Wednesday, December 1, 2021
Playwright John Patrick Shanley has said in interviews that his latest play "Candlelight" is a new departure for him. Described as “A Nuyorican comic romantic tragedy covered with magic an…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:42PMTuesday, November 30, 2021
Directed by playwright Mark Shanahan, A Sherlock Carol offers six actors playing 23 roles in this entertaining new adaptation. In the iconic role of Sherlock Holmes with so much history behi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:19PMSaturday, November 27, 2021
All of us are probably aware of the problems of polluted water in Flint, Michigan, owing to civic neglect. However, it might shock you to know that it is still going on. Erika Dickerson-Desp…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:37PMTuesday, November 23, 2021
The Red Bull Theater production of Ben Jonson’s "The Alchemist" will most likely introduce a new generation to this classic Jacobean comedy in a form that most will be able to follow due t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:18PMSunday, November 21, 2021
If Alice Childress’ 1955 Off Broadway hit, "Trouble in Mind," had transferred to Broadway in 1957 as it was scheduled to do, it would have been the first play by a Black playwright to reac…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:55PMThursday, November 18, 2021
As always in a John Doyle presentation, the production is professional, polished and accomplished. This time around he has not made changes to the script or the score except to include the c…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:27PMTuesday, November 16, 2021
The writers seem afraid to state what the story is all about, the word gay being mentioned exactly once. At two hours and 15 minutes including one intermission, today’s audience is way ahe…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:04PMDan Wackerman’s revival for The Peccadillo Theater Company and Woodie King, Jr.’s New Federal Theatre has an equally starry cast some of whom have not appeared on New York stages for qui…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:51AMFriday, November 12, 2021
In a departure for him, the three actresses play all of the characters, both female and male, and are listed in the program simply as 1, 2 and 3. While the play feels undramatic and has no h…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:56PMTuesday, November 9, 2021
Will Eno’s wry, contemporary 'Gnit" solves the problem of attempting to stage Ibsen’s unwieldy, five-hour verse play "Peer Gynt." The play given its world premiere at the Humana Festival…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:03PMFriday, November 5, 2021
The question arises who is the intended audience. The 60-minute show is too slow for young children and too repetitious for adults. Possibly this is meant for the nostalgia crowd of which th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:07AMMonday, November 1, 2021
D.W. Gregory’s docudrama "Radium Girls" being given its New York premiere after a run in New Jersey over 20 years ago attempts to put the story and subsequent lawsuits on stage. Part of th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:34PMThursday, October 28, 2021
George Bernard Shaw’s once-banned problem comedy due to its controversial subject matter concerning prostitution, "Mrs. Warren’s Profession" has been given a stylish and elegant revival …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:16PMTuesday, October 26, 2021
This mashup proves to be both too convoluted and too long at two hours and 20 minutes. Beane has, however, given the play a top flight send off with a starry cast of some of the most distinc…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:16PMWednesday, October 20, 2021
Keenan Scott II’s engrossing Broadway debut play, Thought of a Colored Man, appears to be a masculine version of Ntozake Shange’s 1976 "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:34PMMonday, October 18, 2021
Douglas Lyons’ new comedy, "Chicken & Biscuits" introduces us to the dysfunctional Jenkins/Mabry clan at the funeral of its patriarch Bernard, the former pastor of his New Haven church…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:49PMWednesday, October 13, 2021
Although the characters never meet in person, they communicate mostly through letters that are spoken by the actors directly to the audience, and then halfway through the play, in texting wh…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:49PMTuesday, October 5, 2021
While Marshall Pailet’s direction is breezy and fastpaced, the dialogue has too many Borscht belt jokes (“Take my Grandma, for instance. No really take her-,” Camp Rosenblatt, “As my…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:45PMWednesday, September 29, 2021
Bedlam’s 2014 production of "Sense and Sensibility," adapted by Kate Hamil from the novel by Jane Austen, and directed by Eric Tucker, set the bar so high for cleverness, originality and w…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:35PMTuesday, September 28, 2021
Martyna Majok writes powerfully and brilliantly about marginalized people, particularly undocumented immigrants living in Northern New Jersey, as in "Ironbound" and her 2018 Pulitzer Prize-w…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:35PMSaturday, September 25, 2021
Holmes’ songs include clever lyrics particularly “Facebook,” “I Can Be That Guy” and "Beautiful Girl in the Front Row.” His expert playing on the keyboard allows him to have duet…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:19AMFriday, September 17, 2021
Performed by a cast of 15 singers and enacted in pantomime by numerous local volunteers all dressed in swimwear, Sun & Sea is a typical day at the beach in which we hear the thoughts of …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:35AMSunday, September 12, 2021
The new play, ironically, does not take place in Rhinebeck, New York, like the preceeding 11 plays but as explained in its subtitle it concerns “Conversations in Angers, France,” the hom…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:09PMMonday, September 6, 2021
As his mother Bete (pronounced Bet–chi), Soria is bigger than life without a great deal of assistance from props, costuming or make-up. When he enters carrying an offering to the stage whi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:40PMWednesday, August 18, 2021
Written and directed by White who is the Obie and Lily Award winning director of "Our Dear Dead Drug Lord" (WP Theater) and "What to Send Up When It Goes Down" (Public Theater, BAM Fisher an…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:10PMWednesday, July 28, 2021
The problem with the show now at The Jerry Orbach Theater is director Tim Drucker’s frenetic, over-the-top staging and the artificially broad presentational style of the acting, similar to…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:39PMSaturday, July 17, 2021
Early in the play, songs are sung by various members of the cast including the anachronistic “The House of the Rising Sun,” (sung twice) set in New Orleans in the twentieth century. The …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:25PMSaturday, June 19, 2021
Aside from the unevenness of the acting, Drance’s production has no consistent tone, shifting from comedy to drama to tragedy and back again. Not all of his interesting ideas are carried t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:11PMWednesday, June 9, 2021
Read by unseen British stage star Juliet Stevenson, "Blindness" is as timely as Albert Camus’ "The Plague" with its story of an epidemic which affects first a community, then a city and fi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:57PMWednesday, May 19, 2021
"Lilies" is an attempt at old-fashioned theater or to couch a modern story in old-fashioned trappings. The problem with the play for modern audiences may be stated in its subtitle, “The Re…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:03PMMonday, May 17, 2021
While the chronology is somewhat convoluted as the text occasionally skips around grouping some similar events (such as two trips to New York City), if you follow along, the script depicts W…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:14PM 
