Wednesday, October 10, 2018
It would be a pleasure to report that A.R. Gurney’s last play entitled “Final Follies” performed with two early works, is one of his best, but that is not the case. As directed by Davi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:19PMWednesday, October 3, 2018
"Bernhardt/Hamlet" is structured as a backstage comedy. Sarah rehearses with French stage star Constant Coquelin playing both The Ghost and Polonius, worries that she is losing 29-year-old l…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:54PMMonday, October 1, 2018
What gives "A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur" its special cachet in the Williams canon is that its storyline and heroine called Dorothea very much suggest a prequel to A Streetcar Named Desir…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:34PMSunday, September 30, 2018
Previous experiments from this adventurous theater group helmed by artistic director Eric Tucker include two versions of Twelfth Night performed in repertory, Hamlet and Saint Joan performed…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:09PMFriday, September 28, 2018
Stranger still is the choice of Angelica Page to play Dickinson who looks rather too healthy to be the famously thin and sallow-faced writer known from the one famous photograph. She makes D…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:03PMThursday, September 27, 2018
If these characters sound familiar, they are based on real people who populated Albany politics four decades ago. "The True," a world premiere play by Sharr White ("The Other Place," "The Sn…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:35AMTuesday, September 25, 2018
Considering the repetitiveness of the material and the fancifulness of the play, Megan McQueen as Rosie Ramirez and Kevin Rico Angulo as Det. Jimmy Marks make a great deal more of their char…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:42PMWednesday, September 19, 2018
The actual subtitle of Silverman’s play gives one pause: “In Essence, A Queer and Occasionally Hazardous Exploration; Do You Remember When You Were in Middle School and You Read About Sh…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:42PMMonday, September 17, 2018
While Barry was to become famous writing plays about the very rich, the Whites are of the middle class and live on earned money. In the play’s second act, eight months have passed, and mon…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:42PMFriday, September 14, 2018
Gingold Theatrical Group’s "Heartbreak House" is an interesting but misguided attempt to update Shaw’s Edwardian masterpiece and make it seem more relevant to our times. Despite the stel…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:24PMSunday, September 9, 2018
Using a format that has worked for him before in his George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein evenings, Hershey Felder has returned to 59E59 Theaters in a charming biographical musical as legen…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:03PMFriday, August 31, 2018
Although "Smokey Joe’s Café" has been seen in New York before, the new production now at Stage 42 is an entirely different incarnation of the show that still holds the record for Broadway…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:14PMThursday, August 30, 2018
The mellow sound of Brandt’s score proves to be easy listening, but the individual musical numbers do not build to any dramatic climaxes so that the show seems tamer than material concerni…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:41PMWednesday, August 29, 2018
"Days to Come" fills in the gap in Hellman’s career between her first play, the controversial "The Children’s Hour," and the immediate successors, the hugely commercial hit and often rev…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:40PMMonday, August 27, 2018
"Be More Chill" is an impressive musical version of Ned Vizzini’s cult novel. Not only does it reproduce the plot on stage, it also gives it a high tech look that dramatizes the story wher…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:58AMThursday, August 23, 2018
The clever invention is that each of them has a best friend who only they can see and hear: Neurosis (Brennan Caldwell) is Frank’s best buddy, a more cautious, nervous version of Frank, an…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:08PMMonday, August 20, 2018
If the show plays like it was written by a committee, in fact, it has been. The book is by producer/ writer Ken Davenport and The Grundleshotz who turn out to be a group of performers and wr…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:03PMFriday, August 17, 2018
Comedian/monologist Mike Birbiglia, best known for "Sleepwalk with Me," has the remarkable knack of finding humor in autobiographical crises that shouldn’t be funny but in his hands are up…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:05PMFriday, August 10, 2018
Shaina Taub’s joyful and sunny updated musical version of Shakespeare’s comedy, "Twelfth Night," is back in a full production courtesy of Free Shakespeare in the Park and Public Works wh…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:58PMThursday, August 9, 2018
Under Michael Mayer’s fast-paced direction, "Head Over Heels" starts badly and busily but eventually slows down to a delightful Elizabethan parody on love and gender. While not all of The …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:00PMWednesday, August 8, 2018
Along with its twists and turns, Bohjalian’s "Grounded" is so fully explored that it is hard to believe that it is a first play. On the long wait on the runway at Kennedy Airport for a fli…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:12PMTuesday, August 7, 2018
Gardley makes use of a little known piece of American history: while Louisiana was under Spanish and later French rule, it had a three-tiered racial system. Aside from white settlers and bla…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:57AMSunday, August 5, 2018
The plays in Summer Shorts 2018 - Festival of New American Short Plays have often had a theme running through all the offerings in one evening, however they were concealed or obscured. This …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:54PMFriday, August 3, 2018
Having added the 200-seat indoor Touchstone Theatre in 2009 to the outdoor Hill Theater with a capacity of 1,089, the season which began on June 14 now runs until November 18. It currently s…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:26AMWednesday, July 25, 2018
If "The After-Dinner Joke"’s 66 scenes seem cinematic, that is due to the fact that it originally was a teleplay commissioned by BBC for the series "Plays for Today" examining public issue…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:10PMMonday, July 23, 2018
n what easily could have become a one-man show, playwright Strand has cleverly created dramatic tension by first introducing us to a second character and later a third. Set during the 2012-2…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:42PMMonday, July 9, 2018
Charlotte Moore’s version streamlines the plot somewhat from Lerner’s original by eliminating Daisy’s fiancé for whom she wants to quit smoking as well as a subplot with Greek shippin…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:47AMSunday, July 8, 2018
Add to this list Mike Lew’s new witty and clever "Teenage Dick" (being given its world premiere by Ma-Yi Theater Company in association with the Public Theater), both an update and a parod…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:46PMFriday, July 6, 2018
Sixtyish Eric Miller is an angry white man, hating Catholics, Blacks, homosexuals, women, and other groups. He has also become very nationalistic. He not only wants to tell the world, he thi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:29PMTuesday, July 3, 2018
Using a tremendously talented and versatile cast of nine actors (three black male actors, three black female actors, as well as three white performers) playing from three roles to 12, the st…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:57PMSunday, July 1, 2018
Unlike the musicals "Rent" (an update on Puccini’s "La Boheme"), and "Miss Saigon' (inspired by Puccini’s "Madame Butterfly") both of which had all new music by other composers for their…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:22PM 
