Monday, February 2, 2026
By loosening the moorings that usually tether one actor to one role, director and adaptor Karin Coonrod peers, with unusual intimacy, into Lear's psychic weather. The choice to distribute hi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:58PM[SHARE]Friday, January 30, 2026
Anne Gridley begins "Watch Me Walk" by taking its title at punishingly literal face value. She introduces herself, grips her walking stick"never a cane, a semantic correction that quickly re…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:51AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 15, 2026
The choreography by Toran X. Moore is exquisitely attuned to both context and cast. Moore's steps and motifs create a full canvas of movement that breathes with the beat and bends to the dem…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 13, 2026
Sarah Kirkland Snider's first opera arrives with a confidence that feels almost paradoxical: it is at once tightly focused and lavishly expansive, a work that fixes its gaze on a single hing…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:23PM[SHARE]Friday, December 19, 2025
What "If We Kiss" captures, with rare delicacy, is the way young people experience such convergences as both comic and catastrophic. The play treats adolescent feeling with respect, refusing…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Greenberg's greatest achievement is his refusal to inflate or apologize for the material. He treats "The Baker's Wife" as what it is: a musical of sensibility rather than momentum, concerned…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:30PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 13, 2025
In "BUM BUM (or, this farce has Autism)," EPIC Players"New York's indefatigable standard-bearer for neuroinclusive performance"unfurls a world premiere that feels less like a conventional ne…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:41PM[SHARE]Friday, December 12, 2025
In the cavernous expanse of the Park Avenue Armory, where spectacle often arrives inflated to mythic proportions, "The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions" materializes as a freque…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:28PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Iraisa Ann Reilly in her one-woman show "A Bodega Princess Remembers La Fiesta de los Reyes Magos, 1998" at Ensemble Studio Theatre (Photo credit: Valerie Terranova) If you venture into the …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:09PM[SHARE]Monday, December 1, 2025
In its final form, the piece stands as both elegy and proclamation: a testament to a heritage reclaimed, and to the fierce, necessary act of making contact"full, unguarded, and profoundly hu…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:38PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 23, 2025
By the time the play reaches its understated yet piercing climax, the question is no longer whether ChiChi and Theodore are "right" for one another"though that question lingers"but rather wh…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:29PM[SHARE]Friday, November 14, 2025
If the Muppets are deployed as window dressing, the illusions themselves are a museum of inherited gestures. Lake presents the familiar canon of contemporary stage magic: the bifurcated assi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 6, 2025
Beneath the camp and chaos, 'Bat Boy" remains what it always was: a parable with a pulse. O'Keefe's rock-opera score jabs with wit but bleeds sincerity; his lyrics cut deep with irony and co…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:08PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 5, 2025
'The Wasp" is not for the faint of heart. It confronts the audience with themes of mental illness, domestic violence, and sexual trauma, yet resists the easy descent into nihilism. For all i…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:44PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 1, 2025
At the center of it all stands Apple, whose performance is nothing short of revelatory. As Catherine, she is brittle yet unbowed; as Hannah, she radiates vitality and purpose. Her voice"both…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 30, 2025
To have emerged from a childhood like Zoë Kim's"with enough self-awareness, critical distance, and sheer emotional stamina to craft a piece of theater with even a hint of uplift"is in its…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:50PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 26, 2025
In "Heaux Church," writer-performer Brandon Kyle Goodman does not so much deliver a sermon as they detonate one"turning the pious pulpit upside down and shaking loose its centuries of shame,…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 23, 2025
Under Carsen Joenk's clean, clever direction, Scotti's writing finds a delicate equilibrium " biting, funny, and deeply humane. The quartet of women are precisely dressed by designer Iliana …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:56PM[SHARE]Ari'el Stachel in his one-man show "Other" at Greenwich House Theatre (Photo credit: Ogata Photography) In his solo show Other, now unfolding with searing intensity at the intimate Greenwich…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:03PM[SHARE]Monday, October 20, 2025
To describe "Oratorio" is to flirt with the inadequacy of language. It is a musical work"a sung-through piece in the formal lineage of the oratorio, that 17th-century form that eschews stagi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Jen Tullock in the one-woman play "Nothing Can Take You from the Hand of God" at Playwrights Horizons (Photo credit: Maria Baranova) In Nothing Can Take You from the Hand of God, the mesmeri…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 14, 2025
"Italian American Reconciliation" may not be peak Shanley, but in the capable hands of this cast and creative team, it becomes something rare: a flawed but full-hearted theatrical reverie, e…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:20PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 11, 2025
Under the weight of the show's ambition, Dylan Mulvaney is a star. Not in the manufactured influencer sense, but in the time-honored theatrical tradition of the charismatic truth-teller who …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:57PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 9, 2025
It has taken nearly three decades, but Naomi Wallace's feverish proletarian dreamscape "Slaughter City" has finally carved its way onto a New York stage"and in doing so, has made a queasily …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:54PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Though it ends on a note of ambiguity"as any good speculative work should"'The Glitch" is resoundingly clear in its testament to the power of theater to interrogate our technological anxieti…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:23PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Among her most haunting and meditative works is the slim yet searing "From Trinity to Trinity," an autobiographical pilgrimage undertaken in 1999 to the Trinity Site in New Mexico where the …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:06PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 28, 2025
The conceit is clever: each performance takes place in a real home, the precise address dispatched only the day before, like a speakeasy or secret society. A password grants entry. There's a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:14PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Jennifer Kidwell's "we come to collect: a flirtation, with capitalism" is not so much a theatrical production as it is a revelation"an offering, a conjuring, a glittering séance of self-exa…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:40PM[SHARE]And by the time we arrive at "Fantasmas""his 2024 HBO series that feels less like television and more like a guided tour through the psyche of a queer mystic armed with a glitter pen and a p…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:03AM[SHARE]Friday, September 12, 2025
Crafted with sensitivity and spectacle by playwright Darrah Cloud and brought to life with unflinching precision by director Sam Helfrich, "House of McQueen" dares to unravel the mythos of t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:56PM[SHARE]Still, for a piece that purports to tackle the complexity of addiction, "Sober Songs" often fails to excavate its deepest layers. Relapses, romantic entanglements, suicidal ideation, and ear…
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