Author: David Roberts

Off-Broadway Preview: “Four Saints in Three Acts” at The Doxsee at Target Margin Theater (Through Sunday, October 9, 2022)

August 12, 2022 | News, Off-Broadway, Previews > | "Four Saints in Three Acts", Aaron Epstein, David Greenspan, David Roberts, Gertrude Stein, Ken Rus Schmoll, Target Margin Theater, Theatre Reviews Limited, Virgil Thomson

The Lucille Lortel Theatre presents a solo play presentation of Four Saints in Three Acts, starring renowned actor David Greenspan (The Patsy, Strange Interlude) interpreting 66 unique roles. Four Saints in Three Acts is a culmination of Greenspan’s more than decade long journey into creating a tour de force trilogy of solo interpretations of plays from the 1920’s. These previous…

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Dance News/Preview: The Joyce Theatre Foundation Presents Alan Cumming in “Burn” (Tuesday, September 20, 2022, through Sunday, September 25, 2022)

August 11, 2022 | awards, Dance, hamlet, News, Previews, this land is made > | "Burn", Alan Cumming, Edinburgh International Festival, Joyce Theatre Productions, Linda Shelton, National Theatre of Scotland, Robert Burns, Steven Hoggett, The Joyce Theater, The Joyce Theatre Foundation

The Joyce Theater Foundation (Linda Shelton, Executive Director) celebrates the opening of its Fall ‘22/Winter’23 season with not only a Joyce debut, but the U.S. dance theater debut of award-winning multihyphenate artist Alan Cumming in Burn. Created by Cumming and Olivier-winning choreographer Steven Hoggett, the solo piece that explores the life and legacy of Scottish poet Robert Burns will play The Joyce Theater from September 20-25. Tickets, ranging…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” at The Theater at St. Clements (Closed Sunday, August 14, 2022)

“Skipper and me had a clean, true thing between us!–had a clean friendship, practically all our lives, till Maggie got the idea you’re talking about. Normal? No!–It was too rare to be normal, any true thing between two people is too rare to be normal.” – Brick in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” It is Big Daddy’s (a scrappy…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Between the Lines” at the Tony Kiser Theater at Second Stage (Through Sunday, October 2, 2022)

July 23, 2022 | Off-Broadway, transl > | "Between the Lines", and music supervision by Gregory Rassen, Arielle Jacobs, arrangements, Aubrey Matalon, casting by Tara Rubin Casting, costume design by Gregg Barnes, Dan Hoy, Elyssa Samsel, hair and makeup design by J. Jared Janas, Heather Ayers, Hillary Fisher, Jake David Smith, Jeff Calhoun, Jerusha Cavazos, John Rapson, Joseph Verlezza, Julia Murney, Kate Anderson, lighting design by Jason Lyons, Martin Landry, Matt Murphy, music direction by Chris Gurr, music supervision and additional arrangements by Daniel Green, orchestrations, Paul McGill, projection design by Caite Hevner, scenic design by Tobin Ost, Sean Stack, Second Stage, sound design by Ken Travis, Theatre Reviews Limited, Timothy Allen McDonald, Tony Kiser Theater, Vicki Lewis, Will Burton, Wren Rivera

“Fairy Tales” and “Happily Ever After” have been great fodder for musical theater usually targeting multi-generational audiences, being prudent to include visual and intellectual content that will entertain all ages. Disney has had remarkable success bringing their animated characters to the stage surrounding them with lavish sets, adorning them in gorgeous costumes, and infusing intricate stagecraft into the production that…

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Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival Shubert Theatre Review: “Much Ado About Nothing” (Closed Sunday, August 7, 2022)

Under director Matt Pfeiffer’s helm, Akeem Davis (Benedick) and Brett Ashley Robinson (Beatrice) and the cast of “Much Ado About Nothing” bring Shakespeare’s late comedy (1598 or shortly thereafter) to a welcomed level of excellence at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival 2022. This is a “Much Ado” not to be missed. In this pleasing production, Don Pedro (a likeable and energetic Lindsay…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Epiphany” Tackles Wonder Head-On at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E Newhouse Theater (Closed Sunday, July 31, 2022)

In an email with several attachments (none of which any of the invitees bothered to read), Morkan (the incomparable Marylouise Burke) invites several friends to her “very big house, on the banks of a large river, just north of a big city” to celebrate Epiphany and meet the honored guest, Gabriel. This is the setting for one of the most…

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Off-Broadway Review: The Public Theater and National Black Theatre (NBT) Production of “Fat Ham” at the Public’s Anspacher Theater (Closed Sunday, July 31, 2022)

June 29, 2022 | a christmas carol, black no, hamlet, LGBTQ+, Off-Broadway, public, public theater, the lonely few > | "Fat Ham", Adrianna Mitchell, Alexandria Brienne Lewis, Anspacher Theater, Benja Kay Thomas, Billy Eugene Jones, Calvin Leon Smith, Choreography by Darrell Moultrie, Chris Herbie Holland, Costume design by Dominique Fawn Hill, David Roberts, Fight direction by Lisa Kopitsky, Hair and wig design by Earon Nealey, Illusions design by Skylar Fox, James iJames, Jereme Kyle serves as the Production Stage Manager, Joan Marcus, Lighting design by Stacey Derosier, Marcel Spears, Marquis D. Gibson, Matthew Elijah Webb, National Black Theatre, NBT, Nikki Crawford, Prop management by Claire M. Kavanah, Public Theater, RJ Foster, Ryan Kane serves as the Stage Manager, Saheem Ali, Scenic design by Maruti Evans, Sound design by Mikaal Sulaiman, Tanesha Gary, Theatre Reviews Limited

Things are going as well as they can as Juicy (a pensive, smart, and gay Marcel Spears who is thicc, beautiful, and lonely) and his cousin and oldest friend Tio (a relaxed and clever Chris Herbie Holland who is a stoner) set up for what appears to be his mother’s wedding reception at her house in North Carolina. Earlier in…

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Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival 2022 Main Stage Review: One Singular Sensation “A Chorus Line” at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival at the Labuda Center for the Performing Arts on the Campus of DeSales University (Closed Sunday, July 10, 2022)

June 20, 2022 | awards, do this one thing for me, pennsylvania, public, the seven year > | "A Chorus Line", Andrew Ruggieri (Mike), Andy Peterson, Bianca Bulgarelli (Bebe), Bob Avian, Brandon Moreno (Larry), Campus of DeSales University, Clint Maddox Thompson (Al), David Grindrod, David M. Greenberg, Eddie Martin Morales (Paul), Edward Kleban, Emma Vielbig (Maggie), James Harkness, James Kirkwood, Jaylen Axel (Butch), Joseph Papp, Josh Curran (Roy), Josiah Behrens (Tom), Julia Feeley (Judy), Justin Lopez (Patrick), Kathryn Brunner (Val), Labuda Center for the Performing Arts, Lauren Emily Alagna (Kristine), Lilianna Solum (Lois), Luis Villabon, Madison Finney (Shelia), Marlena López Hilderley (Tricia), Marvin Hamlisch, Matthew Aaron Liotine (Greg & Dance Captain), Michael McDonald, Milan Magaña (Diana), Morgan Harrison (Vicki), Musa Hitomi (Connie), Nicholas Dante, Nick Schrier (Frank), Patrick Higgins, Paul Watt-Morse (Don), Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Pulitzer Prize, