Friday, January 10, 2025
Charlotte Bennett directs an exquisite cast of three in an exploration of these themes. Nicole Sawyerr solidly leads the ensemble in the lead role of Abigail Waller, a working-class playwrig…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:04PMMonday, December 23, 2024
There are a number of problems with these vignettes, ranging from the individual characterizations of the men involved to the superficial nature of the historical details of the events being…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:59PMSaturday, December 14, 2024
Sarah Blush directs a cast of five in the story of a father and daughter on a road trip from New York City to a storage unit in California. It is a trip that is both se in the present and pa…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:52PMSaturday, November 30, 2024
"Welcome to The Big Dipper" is a musical comedy with music and lyrics by Jimmy Roberts and a book by Catherine Filloux and John Daggett (inspired by the play "All Dressed Up and Nowhere to G…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:28AMSaturday, November 23, 2024
"Woman on a Ledge" is an adaptation by Hershey Felder of harpist Rita Costanzi’s writings about her life. Ms. Costanzi is a world-renowned harpist whose life experiences have been woven in…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:50PMAko's portrayal of Izumo no Okuni combines traditional Japanese dance movements with Western-style acting. The nature of the script limits the impact of her performance. The dialogue is simp…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:31PMFriday, November 15, 2024
"Café Utopia" by Gwen Kingston and directed by Ashley Olive Teague tells the tale of a juice bar that, on the surface, appears to be socially progressive, but behind the scenes, is a differ…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:41PMTuesday, November 12, 2024
Haller has created a world where robots have conquered all of humanity through the ability to copy, with precision, the technical aspects of a functional society. The lack of understanding o…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:05PMSunday, November 3, 2024
Fisher directs a solid ensemble through a production of "Medea" that is a spoof of a college production with a gay man in the role of Jason and a feminist as Medea. It takes place from the l…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:44PMWednesday, October 30, 2024
"Rawshock" is a powerful, insightful, compelling play that lays bare the craven manipulation of corporate healthcare in the name of profits. It is beautifully written by Rita Lewis and super…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:47PMSunday, October 20, 2024
The story weaves together the group's history with flashbacks to their childhood, high school years, and a time immediately after college. It is a show that tries to cover too much territory…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:26PMSaturday, October 12, 2024
Welcome to 'Lakeplay," a character study-play written by Drew Valins and directed by Hamilton Clancy. It is billed as “a terrifying adventure” but does not live up to that description. T…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:36PMWednesday, October 2, 2024
"Dickhead," written by Gil Kofman and directed by Richard Caliban, is a story about the patriarch of a dysfunctional family in the midst of a near-total disintegration. The action is centere…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:22PMThursday, September 26, 2024
"Honor," a one-act play, written and superbly directed by T.J. Elliott, explores the conceptual nuances of “honor” within the context of a corporate investigation into a case of harassme…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:41PMSaturday, September 21, 2024
This adaptation, directed by John Hickok, uses the Fitzgerald story as a counterpoint to a tale of a couple caught in the legal vagaries of the United States and Canadian immigration laws. T…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:23PMSaturday, September 14, 2024
"In Search of Elaina" is a story by Kara Ayn Napolitano that digs into the weeds of a remembered past. It explores what happens when the life left behind catches up and crashes into the care…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:56PMFriday, September 6, 2024
Although meaningful dialogue is written in iambic pentameter, not all text is so structured. There is a skill in delivering lines within the structure of iambic pentameter, but it is equally…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:01PMMonday, August 12, 2024
"Odd Man Out" takes what is essentially a radio drama and puts the audience within the physical context of the story. You can hear the characters moving. You can smell the flowers in the gar…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:48PMSunday, August 4, 2024
The cast does a beautiful job interpreting their characters. Watson plays Reynaldo as an anxious, emotionally fragile person ready to fulfill their employer's slightest request. Moore imbues…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:54PMWednesday, July 31, 2024
"It’s Not What It Looks Like," is a two-hander, written by John Collins in collaboration with Chesney Mitchell. It is the winner of the 2023 Soho Playhouse Lighthouse Series competition fo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:17PMSaturday, July 20, 2024
A Hundred Circling Camps, written by Sam Collier and superbly directed by Rebecca Wear, is a story based on the "Bonus March" of 1932. It is more than a play about a historical event. It is …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:03PMWednesday, July 17, 2024
"Bill’s 44th" is a story of loneliness told within the context of a birthday celebration. It is a wordless puppet show for grown-ups created and presented by Dorothy James and Andy Manjuck…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:12PMWednesday, July 3, 2024
"A Man Among Ye" is episodic, with flashbacks and confusing dialogue. It is filled with sword fights, sea shanties, revenge plots, mermaids, witches, and mythical creatures. As a highly styl…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:29PMSunday, June 30, 2024
"cunnicularii," beautifully written by Sophie McIntosh and sensitively directed by Nina Goodheart, is a fantasy that deals with many of the adjustments in attitudes and perspectives encounte…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:00PMTuesday, June 25, 2024
"Isabel" is a story written by reid tang and directed by Kedian Keohan. It uses various stylistic techniques to tell the story of a trans sibling relationship. It has elements of dark comedy…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:18PMWednesday, June 19, 2024
"The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century" is a tone-poem play adapted by Lauren Holmes and Jaclyn Biskup from a novel of the same name by Danish poet and novelist Olga Ravn (tra…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:50PMFriday, June 14, 2024
"Push Party" is a story by Nia Akilah Robinson that reaches into the supportive community spirit that celebrates a woman’s status as a mother, independent of a child or children. It is a s…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:29PMTuesday, June 4, 2024
This is the story of Claudia Bernardi, a visual artist and activist, as told in a one-woman show, "How to Eat an Orange." It tells of Bernardi’s time growing up in Argentina in the profoun…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:59PMFriday, May 24, 2024
When it comes to coffee klatches, wine seems to be a good substitute, or at least that is the case with the women in "Winesday: The Wind Tasting Musical," with book and lyrics by Jenne Wason…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:55PMTuesday, May 21, 2024
'My True Love: A Perfect Musical Fairytale" is a musical fairy tale, written by Ben Boecker, about the choices made when the world is a place of dreams. Solid direction by Carolyn Popadin gu…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:50PMWednesday, May 15, 2024
If the play's goal is to pay homage to Wright, it misses the mark for most audiences. If one is unfamiliar with Wright, most of the symbols revealed in the play will not be understood in ter…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:41PM 
