Monday, December 4, 2023
"The Jerusalem Syndrome" is a pleasant new musical comedy with some fine clever songs and good comic moments. However, Don Stephenson’s production does not take the farcical elements far e…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:37PMSunday, December 3, 2023
Michael John LaChiusa’s "The Gardens of Anuncia" is an interesting attempt to tell choreographer Graciela Daniele’s adolescent story. Unfortunately, as of now the show does not make the …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:44PMWednesday, November 29, 2023
"Hell’s Kitchen" is both ambitious and noble in its intentions. However, as of now the show on the stage of The Newman at The Public Theater is not there yet. With very few characters deve…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:43PMSunday, November 26, 2023
Milo Cramer’s delightful solo musical "School Pictures," part of a festival of new one person shows running in repertory at Playwrights Horizons, is wildly inventive, hilarious funny, and …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:58PMSaturday, November 25, 2023
As Kenneth/Kate Marlowe, Wade McCollum not only becomes the character but inhabits it. Required to act as narrator as well as performer in both male and female attire, McCollum is totally co…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:53AMFriday, November 24, 2023
The pairing of Broadway legends Sutton Foster and Kelli O’Hara proved felicitous just like the previous pairing of Julie Andrews and Carol Burnett, with each lady using her special gifts: …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:57PMTuesday, November 21, 2023
Ironically there is no rapport or chemistry between Shannon and Sparks playing friends who have been traveling together for 50 years. As Estragon, in need of sleep and with shoes that don’…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:53PMFriday, November 17, 2023
This being Bedlam famous for its experimental revivals, the second act is handled differently. The audience is asked to leave their seats in the amphitheater and when they return are given o…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:08PMThursday, November 16, 2023
Although playwright Qui Nguyen declared early in his earlier play "Vietgone" that “all characters appearing in this work are fictitious,” in his sequel "Poor Yella Rednecks" now at Manha…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:08PMMonday, November 13, 2023
Philip Roth’s 1995 Rabelaisian novel "Sabbath’s Theater" would seem a strange choice for stage adaptation both as it is considered Roth’s raunchiest – if not filthiest – book and i…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:07PMThursday, November 9, 2023
MasterVoices acquitted itself well in this deliciously comic concert staging of "The Frogs." Why this Stephen Sondheim score is not better known or revived more often remains a mystery after…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:52PMFriday, October 27, 2023
The three plays in the “Meet Miss Baker” Project, "The Price of Thomas Scott" in 2019, "Chains" in 2022 and now "Partnership" in 2023 are quite different. While Partnership is the only o…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:39PMWednesday, October 25, 2023
The subtitle of Patrick Page’s absorbing and informative one-man show "All the Devils Are Here: How Shakespeare Invented the Villain” is an actuate description of the content of his pres…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:11PMSunday, October 22, 2023
Not only is Jeremy Tiang’s "Salesman 之死I" an important document of a classic American play, it is also an illustrative reminder of the cultural differences between China and the United…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:30PMTuesday, October 10, 2023
"Jaja" is quite different from Bioh's other plays in that it is also very revealing about life in NYC for African immigrants. Directed by Whitney White who has piloted several major new Blac…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:51PMSunday, October 8, 2023
Elinor T Vanderburg’s "Bloodspot" is a fascinating attempt to create a film noir play for the stage. The visuals do not live up to the script’s promise, but it remains entertaining and e…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:10PMWednesday, October 4, 2023
The 1968 musical 'Golden Rainbow" (the show that gave us the song sensation “I’ve Gotta Be Me”) was so identified with its stars Steve Lawrence and Edie Gormé that it has not been see…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:37PMMonday, September 25, 2023
Each generation gets its own version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the classic vampire horror story, that possibly reflects its needs of it own time. The latest version now called "Dracula: …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:26PMSaturday, September 23, 2023
From the playing style, as directed by Josiah Davis, the play seems to be a spoof. Unfortunately, it is not funny though the actors cheerfully mug their way through Horwitz’s text as thoug…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:54PMThursday, September 21, 2023
Ever since Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker adapted 'Uncle Vanya" for a 2012 production at the Soho Rep, her plays like "The Flick," "John" and "The Antipodes" have becomes more…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:50PMWednesday, September 20, 2023
Max Wolf Friedlich’s "Job" is as tense as a thriller, as compelling as a psychological drama and as up-to-date as tomorrow’s headlines. As directed by Michael Herwitz, Peter Friedman and…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:53PMFriday, September 8, 2023
Catherine Waller’s one person show, "The Creeps", has all the elements of a successful horror show: a macabre setting, dark lighting, off-beat characters, and strange unexplained going-ons…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:42PMThursday, August 31, 2023
Visually, the show is not as effective as it might have been considering the play usually includes a great deal of magic. Here there is very little in the way of scenic illusions or legerdem…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:27PMTuesday, August 29, 2023
While the misnamed "How to Steal an Election: A Dirty Politics Musical" is no lost masterpiece and at times seems long, it is a diverting political revue which offers an interesting take on …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:30AMThursday, August 24, 2023
Directed by Karen Carpenter, "Pay the Writer" by best-selling novelist Tawni O’Dell is slick and superficial but entertaining and engrossing. The play about the 45 year friendship between …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:01PMMonday, August 21, 2023
Another problem with the play is that although the subject is “Improv” we never actually witness any, just theater games to prepare for group improvs. Games like Mind Meld, Mating Call, …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:42PMWednesday, August 16, 2023
"Back to the Future: The Musical," the time travel adventure, joins a long line of problematic screen to stage musicalizations which do not improve on the originals in any way. Joining the l…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:35PMMonday, August 7, 2023
The family-oriented TheaterWorksUSA’s latest musical adaptation of the best-selling children’s novels of Dev Pilkey is "Cat Kid Comic Club: The Musical," an exuberant colorful one hour i…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:23PMSaturday, August 5, 2023
What appears to be filmmaker Jing Ma’s first stage play, "Wheel of Fortune" is a touching story of a depressed man about to turn 30 and without a job or a girlfriend. His bad luck changes…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:47PMTuesday, August 1, 2023
Whether you follow basketball or not, Candrice Jones’ "Flex" is exciting theater. Actually, the play is not only about women’s high school basketball but also passions, future plans, rom…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:27PMMonday, July 31, 2023
Although Sandy Rustin’s "The Cottage," now arrived at Broadway’s Helen Hayes Theater, bills itself as “A Romantic and (Not Quite) Murderous Comedy of Manners,” it is devoid of the tw…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:30PM 
