Tuesday, 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…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:07PMWednesday, September 16, 2015
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Romantic comedy was once the staple of Broadway. Today it turns up more often in the movies. When it appears on the stage it is fairly unusual t…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:34PMTuesday, September 15, 2015
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Having commissioned evenings of one act plays by major American playwrights based on the short stories of Anton Chekhov and the sonnets of Willi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:51PMMonday, September 14, 2015
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Experimental playwright/director Maxwell has a uniquely personal vision of theater. He has said in interviews that he directs his actors to be �…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:38PMFriday, September 11, 2015
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Aside from the wonderfully eclectic score by Almond (jazz, pop, Latin, blues, Broadway, gospel, folk music, etc.) who also acted as narrator and…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:33AMTuesday, September 1, 2015
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In his 2005 "Mercury Fur," being given its belated Off Broadway premiere by The New Group under the direction of its intrepid artistic director …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:09PMSaturday, August 29, 2015
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Everett Quinton has found the ideal vehicle in the hilarious "Drop Dead Perfect" to revive the style of the Ridiculous Theatrical Company for wh…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:50PMMonday, August 24, 2015
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Deborah Zoe Laufer’s fascinating and engrossing "Informed Consent" tells three interlocking stories that eventually become one by the end. Und…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:32PMFriday, August 21, 2015
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The Broadway transfer of the acclaimed Off Broadway musical "Hamilton" has finally taken place and the show looks and sounds even more comfortab…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:50PMThursday, August 13, 2015
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At The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park venue, director Daniel Sullivan has proved himself a brilliant interpreter of the Bard’s com…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:00PMWednesday, August 5, 2015
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Series B of Summer Shorts 2015 is similar to Series A in that all three plays are also relationship dramas, here between a woman (or three women…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:32PMSaturday, August 1, 2015
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Summer Shorts – Festival of New American Short Plays has returned to 59E59 Theaters for its 9th annual outing offering six world premieres by …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:15PMFriday, July 31, 2015
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Using a versatile cast of seven (Ito Aghayere, Patrick Boll, Marc delaCruz, Theresa McCarthy, Chinaza Uche, Barbara Walsh, and Zoe Wilson) who a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:12AMTuesday, July 28, 2015
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Yussef El Guindi’s "Threesome" is really a political treatise in the guise of a romantic comedy. Engrossingly performed by Alia Attallah, Quin…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:33PMThis post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief
Definitely not for children, "Songs for the Fallen" is a sophisticated cabaret/vaudeville celebrating the decadent life. Its main character Mari…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:17AMMonday, July 27, 2015
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Of course, Mrs. Smith is the marvelous creation of writer/actor/performance artist David Hanbury and director Andrew Rasmussen, based on a chara…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:47PMThursday, July 23, 2015
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A very powerful and topical theme runs though Penny Jackson’s play, "I Know What Boys Want," but the author’s understandable anger leads to …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:27AMTuesday, July 21, 2015
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For PTP/NYC (Potomac Theatre Project)’s 29th season they have chosen to pair one-acts by two of their favorite playwrights, Howard Barker and …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:34PMSaturday, July 18, 2015
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Plays about three very different sisters go back to Shakespeare’s "King Lear." In modern times, the topic immediately recalls Chekhov’s "Thr…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:29AMWednesday, July 15, 2015
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Although "Sayonara, The Musical" had an acclaimed lavish production at Paper Mill Playhouse in 1987 and a later version at Houston’s Theatre U…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:37AMThursday, July 9, 2015
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The six members of the Lobbyists make up the cast along with Raymond Sicam III (on cello) who perform all of the characters as well as play all …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:31PMWednesday, July 8, 2015
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While this is a fascinating idea, anyone who has worked in theater will tell you that Tech rehearsals are long and tedious with all the stopping…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:28AMSaturday, June 27, 2015
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His new play "Gloria" goes in another direction, a scathing satire of the media (magazine work, book publishing and television development) as w…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:25PMWednesday, June 24, 2015
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Much of the play is directed using Brecht’s so-called alienation effect in which the audience is constantly reminded that this is all a play, …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:44AMSunday, June 21, 2015
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Rajiv Joseph’s plays are filled with emotional or physical violence as in "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo," "Gruesome Playground Injuries" or…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:58PMSaturday, June 20, 2015
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The first thing one notices on entering the Delacorte Theatre is how empty the large stage looks. In Riccardo Hernandez’s scenic design, excep…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:00PMThursday, June 18, 2015
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The recent national rallies to raise the minimum wage have made the Federal Theater Project’s 1936 "Injunction Granted" relevant all over agai…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:49PMThursday, June 11, 2015
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Although he was probably Hollywood’s most famous tough guy, James Cagney’s life story is not as well-known as that of many other legendary m…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:05PMWednesday, June 10, 2015
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In recent years, there have been many Off Broadway attempts to musicalize the works of Thomas Hardy. The latest is composer Christopher Beste an…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:49AMTuesday, June 9, 2015
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As a follow-up to their musical based on Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise, lyricist/composer Nancy Harrow and writer/director Will Pomerantz…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:21PMFriday, June 5, 2015
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Can an obnoxious, sadomasochistic nerd be the central character of a play? This is the thought that will run through your mind as you watch Jess…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:14PM 
