Wednesday, April 30, 2025
At this vantage point 55 years after its premiere, like the Wilson plays which intentionally cover the previous 100 years, "Ceremonies in Dark Old Men" feels like an historical play wedded t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:32PMTuesday, April 29, 2025
Unfortunately, while the carnival atmosphere in the field above the cave increases, the musical is mostly a waiting game: if and when Floyd Collins will be brought up from the deteriorating …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:31PMSaturday, April 26, 2025
At times the show directed by Stroman seems to be a satire or a parody, while the choreography by Bergasse mostly looks like ersatz Bob Fosse which seems inappropriate for the Marilyn Monroe…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:30PMTuesday, April 22, 2025
The cumulative effect of the four plays is greater than the sum of its parts. The quartet of plays seems to demonstrate Caryl Churchill in a new mode. While the plots are slight, the themes …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:37AMSaturday, April 19, 2025
While Belflower’s play is clever and insightful, it is also contrived and manipulative attempting to shoehorn almost every feminist hot button topic into one story overlaying "The Crucible…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:06AMWednesday, April 16, 2025
However, it is not just the remarkable video design which uses sometimes up to six screens to convey the action of the story plus live action, but we get inside of the head of protagonist Do…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:21PMSaturday, April 12, 2025
The Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ "Purpose" follows on the heels of their magnificently staged "August: Osage County," but unlike that dysfunctional fam…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:41PMFriday, April 11, 2025
Except for a couple of main characters, the people in his life seem to come and go making it a little bit difficult to follow. While the opening of each act is in the form of a Technicolor m…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:11AMMonday, April 7, 2025
If only film star George Clooney and his co-script writer Grant Heslov had hired an actual playwright to adapt their acclaimed screenplay for the 2005 film "Good Night, and Good Luck." for t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:25PMEric Bogosian’s "Humpty Dumpty" was first written 25 years ago and premiered at the McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton, in 2002. At that time the idea of quarantining due to a local or nat…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:44PMMonday, March 31, 2025
While most of the audience will probably not have graduated in the last ten years (though you never know), the play speaks to all of us about the closeness and personal relationships of our …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:45PMThe new musical attempts to out Monty Python "Monty Python" by creating a full-length show and story in their style, although its origins also go back to British Music Hall where there is al…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:51PMFriday, March 28, 2025
The second in the York Theatre’s Spring New2NY series is "Who Is Jimmy Pants?," an entertaining spoof of bio-jukebox musical, a genre that could use some taking down. Presented concert-sty…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:07PMWednesday, March 26, 2025
In fact, the play Harmon has written is mainly about the conflict between the grandmother and the mother. While we are never really certain why Ellen and Susan refuse to be in the same room,…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:22PMSunday, March 23, 2025
The new version by Irish playwright Mark O’Rowe uses contemporary and spare language but has made several events more literal as if not trusting modern audiences. The director has made the…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:44PMWednesday, March 19, 2025
Adam Chanler-Berat, Lauren Marcus, Taylor Iman Jones, Jason Tam and Andy Mientus in a scene from “The Jonathan Larson Project” at the Orpheum Theatre (Photo credit: Joan Marcus) Taylor I…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:46PMSunday, March 16, 2025
Who knew that a biographical play could be so witty, entertaining and charming? The latest EST/Sloan Project science play, Michael Walek’s "Have You Met Jane Goodall and Her Mother?" is on…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:33PMThursday, March 13, 2025
The play moves by unexpected twists and turns which are both amusing and engrossing. We never do find out for certain if Dina is a spy or not. However, she does tell Boubs that she was stati…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:24PMMonday, March 10, 2025
Anna Capunay has attempted to write a family drama in order to influence people to try alternatives to chemo and radiation. Unfortunately, in using her own family story, she has not thought …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:55AMFriday, March 7, 2025
While the characters do not change much, they roll through the years dealing with the various crises with various levels of success. However, the play is peppered with one liners and zingers…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:08PMTuesday, March 4, 2025
The author complicates the issue by bringing in autism (Margot) and Alzheimer’s (the unseen father of Adam 2 and Eve 2.) When asked if she would want her autism cured, Margot answers: “I…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:30PMSunday, March 2, 2025
Arthur Miller has always been our major playwright of moral ambiguity, never more so than in his 1968 drama "The Price," now receiving its first Off Broadway revival. The metaphoric title re…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:28PMFriday, February 28, 2025
While Dickson’s production is elegant and pitch-perfect for its 1914 era, the characterizations are partly satiric and off base. While Daniel Marconi is fine as the designing, unprincipled…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:41PMTuesday, February 25, 2025
Bess Wohl’s latest play is the ambitious and engrossing "Liberation," her attempt to investigate the roots of the Women’s Liberation Movement back in the 1970s from a decidedly contempor…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:10AMTuesday, February 18, 2025
The world premiere of Philip W. Chung’s My Man Kono tells the fascinating but little known true story of Toraichi Kono, chauffeur, valet and private secretary to Charlie Chaplin, who was c…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:19PMSunday, February 16, 2025
Conceived, written and directed by Elizabeth Hess, "No Reservation" is a celebration of "the lost feminine to give voice to all who have been discarded, silenced and overlooked.” The perfo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:12PMSaturday, February 15, 2025
Kristen Sieh and Amelia Workman in a scene from Jordan Harrison’s “The Antiquities” at Playwrights Horizons (Photo credit: Emilio Madrid) Jordan Harrison’s plays like Marjorie Prime …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:09PMThursday, February 13, 2025
Mark Moses and Melissa Gilbert in a scene from Lia Romeo’s “Still” at The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture’s Loreto Theatre (Photo credit Maria Baranova) Lia Romeo’s bittersw…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:51PMSunday, February 9, 2025
The play is not very consistent with life in 1949. It is unlikely that middle class married women cursed, smoked marijuana, quoted Simone de Beauvoir or engaged in affairs with other women. …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:25PMFriday, January 31, 2025
Robin Lord Taylor as Tennessee Williams and Brandon Flynn as Marlon Brando in a scene from Gregg Ostrin’s “Kowalski” at The Duke on 42nd Street (Photo credit: Russ Rowland) Tennessee W…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:15PMTuesday, January 21, 2025
When the audience enters the theater, they are asked to fill out a slip of paper with one word that has been on their mind. Part of the show is made up of audience participation and these sl…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:42PM 
