Sunday, January 21, 2018
Kyoung H. Park's "Pillowtalk" mixes the mysteries of passionate, but flawed, love with the realities of racism in today’s society, specifically, Brooklyn, New York, where Sam (Basit Shit…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:49PMSaturday, January 13, 2018
Yazbek’s songs—ranging from the darkly comic “Welcome to Nowhere” (sung by the town folk) to Dina’s romantically tinged “Omar Sharif” and ending with the upbeat, danceable “C…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:30PMMonday, January 8, 2018
The famous Chinese ability to subsume themselves in crowds was evident in the flowing choreography for the mass “flight” of the Ibis across the stage. The precision of the corps de bal…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:21AMThursday, December 28, 2017
Fairchild speaks well and communicates much with his physique, but his choreography is repetitive and uninventive. Here was a chance to breathe new life into a too familiar character. Al…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:48AMSaturday, December 23, 2017
The middle work, “Walking Mad,” choreographed by the Swede, Johan Inger, has inadvertently taken on an urgency and timeliness. Always a surreal study of off-handed violence, the curren…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:19PMSunday, December 17, 2017
Despite a brilliant display of achingly detailed acting—reason enough for connoisseurs of acting to rush to this production directed by James Macdonald—its uneasy blend of a frightening …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:07PMSaturday, December 2, 2017
In “Lines,” the videos were straightforward representations of Mr. Selden, clad in a loose-fitting red outfit, pausing his image in dramatic moments while in the second work, “Untransl…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:07PMTuesday, November 28, 2017
This time Gotheiner put his dancers through a faux competition that fell in mood somewhere between "Dancing with the Stars' and "Shark Tank," combining eager striving with off-handed sadism.…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:09PMSaturday, November 25, 2017
Big Dance Theater, conceived and directed by Annie-B Parson, presented "17c" at the BAM Harvey Theater. The work somehow combined the diary of Englishman, Samuel Pepys, the works of Margar…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:14PMTuesday, November 14, 2017
Guirgis and Brokaw manage to find the back-handed humor and pathos of this scene which sets the mood for a profane and scatological play that hits the audience between the eyes with its fres…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:30PMThursday, November 9, 2017
Hanging over this presentation is, as indicated, the film which divides the audience into those who did not see it and must take or leave Bourne’s clever version and those who saw it and c…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:19PMSaturday, November 4, 2017
The Wallenda family’s act is the climax of a show that is held together by Ringmaster Ty McFarlan and the ongoing antics of Grandma the Clown and Joel Jeske aka Mr. Joel. The big-voiced …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:53PMSunday, October 29, 2017
During the jam-packed ninety minutes of "This One’s For the Girls," the foursome run through a batch of songs that show the ups and downs of the last one hundred or so years through the ey…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:51PMTuesday, October 24, 2017
Martha Graham called her dancers “athletes of God.” Watching David Greenspan perform all the roles in a six-hour marathon performance of Eugene O’Neill’s 1928 melodrama, Strange In…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:30PMMonday, October 23, 2017
The highlight of the program was watching the world-renowned premier danseur David Hallberg perform a work specially commissioned for him by Fall for Dance. Mark Morris, the equally famous…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:04AMWednesday, October 18, 2017
Ruth Sullivan, Allison Threadgold and Patrick Hamilton in a scene from “Tomorrow in the Battle” (Photo credit: George McClintock) Joel Benjamin, Critic The flier for Kieron Barry’s dr…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:14PMTuesday, October 10, 2017
Michelle Dorrance, this troupe’s director, has become a force in tap dance because she understands both its legacy and its future. She played Pied Piper to a large troupe of very talented …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:29PMSaturday, October 7, 2017
Each was asked about their first audition. Marilyn D’Honau couldn’t remember, although she clearly made an impression on Robbins who subsequently used her in "Gypsy." Tony Mordente, just…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:42PMIngvartsen has a record of intellectualizing her work taking all the juice out of them in the process. "7 Pleasures"—a misnomer if there ever was one—takes her dry, over thinking to the …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:13PMTuesday, October 3, 2017
Twyla Tharp (Photo credit: Robert Whitman) Joel Benjamin, Critic “The more things change, the more they stay the same,” goes the old French proverb. That describes the Twyla Tharp Danc…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:05AMMonday, October 2, 2017
Having spent nearly five hours in the company of Ms. Parks’ parade of these beautifully written characters I find myself conflicted about these plays. She is brilliant at generating fire w…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:11PMFriday, September 29, 2017
Faustin Linyekula in a scene from “In Search of Dinozord” (Photo credit: Agathe Poupeney) Joel Benjamin, Critic It takes chutzpah—or artlessness—to begin a show with five minutes of …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:48PMTuesday, September 19, 2017
Disguised as a snazzy cabaret act, set against constantly projected images from a sleazy Eighties public access talent show—from which the show’s title is derived—the short, intense pe…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:55PMTuesday, September 12, 2017
On a multi-tiered set that takes advantage of every square inch of the tiny Medicine Show Theatre—designed by the authors—Ms. Kostek narrated Dietrich’s life story, from middle class c…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:56PMMs. Grossman tended toward overuse repetition of movements and arm gestures. Emotional states were supported by little else than the titles and her husband’s gemlike scores. “No Words,�…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:14PMThursday, September 7, 2017
The title comes from T.S. Eliot’s "The Hollow Men," the one that famously includes the line: “This is the way the world ends/Not with a bang but a whimper” - which is exactly how Falls…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:09PMWednesday, August 23, 2017
Nora Sørena Casey’s "False Stars," part of this year’s Corkscrew Festival at the Paradise Factory, starts slowly but gradually grows more involving as all the interconnections between t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:36PMMonday, August 21, 2017
Projected titles indicate place and year—beginning with Arles, 1888 and progressing until van Gogh’s suicide—which we hear as an offstage gunshot—in July of 1890. The audience is tre…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:31PMSaturday, August 19, 2017
The songs never come up to the title song made famous by Marlene Dietrich who’s mentioned several times during the play. Antin’s attempt at playful seduction, “Take Me Home Tonight,”…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:41PMWatching Evans being bossed around by the tall beanpole Russel Norris, whether in an office job, cleaning a park or waiting on tables, was to watch classic comedy performed with brilliant, b…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:43PMTuesday, August 15, 2017
Antyon LeMonte, Honey Davenport, Jay Knowles and Kevin Aviance in a scene from “Trinkets” (Photo credit: Lola Flash) Joel Benjamin, Critic In an era where RuPaul has turned drag/cross-dr…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:11AM 
