Wednesday, November 19, 2025
"Saturday Night Live" has made political satire look easy and has a lot to answer for. "44 " The Musical" written, composed and directed by Eli Bauman, who worked on the Obama campaign in La…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Schiff's book so slavishly follows her screenplay without adding new material that there is nothing much to wait for. The lyrics by Sanford and Jay alternate between not scanning and extreme…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:38PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 13, 2025
In their latest, Shaw's ever-popular "Pygmalion," Staller has staged Shaw's never-used prologue created for the 1938 film version which has the gods and goddesses on Mt. Olympus recount to t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 11, 2025
"Reunions" is a charming new Edwardian musical made up of two classic one- act plays: James M. Barrie's 1910 "The Twelve-Pound Look" and the Quintero Brothers' 1901 "A Sunny Morning." Using …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:57PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 9, 2025
Kristolyn Lloyd, Adina Verson, Betsy Aidem and Audrey Corsa in a scene from the Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Bess Wohl's "Liberation" at the James Earl Jones Theatre (Photo cre…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:49PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 8, 2025
Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Martyna Majok, who has specialized in plays about the immigrant experience like Ironbound and Sanctuary City, has revised her play Queens first seen at the …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:45PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 5, 2025
James Corden, Neil Patrick Harris and Bobby Cannavale in a scene from Yasmina Reza's "Art" at the Music Box Theatre (Photo credit: Matthew Murphy) Yasmina Reza's Art which is turning 31 this…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:07PM[SHARE]Friday, October 31, 2025
"Oh Happy Day!" demonstrates an advance of technique over Cooper's eight-scene sketch evening in "Ain't No Mo'." However, the new play is much too talky and seems to cover some of the same m…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 30, 2025
Mark Leiren-Young's timely one-man show, "Playing Shylock" (formerly called simply "Shylock"), has arrived in New York after its premiere run in Toronto in its new version rewritten around t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:29PM[SHARE]Monday, October 27, 2025
While Broadway was once filled with plays like this a generation or two ago, "Art of Leaving" now seems very dated. It would have been more believable set back in an earlier decade. Matt Geh…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:13AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 26, 2025
The fourth evening of one-act plays by Academy Award-winning screenwriter and director Ethan Coen is coyly called "Let's Love!," when by rights it should be called "Let's Have Sex!" In three…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:37PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 25, 2025
Although William Spatz's "Truman vs. Israel" depicts a fictional encounter between former President Truman and lawyer and later first Jewish woman congresswoman Bella Abzug in 1953, the play…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:21PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Samuel Adams as Moritz Weissmann and Ella Stevens as Lexa Kluger in a scene from the Mint Theater Company's production of the American premiere of Sally Carson's "Crooked Cross" at Theatre R…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:30PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 18, 2025
Comedian and actor John Leguizamo's "The Other Americans," his first full-length and full-cast play, aside from his satiric one-person shows, is making its Off Broadway debut and proves to b…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:25PM[SHARE]Friday, October 17, 2025
The Limón Dance Company is celebrating the start of its 80th Anniversary season with a triple bill at The Joyce Theater which in words of artistic director Dante Puleio celebrates "where …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:57PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 12, 2025
The style and tone of "re the Bennet Girls Ok?" has been updated to contemporary language with the women using "like" and multiple curse words including the F-bomb so that although we see wo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:56PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 11, 2025
As a playwright Tim Blake Nelson has always been interested in moral and ethical problems in such play as "The Grey Zone," "Eye of God" and "Socrates." His latest play "And Then We Were No M…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:46PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 5, 2025
Although the advance press materials suggest that Ali Keller's "(un)conditional," the 2024 Lighthouse Series winner at SoHo Playhouse, is about wife swapping, it is, in fact, about two coupl…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 2, 2025
Actors and musicians Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson have written a dynamic, exciting new two-character hip-hop musical in "Mexodus," a telling of the little known story of the Undergrou…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:33PM[SHARE]Saturday, September 27, 2025
You may recall that on January 13, 2018, Hawaii residents including tourists received an alert that a ballistic missile had been spotted on the way to the islands. You may also recall that i…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:52PM[SHARE]Monday, September 22, 2025
Whether Anthony Anello's "let's talk about anything else" is a dark comedy, or a thriller with horror overtones, or drama about the effects of guilt, it is the sort of play that doesn't need…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:56PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 21, 2025
The latest revival has been directed by Simon Godwin, artistic director of Washington, D.C.'s Shakespeare Theatre Company, in a co-production with Theatre for a New Audience. This revival us…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Ted Lange's "Lady Patriot" reunites the author/director with his cast mates from The Love Boat series, Jill Whelan and Fred Grandy. Leaving that aside as it has little to do with his new his…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:57PM[SHARE]Sunday, August 31, 2025
When the play begins those who know the original will recognize that Ali has edited the text: the first two scenes have been flipped which makes perfect sense letting us know that Viola, the…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:15PM[SHARE]British illusionist Jamie Allan has brought his aptly named magic show "Amaze" to New World Stages and it is truly awesome. His act is so low key that one doesn't at first realize how remark…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:10PM[SHARE]Monday, August 25, 2025
American actress Elizabeth McGovern is best known today for her role as Lady Cora, Countess of Grantham, in the long-running "Downton Abbey" series. However, she is also an Academy-Award win…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:31PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Part of the problem with the play is that it attempts to cover too many topics in the form of a domestic tragedy: pollution, industrial waste, climate change, toxic chemicals, poverty, red-l…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:43PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 27, 2025
Kevin Zak's 'Ginger Twinsies" now at the Orpheum Theatre is an outrageous, campy gay stage parody of the 1998 Lindsay Lohan (a true redhead) remake of "The Parent Trap" in which she played f…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:25PM[SHARE]Saturday, July 26, 2025
Under Lorin Latarro's direction, there is little or no character development in Davenport's book, with all of the characters remaining the same throughout, and the only thing that propels th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:35PM[SHARE]Sunday, July 20, 2025
As directed by Avra-Fox Lerner and written by Curtis Fox, the production has many problems, the first being its leisurely slow pace which makes the play seem longer and less dramatic than it…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:42PM[SHARE]Friday, July 18, 2025
Andy Fickman's polished production with its highly effective choreography by Gary Lloyd (additional choreography by Stephanie Klemons) is a Broadway-style production in a smaller house. If "…
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