Saturday, January 31, 2026
Mathew Libby’s riveting "DATA" is drawn from tomorrow’s headlines – or is this frightening story depicting events that are already happening? As directed by Tyne Rafaeli, this techno-t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:04AMWednesday, January 28, 2026
Watching these creative people misbehave is part of the fun though a great deal must be taken on faith: Julie’s tremendous talent, Raf’s inordinate fame and highly emotional depth, Ben�…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:27PMSunday, January 25, 2026
Eric Faris’ "Cimino’s Defeat" seems under researched while attempting to make a play from a few salient facts. At times the play seems endless, at others repetitious with all the argumen…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:01PMThursday, January 22, 2026
Seen first Off Broadway in 2004, Tracy Lett’s "Bug" has now reached Broadway via the Steppenwolf Theatre Company production being presented by Manhattan Theatre Club. While "Bug" has the r…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:59PMSunday, January 18, 2026
Hailey McAfee in a scene from Rosie Glen-Lambert and McAfee’s “and her Children” at SoHo Playhouse (Photo credit: courtesy of the production) Plays tend not to offer unsympathetic prot…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:42PMSaturday, January 17, 2026
Legendary composer Burt Bacharach died in 2023 and it has taken until now for there to be a fitting stage tribute to his 1,000 song output (mainly written with lyricist Hal David) which incl…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:10PMWednesday, January 14, 2026
While ABBA’s "Chess" is receiving its first revival on Broadway, a delightful new musical about chess has come to Off Broadway’s Players Theatre. "The Opening," billed as “The Second M…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:47PMSunday, December 28, 2025
However, where the Peter Weir film used magical lighting and the atmosphere of the actual filming at Hanging Rock to recreate a mystical, supernatural feeling, the musical instead adds songs…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:07PMWednesday, December 24, 2025
MOMIX’s "Alice" returns to the Joyce Theater for the first time since its 2022 premiere and continues to dazzle in its inimitable way with illusion and dance. Choreographer Moses Pendleton…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:05PMSunday, December 21, 2025
Albert Rhodes, Jr. and Joyce DiDonato in a scene from the Lincoln Center Theater and the Metropolitan Opera production of Gian Carlo Menotti’s “Amahl and the Night Visitors” at the Mit…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:15PMSaturday, December 20, 2025
Michelle Williams and Tom Sturridge in a scene from Eugene O’Neill’s “Anna Christie” at St. Ann’s Warehouse (Photo credit: Julieta Cervantes) Successful plays of one era tend to da…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:19PMFriday, December 19, 2025
"Gotta Dance!" is a hugely entertaining revue of dance in the American musical recreating icon moments from 17 Broadway shows including four that started life as MGM movies starring Gene Kel…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:42PMSunday, December 14, 2025
Icke’s version avoids the religious and ethical themes of the original but instead makes it a riveting thriller as the tension rises to almost unbearable heights – even if you know the o…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:40PMAccording to the author’s note, he wrote the play to acquaint theatergoers with the “forgotten war” in Sudan. Unfortunately, as there is no backstory for the leading character the Suda…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:52PMTuesday, December 9, 2025
This World of Tomorrow resembles the films "Back to the Future" (Bert cannot risk changing anything), "Groundhog Day" for its repetition of the same events, and "You’ve Got Mail" in which …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:58PMFriday, December 5, 2025
Talene Yeghisabet Monahon’s new play "Meet the Cartozians," being presented by The Second Stage at The Pershing Square Signature Center, is simply the best new American play in New York th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:21PMThursday, December 4, 2025
With a three-hour running time (the first act runs two hours straight without an intermission) the play is too long for its repetitiousness having the actors go over the same theater games a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:38PMSunday, November 30, 2025
The film version starring Burt Lancaster as sleazy yet powerful gossip columnist J.J. Hunsecker (similar to the notorious Walter Winchell) and Tony Curtis as hungry press agent protégé Sid…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:53PMWednesday, November 26, 2025
Unlike J.T. Rogers’ Tony Award-winning "Oslo" which handled similar material about the secret Oslo Peace Accord conference, "Kyoto" by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson makes little concession …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:59PMMichael Lepore as the Telegram Boy, Micaela Diamond as Sabina, Ruthie Ann Miles as Mrs. Antrobus, Geena Quintos as the Mammoth and David Ryan Smith as the Dinosaur in a scene from Ethan Lipt…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:06AMTuesday, November 25, 2025
If you know the play, you many have trouble following it as several actors double: Ron Canada plays both John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (Richard’s uncle and Henry Bolingbroke’s father)…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:58PMMonday, November 24, 2025
Patrick Page (back row) and Jason Sanchez, Adrien Rolet and Jake Berne (front row) in a scene from the Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of Rajiv Joseph’s “Archduke” at the Lau…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:20PMFriday, November 21, 2025
Tom Pecinka and Marianne Rendón in a scene from Anne Washburn’s “The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire” at The Vineyard Theatre (Photo credit: Carol Rosegg) Playwright Anne Washburn who …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:34PMWednesday, November 19, 2025
"Saturday Night Live" has made political satire look easy and has a lot to answer for. "44 – The Musical" written, composed and directed by Eli Bauman, who worked on the Obama campaign in …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:45PMTuesday, November 18, 2025
Schiff’s book so slavishly follows her screenplay without adding new material that there is nothing much to wait for. The lyrics by Sanford and Jay alternate between not scanning and extre…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:38PMThursday, November 13, 2025
In their latest, Shaw’s ever-popular "Pygmalion," Staller has staged Shaw’s never-used prologue created for the 1938 film version which has the gods and goddesses on Mt. Olympus recount …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:48PMTuesday, November 11, 2025
"Reunions" is a charming new Edwardian musical made up of two classic one- act plays: James M. Barrie’s 1910 “The Twelve-Pound Look” and the Quintero Brothers’ 1901 “A Sunny Mornin…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:57PMSunday, November 9, 2025
Kristolyn Lloyd, Adina Verson, Betsy Aidem and Audrey Corsa in a scene from the Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of Bess Wohl’s “Liberation” at the James Earl Jones Theatre (P…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:49PMSaturday, November 8, 2025
Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Martyna Majok, who has specialized in plays about the immigrant experience like Ironbound and Sanctuary City, has revised her play Queens first seen at the …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:45PMWednesday, November 5, 2025
James Corden, Neil Patrick Harris and Bobby Cannavale in a scene from Yasmina Reza’s “Art” at the Music Box Theatre (Photo credit: Matthew Murphy) Yasmina Reza’s Art which is turning…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:07PMFriday, October 31, 2025
"Oh Happy Day!" demonstrates an advance of technique over Cooper’s eight-scene sketch evening in "Ain’t No Mo’." However, the new play is much too talky and seems to cover some of the …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:24PM 
