Thursday, October 3, 2024
While the play is compelling, the question is what is the message? Is the play asking would we have done what the son did? The father is quoted by the son as calling him a traitor while the …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:05PMMonday, September 30, 2024
The spate of Sondheim shows both this past season and opening this fall is given prime place in this musical revue. Unsurprisingly, the new "Merrily We Roll Along" which ran all of last seas…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:13PMThursday, September 26, 2024
Quintero who obviously knows his Greek plays and Greek mythology is extremely faithful to the original myth and to Euripides’ play. What he has added is a contemporary vernacular all in rh…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:53PMWednesday, September 25, 2024
However, in the sweeping new musical epic retitled Monte Cristo, canny and adept librettist Peter Kellogg ("Desperate Measures," "Penelope") has streamlined the story, reduced the number of …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:56AMMonday, September 23, 2024
While "That Parenting Musical" will not tell you anything you didn’t already know, it is a pleasant and undemanding way to spend an evening. The six attractive performers four of whom appe…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:06PMThursday, September 19, 2024
Of course, with Farrow and LuPone under the direction of six-time Tony Award winner Jack O’Brien, this is an occasion for cheering although this comedy drama, a cross between a female ver…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:44PMTuesday, September 17, 2024
The libretto by the composer and musicologist Walter Simmons is very faithful to the O’Neill play, almost entirely dialogue taken from the original script. Unfortunately, they chose to sho…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:06PMSaturday, September 14, 2024
While "Counting and Cracking" is an unforgettable epic of a family and a country, it is also a study of the fight for democracy and the lengths people will go to fight for their beliefs. The…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:00PMTuesday, September 10, 2024
Levin’s lyrics have unusual and surprising rhyme patterns which add to their interest. The powerful score with music by Ron Abel (who also plays a mean piano with the orchestra of five whi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:05PMThursday, September 5, 2024
However, instead of telling Fleming’s story in chronological order, it travels backwards and forwards in time beginning with Fleming’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech in Stockholm in 1945,…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:47PMMonday, September 2, 2024
The revue alternates between skits by James Hindman and Lynne Halliday and songs with music by Jeffrey Lodin (who is also the music director at the piano) and lyrics by Mark Waldrop, the int…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:16PMMonday, August 26, 2024
"Hurricane Season" is the sort of vanity production in which one assumes that the author thinks he or she has invented the next step in the avant-garde. Unfortunately, Estes’ production wi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:07PMSaturday, August 17, 2024
Foster is a joy as the princess from the swamps who can swim, lift weights, dance all night, commit multiple contortions as she tries to get a good night sleep, and field any disaster that c…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:58PMTuesday, August 13, 2024
Doménica Feraud who has also written "Rinse, Release" has made a career of writing about very human psychological problems. While "Someone Spectacular" is rather untheatrical in its present…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:58PMThursday, August 8, 2024
The dynamic and exciting dances include the five elements of voguing: catwalk, duckwalk, hand performances, floor performances and spins and dips in various combinations. The competitions wh…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:48PMMonday, August 5, 2024
Seemingly not trusting the material, director Brian Mertes has used all kinds of stage gimmicks including having the two actors photographed live by a team of three videographers whose equip…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:16PMThursday, August 1, 2024
When was the last time you saw a new play in which you cared about the characters and wanted them to end up together? "The Sabbath Girl: A New Musical" is that kind of show. A delightful and…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:26PMWednesday, July 31, 2024
The play doesn’t tell us enough about any of the characters which gives the actors little to work from. What does Lotte do for a living or is she a trust fund kid? As Lena Drake plays her,…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:46PMMonday, July 22, 2024
Actor Ryan Spahn’s first play "Inspired by True Events" at the new Theatre 145 (formerly the Ohio Space) is a professional, skillful production. Unfortunately, as a backstage thriller it l…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:22PMSunday, July 21, 2024
María Irene Fornés’ rediscovered "La Viuda" is a valuable addition to her better known canon. It is a challenging play in that it is basically an 80-minute monologue with other character…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:31PMTuesday, July 16, 2024
In "Empire," Caroline Sherman and Robert Hull attempt to tell a very big story but are unable to bring this unwieldy tale into suitable shape. The time traveling framework is both unnecessar…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:39PMThursday, July 4, 2024
Correa who for many years worked for Congresswoman Constance A. Morella knows his way around government and his characters are very convincing. The casting of Diane Paulus’ production is s…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:16PMWednesday, June 26, 2024
David McDonald has discovered onto an obscure and interesting story: 15-year-old Ella Fitzgerald’s incarceration in the New York Training School for Girls in Hudson, New York, after her mo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:34PMMonday, June 24, 2024
It is the first year that Haley’s comet has been predicted. Sally Poppy, trapped in a loveless marriage at age 21, has committed a murder with her lover of a child from a rich family she h…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:14PMTuesday, June 18, 2024
The play is framed, movie style, by a trial of the leading character, so that the bulk of the play becomes a flashback to what led up to it. However, the show which is occasionally amusing i…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:09PMFriday, June 14, 2024
"David" now at the AMT Theater is an ambitious Off Broadway musical dramatizing the story of the youth of the hero David, later second king of Israel. It has a bouncy contemporary score by A…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:59PMFriday, June 7, 2024
While most of the songs presented were standards, there were some oddities and curiosities like five cuts songs, one song from a Ford Motor Company industrial show by Bock and Harnick, and t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:30PMThursday, June 6, 2024
The dialogue is smart and sophisticated. The author’s unfocused theme seems to be the conflict between Marina and Nikki as to journalistic ethics. Marina believes in reporting the story wh…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:04PMMonday, June 3, 2024
Ashley Griffin’s "The Opposite of Love" is not afraid to tackle questions of sex, intimacy, abuse and suicide. It does so with great sensitivity and delicacy. It is as though the author do…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:55PMFriday, May 24, 2024
Laura Winters’ "All of Me" is a lively rom-com of rich boy meets poor girl much on the lines of 1930’s film comedies. However, the new wrinkle here is that Lucy is disabled using a motor…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:50PMThursday, May 23, 2024
Playwright Jake Shore has something serious on his mind but his scatter-shot take on Artificial Intelligence does not make the case. The repetitious dialogue and events only undercut the int…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:20PM 
