Sunday, January 8, 2017
Playwright Beth Hyland’s very effective conceit is that we’re watching the dress rehearsal of Annie Lambert’s memorial celebration in an auditorium of the State University of New York …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:32PMMonday, December 26, 2016
Director and choreographer Jessica Burr has created a number of dazzling moments with her precise unison of expressive staging, movement and dance. With only a few vintage trunks and a door…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:51AMFriday, December 23, 2016
The Heath, The McKittrick Hotel’s restaurant, bar and music venue, has been dressed up with appropriate signs and objects such as a stuffed wolf to resemble a pub in Scotland. After the a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:02PMTuesday, December 20, 2016
“The Little Drummer Boy” was an emotionally shattering highlight of Richard Holbrook: "Always December." Mr. Holbrook’s performance of this perennial was revelatory due to the intensi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:25PMMonday, December 19, 2016
The beautiful wreath and garlands hanging above the stage were festively lit up for the wonderful finale, the “Jingle Jangle Sing-Along.” All of the performers appeared and encouraged t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:44AMFriday, December 16, 2016
The score by Kristen Anderson-Lopez, James-Allen Ford, Russ Kaplan and Sara Wordsworth is a pleasant collection of serviceable songs. Their book, based on their original concept, is a workm…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:11PMWednesday, December 14, 2016
Raucous highlights include a jive reinterpretation of A Christmas Carol, “by Chazzie D, about a cat called Scrooge...who lives in Scrooge Tower.” There’s also Buckley’s irreverent t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:30PMFriday, December 9, 2016
The audience sits on either side of the large runway stage that set designer Laura Jellinek has arrestingly fashioned into an indoor soccer field. It’s a green vista of Astro Turf that gi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:45PMThursday, December 8, 2016
LeFranc’s dialogue is a marvelous blend of the realistic and mundane. The well-delineated main characters all express themselves with true to life simplicity. Plot developments are the c…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:40PMTuesday, December 6, 2016
"The Big Uncut Flick is a 1953 live, mid-day movie program broadcast on the Dumont network. The audience is addressed as if they were the studio audience. The stereotypical hosts are a marr…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:24PMMonday, December 5, 2016
The real life Internet hacktivist and Reddit developer Aaron Swartz contrives to have his fictional childhood friend Billy, who is a theater teacher of prisoners, to collaborate on a play ab…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:07AMMonday, November 28, 2016
Besides guiding these engaging performances, director Christopher Martin has meticulously staged the action on the arresting minimalist set that he designed. The floor and brick walls are …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:32PMTuesday, November 22, 2016
Mr. Irving has an amazing singing voice that soars from octave to octave. His witty songs include a funny one about texting. He tells an epic story about his parents meeting. His musician…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:25PMThat sequence is just one of the highlights of John Doyle’s commanding direction. Best known for his vibrant minimalist approach to musicals, Mr. Doyle brings that precise and visually ex…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:05PMThursday, November 17, 2016
“He” and “She” are a 40ish upper middle class couple who divorced ten years earlier following the traumatic death of their young son who was hit by a car. Due to toxic waste from a …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:51PMMonday, November 14, 2016
Darryl Reilly, Critic “I’m profoundly grateful I’m not on it,” said Frank Langella during his moving speech at The Episcopal Actors’ Guild’s annual Memorial Service for deceased …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:39AMSunday, November 13, 2016
Shrouded by clear shower curtains, the actors enter the stage and bring out furniture, including a gramophone, and chat with each other. There is newsreel footage proclaiming the end of W.W…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:42PMWednesday, November 9, 2016
The pomposity of the Tony Kushner-style title extends to naming its leading characters “The Academic” and “The Writer.” They’re two gay men in their late 20’s and the play chart…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:10PMSunday, November 6, 2016
"Lavender Songs: A Queer Cabaret in Weimar Berlin" has the mature and slim Mr. Lawrence in drag virtually for the entire length of the performance. In a dirty-blonde curled wig, his face ga…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:26PMWednesday, November 2, 2016
Healy’s treatment is faithful to the novel with a good deal of it being Clegg’s narration addressed to the audience. There are lengthy conversations between Miranda and Clegg, and her e…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:24PMTuesday, November 1, 2016
Founded in 1991, the National Asian American Theater Company’s mission is to present theater with all Asian-American casts. This is accomplished by producing classics of European and Amer…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:29AMThursday, October 27, 2016
Out of this frustration, Larson in 1991 began performing a rock monologue about his life and stalled career called 30/90, as it was set in 1990 as he turned thirty. Later it was retitled "…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:16PMTuesday, October 25, 2016
Pierce coolly addresses the audience while delivering this mundane litany. His superb comic timing, long evident on the television situation comedy "Frasier," is on glorious display here. …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:22PMMonday, October 24, 2016
British author Stephen Sharkey’s new translation is faithful to Brecht, but the Phoenix Theatre Ensemble has fashioned the presentation as an old-time radio show. Brecht was known for his…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:11AMFriday, October 21, 2016
Despite its formulaic story, "I Like It Like That" is quite exhilarating with its sensational salsa renditions as performed by its appealing cast and excellent band.
The post I Like It Like …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:25PMTuesday, October 18, 2016
Obie award-winning playwright José Rivera is an Oscar nominee for his adapted screenplay for "The Motorcycle Diaries." For this adaptation, he has set "The Maids" (which premiered in Paris…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:59PMMonday, October 17, 2016
The scenic design by Brett Banakis is a functional, minimalist configuration of a slightly raised wooden performance platform surrounded by a wooden frame dotted with small antlers suggestin…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:45PMDarryl Reilly, Critic “Hookers and drug addicts are all my agent sends me out for,” said Anna Deavere Smith to her acting class at New York University in 1983. Ms. Smith was articulating…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:30AMFriday, October 14, 2016
Grand highlights of Mr. Horton’s dynamic work includes an analysis of "Animal Farm" while he erases the novel’s seven animal commandments that are written on a blackboard as they are ove…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:14AMMonday, October 10, 2016
Gentili and Davis riotously appear together in a confrontational scene that’s similar in style to one of Tennessee Williams’ outlandish later works written during his 1960’s drug fuele…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:58PMFriday, October 7, 2016
Headsets are on the backs of the audience’s seats when they arrive and which they are asked to wear throughout the show. The stage is set with a desk, several microphones and many water b…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:43PM 
