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Monday, March 25, 2019

Off-Broadway Preview and News: "Miracle in Rwanda" Opens on April 9, 2019 and Will Play through May 11, 2019 at the Lion Theatre on Theatre Row by David Roberts

MIRACLE IN RWANDA – the play by Leslie Lewis and Edward Vilga – scheduled to premiere Off Broadway following an acclaimed world tour, with preview performances beginning April 4 prior to…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:39PM
Monday, March 18, 2019

Off-Broadway Review: “The Mother” in the Linda Gross Theater at Atlantic Theater Company by David Roberts

As “The Mother” plays out, scene after scene – with scene/act changes indicated in projections on the back wall in French – Anne continues to give evidence of her shattered emotional…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 05:33PM
Monday, March 11, 2019

Off-Broadway Review: “If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka” in the Mainstage Theater at Playwrights Horizons by David Roberts

Thanks to Tori Sampson’s crisp writing style, it is evident from the start that the audience is being engaged in a retelling of an important Nigerian folktale. This retelling begins with a…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:33AM
Friday, March 8, 2019

Off-Broadway Review: National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s “Fiddler on the Roof” at Stage 42 by David Roberts and Joseph Verlezza

Tradition. Culture. Politics. Love. Tevye grapples with these four and more in National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s “Fiddler on the Roof” currently running at Stage 42.

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:58PM
Thursday, March 7, 2019

Off-Broadway Review: “Hurricane Diane” at New York Theatre Workshop by David Roberts

The characters – all of them – are underdeveloped, mostly static, with less than interesting conflicts. So how could there possibly be an engaging plot? They seem not to care for themsel…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:19AM

Broadway Preview: “The Cake” Opens at MTC at New York City Center – Stage I by David Roberts

Manhattan Theatre Club’s New York premiere of The Cake, written by Bekah Brunstetter (“This Is Us,” “American Gods,” The Oregon Trail) and directed by MTC’s award-winning Artisti…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:18AM

Off-Broadway News: “Avenue Q” to Play an Additional Four Weeks at New World Stages by Popular Demand by David Roberts

AVENUE Q – winner of three 2004 Tony Awards including Best Musical – is extending its previously announced closing date 4 weeks, due to popular demand, with a new end date set for May 26…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:10AM
Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Broadway Review and News: “Choir Boy” at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre Closes on Sunday March 10, 2019 by David Roberts

After a successful and extended run at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Tarell Alvin McCraney’s important and engaging “Choir Boy” closes on Sunday March 10, 2019…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:42PM
Sunday, February 10, 2019

Off-Broadway Review: “Mies Julie” at Classic Stage Company by David Roberts

Afrikaans protagonist Mies Julie (Elise Kibler) and Xhosa antagonist John (James Udom), though childhood friends, are from vastly different social orders. Now in their twenties, they are sep…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 07:47PM
Monday, January 14, 2019

Broadway News: “What the Constitution Means to Me” Comes to Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theater by David Roberts

The Clubbed Thumb, True Love, and New York Theatre Workshop production of "What the Constitution Means to Me: will come to Broadway this spring for a 12-week limited engagement, beginning pe…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:16AM
Friday, January 11, 2019

Theatre News: Emily Mann to Retire As Artistic Director of McCarter Theatre Center by David Roberts

Award-winning playwright and director Emily Mann, who has served as the Artistic Director and Resident Playwright of the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, New Jersey since 1990, will ret…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:48PM
Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Off-Broadway Review: “Blue Ridge” at Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross Theater by David Roberts

Abby Rosebrock introduces an interesting mélange of broken characters in her new play “Blue Ridge” currently running at Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross Theater. She drops these…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:33AM
Friday, December 21, 2018

Broadway Review: “Network” at the Belasco Theatre by David Roberts

“Network” addresses important themes and raises equally significant enduring questions. “Network” parses the word ‘network’ in a variety of ways, adding richness and layered dept…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 12:29PM
Monday, December 3, 2018

Off-Broadway Review: “The Other Josh Cohen” at the Westside Theatre/Downstairs by David Roberts

Josh Cohen’s year long (Valentine’s Day to Valentine’s Day) struggle with the vicissitudes of life is chronicled in eleven musical numbers by an energetic and talented cast that not on…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 05:29PM
Friday, November 30, 2018

Off-Broadway Review: “Thom Pain (based on nothing)” at The Pershing Square Signature Center’s Irene Diamond Stage by David Roberts

In this revival of “Thom Pain (based on nothing)” at The Pershing Square Signature Center’s Irene Diamond Stage, Will Eno steps over, under, and in between the resting places – and t…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:21PM
Friday, November 2, 2018

Off-Broadway Review: “India Pale Ale” at Manhattan Theatre Club’s New York City Center Stage I by David Roberts

