Sunday, 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 10:22PMSaturday, June 30, 2018
With Miles Malleson’s 1925 "Conflict," being given its New York premiere, the Mint has uncovered a brilliant political and social drama which has tremendous relevance for today with its di…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:18PMFriday, June 29, 2018
Harmon’s new play resembles "Admissions," his last New York offering seen at Lincoln Center this March, in that it debates a topic from many sides but then fails to give us the author’s …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:08PMWednesday, June 27, 2018
Jackie Sibblies Drury is a unique new voice in the American theater. Her use of metatheater is all her own. "Fairview" has a great deal to say about race in America and the angle you see thi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:31PMMonday, June 25, 2018
Although the advance publicity for Ben Josephson’s "The Property" refers to it as a comedy, there is nothing funny about it, neither jokes nor comic situations. In fact, the heroine’s de…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:12PMWednesday, June 20, 2018
In the recent Metropolitan Opera production of Verdi’s "Otello," Otello was white which left no reason for his jealousy if he was identical to all the Venetians around him. In the current …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:53PMDirector Lucy Gram uses six actors to play 11 roles which has worked for such companies as Bedlam and Fiasco. However, here the four actresses play both men and women, three of them never ch…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:49PMSunday, June 17, 2018
The chance to see Anton Chekhov’s first produced play, "Ivanov," not only in the original Russian (with English surtitles) but in modern dress proves to be a revelation. Staged by Russia�…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:00AMThursday, June 14, 2018
Her newest work, "Fruit Trilogy," an evening of three one acts, “Pomegranate,” “Avocado” and “Coconut,” has all of the strengths and weaknesses of her previous stage plays which …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:05PMTuesday, June 12, 2018
Though it wouldn’t be fair to reveal it here for audiences about to see the play, the “secret” actually turns out to be one that has been widely known for some time as it is all over t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:36PMMonday, June 4, 2018
The letters alternate with the musical portions played by Ji on piano, Ari Evan on cello and Stephanie Zyzak on violin in various combinations which are beautiful but it is never clear in wh…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:59PMSunday, June 3, 2018
While "Brokeback Mountain" impresses in its sincerity, it does not move which is a serious problem considering the romantic and tragic plot. Director Jacopo Spirei’s cast is in fine form a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:38AMMonday, May 28, 2018
While "The Beast in the Jungle" is a musical for our time it contains a message that was dear to the heart of writer Henry James, that of the unlived life. Ultimately very moving when the st…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:48PMStanding in the way of the show’s success is the workshop-like production. Some of Pellegrino’s melodies are pleasant but musical director Michael Wittenberg’s piano playing drowns out…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:30AMSunday, May 27, 2018
We learn a great deal about hospice, possibly more than one might want to know in a play. While most death watch plays like Edward Albee’s "All Over" and Scott McPherson's "Marvin’s Room…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:39PMWednesday, May 23, 2018
Played as older than either Viola or Sebastian, Elizabeth Heflin is charmingly eccentric as the strong cougar who becomes lovesick and yielding at the sight of Cesario and then Sebastian. In…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:49PMTuesday, May 22, 2018
Unlike many of the recent New York stagings, Eyre’s production makes it clear that the thrust of this four act play is an attempt for the Tyrones to exorcise their demons in one alcoholic …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:44PMMonday, May 21, 2018
Hodges’ play is quite lively with each scene dramatizing one point and the cast of characters made up entirely of real people, not all of them still famous. The real problem is with the un…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:59PMSunday, May 20, 2018
Every once in a while the exactly right actor is matched with the right role and magic occurs. Such is the case with Juan Francisco Villa as the 34-year-old Tennessee Williams (before he bec…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:20PMThursday, May 17, 2018
Although the title covers part of the plot, the play is really a trenchant social history of Britain from 1925 – 1985 in four short sequences, showing the changes that take place in one ho…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:08PMMonday, May 14, 2018
Aside from being a tight domestic drama, The Jewish King Lear has several other differences from Shakespeare’s tragedy. Gordin’s Lear has a wife who is sorely put upon and under her husb…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:35PMTuesday, May 8, 2018
The play is narrated by Carr through his memories as an doddering 80-year-old man, returning him (and us) to his days as a 30-year-old resident of Zurich. As such he both unreliable, alterin…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:32PMTuesday, May 1, 2018
As Cristofer, Juan Castano is riveting in his honesty and his assurance. You could hear a pin drop during several of his monologue confessions as to why he didn’t do as well as he might ha…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:33PMFriday, April 27, 2018
What makes the storytelling riveting are the performances by the talented cast. As the free-spirited Beatriz fighting for her life, Rubin-Vega is at her fiercest and she is a memorable three…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:51PMTuesday, April 24, 2018
Fey has made two successful changes to theatricalize her original screenplay. The story is now cast as a flashback narrated by best friends Goth Janis (Barrett Wilbert Weed) and Damian (Grey…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:50PMMonday, April 23, 2018
In performance, "One Thousand Nights and One Day" is a like a play with songs shoehorned in as none of them forward the story but take the emotional temperature of the characters instead. Wi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:13PMFriday, April 20, 2018
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s latest "King Lear," as directed by Gregory Doran, is one that needs no explanation and no program notes. At one and the same time both medieval and contempo…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:19PMWednesday, April 18, 2018
The Q Brothers Collective (made up of GQ, JQ, Jackson Doran and Postell Pringle) is best known in New York for their hip hop variations on Shakespeare: "Othello: The Remix" in 2016 and "The …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:41PMMonday, April 16, 2018
Ethical integrity versus moral turpitude is the theme of Kenneth Lonergan’s "Lobby Hero" now having its Broadway debut at The Second Stage’s newly renovated home, The Helen Hayes Theater…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:19PMThursday, April 12, 2018
Rapp’s plays are so different from each other that it is difficult to classify him. As of now he has written conventional dramas, experimental plays, futuristic and science fiction plays, …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:35PMTuesday, April 10, 2018
Disney Theatrical Productions’ long anticipated stage version of the beloved animated film "Frozen" has arrived on Broadway in a lavish and faithful version of the screenplay by Jennifer L…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:35PM 
