Saturday, July 23, 2022
“Fairy Tales” and “Happily Ever After” have been great fodder for musical theater usually targeting multi-generational audiences, being prudent to include visual and intellectual con…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:59AMFriday, July 22, 2022
Under director Matt Pfeiffer’s helm, Akeem Davis (Benedick) and Brett Ashley Robinson (Beatrice) and the cast of “Much Ado About Nothing” bring Shakespeare’s late comedy (1598 or sho…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 06:08PMWednesday, July 20, 2022
In an email with several attachments (none of which any of the invitees bothered to read), Morkan (the incomparable Marylouise Burke) invites several friends to her “very big house, on the…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:19PMWednesday, June 29, 2022
Things are going as well as they can as Juicy (a pensive, smart, and gay Marcel Spears who is thicc, beautiful, and lonely) and his cousin and oldest friend Tio (a relaxed and clever Chris H…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 01:20PMMonday, June 20, 2022
Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival opens its Main Stage musical “A Chorus Line,” the iconic winner of both the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The show previews June 22 and 23. It open…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 12:40PMMonday, June 13, 2022
Comedy is usually a successful way to approach any discussion about a difficult and awkward situation and often eases the tension surrounding the stigma that might be associated with the unc…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 06:22PMWednesday, June 8, 2022
In “Exception to the Rule,” currently playing at the Black Box Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center, is playwright Dave Harris more concerned about what might be the excepti…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:31AMMonday, June 6, 2022
There are times when a trip to the theatre should being nothing but fun and entertainment. A clever and ingenious musical performed by a remarkable cast is an additional bonus. One need to l…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:09PMTuesday, May 17, 2022
The Outer Critics Circle (OCC), the official organization of writers on New York theatre for out-of-town newspapers and national publications, is pleased to announce the winners of the 71st …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:21AMMonday, May 16, 2022
The nominees for the 66th Annual Drama Desk Awards: Outstanding Play Cullud Wattah, by Erika Dickerson-Despenza, The Public Theater English, by Sanaz Toossi, Atlantic Theater Company Prayer …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 05:27PMTuesday, April 26, 2022
Two deeply significant plays by Jeremy O. Harris – “Daddy” (Off-Broadway 2019) and “Slave Play” (Broadway 2021) – highlighted significant issues about the self-identity of young …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 10:00PMAward Announcement: The Outer Critics Circle 71st Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards Nominees By David Roberts Theatre Reviews Limited The Outer Critics Circle (OCC), the official organizati…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:45AMThursday, April 21, 2022
“The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft a-gley.” – “To A Mouse” by Robert Burns Despite his claim to be “quite content to keep [his] own counsel, as [he] sees fit, …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:30PMWednesday, April 20, 2022
“Since its premiere at The Public in 1976 and its subsequent transfer to Broadway later that year, much has happened to continue to impact the lives of the women of color celebrated by Nto…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 06:45PMMonday, April 18, 2022
The revival of “Take Me Out” by Richard Greenberg which opened at The Helen Hayes Theater, in many ways does not feel as if it were written twenty years ago, given the current political …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:43AMFriday, April 15, 2022
The Comedian Harmonists was an internationally famous all-male German singing group that was formed during the Weimar period and was forced to disband in the early 1930’s when the Nazi reg…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 01:18PMThursday, April 14, 2022
It has taken this reviewer a couple of days to contemplate the new stage version of the well-known children’s story “The Little Prince” penned by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, which has ta…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:59PMWednesday, March 23, 2022
There is something very special happening at New World Stages that every ardent admirer of great musical legends and theatre enthusiast should see. “Little Girl Blue”, the new Nina Simon…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 01:32PMMonday, March 7, 2022
Broadway has been graced with quite a bit of royalty considering the “SIX” queens that currently occupy the stage at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, vying for the title of the most victimiz…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 06:00PMSunday, February 27, 2022
As Stacey Derosier’s lighting comes up on the stage of Charly Evon Simpson’s “sandblasted,” which is currently being co-presented by Vineyard Theatre and Women’s Project Theater a…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 05:00PMSaturday, February 19, 2022
The recent revival of “The Music Man” which has opened at the Winter Garden Theater comes to the stage with some good news for fans of a certain celebrity, and some bad news for avid the…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 09:43AMTuesday, February 15, 2022
A clue in in the “New York Times” crossword puzzle on Tuesday, February 15th was “Prefix with futurism.” The correct answer: ‘Afrofuturism,’ defined as “a cultural aesthetic t…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 07:30PMMonday, February 7, 2022
In “Tambo & Bones,” currently running at Playwrights Horizons, playwright Dave Harris (“Summertime,” “Patricide”) gives the audience a minstrel show with three variety acts w…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 08:30PMThursday, December 16, 2021
“Kimberly Akimbo” may be one of the best new musicals to appear on the New York Theatre scene this season, glorified by the music of Jeanine Tesori, and enhanced with the unequivocal boo…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 12:37PMFriday, December 10, 2021
The latest Broadway opening is the new musical comedy “Mrs. Doubtfire” based on the immensely popular 1993 film which starred Robin Williams in the leading role. The plot revolves around…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:06PMThursday, December 2, 2021
Racism, sexism, economic disparity, and stagnation roil beneath the surface Caroline Thibodeaux’s (an embattled yet resilient Sharon B Clarke) deep unhappiness, disappointment, and resista…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:58PMThe new musical “Trevor: The Musical” based on the 1994 short film makes a valid attempt to bring to light the issues and problems that adolescent gay teens face, which result in attempt…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 01:42PMMonday, November 22, 2021
The new musical “The Visitor,” now playing at the Public’s Newman Theater, is based on the 2007 film sharing the same title, with a book by Kwame Kwei-Armah and Brian Yorkey, music by …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 03:27PM“I’m very scared. I’m very confused it’s very bright here please just tell me whether or not I am safe.” These are among the first words spoken by Charley McBride (an ethereal and …
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 11:57AMMonday, November 15, 2021
The new musical “A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet” with music, book and lyrics by Ben Fankhauser and Alex Wyse, who also star in the Off-Broadway production now occupying the DR2 The…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 01:18PMThursday, November 4, 2021
Around the Sun, an episodic audio drama, created by Brad Forenza, has launched its first episodes via the Broadway Podcast Network. New episodes premiere each week, throughout fall 2021. The…
SOURCE: Theatre Reviews Limited at 02:45PM 
