If only film star George Clooney and his co-script writer Grant Heslov had hired an actual playwright to adapt their acclaimed screenplay for the 2005 film "Good Night, and Good Luck." for t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:25PM[SHARE]Eric Bogosian's "Humpty Dumpty" was first written 25 years ago and premiered at the McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton, in 2002. At that time the idea of quarantining due to a local or natio…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:44PM[SHARE]While most of the audience will probably not have graduated in the last ten years (though you never know), the play speaks to all of us about the closeness and personal relationships of our …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:45PM[SHARE]The new musical attempts to out Monty Python "Monty Python" by creating a full-length show and story in their style, although its origins also go back to British Music Hall where there is al…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:51PM[SHARE]The second in the York Theatre's Spring New2NY series is "Who Is Jimmy Pants?," an entertaining spoof of bio-jukebox musical, a genre that could use some taking down. Presented concert-style…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:07PM[SHARE]In fact, the play Harmon has written is mainly about the conflict between the grandmother and the mother. While we are never really certain why Ellen and Susan refuse to be in the same room,…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:22PM[SHARE]The new version by Irish playwright Mark O'Rowe uses contemporary and spare language but has made several events more literal as if not trusting modern audiences. The director has made the s…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:44PM[SHARE]Adam Chanler-Berat, Lauren Marcus, Taylor Iman Jones, Jason Tam and Andy Mientus in a scene from "The Jonathan Larson Project" at the Orpheum Theatre (Photo credit: Joan Marcus) Taylor Iman …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:46PM[SHARE]Who knew that a biographical play could be so witty, entertaining and charming? The latest EST/Sloan Project science play, Michael Walek's "Have You Met Jane Goodall and Her Mother?" is one …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:33PM[SHARE]The play moves by unexpected twists and turns which are both amusing and engrossing. We never do find out for certain if Dina is a spy or not. However, she does tell Boubs that she was stati…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:24PM[SHARE]Anna Capunay has attempted to write a family drama in order to influence people to try alternatives to chemo and radiation. Unfortunately, in using her own family story, she has not thought …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:55AM[SHARE]While the characters do not change much, they roll through the years dealing with the various crises with various levels of success. However, the play is peppered with one liners and zingers…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:08PM[SHARE]The author complicates the issue by bringing in autism (Margot) and Alzheimer's (the unseen father of Adam 2 and Eve 2.) When asked if she would want her autism cured, Margot answers: "I mig…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:30PM[SHARE]Arthur Miller has always been our major playwright of moral ambiguity, never more so than in his 1968 drama "The Price," now receiving its first Off Broadway revival. The metaphoric title re…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:28PM[SHARE]While Dickson's production is elegant and pitch-perfect for its 1914 era, the characterizations are partly satiric and off base. While Daniel Marconi is fine as the designing, unprincipled a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:41PM[SHARE]Bess Wohl's latest play is the ambitious and engrossing "Liberation," her attempt to investigate the roots of the Women's Liberation Movement back in the 1970s from a decidedly contemporary …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:10AM[SHARE]The world premiere of Philip W. Chung's My Man Kono tells the fascinating but little known true story of Toraichi Kono, chauffeur, valet and private secretary to Charlie Chaplin, who was cau…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:19PM[SHARE]Conceived, written and directed by Elizabeth Hess, "No Reservation" is a celebration of "the lost feminine to give voice to all who have been discarded, silenced and overlooked." The perform…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:12PM[SHARE]Kristen Sieh and Amelia Workman in a scene from Jordan Harrison's "The Antiquities" at Playwrights Horizons (Photo credit: Emilio Madrid) Jordan Harrison's plays like Marjorie Prime and Log …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:09PM[SHARE]Mark Moses and Melissa Gilbert in a scene from Lia Romeo's "Still" at The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture's Loreto Theatre (Photo credit Maria Baranova) Lia Romeo's bittersweet Still …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:51PM[SHARE]The play is not very consistent with life in 1949. It is unlikely that middle class married women cursed, smoked marijuana, quoted Simone de Beauvoir or engaged in affairs with other women. …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:25PM[SHARE]Robin Lord Taylor as Tennessee Williams and Brandon Flynn as Marlon Brando in a scene from Gregg Ostrin's "Kowalski" at The Duke on 42nd Street (Photo credit: Russ Rowland) Tennessee William…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:15PM[SHARE]When the audience enters the theater, they are asked to fill out a slip of paper with one word that has been on their mind. Part of the show is made up of audience participation and these sl…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:42PM[SHARE]Not only are the paintings massive but they also cover all sorts of modern periods of art without Kissajukian having known their work (abstract work by Picasso, Matisse, Joan Miró, Jackso…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:41PM[SHARE]If only he had carried through on that idea. We will never know if this staging might have worked as Herskovits has sabotaged all that is best in the original and made it both more confusing…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:26PM[SHARE]Audra McDonald in a scene from George C. Wolfe's production of "Gypsy" at the Majestic Theatre (Photo credit: Julia Cervantes) Mama Rose in the musical Gypsy, the 1959 collaboration of Arthu…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:01PM[SHARE]Must you love your immediate family unconditionally if you know they drive you crazy? And must you show up for family gatherings like Christmas if it always evolves into a vicious fighting m…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:46PM[SHARE]Typical of Singer stories about 19th century Polish Jewry, these three dramatizations combine Jewish mysticism and demonology with Baker as the narrator of two of the stories while also play…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:33PM[SHARE]Director Shira Milikowsky keeps increasing the tension as the 85-minute play peels away revelation after revelation. Each man has a guilty secret and may have betrayed a friend which is eati…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:57PM[SHARE]If one did not read Laura's extensive program notes in the Playbill given out at the Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre at the A.R.T./New York Theatres, it would not be until three quarters of …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:30PM[SHARE]The trio demonstrates that their voices are as supple and fine as they ever were. Each gets to play their best suit: Winokur's loud, clarion voice, Bundy's wry wit and Butler's recounting he…
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