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…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:29AM[SHARE]Friday, August 15, 2025
There's a lot going on in this new musical about Alan Turing"and perhaps too much. In attempting to encompass the breadth of Turing's extraordinary life, the production ends up overwhelmed b…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:15PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 10, 2025
"well, i'll let you go," Bubba Weiler's exquisitely devastating new work, staged with unpretentious yet profound grace by director Jack Serio leading a magnificent cast at the Space at Irond…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:35PM[SHARE]Monday, July 7, 2025
Austin Phillips's puppet design deserves special mention. His owlet creation is imbued with uncanny charm"Wesley is clearly an owl, yes, but one whose subtle articulation suggests personalit…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:26PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 3, 2025
Ambition, that perilous double-edged sword, can elevate a work of art to soaring heights"or leave it flailing in the rafters, reaching desperately for resonance it cannot quite grasp. Such i…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:53PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 22, 2025
In a sharply observed and emotionally layered turn, "Prince Faggot" brings a fresh perspective to the classic "meet the parents" trope"with a royal twist. John McCrea's George, the openly ga…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:10PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 19, 2025
In great theater, history is not merely recounted but resurrected with breath and pulse, defiance and hope. In 'At the Barricades," the indomitable company What Will The Neighbors Say? breat…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:30PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 17, 2025
This is not merely a delightful evening of theatre"it is a defiant, sequined middle finger to theatrical complacency. The cast, many of whom trained under the maverick George Ferencz at La M…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:26PM[SHARE]Saturday, June 14, 2025
"The Moby Dick Blues" is nothing short of a working-class opera for the Anthropocene"equal parts "Trainspotting" and "The Perfect Storm," churning with fury, addiction, and mythic ambition. …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:48PM[SHARE]Friday, June 6, 2025
If "Chiaroscuro" occasionally falters under the weight of its ambition, it ultimately dazzles with its daring. Rahman has crafted a bold, theatrical puzzle box " part satire, part sermon, pa…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:19PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Orpheus' song"aching, persistent"guides him deep into the Underworld in search of his lost Eurydice. Whether or not you've encountered this myth before, Sarah Ruhl's "Eurydice" invites a new…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:26PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 25, 2025
At an hour and 40 minutes, "Cracked Open" is an earnest but often exhausting theatrical experience. Its heart is unquestionably in the right place"tackling the vital and still-stigmatized su…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:44PM[SHARE]Saturday, May 24, 2025
Now premiering at La MaMa's Ellen Stewart Theatre in a co-production with the MART Foundation and En Garde Arts, "Seagull: True Story" is a barbed, meta-theatrical cri de coeur from creator-…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:21PM[SHARE]Friday, May 23, 2025
We get evocative shadow screens, puppetry and a silent-film fantasia. Heartbeat Opera's two-hour whirlwind adaptation has everything"except an intermission. True to the company's bold, icono…
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