Thursday, December 8, 2016
The final sections of this theater/dance work were more effective than the earlier scenes and they included a game show knockoff call “The Price is Right to Be a Queen,” a rigged quiz sh…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:00PMMonday, December 5, 2016
There is no plot, just a series of verbal jousts played out on Riccardo Hernandez’ sleek, two-tier set with just the image of trees looming over the actors wearing Montana Blanco’s colo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:04PMSunday, December 4, 2016
Is there a more stunningly beautiful troupe of dancers than the Nederlands Dans Theater? This very international array of performers is not only good looking but dances with thrilling prec…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:03PMThursday, December 1, 2016
[esc], staged by Penn & Teller, Mr. Barnett, Ms. Jaworski and Mr. Kent, is a Penn & Teller homage to Harry Houdini. To a musical background of pop songs, the performers—Messrs. …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:07PMTuesday, November 29, 2016
Watching these three actors is an incredible experience. As Willie, the slower, funnier tea room worker, Sahr Ngaujah, often the butt of the jokes, never loses his humanity. Noah Robbins f…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:22PMThursday, November 24, 2016
"Man in Snow" begins and ends in tragedy. In between there is an insightful, sometimes banal, study of a middle-aged man, David (an awesomely complex Will Lyman), his bumpy relationship wit…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:48PMMonday, November 21, 2016
A funny, quick-paced retelling, set in the world of rap stars, recording studios and the party scene.
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SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:37PMSunday, November 20, 2016
In this smart, clever version of the story, Iago, slightly uptight longtime member of Othello’s crew believes that he is not appreciated when newcomer Cassio, a much happier rapper who jus…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:46PMTuesday, November 15, 2016
Music director Steven Reineke led a perfectly respectable concert with the help of The Soldiers’ Chorus of The U.S. Army Field Band (First Lieutenant Alexandra Borza, Associate Bandmaster)…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:24AMMonday, November 14, 2016
Throughout it all, Finn’s songs illuminate the joys, loves, hates, passions and complaints of this delightful cast of characters. From the opening “Four Jews in a Room Bitching” to the…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:24PMWednesday, November 9, 2016
Just as Ulysses S. Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower did centuries later, Coriolanus, urged on by his powerful mother, Volumnia (a startling, stinging Lisa Harrow), uses his military success as…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:59PMSaturday, November 5, 2016
British actor Richard Armitage making his New York stage debut and Tony and Academy Award nominee Amy Ryan work hard to make Kenneth and Sandra three-dimensional, likeable people, but, as wr…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:38AMSaturday, October 22, 2016
Simon Stephens, whose Tony Award winning "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" recently amazed audiences with its razor-sharp take on the inner workings of an autistic boy, is …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:37PMThursday, October 20, 2016
In the guise of two old Upper West Side bachelor geezers, Kroll as failed actor, Gil Faizon, and Mulaney as failed writer, George St. Geegland, wander about Pask’s brilliant combination ap…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:28PMMonday, October 17, 2016
Paulette Haupt, producing artistic director of Premieres, should be very proud of herself. Her "Inner Voices" program at the TBG Theatre managed to shock, move and entertain. The three sh…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:41AMMonday, October 10, 2016
Trial is stacked against Bush from the get-go. The torrent of facts alone convicts him. The director, Stephen Eich, the author and probably the actor, Mr. Carlin, seem to have decided to m…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:51PMThursday, October 6, 2016
"Misty Copeland" is not just the celebration of Misty Copeland the feisty, young classical ballet dancer, but of Misty Copeland the young, nubile, well-proportioned young woman. She looks g…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:03PMSunday, September 25, 2016
The creators of this version combined songs from the period—several probably used in the original production—with a pared-down version of the second-rate melodrama written with by Charle…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:09PMHosted by the always charming Steven Reineke, the fundraising event, New York Pops Underground, featured two terrific Broadway stars, Montego Glover and Tony Yazbeck, whose performances cle…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:29PMTuesday, September 20, 2016
Two queen-like figures, Ms. Corona and Maricarmen Garcia, dressed in a parade of Aviad Arik Herman’s sumptuous costumes, reigned over four young men—Nick Burrage, Alexandre Barranco, Nic…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:27AMSaturday, September 17, 2016
During the three and a half hours of "Phaedra(s)," Huppert masturbates, menstruates, throws up, fellates several versions of Hippolytus, flails about with masochistic glee, and screams so lo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:50PMFriday, September 16, 2016
Felder’s play begins with a video of the actual Leonard Bernstein delivering a colorful, yet entertaining, illustrated lecture on music. When Felder sashays down the aisle, a cigarette in…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:46PMMonday, August 22, 2016
The ten solos proceeded efficiently and smoothly with certain similarities becoming apparent: black was the color of all but one of the costumes and black was the mood of most the works. Cr…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:22PMMonday, August 15, 2016
A few months ago we saw the sensational Miami troupe featuring the works of George Balanchine. Now we have just had a fascinating week-long season by the Sarasota Ballet troupe, directed by…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:35AMTuesday, August 9, 2016
The debonair resident of posh St. James, and Gus, the theatre cat, are both played with finesse by Christopher Gurr, whose “Gus the Theatre Cat” who nearly steals the show away from the …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:50AMSaturday, July 30, 2016
This Japanese version lacks the passion and darkness necessary to make this morality tale pop. The two leading ladies, Wataru Kozuki as Velma and Hikaru Asami as Roxie looked too wide-eyed …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:06PMFriday, July 29, 2016
In the course of 90 minutes, we follow the ups and downs of Strauss’ professional, mental health and romantic lives in great detail. To his credit, Strauss gives the impression of deliveri…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:23AMWednesday, July 20, 2016
At times, Hopper’s paintings—mostly the moody ones—were inhabited by the dancers who took on the iconic, emotionally laden poses so brilliantly painted by Hopper, helped by Frank DenDa…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:23AMWednesday, July 13, 2016
From 1976, “Country Dances” represented the post-experimental avant-garde phase after breakout success with her ballets for major dance companies. From 1980, there was “Brahms Paganin…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:31PMSaturday, July 9, 2016
Edisa Weeks’ DELIRIOUS Dances company presented "To Begin the World Over Again," an ultimately hopeful, informal look at American values filtered through the words of Thomas Paine, the Rev…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:28PMWednesday, July 6, 2016
As the women find themselves further and further in the future, it is how each reacts and is forever changed that give the play its emotional weight. Two manage to adjust quite well; one no…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:59PM 
