Tuesday, December 1, 2015
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The great mid-20th century American poets Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell were friends from 1947 until his sudden death 30 years later. As th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:41PMThursday, November 26, 2015
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Metropolitan Playhouse has done itself proud with its revival of the rarely seen "Alison’s House." Alex Roe’s splendid production with its a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:49PMTuesday, November 24, 2015
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Aside from the obvious theme of morality in politics, the play also deals devastatingly with issues of privacy in public life and in the informa…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:55PMMonday, November 23, 2015
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The best role in the story is that of sociopath, deranged Annie Wilkes. Metcalf runs the gamut of emotions from bliss to murderous rage and back…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:04PMThursday, November 19, 2015
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In this centennial of the birth of jazz great Billie Holiday, The New York Pops November concert was devoted to Harlem Renaissance ladies like E…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:37PMMonday, November 16, 2015
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The title refers to three generations of women whose lives have been derailed by early pregnancies. When the play begins, we are in the modest h…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:46PMThis post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief
Handled as stand-up comedy, Story tells us that he did not at first accept Dr. Gray’s theories until he heard one of his lectures, and then he…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:53AMThursday, November 12, 2015
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For the first half of Stephen Karam’s “The Humans,” the Blake family Thanksgiving seems to be nothing but a banal seasonal gathering. And …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:34PMTuesday, November 10, 2015
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Kate Baldwin (John & Jen, Giant, Big Fish, Finian’s Rainbow) as self-absorbed country western star Tammy Tripp gives a big bravura perfor…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 08:18PMMonday, November 9, 2015
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Roundabout Theatre Company has commissioned yet another new stage adaptation from British playwright Helen Edmondson, whose previous plays also …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:31PMThursday, November 5, 2015
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New Worlds Theatre Project’s mission is to present English language translations of Yiddish plays as comparable to their contemporaries Chekho…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:29PMWednesday, November 4, 2015
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Twenty-two years after writing "First Lady Suite," four linked musicals about Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Truman, Mamie Eisenhower, Jacqueline Bouvi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:27PMSunday, November 1, 2015
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"Perfect Arrangement," Topher Payne’s first play to reach New York, is a well-crafted and engrossing play with much to say and has been magnif…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:33PMSaturday, October 31, 2015
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The surviving original creators, book writer Sherman Yellen and lyricist Sheldon Harnick, have written a new streamlined version of the show now…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:20PMFriday, October 30, 2015
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Initially based on Plautus’ Roman comedy, "Amphitryon," "Out of This World" is an uneasy mix of 1950’s slang and idiom, and classic Greek th…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:54PMTuesday, October 27, 2015
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Havergal’s adaptation is unusual in that it uses four male actors to play 25 roles including the central role of Aunt Augusta, with all the ac…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:13PMSunday, October 25, 2015
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Robert O’Hara’s "Barbecue" may seem like a series of sleights of hand, but as a satirist of American culture, the playwright has a good deal…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:58PMFriday, October 23, 2015
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What is most remarkable about Caryl Churchill’s time traveling comedy "Cloud Nine" is that this prescient play about sexual politics and repre…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:52PMThursday, October 22, 2015
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From the evidence of Colgan’s Musicals Tonight! production, "Oh, Kay!" not only still works in the original but has a glorious score including…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:41AMTuesday, October 20, 2015
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With a cast led by downtown icons Joey Arias and Julie Atlas Muz, "Sisters’ Follies" includes life size puppets, flying ghosts, music and danc…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:23PMMonday, October 19, 2015
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Although Arthur Miller grew up in a Jewish family, none of his characters with the exception of the antique dealer in The Price are explicitly J…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:23PMThursday, October 15, 2015
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The New York Pops’ 33rd season opened with a joyful tribute to one of the legendary songwriting teams of Broadway. Entitled “My Favorite Thi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:10PMTuesday, October 13, 2015
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The production includes the Broadway debuts of British screen and television stars Clive Owen and Kelly Reilly, and a return of British stage st…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:44PMSunday, October 11, 2015
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Sunny Knable’s music is romantic and lilting. He has called his style a cross between Stephen Sondheim and Benjamin Britten. In this he does h…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:19PMFriday, October 9, 2015
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Jean Webster’s classic epistolary novel of the coming of age of a college age girl at the beginning of the twentieth century, "Daddy Long Legs…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:09PMMonday, October 5, 2015
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If this story sounds familiar, it is the plot of the classic thirties screwball comedy "The Awful Truth" which starred Cary Grant and Irene Dunn…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 07:32PMWednesday, September 30, 2015
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The annual "The Pumpkin Pie Show" is back for its 17th year. Performed with no sets and no costumes, it has been described as “bedtime stories…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:13PMTuesday, September 29, 2015
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If you thought Bedlam’s artistic director Eric Tucker had created physical productions for his acclaimed acting troupe in the past, think agai…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:45PMMonday, September 28, 2015
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When American born Londoner Harold Chapin was killed in W.W. I in 1915, he was a highly regarded actor, stage manager and playwright, although n…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:24PMThursday, September 24, 2015
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Could Dennis Richard’s new play "Radio Mystery 1949" be inspired by the Mad Bomber George Metesky who terrorized New York in the 1940’s and …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:01PMTuesday, September 22, 2015
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The play is told mainly in monologues by both actors on microphones, alternating with rehearsal scenes from the Gertrude/Hamlet confrontation. T…
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