“India Pale Ale” remains a stalwart attempt to “see” and “understand” and to stay woke to the social injustices extant just outside (and most likely within) the doors of the thea…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 01:29PM

Broadway Review: “Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song” at Second Stage’s Helen Hayes Theater by David Roberts

The journey to achieving Arnold’s commendable goals is a universal one as are the hopes and dreams of the characters in “Torch Song.” One wishes for even more relevant themes for the L…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 08:40AM
Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Off-Broadway Review: “Days of Rage” at Second Stage Theater’s Tony Kiser Theatre by David Roberts

Rooms full of missed opportunities sprawl across Second Stage’s Tony Kiser Theatre where Steven Levenson’s new play “Days of Rage” is running through November 2018. Mr. Levenson, the…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 08:38AM
Friday, October 26, 2018

Off-Broadway Review: “What the Constitution Means to Me” at New York Theatre Workshop by David Roberts

For ninety minutes, Ms. Schreck rehearses those speeches not for prize money but to remind the audience that the Constitution has been less protective of human rights than its drafters inten…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:14PM
Monday, October 22, 2018

Broadway Review: “The Lifespan of a Fact” Reexamines the Parameters of Truth at Studio 54 by David Roberts

The obvious connection to the current debate concerning the place of truth in politics plays well in “The Lifespan of a Fact.” The playwrights develop their argument carefully and with t…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:27PM
Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Off-Broadway Review: “Fireflies” Redefines Love and Hope at Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross Theater by David Roberts

DeWanda Wise and Khris Davis are electrifying in their roles as Olivia and Charles. Under Saheem Ali’s poignant and surgically precise direction, Ms. Wise and Mr. Davis explore every nerve…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:25AM
Thursday, October 11, 2018

Off-Broadway Review: “Hitler’s Tasters” at IRT Theater by David Roberts

“Hitler’s Tasters” is also a gripping extended metaphor for how women who have been victims of sexual violence carry lifelong cultural shame that prevents them from coming forward to t…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 04:55PM

Off-Broadway Review: The Custom Made Theatre Company’s “Kurt Vonnegut’s Mother Night” at 59E59 Theaters by David Roberts

“Mother Night’s” themes are as important in the present as they were when Vonnegut wrote the novel. It is remarkable how relevant the important issues of white supremacism, anti-Semiti…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:40AM
Thursday, October 4, 2018

Off-Broadway Review: “On Beckett” at Irish Repertory Theatre’s Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage by David Roberts

“On Beckett” is about Bill Irwin’s process and the metacognition involved in that creative process as he shares the push-pull relationship he has with existentialism’s bard. This is …

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:33AM
Friday, September 28, 2018

Off-Broadway Review: “Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties” at MCC Theater’s Lucille Lortel Theatre by David Roberts

Humor tempered with caring is necessary to pull off something as zany as “Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties.” Less humor and more opportunities to care about these Betties seems neede…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:41PM

Broadway Review: “The Nap” at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre by David Roberts

One would think mounting a Broadway show about snooker would be perilous. Richard Bean’s “The Nap,” currently running at Manhattan Theatre Club’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, unfortun…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:19AM
Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Broadway Review: “Bernhardt/Hamlet” at Roundabout Theatre Company’s American Airlines Theatre by David Roberts

Ms. Rebeck’s compelling new play explores in depth Sarah Bernhardt’s struggles with playing “Hamlet” and her compassion for being a “thinking” actor who works her craft with “f…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:32AM
Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Off-Broadway Review: “I Was Most Alive with You” at Playwrights Horizons Mainstage by David Roberts

“I Was Most Alive with You” explores the complex ways we communicate with or without speaking and hearing. Whether our language is English or ASL, how we insinuate, describe, perceive, …

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:30AM
Sunday, September 23, 2018

Off-Broadway Review: “A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur” at the Theatre at St. Clements by David Roberts

Tennessee Williams’ 1979 play “A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur” connects deeply with all (individuals, governments, nation-states) suffering the malaise of loss or lack of identity and…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 04:55PM
Friday, September 21, 2018

Off-Broadway Review: The Pond Theatre Company’s “The Naturalists” at Walkerspace by David Roberts

Currently playing at Walkerspace, The Pond Theatre Company’s “The Naturalists” is a compelling look at how one’s “secret” past can suddenly and unexpectedly encroach on the prese…

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:43AM
Monday, August 27, 2018

Off-Broadway Review: “Days to Come” at Mint Theater Company at Theatre Row’s Beckett Theatre by David Roberts

The moral turpitude of those who “consume” is in the spotlight in Lillian Hellman’s 1936 “Days to Come” currently running at Mint Theater Company at Theatre Row’s Beckett Theatre.

SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:41AM

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