Wednesday, 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 10:59PMThursday, June 30, 2016
The New York City premiere of “Polymorphous” to Bach was a coolly elegant work that featured ever shifting black and white projections (by Brian Clifford Beasley) matched by the witty le…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:39PMWednesday, June 29, 2016
This production had two brilliant design/directoral conceits that worked hand in glove with the musical elements to tell the story. The first involved twelve dancers from Ballet Hispanico�…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:50PM"Shuffle Along..." follows the travails and triumphs of the creators of the 1921 David that fought what was at first a losing battle against the Goliath of the Broadway powers-that-be. The …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:56AMMonday, June 27, 2016
Sad to say, the American Sephardi Federation’s production of a greatly compressed "Othello" at the beautiful Center for Jewish History was a disappointment. This was the third of a series…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:44PMFriday, June 17, 2016
However, the main thrust of this troupe is to stimulate a gentle discipline and the ability to work effectively with others. It’s clear that these youngsters who range from seven or eight…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:55PMTuesday, June 14, 2016
Gregory S. Moss’ "Indian Summer" at Playwrights Horizons is an uneasy mix of two stories, the first about the doomed romantic encounter between two teens and the second concerning the quie…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:43PMThursday, June 9, 2016
"Paramour," the Cirque du Soleil’s stab at producing a Broadway style musical at the Lyric Theatre, is the circus equivalent of a jukebox musical. Instead of songbook—Beach Boys, Four S…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:01AMMonday, June 6, 2016
Stew and Ms. Rodewald’s command of the musical genres of the 1960’s and 1970’s—gospel, Motown, soul, glam-rock, funk, R&B, blues, etc.—is astounding. The songs are organic ex…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:53PMWednesday, June 1, 2016
Leading this bucolic tale of amor interruptus were Gillian Murphy (her usual strong technique subsumed in girlish sweetness) as the farm girl, Lise, the “badly guarded girl” of the title…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:05AMMonday, May 30, 2016
It’s clear why Edward Albee’s "The Sandbox" (1959), María Irene Fornés’ "Drowning" (1986) and Adrienne Kennedy’s "Funnyhouse of a Negro" (1964) are considered modern absurdist clas…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:53PMSaturday, May 28, 2016
Ms. Grossman’s three works were all world premieres: “Hallelujah Eva” to the famous Leonard Cohen song, “Beatrice’s Rainbow” to the Yip Harburg/Harold Arlen classic “Over the …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:11PMWednesday, May 25, 2016
Although Quiara Alegría Hudes’ "Daphne’s Dive" follows the lives of seven fascinating people for whom Daphne’s North Philly bar is their true home, it is no "Cheers" and definitely no…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:56PMSunday, May 22, 2016
She ran down the list of her Broadway co-stars: Ricardo Montalban, Donald O’Connor (the disastrous Bring Back Birdie), Antonio Banderas (upon whose shoulder she placed a shapely leg in Ni…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:57PMThursday, May 19, 2016
His Shostakovich Trilogy may have been too much of a good thing, somewhat weakened by too many overlapping themes, generally dark moods (with some bright moments, of course) and a sameness o…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:49AMMonday, May 16, 2016
The duo that makes up and has created 'Still Standing You" consists of the charmingly suave Guilherme Garrido from Portugal and the dour, heavily bearded Pieter Ampe from Belgium, neither of…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:10PMFrankly, the main difference between Bianco and its sister circuses is its ambiance and not the acts, wonderful as they are. Every circus has jugglers, tightrope walkers, silk artists and h…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:55PMFriday, May 13, 2016
Director Dev Bondarin cleverly enlisted scenic designer Tim McMath to transform the APAC’s theater into a high school gymnasium, complete with posters (“No Bullying Allowed,” “Today …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:58AMTuesday, May 10, 2016
The way Mr. Levenson keeps things moving is both clever and exhausting. The songs mostly explore the inner emotional lives of the characters: “Waving through a Window” (Evan’s feeli…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:43PMFriday, May 6, 2016
As Hungary took a turn to the extreme right in recent years, anti-Semitism and xenophobia not only raised their heads, but became de facto pillars of the new government. The Place We Built …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:38PMSaturday, April 30, 2016
The musical’s new libretto, written by Jessie Nelson, riffs broadly on Shelly’s quietly poignant storyline and her very human, finely etched characters. The characters, broadened and am…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:37PMWednesday, April 27, 2016
Testing the patience and understanding of both the audience and the dancers, Ballet Preljocaj, Angelin Preljocaj’s modern troupe from Aix-en-Provence, performed the complete version of his…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:38PMFriday, April 22, 2016
At turns beautifully silly, dreamy, exquisitely moving and always delightful, "Fêtes" is a sweeping, if daffy, look at life in eighteenth century Venice. Christie and his director Robert C…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:03PMWednesday, April 20, 2016
I cannot remember the last time a ballet company so completely blew me away as the Miami City Ballet did during its recent, depressingly short season at the David H. Koch Theater in Lincoln …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:29AMSaturday, April 16, 2016
An opportunity to see the luminous Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o live on stage may be the reason most people are rushing to the Golden Theatre, but, thrilling as that may be, "Eclips…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:55PMThursday, April 14, 2016
It’s an uneasy stretch that ultimately fails to convincingly conflate the surprisingly liberal religious arguments that Lessing makes with the extraordinarily complex political/religious/c…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:16PMThe four works on the Dance Theatre of Harlem’s program revealed a troupe that loves to entertain and show off but one that also hasn’t quite reached a secure level of technical achievem…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:25AMMonday, April 11, 2016
The Ballet Hispanico wants to be meaningful while at the same time entertaining. It is a difficult course to chart—just look at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater—and, so far, the …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:39PMWednesday, April 6, 2016
Nearly thirty speakers glorified Solomons, but none quite as well as himself who appeared in three bits that deftly paid tribute to—and simultaneously gently poked fun at—his two choreo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:59AMWednesday, March 30, 2016
"Bright Star," the new bluegrass/country music comedy-drama, rises—just barely—above Hallmark Network romance level thanks to its energetic score by the Hollywood star, Steve Martin (mus…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:32PMTuesday, March 29, 2016
This was a particularly satisfying showing by the Juilliard Dances Repertory. It’s good to know that there is hope for the future of dance represented by these students, all of whom displ…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:56PM 
