News: The Murky Side of America Reflected in Two Broadway Plays: “The Terms...
Theatre remains one of the most effective ways to look at the world. Recently, Theatre Reviews Limited critiqued Michael Moore’s “The Terms of My Surrender” playing at the Belasco Theatre. The review...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “1984” Wrinkles Reality at the Hudson Theatre
“Yes, ‘n’ how many years can some people exist/Before they’re allowed to be free/Yes, ‘n’ how many times can a man turn his head/And pretend that he just doesn’t see/The answer, my friend, is blowin’...
View ArticleNews: Lifetime® Channel’s Season Four of “Broadway Balances America”...
Broadway Across America’s collaboration with the award-winning morning show “The Balancing Act®,” on the Lifetime® Channel continues Season Four of the six-part series “Broadway Balances America” with...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Small World” at 59E59 Theaters
“See, this is the crux of the matter. We have different aesthetic touchstones. I am drawn to characters like Apollo, Persephone, Oedipus Rex. You prefer Jiminy Cricket – Bambi – Goofy. My Pluto lives...
View ArticleOff Broadway Review: “The Treasurer” at Playwrights Horizons’ Peter Jay Sharp...
Max Posner’s “The Treasurer,” currently running at Playwrights Horizons’ Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, is a play about Ida Armstrong’s (played with a fragile irascibility by Deanna Dunagan) youngest son...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “As You Like It” Pleases the Palate at Classic Stage...
William Shakespeare’s romantic “Christian” comedy “As You Like It,” currently running at Classic Stage Company, is on the surface a play that has offered appreciative audiences over the centuries more...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “The Violin” Plays Well at 59E59 Theaters
“Okay. Some day we’re gonna get the jack together and we’re gonna have a little house, and a couple of acres and a cow and some pigs and . . . And live off the fat of the land! And have rabbits. Well,...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Discord” Misses the Mark at Primary Stages
Members of the Primary Stages staff, prior to curtain, passed through the audience asking members to “select a button” based on who we thought would “win” the discordant discourse: Jefferson, Dickens,...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Tiny Beautiful Things” at the Public Theater’s Newman...
Watching “Tiny Beautiful Things” at The Public’s Newman Theater can be described as experiencing the vicissitudes of the human experience through the kaleidoscopic lens of sheer redemptive grace. The...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “A Clockwork Orange” at New World Stages
“A Clockwork Orange” – a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of A Clockwork Orange? ‘The attempt to impose upon man the laws and conditions appropriate only to a mechanical creation – against this I...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Mary Jane” at New York Theatre Workshop”
In Part One of Amy Herzog’s “Mary Jane,” currently playing at the New York Theatre Workshop, Mary Jane (Carrie Coon) is at home caring for her two-and-a-half-year-old son Alex. She shares that...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Charm” at MCC Theater at the Lucille Lortel Theatre
“A compliment brings the charm to the surface. When we say that a certain color compliments your eyes, we mean it brings them out. You want to bring the other person out, make them feel special.” –...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Measure for Measure” at the Public’s LuEsther Theater
“Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.” – Luke 6:38...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “I of the Storm” at The Gym at Judson
What is a successful money manager to do after serving time in prison for the misappropriation of funds and finding he is bereft of family, friends, and home? The Speaker in Def Poet RJ Bartholomew’s...
View ArticleNews: Theatre Reviews Limited Available in Ten Languages
Using the powerful Google Translate platform, all content on Theatre Reviews Limited is now available in ten languages: English; Spanish; Italian; French; German; Japanese; Korean; Bengali; Filipino;...
View ArticleBroadway Review: “Time and the Conways” at the American Airlines Theatre
“No, Time’s only a kind of dream, Kay. If it wasn’t, it would have to destroy everything—the whole universe—and then remake it again every tenth of a second. But Time doesn’t destroy anything. It...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Lonely Planet” at the Keen Company at the Clurman at...
“And this is the thing: they will train you, they will teach you to hit, they will teach you to move – but they never tell you about the fear. Nothing the people in your Corner can tell you will...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Desperate Measures” at the York Theatre Company
Although billed as being “loosely based” on the classic Shakespearian comedy, “Desperate Measures,” currently playing at the York Theatre Company, has the “guts” of “Measure for Measure” with the charm...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Oedipus El Rey” Creates Mythos at The Public’s Shiva...
“No one should be considered fortunate until dead.” – Greek Maxim The fifth century B.C.E. is not the present-day Los Angeles borderlands: although the bones of Sophocles’ tragedy “Oedipus Rex” engaged...
View ArticleOff-Broadway Review: “Occupied Territories” at 59E59 Theaters
One of the territories occupied in Nancy Bannon and Mollye Maxner’s “Occupied Territories,” currently running at 59E59 Theaters, is the Jungle of Vietnam in 1967 during what seemed at the time to be an...
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