Saturday, June 22, 2019
The comedy "Imminently Yours," written by the mononymous “Karimah” and staged by The Negro Ensemble Company, is largely about the importance to communities of honoring their “elders.�…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:35PMFriday, June 21, 2019
The set designer (Yu-Hsuan Chen) and lighting designer (Reza Behjat) have obviously worked collaboratively to create some effective—and often beautiful—stage pictures. Loops of light are…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:57AMSunday, June 16, 2019
Scottish playwrights Kieran Hurley and Gary McNair explore the murky pre-adult domain with candor and humor in "Square Go," an appealing two-hander directed by Finn Den Hertog and featuring …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:18PMTuesday, June 11, 2019
Such lukewarm response may be attributable, at least in part, to the changing times. Lone Star focuses on a not-so-old Good Ol’ Boy from rural Texas named Roy (de Rogatis). He’s a Vietna…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:45PMMonday, June 3, 2019
"Butterflies," which won the Mario Fratti Award at New York’s “In Scena!” theater festival in 2016, has been translated by Carlotta Brentan and directed by Jay Stern in a production at…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:20PMThursday, May 23, 2019
All of this is brought to life via digital camera, which captures the movement of the figures on a quickly assembled “set” that is, in effect, a whole miniature seaside town, with busine…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:07PMTuesday, May 7, 2019
Eve Wolf’s new play for the Ensemble for the Romantic Century, titled "Hans Christian Andersen: Tales Real & Imagined," suggests that the real-life Andersen might actually have appreci…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:14AMSaturday, May 4, 2019
Claire Kiechel’s "Paul Swan Is Dead and Gone" (directed by Steve Cosson) gives audiences a glimpse of the last stand of the author’s great grand-uncle, a dancer-actor-painter-sculptor wh…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:07AMFriday, April 26, 2019
This British production is a family effort, as Forsyth and Mills are mother and daughter in real life. The play is worth seeing primarily for the sharp and uncompromising performance of Fors…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:11AMFriday, April 12, 2019
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SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 09:00AMThursday, April 11, 2019
The one-woman show "Miracle in Rwanda"—starring Malaika Uwamahoro and directed by George Drance—relates the true-life experiences of Immaculée Ilibagiza. As a young woman, she survived …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:24PMMonday, April 8, 2019
Ranger spins the story for a 2019 audience mindful of and vigilant about sex and gender issues—especially those involving consent, privilege and toxic masculinity. The play transpires in a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:54AMFriday, April 5, 2019
The premise of the show (directed by Oliver Butler) is that the 2019 Schreck has decided to recreate one of the many presentations she participated in at American Legion halls around the cou…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:58PMSunday, March 31, 2019
Attea’s point concerns business models that are overly focused on the needs of shareholders, rather than on those of management and employees. But the play is curiously bloodless. Strong p…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:21PMTuesday, March 26, 2019
Jean-Claude van Itallie, one of the key figures in New York’s Off-Off Broadway theater in the 1960’s, takes on Trumpian politics in his new play, "The Fat Lady Sings" (directed by David …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:16PMTuesday, March 19, 2019
You may leave "Strangers" with mixed reactions. The proceedings onstage may make you feel as disoriented and tetchy as the villagers themselves. The characters’ words as they vainly try to…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:14PMTuesday, March 5, 2019
The play is carefully plotted, and the tragic action that Snider builds runs its course in a logical, plausible fashion. But something about "Death of a Driver" never quite catches fire. The…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:20PMSaturday, February 23, 2019
The property is now more than a half-century old. But this production makes it seem as though the 1964 iteration were merely an English-language version of a classic from even longer ago. Th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:58AMWednesday, February 20, 2019
Thompson does good work as Billie—she looks like her and sounds like her when singing. Too bad, though, that her songs are all ballads. It would have been nice to hear her sing something m…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:35PMMonday, February 18, 2019
Welch and the play’s director, Jonathan Weber, seem to be going for a sort of Ionesco-esque ambience here. The story unfolds in a broadly played, cartoonish way. Occasionally, a satirical …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:33PMMonday, February 11, 2019
The play is a thoughtful and illuminating look at the attractions and perils of a career in adult entertainment. Lauren’s story is a cautionary tale, yes, but the underlying attitude of th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:36AMThursday, January 31, 2019
There are many dimensions to Ray Yamanouchi’s "The American Tradition," directed by Axel Avin, Jr. for the New Light Theater Project. On one level, it’s an adventure story about a daring…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:50PMFriday, January 25, 2019
Broken Box Mime Theater’s SKIN is a collection of short plays loosely centered around its one-word title. The pieces run the gamut in terms of subject matter, approach and tone. Or course,…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:08AMTuesday, January 22, 2019
Obviously, this is a play for which any sort of a happy ending will be deeply compromised, but what Simpson does so beautifully is show us how these women overcome their suspicions and envy …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:50PMWednesday, January 16, 2019
Eve Wolf’s play is essentially a monodrama, with John Noble portraying the title character. The production is a rich one, both visually and aurally. It features an abundance of live music,…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:06PMMonday, January 7, 2019
The supernatural scenario is a little like something one might find on an eerie episode of Alfred Hitchcock’s old TV anthology. Unfortunately, it all comes off as fairly stilted and heavy-…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:45PMWednesday, January 2, 2019
In the plus column, it was easy on the eyes. Scenic designer Lou Anne Gilleland created agreeable though not particularly elaborate sets: a rocky stretch of seashore for the first act and a …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:11PMSunday, December 23, 2018
But these speeches are only a part of the soundscape. The production is suffused with music—all of it a cappella vocalizing by the cast. We hear barracks songs, patriotic songs, hymns and …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:59AMFriday, December 14, 2018
Gradually, as the course of a year passes, we learn about the characters’ trouble-filled off-stage lives: Rory is coping with being part of a broken family; Bernard suffered loss early in …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:25PMSunday, December 9, 2018
It’s a very presentational show. The six ensemble members comprise a sort of group narrator, working in tandem to relate the memories of the Thomas character for the audience—sometimes s…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:38PMSunday, November 18, 2018
"The New One," directed by Seth Barrish, is about Birbiglia and his wife’s decision to become parents, the struggles they go through to arrive at pregnancy, and his fretfulness about how b…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:57PM 
