Sunday, May 21, 2023
Abortion, pro or con? The Blessed Unrest theater company has taken on this thorny issue. Steven Wangh’s "Misconceptions"—an ironically perfect title—unfolds in the form of a series o…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:19PMSunday, May 14, 2023
"shadow/land" by Erika Dickerson-Despenza is a play about the August 2005 disaster, Hurricane Katrina. It is the first episode of a ten-part magnum opus. "shadow/land," though, is more than …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:18AMThursday, May 11, 2023
Under the direction of Chad Austin, Droxler uncannily becomes not only Williams (and all of Williams cinematic characters who each serve up different helpful advice), but also his father Ed;…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:26AMSunday, May 7, 2023
When Mary-Mitchell Campbell’s baton brought out the first notes of the "Oliver!" overture from the Encores! Orchestra, the memorable tunes just flowed and didn’t stop until more than two…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:17PMFriday, May 5, 2023
Auburn (Pulitzer Prize winner for Proof) has a knack for writing complex female characters. That knack hasn’t failed him in "Summer, 1976." Diane, the lustrous Laura Linney, is an aloo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:47AMMonday, May 1, 2023
The Company soon loses its way as bunk beds self-destruct, lines get mangled, Peter Pan flails about in failed attempts to fly and crocodiles and mermaids parade about on skateboards. If thi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:48PMMonday, April 24, 2023
A short documentary film about the fabulous actress, composer, pianist and wife of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Hazel Scott, preceded the new ballet, "Sounds of Hazel," choreographed by Tiffany…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:37PMThursday, April 13, 2023
Silliness and whimsy can often be admirable qualities in a play, but not when taken to the degree playwright Julia Izumi has in her new work, "Regretfully, So the Birds Are," a co-production…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:37PMThursday, April 6, 2023
Perhaps it’s the difficulty of finding dancers who can perform the intricate, body isolation moves so emblematic of Fosse’s very individual style, but to those who know and experienced h…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:27AMTuesday, March 28, 2023
The Israeli Artists Project, dedicated to bringing the art and artists of Israel to American audiences, has mounted a production of Anat Gov’s "Best Friends," a zippy portrait of three bes…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:57AMSunday, March 19, 2023
"Água," making its American debut, created in 2001 during a residency in Brazil, is a work of great beauty, humor and creativity —and dishearteningly, an overlong dance/theater work. Ev…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:21PMFriday, March 17, 2023
"Dear World," the not terribly successful 1969 Jerry Herman musical based on Jean Giraudoux’s "The Madwoman of Chaillot" (1945), was basically a vehicle for the brilliant Angela Lansbury.�…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:56PMThursday, March 16, 2023
What makes "Elyria" intriguing is how its American location affects the hidebound ritual social rules of its Southeast Asian characters. That all the characters emerged from an African dia…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:17PMMonday, March 6, 2023
Hands down Emily Feldman’s "The Best We Could (a family tragedy)," at the Manhattan Theatre Club, wins the most ironic title of the year. Not one character does the best he or she could …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:45PMTuesday, February 28, 2023
Garner is a wonderful actor, shifting easily and subtly from one character to another, her voice, posture and gestures are just right. She avoids being maudlin and thereby makes her narrativ…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:39PMSunday, February 19, 2023
"Pictures from Home," a stark, but eventually moving vision of a family, is based on the photo memoir of the same name by Larry Sultan. Sharr White, the playwright, has taken Sultan’s ex…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:49PMMonday, February 13, 2023
Pairing The New York Pops with Broadway star Heather Headley brought out the best in each. The energy zipping between the orchestra’s music director Steven Reinecke and Headley was palpa…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:13PMFriday, February 10, 2023
Dixon Place, a mecca for LGBTQ culture in the quickly gentrifying Lower East Side, is offering a return of the campy play, "The Village! A Disco Daydream," written by Nora Burns, a dizzy, so…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:26PMMonday, February 6, 2023
David Greenspan, the shape-shifting thespian, has taken on yet another multi-character play, as if his one-man "Strange Interlude" and his more recent "Four Saints in Three Acts" whet his ap…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:58AMThursday, February 2, 2023
Though only an hour long, Deborah Hay’s Horse, the Solos (2021), set on the dancers of Cullberg (founded in 1967 as the Cullberg Ballet by the late, eminent Swedish choreographer Birgit Cu…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:56PMSaturday, January 28, 2023
Three solos were stunning in their display of physical endurance. One woman moved forward, repeatedly kicking one leg behind her nearly touching her head with her foot. Another, tall and…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:29PMTuesday, January 24, 2023
The ballerina Natalia Osipova easily transformed herself from spectral to sensuous to eerie in just the first half of her 'Force of Nature" program at the New York City Center. The show—pr…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:11PMSaturday, January 21, 2023
When the older Diamond reaches an existential breaking point, he finally stands up, stage center and takes command of his memories, experiences and his life with an intensely concentrated re…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:26PMTuesday, January 17, 2023
Webre went for acrobatics and precision rather than passion. Perhaps, the Chinese Communist regime frowns upon openly sexual expression in dance. Perhaps Webre can’t summon anything bu…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:35PMTuesday, December 27, 2022
"Darkness: unfolds in many very short scenes with some confusing transitions. Dubashin, the traitor to Russia, finally gets to confront Number One in a knock-down personal battle. The on…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:18PMMonday, December 19, 2022
Matthew López & Amber Ruffin (book) and Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman (music and lyrics) have transformed the written-for-laughs film into a joyous musical, keeping much of the sharp…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:51PMWednesday, December 7, 2022
Under the permissive direction of Garfield-Szita—who also designed the costumes—the cast comes across more as members of a sitcom than a serious drama, not helped by Morgenstein’s depe…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:46PMMonday, November 28, 2022
Ellen Abrams’ new play "Eleanor and Alice – Conversations Between Two Remarkable Roosevelts" explores their superficial courtesies in a series of conversations spanning 1904 until 1962, …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:57AMWednesday, November 23, 2022
"Kimberly Akimbo," David Lindsay-Abaire’s oddball take on the title character’s dishearteningly sad disease, began life as a play back in 2001, reaching New York via the Manhattan Theatr…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:35PMSaturday, November 19, 2022
A touching portrait of a father and his alienated son unfolds in the Manhattan Theatre Club’s "Where the Mountain Meets the Sea" by Jeff Augustin, directed by Joshua Kahan Brody. ... "When…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:20PMMonday, November 14, 2022
LaTanya Richardson Jackson (Samuel L. Jackson’s wife) has directed in a desultory fashion. Long, revealing monologues, the backbone of this particular play, are delivered directly to the…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:12AM 
