Friday, 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 04:31PMWednesday, April 3, 2019
Shakespeare’s politically charged Roman tragedy, "Julius Caesar," has always been a touchstone for inflaming emotions. In earlier times, monarchs used to ban the play when uprisings were i…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:35PMMonday, April 1, 2019
Playwright Thomas Bradshaw seems to have taken literally the dictum in theater to “Astonish!” His plays like "Burning," "Intimacy," "Job," and "Fulfillment," to name only a few seen in N…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:37PMSunday, March 31, 2019
John Guare’s career as a playwright has had three stages. His early plays were examples of Theater of the Absurd with an American accent. Later his plays became more realistic, sometimes b…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:50PMThursday, March 28, 2019
If Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s "Fleabag" sounds familiar, it may be because of the cult television show now in its second season adapted from this one-woman play. Having premiered at the Edinbu…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:55PMTuesday, March 26, 2019
You can hear a pin drop during Michael McKeever’s "After," an exciting, riveting play about the aftereffects of bullying. During the final scene in Jo Brancato’s production now at 59E59 …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:52PMTuesday, March 19, 2019
Although there is a great deal of talent behind the new musical Superhero at Second Stage Theater, it unfortunately makes little impact. It doesn’t help that the thin book by Tony Award wi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:57PMSunday, March 17, 2019
Huppert, the consummate actress, commands the stage at all times, making all the other performers pale in comparison. As Anne, she travels from familiar to sarcastic to manic to depressed to…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:47PMBrunstetter overloads the issue in the play by making Jen have doubts about being in love with a woman against her parents’ religious teachings, even though she cannot imagine life without…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:42PMThursday, March 14, 2019
Chisa Hutchinson’s "Surely Goodness and Mercy" has its heart in the right place but as produced by Keen Company at the Clurman Theatre it is not a play at all but an after school movie scr…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:39PMWednesday, March 13, 2019
Jeremy O. Harris’ “Daddy” is the work of a unique voice, a little self-indulgent in its length, and a little underwritten in its characterizations. It attempts to shock with its use of…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:00PMFriday, March 8, 2019
Both plays deal with young husbands who are coping with new fatherhood as well as their new responsibilities and their relationships with the dominant male figures in their lives. In Stephen…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:27PMMonday, March 4, 2019
Being described as a “theatre event,” the unwieldy titled "Rocco, Chelsea, Adriana, Sean, Claudia, Gianna, Alex" is a throwback to the happenings and performance art of the 1960’s, wit…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:14PMMolly Gordon and Colton Ryan in a scene from MCC Theater’s new musical “Alice By Heart” (Photo credit: Deen van Meer) Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief MCC Theater has opened its second an…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:44PMFriday, March 1, 2019
However, the play may not be to the taste of regular Mint theatergoers as it seems much more dated that the usual lost masterpieces rediscovered at this esteemed venue. Thomas Scott is so ri…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:34PMThursday, February 28, 2019
Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse’s 1946 Pulitzer Prize winning political play, "State of the Union," should be, by all accounts, dated in its depiction of the 1948 presidential political c…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:24PMTuesday, February 26, 2019
The York Theatre Company is to be applauded for taking the risk of staging this famously controversial musical in its New York premiere. It is also fulfilling its mission to bring to the sta…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:47PMFriday, February 22, 2019
Mystery writer Patricia Highsmith ("Strangers on a Train," "Carol," "The Talented Mr. Ripley") was famously alcoholic, depressive, misogynistic and racist. She was unique as an international…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:02PMWednesday, February 20, 2019
With the audience sitting ringside on three sides of the new theater, and performed by Masden and Belcher at the top of their game, The Light is thrilling theater. Their Gen and Rashad are b…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:46PMSaturday, February 16, 2019
Clark has chosen to direct the play as though it were drawing room comedy. Beginning and ending the play with a game of cards, there is the suggestion that for Edgar and Alice this is all a …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:59PMIt has been well publicized that the Harper Lee estate filed a lawsuit in February 2018 alleging that the play deviated too much from the novel. They should not have worried. As directed by …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:18PMThursday, February 14, 2019
The 1970 play was originally adapted by playwright Saul Levitt (who previously turned the Pulitzer Prize winning novel "Andersonville" into a successful trial play) from Berrigan’s free ve…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:15PMTuesday, February 12, 2019
The York production has been directed and adapted by Marc Acito who has condensed the original two act script into a long one-acter. Realizing that the original setting of 1948 for a tenth y…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:52PMMonday, February 11, 2019
If this family seems familiar, Winkler wrote about them in her 2016 play, "Kentucky," set seven years ago, when Hiro returned home for the first time from NYC in order to stop her sister’s…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:56PMFriday, February 8, 2019
In recent years the play has not fared with such acclaim. A 2008 Broadway revival starring Frank Langella eliminated the narrator character of The Common Man, the play’s cleverest device, …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:31PMThursday, January 31, 2019
Though not in the same class with Alan Jay Lerner’s masterpiece, "My Fair Lady," "Carmelina" has a similar theme: how a young woman reinvents herself. While the three soldiers are under th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:25PMWhile Jessica Dickey’s "The Convent" may not have any new answers and may cover familiar material, it does so with such vitality and theatricality, that it becomes a memorable experience.…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:45PMThursday, January 24, 2019
Six actors, three men and three women, in a company of seven, play many roles in this fluid production designed by Anna Driftmier that uses several different doorways, on-stage props and f…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:41PMHumorist and journalist Calvin Trillin has made his wife Alice Stewart Trillin, educator, writer, mother and muse, famous from such books as "Alice, Let’s Eat," "Travels with Alice" and "F…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:18PMSunday, January 20, 2019
Irish actors Niall Buggy and David Ganly returning to their original roles play two murderers sharing a cell in Dublin’s Montjoy Jail. The fiftyish PJ (Ganly) and the sixtyish Christy (Bug…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:24PMSaturday, January 19, 2019
Ireland gives a big performance that is almost larger than life. From the moment we meet her, she commands the stage. Watch how intently she listens to the others or how you can hear her tho…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:42PM 
