Thursday, September 18, 2014
Fortunately for the production budget of “The Wayside Inn,” all the rooms in the play’s eponymous motel are laid out the same, which allows several character studies to play out on the…
SOURCE: sceneonstage.com at 03:47PMSunday, September 14, 2014
Nominations are now being accepted for the 2015 Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Awards, recognizing the work of inspiring teachers, living or deceased, from across the U.S. for the fi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:34PMMonday, August 25, 2014
I feel about Theresa Rebeck’s plays the same as I do about Woody Allen’s movies: the good ones are really good and even the minor ones are very much worth seeing. Rebeck’s distinctive …
SOURCE: sceneonstage.com at 03:45PMThursday, August 14, 2014
"Stage Fright," a new film musical combination of "Glee" and "Scream," will digitally release an original motion picture soundtrack – featuring performanc…
SOURCE: Playbill at 07:13PMMonday, August 11, 2014
My Shakespeare-scholar friend dislikes the term “accessible” to describe productions that de-mystify some of the more complex texts. That judgment, he believes, is condescending or at le…
SOURCE: sceneonstage.com at 01:31PMTuesday, August 5, 2014
In Theatre of the Absurd (capital A), accepted stage conventions are largely abandoned in order to present a view of the world as meaningless and incomprehensible. Robert Caisley’s “Luck…
SOURCE: sceneonstage.com at 11:54AMWednesday, July 30, 2014
Summer, 1986. A young Navy lawyer is assigned to defend two Marines who killed a fellow Marine during a hazing (Code Red) incident at Gitmo, the Marine Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. For re…
SOURCE: sceneonstage.com at 10:03PMTuesday, July 22, 2014
Where else in NYC would a struggling author meet an aspiring actress except in the bar where she works and where he hunkers down at a high-top and tries to write. That’s the spin director …
SOURCE: sceneonstage.com at 11:59AMFriday, July 18, 2014
Producers announced that the Off-Broadway revival of the Bill Russell-Frank Kelly-Albert Evans musical Pageant, which opened July 14 after previews that began June 29, will extend through Se…
SOURCE: Playbill at 06:34PMTuesday, July 15, 2014
Let’s separate the play from the production. “Grease” isn’t much of a play, but once you get past the mindless plot, the shallow characters and the questionable moral (there’s no v…
SOURCE: sceneonstage.com at 10:56PMTuesday, July 8, 2014
Once could be a fluke, twice a coincidence. But when a company consistently transforms old plays by obscure authors – or obscure plays by old authors – into instant classics, it’s …
SOURCE: sceneonstage.com at 03:20PMMonday, June 30, 2014
Rarely has a slice of history been as entertainingly – and accurately – portrayed as in “Butler,” Richard Strand’s world-premiere play at New Jersey Repertory Company. The characte…
SOURCE: sceneonstage.com at 04:12PMFriday, June 27, 2014
Director Liesl Tommy brings a new, modern-dress, immersive production of the hit international musical Les Misérables to the Dallas Theater Center beginning June 27. A host of Broadwa…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThursday, June 26, 2014
[June 16-23 marked my annual pilgrimage to the Stratford and Shaw Festivals in Ontario. Comments on plays seen at Stratford are posted below. Shaw follows soon.] Colm Feore and Donna Feore a…
SOURCE: sceneonstage.com at 11:50PMActor Shia LaBeouf, who very publicly exited the Broadway bow of Lyle Kessler's Orphans, also exited the June 26 performance of Broadway's Cabaret — in handcuffs — Rounda…
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:29PMTuesday, June 10, 2014
I remember seeing “Third” at Lincoln Center in 2006, but I had forgotten some of the play’s key elements: the ending, for one, which is as tidy a resolutio…
SOURCE: sceneonstage.com at 11:56AMMonday, June 2, 2014
The new comedy Under My Skin — written by Robert Sternin and Prudence Fraser, the creative forces behind "The Nanny" and "Who’s The Boss?" — will end it…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:06PM How would you like to spend an hour-and-a-half in a theatrical legend’s living room while he reminisces and reprises highlights from his career, spanning vaudeville, stage a…
SOURCE: sceneonstage.com at 11:11AMThursday, May 15, 2014
The 68th annual American Theater Wing’s Tony Awards will be presented on Sunday evening June 8, telecast live, as usual, by CBS. Also as usual, there are some closely …
SOURCE: sceneonstage.com at 03:00PMMonday, May 12, 2014
Show us a scene from Shakespeare in a silent video no more than 60 seconds long and you
could win two tickets to Deafinitely Theatre's production of A
Midsummer Night's Dream at Shakesp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PMTuesday, April 29, 2014
Lee Blessing has written some 35 plays since “The Real Billy the Kid” in 1975. The first one I saw was “Cobb.” Co-produced off-Broadway by Kevin Spacey in 2001, …
SOURCE: sceneonstage.com at 10:18AMThursday, April 24, 2014
It’s déjà vu all over again. “Cabaret” is back, with Alan Cumming as the epicene Master of Ceremonies, and overseen once again by 1998 director Sam Mendes and co-d…
SOURCE: sceneonstage.com at 03:21PMTuesday, April 15, 2014
A review of “Trouble in Mind,” on stage at Two River Theater, could begin by praising artistic director John Dias for resurrecting the play by African-American playw…
SOURCE: sceneonstage.com at 11:10AMWednesday, April 9, 2014
A Raisin in the Sun is set firmly in its time (1950s) and place (inner-city Chicago), but it transcends those restrictions in its depiction of a family in crisis. The pa…
SOURCE: sceneonstage.com at 11:20PMTuesday, April 1, 2014
On February 17, 1673, during a production of his final play, Le Malade Imaginaire (“The Imaginary Invalid”), Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, better known as Molière, suffering from pulmonary …
SOURCE: sceneonstage.com at 11:28AMSunday, March 23, 2014
“Kung Fu,” David Henry Hwang’s Bruce Lee bio-play at the Signature Theatre complex on West 42nd Street, traces Lee’s emergence from a martial-arts teacher in Hollywood to a sup…
SOURCE: sceneonstage.com at 03:45PMTuesday, March 11, 2014
“Bridges” in NYC: It’s 1965 in Winterset, Iowa. Italian war bride Francesca Johnson is home alone while her husband and teen-aged children are showing their prize pig at the Stat…
SOURCE: sceneonstage.com at 11:02AMTuesday, March 4, 2014
THE PLAY: My liberal social and political values are firm, but even I was taken aback to see, in the “Pinkolandia” montage of purported “fascists” Nixon, Reagan an…
SOURCE: sceneonstage.com at 11:52AMTuesday, February 4, 2014
Anyone who doubts Two River Theater Company’s commitment to the Red Bank community should try to get a ticket to one of the “As You Like It” student matinees. They…
SOURCE: sceneonstage.com at 02:22PMMonday, January 27, 2014
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical is like the little girl with the curl. When it’s good it’s very good and when it falters it’s…well, not so good. The difference li…
SOURCE: sceneonstage.com at 04:24PMTuesday, January 21, 2014
It’s all too common for inept directors and/or actors to turn a really good play into a disappointing theater experience. Think about some of the Shakespeare you’ve …
SOURCE: sceneonstage.com at 03:22PM 
