Monday, April 15, 2024
Nelson Diaz-Marcano’s "Las Borinqueñas," the latest play in the Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Science and Technology Project, has a fascinating, little known stor…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:59PMSaturday, April 13, 2024
On April 10, 2024, Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center presented a tantalizing teaser of a musical evening with the world premiere workshop of only the first act of 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winni…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:09PMFriday, April 12, 2024
Aside from its attempt to cover too much at one time (drug addiction, pregnancy, incarceration, high school dropouts, gun violence, lack of health care, underfunded ghetto schools), "Fish" d…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:17AMMonday, April 8, 2024
Playwright/bookwriter Rick Elice has written the greatest jukebox musical (so far) in his 2005 Jersey Boys. In his adaptation of Sara Gruen’s bestselling novel Water for Elephants, he may …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:36PMThursday, April 4, 2024
While the characters age, the use of diversity here has them switch races, so that while one couple has a Black Allie and a white Noah, another has a white Allie and a Black Noah, as well as…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:06PMSunday, March 31, 2024
The concept of alternate facts was not created under the Trump Administration. In 1882 Henrik Ibsen wrote "An Enemy of the People" in which a medical report that a town’s new spa is pollut…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:58PMSaturday, March 30, 2024
In this tour de force, Izzard has come up with a different voice and stance for each character: King Claudius is a baritone, Lord Polonius has a limp, Lady Ophelia has a somewhat breathy spe…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:33AMThursday, March 28, 2024
Playwright J.T. Rogers ("Oslo", 2017 Tony Award for Best Play) specializes in dramatizing the backstories to true scandals of which the real details behind the facts never made the news. His…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:57AMThursday, March 21, 2024
While "Illinoise" does not seem bigger than its individual parts nor transcend them, it is both satisfying and moving. Peck’s inventive and derivative choreography at the same time seems t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:53PMWednesday, March 20, 2024
Soutra Gilmour’s setting is a sort of empty runway with the audience sitting on either side. The other props are two black chairs at either end for the two doctors. Scenes are created enti…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:07PMSunday, March 17, 2024
The play is treated like a rehearsal (a conceit also used by Bedlam in their incomprehensible and lame "Henry IV" workshop in Brooklyn in 2023) with the director (Andrew Rothenberg who also …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:54PMSunday, March 10, 2024
Itamar Moses’ 'The Ally" is a play of ideas not only torn from today’s headlines but tomorrow’s as well. Ostensibly dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian question on college campuses to…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:42PMSaturday, March 9, 2024
John Patrick Shanley has become our poet of lonely, desperate working class people trying to make a connection despite their inadequacies and hang-ups in such plays as "Danny and the Deep Bl…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:53PMMonday, March 4, 2024
Playwright Joyce Griffen’s idea of farce in her new play "The Script in the Closet" is a series of 48, mostly very short scenes in which to keep the plot going she continually introduces n…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:50PMThursday, February 29, 2024
While "The Seven Year Disappear" may challenge and confuse many theatergoers, people used to performance art may get the in-jokes. Jordan Seavey whose play "Homos, or Everyone in America" wa…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:08PMTuesday, February 27, 2024
While we could use a good murder mystery stage play, "Deadly Stages" is too derivative to suit the bill. The cast work hard mostly playing multiple roles, but the play seems to have attempte…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:47PMSunday, February 25, 2024
When she arrives dressed in a white pant suit, Labeija steals the stage with Hillary’s number “Miss Me Now” which trumps them all with a series of Broadway parodies paying tribute to C…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:46PMMonday, February 19, 2024
At the performance under review, part of the audience found the show hilariously funny, while others proverbially sat on their hands. The show makes use of history, parody, satire, burlesque…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:47PMSaturday, February 17, 2024
Inspired by 20th century film and video games based on the classic Chinese novel of the 15th century, 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms," Damon Chua’s delightful and engrossing "Warrior Siste…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:51PMFriday, February 16, 2024
Unfortunately, at 70 minutes the play seems skimpy. Structured in a great many short scenes, only one thing happens in each, so that there is a sameness to it all. Basically a two character …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:53PMThursday, February 15, 2024
Like its unwieldy title, Corinne Jaber’s "Munich Medea: Happy Family" takes its time getting where it is going but is ultimately powerful and revealing in its almost unspeakable tale. It d…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:51PMTuesday, February 13, 2024
Sarah Gancher’s "Russian Troll Farm: A Workplace Comedy" is seemingly torn from the headlines - if this were the lead-up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election which pitted Hillary Clinton…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:41PMWednesday, February 7, 2024
Although written and directed by Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone of 600 Highwaymen, "The Following Evening" is a tribute and a summing up of the 50 year career and marriage of experim…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:14PMSaturday, February 3, 2024
The play is best at its mysteries which are only slowly revealed. However, audience members may be confused part of the time as to the sequence of events and the relationships. A great deal …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:46AMSunday, January 28, 2024
The title of Michael Aguirre’s "The Greatest Hits Down Route 66," the story of the Franco family’s road trip during the summer of 1999, refers to Carl Sandburg’s 1927 "The American Son…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:20PMFriday, January 26, 2024
Tadeusz Slobodzianek’s "Our Class" is epic in its storytelling and shocking in its specifics. At three hours, the play is never long or boring as every line of dialogue offers new details …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:58PMTuesday, January 23, 2024
While “Pride” has come to stand for Gay Liberation in contemporary times, Beatrice has named her house after Jane Austen’s novel as it is made clear when she names her new guesthouse �…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:44AMWednesday, January 10, 2024
Not only is Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ "Appropriate" a classic American family drama with a new wrinkle, it is also a trenchant and scorching look at American racism which is just under the s…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:58PMMonday, January 8, 2024
Aside from the title not being explained, the Jean Graham-Jones translation seems to end very abruptly. Nothing is settled at the end of its short running time and it certainly feels like mo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:43PMWednesday, December 27, 2023
Joy filled Carnegie Hall with The New York Pops’ annual two-night Christmas concert entitled "The Best Christmas of All" led by genial host, music director and conductor Steven Reineke. Th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:04PMTuesday, December 26, 2023
The latest Tennessee Williams revival is the first major New York staging of "The Night of the Iguana" since Roundabout Theatre’s 1996 production. Emily Mann’s version with a great many …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:19PM 
