Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Now playing at the MTC’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on Broadway, "Choir Boy" is set at The Charles R Drew Preparatory School for Boys, a Catholic academy for young men of color. Written by…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:06PMFriday, December 28, 2018
"The Prom" is giving Broadway something it’s been lacking for years, which is a high-spirited, old-fashioned musical comedy, where the cast’s energy spills out over the footlights, and i…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:04PMFriday, December 21, 2018
Some novels are more stage-worthy than others, and "C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters" is not among those that are. As adapted for the stage by Max McLean--who also directs the production…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:09PMTuesday, December 18, 2018
Though it was common practice centuries ago, perhaps the final take-away from "Bitter Greens"--a new play by Clea DeCrane--is that an actor should not perform in her own work. In the play, D…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:57PMTuesday, November 27, 2018
The attempt to draw comparisons between two disparate one-act plays by Brian Friel proves forced and effortful. In a program note for "Two by Friel," now playing at the Irish Repertory Theat…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:07PMSaturday, November 17, 2018
The Classic Stage Company's current revival of Bertolt Brecht’s "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui" is not the first to draw comparisons between the sitting president and Hitler. In 2002, o…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:51AMWednesday, November 7, 2018
Even with the indelible impression of Eileen Heckart’s magnificent, original Gladys intact, Elaine May overcomes any comparisons as the current Gladys. There is nothing inventive or even a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:01AMWednesday, October 31, 2018
In an apparent effort to demonstrate that he’s become one of us, Mandvi arrives in the theater by walking down the central aisle at the Minetta Lane Theatre, wide-eyed, as he peers and tak…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:21PMFriday, October 26, 2018
From its dramatic opening, there’s nowhere for "Goodbody" to go but down, even if Ernst keeps raising the stakes with complicated backstories and developments that leave one breathlessly c…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:51AMTuesday, October 23, 2018
Channing is by turns aggressive, assertive, jittery, neurotic, imperious, and even petulant in the first act, only to become bewildered and subdued in the second. To rewrite Dorothy Parker�…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:12PMWednesday, October 17, 2018
Though its title couldn’t be clearer or more transparent, "Hitler’s Tasters" proves anything but that, as it merges the past, when Hitler was still alive, with the present, when fresh au…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:19PMSunday, October 7, 2018
It isn’t revealing too much to say that the play culminates with a real Snooker match between two men vying ultimately for the world championship and ostensibly being watched by 23 million…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:11PMFriday, September 21, 2018
A play that tends to say or do too much can often end up saying too little. Such is the case with "The Other Day," a play in which one development after another keeps cancelling each other o…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:58AMSaturday, September 15, 2018
Though the large ensemble of 11 actors is uniformly first rate--whether going through their balletic paces or tossing the invisible basketball and grasping it by clapping their hands, Pamela…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:51AMThursday, August 23, 2018
What’s missing from the nondescript music is originality, soul or spirit, and the same can be said about the book. Under the guidance of director James Will McBride, the cast, however, fea…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:21PMFriday, August 17, 2018
Though there are recurring references to Woody Allen and more specifically to "Annie Hall" during the 90-minute piece, "Less Than 50%" bears as much resemblance to that Oscar-winning film as…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:09PMFriday, August 10, 2018
Given how physically playful the brothers are with each other--and with their father--"Straight White Men" is that rare play that even has a credited choreographer, Faye Driscoll. In additio…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:18AMFriday, July 27, 2018
Built in 1904, Dreamland was considered the most elegant and ambitious of Coney Island’s amusement parks--until it burnt to a crisp in 1911. A new play by Rinne Groff, "Fire in Dreamland" …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:40AMThursday, July 19, 2018
The cast list in the program reads more like a medieval phone-directory--even if there were no phones in the Middle Ages--than it does a dramatis personae. And then there’s what happens to…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:25AMTuesday, July 17, 2018
After establishing himself as one of our finest playwrights with such works as "Killer Joe" and "August: Osage County," Tracy Letts seems to have somewhat lost his way with his more recent "…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:07PMSunday, July 8, 2018
Bahareh Yaraghi as Mrs. Laura Cheveley and Brad Hodder as Lord Arthur Goring in a scene from “The Ideal Husband” (Photo credit: Emily Cooper) David Kaufman, Critic Though The Importance …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:41AMMonday, June 18, 2018
Both Kevin and Cara are single parents, which is only the beginning of the many parallels and contrasts at the heart of "Dan Cody’s Yacht." Though it might come to seem overly formulaic, b…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:17PMFriday, June 15, 2018
Though A.R. Gurney chose a familiar definition of the theater as the title for his 1992 play, "The Fourth Wall" ultimately proves less about the theater than about its four characters. And a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:59PMFriday, June 1, 2018
The Cast of “Stage Life” (Photo credit: Courtesy of Creative Arts Lab) David Kaufman, Critic As conceived and adapted by Martin Tackel, Stage Life is too ambitious by half. While it atte…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:44AMFriday, May 25, 2018
While director David Mercatali has them continually circling each other like boxers in a ring--sparring emotionally, if not physically--Sophie and Tom never really connect or even touch each…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:06PMFriday, May 18, 2018
While it’s meant to be helpful, a glossary of local jargon ("Operation Crucible" is set in Sheffield, England) in the program is usually a surefire sign that you’re going to have difficu…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:06PMMonday, May 14, 2018
With an enormous painted backdrop depicting London and featuring St. Paul’s Cathedral and a lamppost (the glorious sets have been designed by Michael Yeargan), the musical begins as Covent…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:03PMThursday, May 10, 2018
When Tennessee Williams started writing "Summer and Smoke," his working title for the play was "Chart of Anatomy," taken from a poem by Hart Crane. An anatomical chart becomes one of the ver…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:00PMTuesday, May 8, 2018
After "Ruined" and then last year’s "A Doll’s House, Part 2," Condola Rashad is fast establishing herself as one of our finest young actresses. She is presently back on Broadway, offeri…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:01PMThursday, April 26, 2018
To add that "The Metromaniacs" also contains a play within the play, in which all of the characters are apparently playing themselves, might begin to suggest how confusing it all becomes, es…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:36PMSunday, April 22, 2018
If it seemed like no staging could ever top London’s National Theatre production (which was directed by Nicholas Hytner and came to Lincoln Center in the mid 1990’s), this newer version …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:46PM 
