Thursday, June 20, 2019
Director Kenny Leon has made his reputation with trenchant productions of contemporary and new plays by such authors as Lorraine Hansberry, August Wilson, Katori Hall and Lydia R. Diamond. N…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:52PMWednesday, June 19, 2019
Kate Hamill who has had success with "Sense and Sensibility" (Bedlam), "Pride and Prejudice" (Primary Stages), and "Vanity Fair "(The Pearl Theatre) has now turned her sights to Louisa May A…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:09PMWednesday, June 12, 2019
Under Shinn’s direction, Winstead making her stage debut is very low-key, almost as an observer in her own story. True she works as a therapist, one who tries not to reveal her personal fe…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:43PMTuesday, June 11, 2019
The play offers no catharsis as the actors are so low-key throughout, all much too calm even when the stakes are rising. As a result, there is little or no tension even when we realize the p…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:22AMFriday, June 7, 2019
Bekah Brunstetter’s new play, "Public Servant," has its heart in the right place. It shares with The Cake, seen earlier this year at Manhattan Theatre Club, the first part of a trilogy wit…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:25AMTuesday, June 4, 2019
G. Austin Allen’s set is a larger-than-life closet draped in purple cloth and which also includes a kitchen. To this room comes the older man in his mid-60’s who has discovered that as h…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:45PMWednesday, May 29, 2019
Schmidt’s streamlined adaptation of Shakespeare’s Scottish tragedy is played by a cast of seven schoolgirls who meet in an abandoned urban field after school without any set up other tha…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:40PMTuesday, May 28, 2019
"Luzia: A Waking Dream of Mexico" is Cirque du Soleil’s 38th original production and its 18th performed under The Big Top. The name is a combination of the Spanish word for light (luz) and…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:17PMMonday, May 27, 2019
As David, Chris Dwan does not make one forget the inimitable Grisetti who spun every moment into a comic turn. However, Dwan is charming as the undaunted hero who must deal with problems beh…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:11PMFriday, May 24, 2019
Never really losing her cool, Pressley always commands the stage even though scenic designer Alexis Distler has made it difficult by creating a huge private room, beautiful in its understate…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:34PMWednesday, May 22, 2019
Not all cult movies need to be made into musicals, particularly those that are dependent on special effects which the cinema does better than the stage. This is demonstrated by the new Broad…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:45PMMonday, May 20, 2019
Poet Aziza Barnes’ first play, "BLKS," now at MCC Theater Space is raucous, vulgar, outrageous and contemporary in Robert O’Hara’s hilarious, over-the-top production. Following the adv…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:52PMSaturday, May 18, 2019
Christopher Chen’s exquisite and mystical "Passage" being produced by the Soho Rep is inspired by E.M. Forster’s "A Passage to India," borrowing its plot and character relationships. But…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:47PMWednesday, May 15, 2019
Witnessing the LOTNY production makes one wonder why "Owen Wingrave" is not performed more often: it has a small cast of eight with juicy roles for all of the characters, evenly divided betw…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:30PMMonday, May 13, 2019
As president of International PEN, the worldwide association of writers, from 1966 – 1969, playwright Arthur Miller moved about Eastern Europe freely and witnessed a great many troubling e…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:25PMSaturday, May 11, 2019
In "Caroline’s Kitchen," British playwright Torben Betts ("Invincible," "The Unconquered," "Muswell Hill") has written a state of the nation farce which has no laughs. As the play under th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:56PMThursday, May 9, 2019
MasterVoices performed a beautifully sung and played rendition of the legendary 1941 musical "Lady in The Dark" as part of New York City Center’s 75th Anniversary Season for three sold-out…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:50PMWednesday, May 8, 2019
Retro Productions which has staged both old and new plays has turned its attention to this unjustly neglected comedy from 1961 which has not had a New York revival that made it into the reco…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:33PMTuesday, May 7, 2019
As the elderly king of Britain who deludedly decides to give up his kingdom to his three daughters, Goneril and Regan, the two older married ones, and Cordelia, his younger unmarried daughte…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:34PMMonday, April 29, 2019
The dazzling Broadway production of Anais Mitchell’s musical "Hadestown" proves director/developer Rachel Chavkin to be a creative genius. If you had not known it after she fitted her thea…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:52PMUnfortunately in a play that is already crammed full of ominous hints, O’Brien’s production is very heavy-handed, underscoring the foreshadowing with a double line under each and every c…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:44PMFriday, April 26, 2019
Playwright Taylor Mac’s Broadway debut, "Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus," comes with a great many pluses: three consummate clowns, Nathan Lane, Kristine Nielsen and Julie White, direct…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:53PMTuesday, April 23, 2019
Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow are such consummate stage performers that they could read the phone book and keep us mesmerized. As directed by Joe Mantello in Lucas Hnath’s "Hillary and C…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:33PMFriday, April 19, 2019
"Be More Chill," the dazzling and inventive musical based on the cult Young Adult novel by Ned Vizzini, has made a successful transfer to Broadway Lyceum Theater with the same cast and an ex…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:10PMWednesday, April 17, 2019
Like John Doyle’s reconceived musical revivals ("Allegro," "Passion," "Pacific Overtures," "Carmen Jones," "The Cradle Will Rock"), Fish’s production is minimalist but with a difference.…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:05PMMonday, April 15, 2019
Those who loved The Mad Ones’ "Miles for Mary" which had an extended run at Playwrights Horizons last year after its premiere at The Brooklyn Starr in 2016, will be greatly disappointed by…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:57PMSunday, April 14, 2019
Delving into black life and attitudes now, the play is hilarious - but not laugh-out-loud funny. Unfortunately, in Stevie Walker-Webb’s fine production at The Public’s LuEsther Theater, …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:25PMThursday, April 11, 2019
The show also uses the 3D holographic technology called IceMagic which attempts to bring us the late Oscar Hammerstein II as a hologram enacted and spoken by actor Bob Meenan. Aside from an …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:49PMWednesday, April 10, 2019
A three and half hour play with only three actors spanning 163 years might not be your idea of entertainment, but the National Theatre’s production of "The Lehman Trilogy" is one of the mo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:27PMSunday, April 7, 2019
In Mara Nelson-Greenberg’s new play, "Do You Feel Anger?," which had its world premiere at the 2018 Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville, she has attempted…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:13PMFriday, April 5, 2019
Not seen in New York since 1965, John Webster’s Jacobean revenge play, "The White Devil," has been given a juicy, vigorous modern dress production by Red Bull Theater which specializes in …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:31PM 
