3,951 stories from http://www.theaterscene.net
In the cavernous expanse of the Park Avenue Armory, where spectacle often arrives inflated to mythic proportions, "The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions" materializes as a freque…
Mary Foster Conklin's Mirrors Revisited stripped Peggy Lee's 1975 art-album down to its core. With a tightly aligned ensemble led by John DiMartino, Yoshi Waki's bass, Vince Cherico's percus…
Kathy Kaefer's Kiss Me Once: Stories from the Homefront transforms 1940s wartime songs into moving portraits of real families, lovers, and soldiers. Through tender storytelling and beautiful…
The American Soldier, written and performed by Douglas Taurel, is a solid evening of theater with important messages about war and the soldiers who fight them. Taurel is an excellent actor a…
This World of Tomorrow resembles the films "Back to the Future" (Bert cannot risk changing anything), "Groundhog Day" for its repetition of the same events, and "You've Got Mail" in which tw…
Steve Ross and a gifted ensemble brought Noël Coward's world vividly to life at the Episcopal Actors' Guild, blending wit, longing, and theatrical history. Highlights included Shana Farr'…
I come from a family of nurses, and apparently so does playwright Scott Organ whose play "Diversion" is set entirely in an ICU nurse's breakroom. Organ has clearly done his homework, because…
Talene Yeghisabet Monahon's new play "Meet the Cartozians," being presented by The Second Stage at The Pershing Square Signature Center, is simply the best new American play in New York this…
With Tom Stoppard's passing, we look back on a career that transformed theatrical language and feeling. Our tribute revisits Arcadia, Leopoldstadt, Travesties, and The Real Thing through The…
With a three-hour running time (the first act runs two hours straight without an intermission) the play is too long for its repetitiousness having the actors go over the same theater games a…
Eddie Bruce brings warmth, wit, and timeless swing to Winter Rhythms, marking his first Urban Stages appearance with charm, heart, and musical finesse.
The post Eddie Bruce " The Magic &…
Harlem Holidays features Renée Elise Goldsberry in an intimate CTH celebration of music, storytelling, and community-driven artistry on Dec 15, 2025
The post Interview with Ty Jones, Classi…
The occasion was the 20th Anniversary Gala of Gingold Theatrical Group, the company that celebrates and revitalizes the work of George Bernard Shaw
The post Gingold Theatrical Group's 20th A…
Douglas Taurel brings veterans' stories to life in The American Soldier, a gripping, award-winning solo performance.
The post The American Soldier " An Interview with Douglas Taurel appeared…
Iraisa Ann Reilly in her one-woman show "A Bodega Princess Remembers La Fiesta de los Reyes Magos, 1998" at Ensemble Studio Theatre (Photo credit: Valerie Terranova) If you venture into the …
In its final form, the piece stands as both elegy and proclamation: a testament to a heritage reclaimed, and to the fierce, necessary act of making contact"full, unguarded, and profoundly hu…
The film version starring Burt Lancaster as sleazy yet powerful gossip columnist J.J. Hunsecker (similar to the notorious Walter Winchell) and Tony Curtis as hungry press agent protégé Sid…
Unlike J.T. Rogers' Tony Award-winning "Oslo" which handled similar material about the secret Oslo Peace Accord conference, "Kyoto" by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson makes little concession to…
Michael Lepore as the Telegram Boy, Micaela Diamond as Sabina, Ruthie Ann Miles as Mrs. Antrobus, Geena Quintos as the Mammoth and David Ryan Smith as the Dinosaur in a scene from Ethan Lipt…
If you know the play, you many have trouble following it as several actors double: Ron Canada plays both John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (Richard's uncle and Henry Bolingbroke's father) and…
Patrick Page (back row) and Jason Sanchez, Adrien Rolet and Jake Berne (front row) in a scene from the Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Rajiv Joseph's "Archduke" at the Laura Pels …
GLORIA! from the Canterbury Choral Society unites Vivaldi, Puccini, and Arnesen in a luminous performance shaped by expressive voices and rich ensemble color.
The post GLORIA! " Canterbury C…
In Neil Pepe's stark revival of Rajiv Joseph's "Gruesome Playground Injuries," Nicholas Braun and Kara Young trace three decades of bruised connection. Childhood scars, teenage volatility, a…
These highlights stood out not because they were big, but because they were grounded. Nothing felt inflated or overworked. Reineke kept the orchestra responsive, and Gonzalez moved through M…
Strong's book belies his name, its overlong (two hours, 40 minute) narrative, with all its scheming realpolitik, being more formulaic than authentic. Its points about the individual vs. the …
