Saturday, May 18, 2024
Playwright and actor Ronnie Larsen, best known for his series of erotic plays with titles like "Making Porn" and "Sleeping with Straight Men," has now switched to a charmingly humorous Neil …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:22PMThursday, May 16, 2024
The eye-filling sets by Hannah Beachler and video and projection design by Daniel Brodie include subtle tributes to Black Culture that not all theatergoers may notice on a first look. When D…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:22PMMonday, May 13, 2024
The lead of the show is film star Eddie Redmayne, who won the Olivier Award for his performance as the Emcee in the London production and is also Tony nominated for this show. Director Rebec…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:56PMSunday, May 12, 2024
In fact, the play which ought to be hilarious is almost devoid of jokes as the premise which is politically incorrect will make many white playgoers uncomfortable – unless this is the poin…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:05PMThursday, May 9, 2024
Director Nicholas Viselli has done well with the characterizations but is unable to resolve the thinness of the backstories which are not fleshed out by the script. The shallow set which has…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:35PMWednesday, May 8, 2024
Jessica Burr’s Blessed Unrest production of Marguerite Duras’ "La Musica Deuxième" in the 1992 translation by Barbara Bray is like a violent Jean Paul Sartre short story directed in th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:24AMFriday, May 3, 2024
The new musical "Hell’s Kitchen" has made a successful transition to Broadway from The Public Theater and the new version seems to have corrected some of the flaws from before. This juke-b…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:58PMWednesday, May 1, 2024
Things are not helped by Mini Lien’s bland setting that looks more like a furniture showroom than the family manse held for decades and passed down to the present inhabitants. The new adap…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:48PMMonday, April 29, 2024
In the very first scene it becomes apparent that we are watching "The Pursuit of Happiness," a new play from the Good Company, an indie theater group that has been known for radical and expe…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:01PMFriday, April 26, 2024
A good deal of fun is had by Brian Pacelli’s projection design which is shown on the modern and chic living room/dining room set by Christopher and Justin Swader. It takes us to the virtua…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:25PMMonday, April 22, 2024
In attempting to make a feminist statement out of Shakespeare’s "Macbeth", Harris has made Lady Macbeth into the same murderous monster that her husband became in the original. This does n…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:29PMSunday, April 21, 2024
In telling the life story of Tamara de Lempicka, the show begins with a fascinating premise. Unfortunately, neither the score nor the book lives up to her high standards. Unlike "Sunday in t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:48PMMonday, April 15, 2024
Nelson Diaz-Marcano’s "Las Borinqueñas," the latest play in the Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Science and Technology Project, has a fascinating, little known stor…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:59PMSaturday, April 13, 2024
On April 10, 2024, Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center presented a tantalizing teaser of a musical evening with the world premiere workshop of only the first act of 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winni…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:09PMFriday, April 12, 2024
Aside from its attempt to cover too much at one time (drug addiction, pregnancy, incarceration, high school dropouts, gun violence, lack of health care, underfunded ghetto schools), "Fish" d…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:17AMMonday, April 8, 2024
Playwright/bookwriter Rick Elice has written the greatest jukebox musical (so far) in his 2005 Jersey Boys. In his adaptation of Sara Gruen’s bestselling novel Water for Elephants, he may …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:36PMThursday, April 4, 2024
While the characters age, the use of diversity here has them switch races, so that while one couple has a Black Allie and a white Noah, another has a white Allie and a Black Noah, as well as…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:06PMSunday, March 31, 2024
The concept of alternate facts was not created under the Trump Administration. In 1882 Henrik Ibsen wrote "An Enemy of the People" in which a medical report that a town’s new spa is pollut…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:58PMSaturday, March 30, 2024
In this tour de force, Izzard has come up with a different voice and stance for each character: King Claudius is a baritone, Lord Polonius has a limp, Lady Ophelia has a somewhat breathy spe…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:33AMThursday, March 28, 2024
Playwright J.T. Rogers ("Oslo", 2017 Tony Award for Best Play) specializes in dramatizing the backstories to true scandals of which the real details behind the facts never made the news. His…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:57AMThursday, March 21, 2024
While "Illinoise" does not seem bigger than its individual parts nor transcend them, it is both satisfying and moving. Peck’s inventive and derivative choreography at the same time seems t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:53PMWednesday, March 20, 2024
Soutra Gilmour’s setting is a sort of empty runway with the audience sitting on either side. The other props are two black chairs at either end for the two doctors. Scenes are created enti…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:07PMSunday, March 17, 2024
The play is treated like a rehearsal (a conceit also used by Bedlam in their incomprehensible and lame "Henry IV" workshop in Brooklyn in 2023) with the director (Andrew Rothenberg who also …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:54PMSunday, March 10, 2024
Itamar Moses’ 'The Ally" is a play of ideas not only torn from today’s headlines but tomorrow’s as well. Ostensibly dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian question on college campuses to…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:42PMSaturday, March 9, 2024
John Patrick Shanley has become our poet of lonely, desperate working class people trying to make a connection despite their inadequacies and hang-ups in such plays as "Danny and the Deep Bl…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:53PMMonday, March 4, 2024
Playwright Joyce Griffen’s idea of farce in her new play "The Script in the Closet" is a series of 48, mostly very short scenes in which to keep the plot going she continually introduces n…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:50PMThursday, February 29, 2024
While "The Seven Year Disappear" may challenge and confuse many theatergoers, people used to performance art may get the in-jokes. Jordan Seavey whose play "Homos, or Everyone in America" wa…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:08PMTuesday, February 27, 2024
While we could use a good murder mystery stage play, "Deadly Stages" is too derivative to suit the bill. The cast work hard mostly playing multiple roles, but the play seems to have attempte…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:47PMSunday, February 25, 2024
When she arrives dressed in a white pant suit, Labeija steals the stage with Hillary’s number “Miss Me Now” which trumps them all with a series of Broadway parodies paying tribute to C…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:46PMMonday, February 19, 2024
At the performance under review, part of the audience found the show hilariously funny, while others proverbially sat on their hands. The show makes use of history, parody, satire, burlesque…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:47PMSaturday, February 17, 2024
Inspired by 20th century film and video games based on the classic Chinese novel of the 15th century, 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms," Damon Chua’s delightful and engrossing "Warrior Siste…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:51PM 
