Saturday, March 4, 2017
Based on a story by lyricist/bookwriter/producer B.G. DeSylva (“Good News,” “The Best Things in Life Are Free,” “The Varsity Drag”), this musical satire sends unworldly, teetotal…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:48PMWednesday, March 1, 2017
Having played such indomitable women as Mama Rose and Maria Callas, Daly slips into the role of the Madwoman of Chaillot which fits her like a glove with her crisp, authoritative delivery. A…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:43AMSunday, February 26, 2017
Nevertheless, while the play is startlingly not politically correct, the acting is of a high caliber. In the title role, Regina Gibson (who appeared last season in the rediscovered operetta …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:43PMFriday, February 24, 2017
However, as the title implies it is also a very verbose, long-winded affair giving an excellent cast made up of such veterans as Matthew Broderick, John Epperson (a.ka.a Lypsinka), Jill Eike…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:43PMThursday, February 23, 2017
Birney seems to have cornered the market on sensitive, ordinary guys and his performance is similar to his awarding-winning “Erik” in The Humans. However, here he is extremely sympatheti…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:15PMMonday, February 20, 2017
The evening is narrated by Saki (played by an appealing and suave David Paisley) talking to us from the trenches of France, in 1916. His five soldiers (played by Phoebe Frances Brown, Ellen …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:51PMWednesday, February 15, 2017
Illusionist/actor Geoff Sobelle’s show is a combination of happening, art installation, and a meditation on the role objects have in our lives. Using audience participation, objects both h…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:13PMOne of the remarkable things about the theater songs of Kurt Weill is that like the later songs of Stephen Sondheim they are all really little one act plays which give the performers a great…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:04PMWhile the play is at times Pinteresque, it is talky in a way Pinter never is, explaining everything over and over, covering the same ground again and again. Nothing much happens other than t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:20AMSaturday, February 11, 2017
The only real high-tech exchanges take place only three times during the run of the show. At the performances of February 6, 9 and 17, one of the roles in "Camera Obscura" will be performed …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:40PMThursday, February 9, 2017
Unfortunately, Policoff’s book is too cluttered with characters too allow for much development. While some of his lyrics are clever, most are prosaic and heavy-handed. As played by music d…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:01PMMonday, February 6, 2017
However, it is Ives’ joy in language that is the most infectious. The rhymed couplets keep coming and surprising us over and over again (bitter/twitter; prize/rhapsodize, jocular/interlocu…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:42PMSaturday, February 4, 2017
The show began with Arlen’s first hit, “Get Happy,” 1930, and ended with his 1939 score for the MGM film, "The Wizard of Oz." The first half of the evening was devoted to Arlen’s sta…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:31PMFriday, February 3, 2017
There are many questions that the author fails to answer. Although the boys have not attended school in years and Bobbie has been diagnosed as ADHD and should be in the British equivalent of…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:07PMMonday, January 30, 2017
While the jokes may be hoary, Unger’s production has cut down on the show’s sentimentality and given it a sharp edge which elevates the material. As the heroine Ruth, Runofsson is genuin…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:15PMSaturday, January 28, 2017
Director Ruben Santiago-Hudson has himself won a Tony Award for his performance in Wilson’s "Seven Guitars" and has directed acclaimed Off Broadway revivals of "The Piano Lesson" and "Seve…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:27PMOne problem is that the play (unlike Noel Coward’s "Design for Living" or Somerset Maugham’s "The Constant Wife" which cover similar territory) is neither witty not clever, and none of t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:41AMMonday, January 23, 2017
On the one hand, it is a punch in the gut dramatizing the cold hard facts of disintegrating with this disease; on the other, the non-linear time scheme is difficult to follow, offering more …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:13PMSaturday, January 21, 2017
Upton’s version solves some problems and creates others. Updated to the 1990’s, the play is no longer about life in Tsarist Russia but the post-Perestroika world of Glasnost. While the o…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:33PMTuesday, January 10, 2017
Never before seen on mainland U.S.A, the current show is an amalgam of the four existing shows ("P.F.C. Mary Brown;" "Hi, Yank!;" "About Face" and "OK, USA") of the six that were written. Di…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:08PMSet in The Afterlife, a crossroad between Heaven and Hell, the play presupposes a trial of Luther on the grounds of being guilty of “the unforgiveable sin.” The prosecuting attorney is T…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:24PMSaturday, January 7, 2017
While Harms has a fine ear for dialogue, the play moves by revelation and incident. Consequently, it plays like a sophisticated soap opera as every scene brings a new wrinkle not previously …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:53PMThursday, January 5, 2017
In keeping with Sullivan having been hit over the head, the cast is clothed in a motley collection: a combination of late Victorian and Japanese styles. Some are in all Japanese, some in all…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:09PMSaturday, December 31, 2016
Surprisingly, Eleanor Reissa’s production for New Yiddish Rep has made some debatable choices which damage the power of the play. First of all and most obviously, although not a word has b…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:41PMWednesday, December 28, 2016
The real reason to see the new "Sweet Charity," its third major New York revival, is for Sutton Foster’s bravura performance. Aside from nightclub singer Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes, Fos…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:47PMSaturday, December 24, 2016
Green’s dry delivery is in the Coward manner, crisp, almost spoken to the music, with impeccable diction. Shrubsole’s accompaniment supports him without ever getting in the way. The most…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:23PMFriday, December 23, 2016
We knew it was a great novel, but who knew Leo Tolstoy’s "War and Peace," Part I, would make such an exciting and innovative electro pop-rock opera? Not that the epic novel isn’t a fanta…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:23PMWednesday, December 21, 2016
Two ways to invigorate Shakespeare in our time is to either cast actors not identified with classical roles or to reset the play in some unfamiliar setting. Sam Gold’s magnificent producti…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:30PMSaturday, December 17, 2016
Seven musicians of Egypt’s Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra have been sent to Israel to open the new Arab cultural center at Petah Tivah. Due to a mix up at the border, they end up i…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:58AMSaturday, December 10, 2016
Rockwell who also choreographed has turned each of the songs into an extravagant, go-for-broke production number. Best are Wardell’s “Noel’s Lament” in which he reveals he wants to b…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:57PMTuesday, December 6, 2016
"This Day Forward" shows much tighter control than many of Nicky Silver’s early anarchic plays. However, aside from offering a few wonderful characters in Malka and the older Irene, the pl…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:20PM 
