Friday, 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 01:14PMWednesday, June 3, 2015
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Robert Askins’ hilarious and engrossing new play is set in Texas just like his Hand to God also produced by MCC Theater at the Lucille Lortel …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:46PMSunday, May 31, 2015
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For those who saw Fiasco Theater’s inventive and clever version of "Into the Woods" at the Roundabout’s Laura Pels Theatre earlier this year…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:44PMWednesday, May 27, 2015
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The Pearl Theatre Company’s express aim in reviving this curiosity according to translator Jess Burkle, responsible for this world premiere ad…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:00PMTuesday, May 12, 2015
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The Lincoln Center Theater revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The King and I is a provocative, eye-filling and poignant experience. Both …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:01PMWednesday, May 6, 2015
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We associate Jacobean revenge tragedy with the reign of King James I. Each play’s atrocities seemed to dare the next playwright with an unspok…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:55PMSunday, May 3, 2015
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Directed by the usually innovative Diane Paulus (whose credits include the critically acclaimed "Hair," "Porgy and Bess," "Pippin"), "Finding Ne…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:29PMWednesday, April 29, 2015
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Unlike D’Amour’s last New York play, "Detroit," a Pulitzer Prize finalist which had four characters and a tight arc, "Airline Highway" is di…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:12PMTuesday, April 28, 2015
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As deftly adapted by British playwright Mike Poulton and vigorously directed by Jeremy Herrin, the plays on the stage of the Winter Garden vivid…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:12PMTuesday, April 21, 2015
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Though this sophisticated story was intended for equally sophisticated adults as part of the mores and manners of a society and culture gone wit…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:44PMFriday, April 17, 2015
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The first problem is the attractive modern setting by Walt Spengler of the wedding breakfast of Claudius and Gertrude with a huge cake in the ba…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:24PMWednesday, April 15, 2015
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Like Laura Eason’s "Sex with Strangers" seen at The Second Stage last summer, "The Undeniable Sound of Right Now," her new play having its wor…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:24PMFriday, April 10, 2015
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Ironically, the only script that has survived is the original one by Hebert Fields (Annie Get Your Gun) and Morrie Ryskind (Pulitzer Prize for O…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:01PMThursday, April 9, 2015
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ERC’s unusual evening includes music by Ernest Chausson, Cécile Chaminade and Jacques Offenbach, video taken from George Méliès’ silent f…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:57PMWednesday, April 8, 2015
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Since Bedlam theatre company arrives on the radar in 2013, theatergoers have left their performances as devoted fans. Beginning with acclaimed p…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:19PMFriday, April 3, 2015
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The best revival of the season to date, Roundabout’s On the Twentieth Century is as streamlined and fast-paced as the actual train and twice a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:13PMMonday, March 23, 2015
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Bathsheba Doran’s new drama, "The Mystery of Love & Sex," now at Lincoln Center Theater’s Mitzi E. Newhouse, is yet another play whose …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 02:28PMSunday, March 22, 2015
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Director Anna D. Shapiro, usually associated with heavier dramas from such authors as Kenneth Lonergan, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Tracy Letts, Bruce…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:36PMThursday, March 19, 2015
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Sometimes stage properties that have been forgotten are lost for a good reason. "Hazel Flagg" is one of those shows. Jule Styne completists, how…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:24PMMonday, March 16, 2015
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Though totally unknown to Americans, Ferenc Molnár’s "Fashions for Men" is another treasure newly unearthed by the reliable Mint Theater. Dav…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 10:25PMThis post is by Victor Gluck, Editor-in-Chief
Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s eye-opening The World of Extreme Happiness reveals the urgent problems in contemporary China in which people from rura…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 01:52PMThursday, March 12, 2015
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Not seen locally since 1979, Musicals Tonight! is giving this light-hearted romp another outing as a concert staging in the Goodspeed Opera Hous…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:06PMWednesday, March 11, 2015
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While Broadhurst is most famous today for the Shubert theater named after him on 44th Street, in his own time he was an expert at light comedy a…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:13AMMonday, March 9, 2015
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The advantage of an evening of one acts is that you are bound to like one, while a single long play may disappoint you. After a series of very …
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 12:14PMFriday, March 6, 2015
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Alexander Hamilton may have been the unsung hero among the Founding Fathers of the American Revolution but a new musical will change all that. "…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:47PMMonday, March 2, 2015
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Playwright Jennifer Haley describes her work as delving “into ethics in virtual reality and the impact of technology on our human relationship…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:26PMFriday, February 27, 2015
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"The Winter’s Tale" is classified as one of Shakespeare’s “problem plays” or “dark comedies” and as such it does not get produced ve…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 03:56PMTuesday, February 24, 2015
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Playwright Lucy Thurber is angry about the state of things in America today. As a result she has written an angry play about her feelings and gi…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 11:01PMMonday, February 23, 2015
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Under the assured direction of Cynthia Nixon, renowned actresses Tony Pinkins and Diane Wiest turn Joel Drake Johnson’s "Rasheeda Speaking" in…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 05:00PMWednesday, February 18, 2015
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New York Theatre Workshop is hosting Britain’s Actors Touring Company production of Scottish playwright David Greig’s acclaimed Edinburgh Fe…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 06:47PMMonday, February 16, 2015
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Hugely talented singer-comedienne Christina Bianco has become famous for her "Forbidden Broadway" and YouTube appearances where she has performe…
SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 04:17PM 
