six ensemble members comprise a sort of group narrator, working in tandem to relate the memories of the Thomas character for the audience"sometimes sorti…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:38PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 18, 2018
"The New One," directed by Seth Barrish, is about Birbiglia and his wife's decision to become parents, the struggles they go through to arrive at pregnancy, and his fretfulness about how bec…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 13, 2018
The play succeeds in part because it takes such an upbeat view of Steinem and her career. Early in the play, the character proclaims herself to be a "hope-aholic""and her stalwart optimism p…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:04PM[SHARE]Friday, November 9, 2018
There are some fine elements in the portrayal. Arrow's Kennedy-clan dialect seems believable"though maybe slightly over-baked at points (especially when, late in the play, he sings bits of W…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 30, 2018
As for cast standouts, Greenwood excelled both musically and dramatically. His ringing, expressive vocals and crisp diction made him an audience favorite. And he created an effective charact…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 25, 2018
Like his breakthrough 1944 play The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams' A Lovely Sunday for Creve Couer (1979) is set in a humble St. Louis apartment in the 1930s. It's another of the many …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:24PM[SHARE]Monday, August 27, 2018
Lillian Hellman's Days to Come (now at the Mint Theater Company) was not a success when it premiered in New York in 1936. In fact, this second play of the Hellman canon (after The Children's…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 11:27AM[SHARE]Friday, August 3, 2018
If you're a celebrity actor, the world can easily learn about your life and career. You probably have your own website"and there may even be a fan-site or two out there devoted to you. If yo…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:25PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 31, 2018
My Life on a Diet, starring Renée Taylor (now at the Theatre at St. Clement's), is also the name of a book by Taylor, published in 1986. The stage version has been around for a while too. H…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:52PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 26, 2018
The plot of the 1965 Broadway musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever centers on reincarnation. A kooky young New Yorker, Daisy Gamble, visits a psychiatrist, Dr. Mark Bruckner, for help …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:57PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 24, 2018
It seems sometimes that every other entertainer working these days has a Trump impersonation at the ready, though many seem to miss the mark by a mile. I've never been especially enthused ab…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:23PM[SHARE]Robert Patrick's Judas comes to us from 1973, the same year in which his most famous drama, Kennedy's Children, was first produced. Judas is a sort of modern-dress passion play"it traces Bib…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 12:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 14, 2018
In Henry James' 1903 novella The Beast in the Jungle, a man named John Marcher fails to connect with a woman who cares for him. Marcher has a premonition that something horrible will befall …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 8, 2018
There's been some well-intentioned talk in the last couple of years about how artists might help bridge the chasm between red states and blue, or"maybe even trickier"the gap between red and …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 03:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 22, 2018
At a hasty first glance, Alexander V. Thompson's Pete Rex"staged by The Dreamscape Theatre, in a New York premiere at 59E59 Theaters"may seem a piece of comic whimsy about a world in which d…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:53PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 18, 2018
British playwright Stanley Houghton's Hindle Wakes (currently at the Mint Theater Company) was written and first performed in the era when Sigmund Freud's ideas on sexuality were becoming kn…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 13, 2017
A cheeky little time capsule from 1971, The Workshop Theater's revival of Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone? provides glimpses of the loose, inventive spirit of the youthful Terrence McNally. It'…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:24PM[SHARE]Monday, November 20, 2017
It's been said that people congregate in kitchens at dinner parties because the food-prep area is a "backstage" space, somewhere where folks can be their authentic selves. In the kitchen, yo…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 12, 2017
We probably don't need another reminder right now that a compact brain, the miracle of fire, and a few lines of iambic pentameter are pretty much all that separate us from our prehistoric an…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 5, 2017
American musical theater has frequently had a political bent, from the satirical Gershwins-scored Of Thee I Sing (1931) through to Off-Broadway's current revue Me the People, which skewers t…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 05:25PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 26, 2017
We seem to experience bursts of elation whenever some whiz-bang gerontologist suggests that human life can be extended in ways previously considered impossible. It's as if we've all been off…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 09:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 21, 2017
The conscious effort to mainstream the alt-right movement in the Trump era has, of course, troubled many Americans deeply. So it's understandable that New Yiddish Rep would want to stage Rom…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 04:46PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 5, 2017
At the top of Act II of William Shakespeare's As You Like It, when the audience first glimpses the Forest of Arden, the banished Duke Senior (who is hiding out there) pronounces life in the …
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 3, 2017
The new Off-Broadway musical Curvy Widow (at Westside Theatre/Upstairs) shares plot points with one of Broadway's biggest current musical hits, Hello, Dolly! Both shows present a middle-aged…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 08:30PM[SHARE]Monday, June 26, 2017
Austrian-born screen star Hedy Lamarr (originally Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler) was often touted as the world's most beautiful woman. In the monodrama Hedy! The Life & Inventions of Hedy Lam…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 01:38PM[SHARE]Friday, May 19, 2017
According to program notes for Mint Theater Company's new production of A.A. Milne's 1922 play The Lucky One, the British playwright (and, of course, creator of the "Pooh" books) had a dista…
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