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After a grand Pippin-style introductory opening, one exhilarating number follows another in acclaimed theater maker Taylor Mac's "The Hang." Derived from jazz and opera, this vibrant musical…
The New Yiddish Rep's (David Mandelbaum, artistic director) production of the Yiddish language "Di Froyen (The Women)" is a bittersweet, anger-inducing portrait of modern day Chasid women ca…
The songs which are mainly sung by Alex Boniello (usually with a guitar) and Molly Hager as the ghostly narrators are folk ballads which though lovely sound like a continuation of the same s…
Turning the plight of New York City's homeless into a game is an iffy proposition to say the least. At best, the audience for the theatrical effort, "Addressless: A Walk in Our Shoes," l…
"Ectoplasm" counts among its themes and topics: poetry, women's rights, prostitution, women's suffrage, love, death, the paranormal, the supernatural, fraudulent mediums " and the love that …
First presented in London in 2017, this shimmering U.S. premiere affirms its acclaim. The Australian-born Ms. Kalnejais' writing is highly crafted, imaginative and affective. Kalnejais was i…
Her nine years on SNL would seem excellent preparation for "Search" which requires her to portray ten different characters alternately. However, although Strong has tremendous stage presence…
He used the gimmick of preparing to perform the very show he was performing for his audience in the Cabaret Theater of the Theater for the New City; but by the end of his fascinating and gru…
For 80 minutes, Mr. Wilson commands the stage with his expressive voice and charismatic physical presence. Wilson portrays Robinson from robust youth to early middle-age beset by early Alzhe…
Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize winning play Wit, an exquisitely literate and dramatically poignant piece, would certainly suffer in the hands of less than able artists. Fortunately, the pro…
The show's pre-Broadway, out-of-town tryout was very successful financially, suggesting that there's an audience for the show. (The show broke box-office records in Seattle, during its tryou…
In the past, my annual wrap up excluded Broadway but this year Broadway presented the bulk of the year's outstanding works.
The post A 2021 Five Best List appeared first on TheaterScene.ne…
Not only is this a puppet show but it is also an extended concert. This year's vocalists are Valois Mickens, of West African, Celtic, and Native American origin, Â and Katarina Vizina, a t…
With narrative flashes reminiscent of Rod Serling's striking storytelling, "Logic & Hope" is a resonant examination of a heterosexual marriage during the era of early COVID-19. A cooped …
David Lindsay-Abaire's early plays ("Fuddy Meers," "Kimberly Akimbo" and "Wonder of the World") were all whimsical or at least otherworldly. He has gone on to create musicals based on previo…
"Flying Over Sunset," Pulitzer Prize-winning bookwriter/director James Lapine's new original show, is a "What If?" musical: using historical facts that are known about writer and philosopher…
This theatrical genius, responsible for the Tony Award winning plays "War Horse," "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" and the most recent revival of "Angels in America," knew…
Although Candace Bushnell's one-woman show, "Is There Still Sex in the City?," shares the same name with her 2019 novel/self-help book, the stage show now at the Darryl Roth Theatre is her a…
Cue the Irish Rep and its remounting of artistic director Charlotte Moore's musical "The Streets of New York," which the theatre first premiered twenty years ago in the aftermath of Septembe…
Broadway fixture Rob McClure occasionally channels Robin Williams with sparkling riffs and simulated ad libs but makes the roles of Daniel and Mrs. Doubtfire his own and each distinctive esp…
Ideally, the good-natured play with music, "Little Christmas Miracles" would perform only at matinees before an audience mostly of eager children rather than seasoned theatergoers.
The post…
Parsons' first work on the program was the tour de force solo "Balance of Power" performed by the phenomenal Zoey Anderson. Clad in Barbara Erin Delo's brilliantly colored tight costume"…
It appears that the later play was modeled on the earlier one though it may not have been noticed back in 1997 when "Sympathetic Magic" had its New York premiere. Both plays deal with discov…
David Bowie's "All the Young Dudes" triumphantly rendered with a touch of Dixieland is one of several grand numbers in the spirited Irish-French performer Camille O'Sullivan's engaging theat…
Will a former Afghani U.S. Armed Forces interpreter get himself and his family out of the country before he's captured by the Taliban in 2013? This is the crux of playwright Sylvia Khoury's …
