Sunday, 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 11:24PMThursday, October 30, 2025
Mark Leiren-Young’s timely one-man show, "Playing Shylock" (formerly called simply "Shylock"), has arrived in New York after its premiere run in Toronto in its new version rewritten around…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:29PMMonday, October 27, 2025
While Broadway was once filled with plays like this a generation or two ago, "Art of Leaving" now seems very dated. It would have been more believable set back in an earlier decade. Matt Geh…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:13AMSunday, October 26, 2025
The fourth evening of one-act plays by Academy Award-winning screenwriter and director Ethan Coen is coyly called "Let’s Love!," when by rights it should be called "Let’s Have Sex!" In t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:37PMSaturday, October 25, 2025
Although William Spatz’s "Truman vs. Israel" depicts a fictional encounter between former President Truman and lawyer and later first Jewish woman congresswoman Bella Abzug in 1953, the pl…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:21PMWednesday, October 22, 2025
Samuel Adams as Moritz Weissmann and Ella Stevens as Lexa Kluger in a scene from the Mint Theater Company’s production of the American premiere of Sally Carson’s “Crooked Cross” at T…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:30PMSaturday, October 18, 2025
Comedian and actor John Leguizamo’s "The Other Americans," his first full-length and full-cast play, aside from his satiric one-person shows, is making its Off Broadway debut and proves to…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:25PMFriday, October 17, 2025
The Limón Dance Company is celebrating the start of its 80th Anniversary season with a triple bill at The Joyce Theater which in words of artistic director Dante Puleio celebrates “where …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:57PMSunday, October 12, 2025
The style and tone of "re the Bennet Girls Ok?" has been updated to contemporary language with the women using “like” and multiple curse words including the F-bomb so that although we se…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:56PMSaturday, October 11, 2025
As a playwright Tim Blake Nelson has always been interested in moral and ethical problems in such play as "The Grey Zone," "Eye of God" and "Socrates." His latest play "And Then We Were No M…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:46PMSunday, October 5, 2025
Although the advance press materials suggest that Ali Keller’s "(un)conditional," the 2024 Lighthouse Series winner at SoHo Playhouse, is about wife swapping, it is, in fact, about two cou…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:51PMThursday, October 2, 2025
Actors and musicians Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson have written a dynamic, exciting new two-character hip-hop musical in "Mexodus," a telling of the little known story of the Undergrou…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:33PMSaturday, September 27, 2025
You may recall that on January 13, 2018, Hawaii residents including tourists received an alert that a ballistic missile had been spotted on the way to the islands. You may also recall that i…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:52PM 
