Thursday, October 3, 2019
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s "The Little Prince" (1943) has been studied, analyzed, and staged as any number of plays, ballets, musicals and an unsuccessful film. So, it was with great in…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:00PMThese four characters are, unfortunately, not interesting enough to fill a 90-minute musical, especially one that covers territory better served by other shows like "A Chorus Line," "Fame" a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:30PMSunday, September 22, 2019
Quite simply, Rubberband, the Montreal-based dance troupe’s season at The Joyce Theater was a spectacular success. Directed by Victor Quijada, Rubberband performed his "Ever So Slightly,…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:54PMSaturday, September 14, 2019
The trouble is Lee’s almost catatonic approach to Gene. He speaks in a toneless monotone and adapts a monolithic physical approach, his hands constantly held stiffly at his sides. When…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:39PMWednesday, September 11, 2019
What raised "The Ringdove" above mere creative story-time theater was the exquisite artwork and detailed performances. The perfect, colorful costumes (by Casey Compton) that evoked everyth…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:04PMFriday, August 23, 2019
Presented at Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater by the China Arts and Entertainment Group Ltd., the company used its impressive resource of dancers in two large-scale ballets: "Godde…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:34PMSunday, August 11, 2019
Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival 2019 presented the lavish, yet somehow intimate, "Under Siege," a stunning production of the Yang Liping Contemporary Dance Company of China.Its chi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:17AMSaturday, August 10, 2019
The Joyce Theater is presenting a two-week Ballet Festival, four programs under the artistic direction of Kevin O’Hare, director of The Royal Ballet. Each program is curated by a differe…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:28PMJoseph Sissens in Sir Frederick Ashton’s “Dance of the Blessed Spirits,” in The Joyce Theater’s Ballet Festival (Program A) (Photo credit: Maria Baranova)The Joyce Theater is present…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:34PMMonday, August 5, 2019
Co-conceived by Asante and Kenrik “H2O” Sandy who choreographed and directed the production, "Blak Whyte Gray" was constructed in two parts and three sections. Part I began with “Why…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:23PMTuesday, July 30, 2019
The title of playwright Dianne Nora’s fascinating new work, "Monica: This Play is Not About Monica Lewinsky," is disingenuous. Is it about you-know-who? Well, yes and no. There were …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:08PMFriday, July 26, 2019
How Freddie resolves his amorous adventures is cleverly handled by Blackstone using an imaginative combination of ballet, modern dance, mime and popular dance forms. The score is made up o…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:57PMThursday, July 18, 2019
Russian-born Maria Kochetkova, the petite ballerina who spent the major portion of her career with the San Francisco Ballet, has turned herself into a small-scale Diaghilev. Her Maria Koch…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:54PM"Six Years Old" is a gem of a play, its facets polished by the director Helen Handelman. Every emotional revelation, no matter how subtle is illuminated by the acting of its four-member ca…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:00PMFriday, July 12, 2019
The world premiere “Sport,” choreographed to more than twenty bits and pieces by Erik Satie, appropriately named “Sports et divertissements” (played by the brilliant pianist Colin Fo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:22PMThursday, July 11, 2019
The second part of the program was a bonanza of Bournonville excerpts, danced to not particularly memorable scores, that worked well even without colorful scenery. The beautiful, colorful …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:10PMWednesday, June 19, 2019
Ukrainian director Rimas Tuminas has led the Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre of Russia in a massacre of Mikhail Lermontov’s 1845 play "Masquerade." Presented by the Cherry Orchard Fest…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:07PMSunday, June 16, 2019
Megan Monaghan Rivas’ gender-bending take on the popular, much-adapted Alexandre Dumas 1844 novel, "The Three Musketeers," moves the action from the 17th century to Paris during World War …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:46PMFriday, June 14, 2019
By placing his ballet in the realm of the high-strung ballroom world, Eifman supplied himself plenty of excuses to make dances that bounced about the stage to his score of a parade of waltze…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:22AMMonday, June 10, 2019
Cohen is clearly an intelligent, well-read man, familiar with the twists and turns of different periods and styles. "Midnight Street" is chock full of ideas, poetic meanderings and some wo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:22PMFriday, May 31, 2019
Michael Mao Dance is celebrating 26 years of presenting Mao’s work and if his recent program at the Ailey Citigroup Theater is any evidence, there is reason to believe he will continue for…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:54AMWednesday, May 29, 2019
Malloy, who wrote the book, music and lyrics, has taken a novel approach, staging Octet as if it were a 12-step program in which all the members of the group express their inner thoughts thr…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:58AMMonday, May 27, 2019
Several songs were from flop shows and given new life by Streisand: “He Touched Me” from "Drat! The Cat!" sung with infectious flirtatiousness by Lianne Marie Dobbs; “Why Did I Choos…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:02PMThe original production of "Curse of the Starving Class" in 1977 was a shocker even for a time when permissiveness prevailed. Kinney seems to have decided that the play Shepard wrote isn�…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:36PMMonday, May 20, 2019
But, fear not! The Encores! creative team—director John Rando, music director, Rob Berman and choreographer Sarah O’Gleby—found a terrific cast led by Michael Urie in the Phil Silver…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:49PMThursday, May 16, 2019
"Pepperland," however, will not do anything for Morris’ reputation as a choreographer. His dearth of choreographic invention—including constant repetition of a few steps, gestures and …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:58PMMonday, May 13, 2019
Ted Chapin, the writer and host of the 92Y Lyrics & Lyricists Series’ "A Beautiful Dawning: Oklahoma! at 75," did an impeccable job creating one of the best editions of this important …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:55PMTuesday, May 7, 2019
Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels still has most of his/her friends and professional acquaintances from the movie version with some new twists: Jeff Slater, his playwright roommate (a wonder…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:03PMFriday, May 3, 2019
It is a well crafted story of a feisty seventy-something Sheila O’Connor (Nora Chester who does feisty beautifully) whose grandson, physician Brian O’Connor (an earnest Jordan Ahnquist),…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:47PMFor all you philosophy junkies out there—and you know who you are—Tim Blake Nelson’s world premiere "Socrates" at The Public Theater, the shining light of The Public’s Onassis Festiv…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:08PMSunday, April 28, 2019
Likability is in short supply nowadays and the three playwright/performers who created this comedy, based on an actual pamphlet handed to Americans during World War II, have spun the dry, in…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:50PM 
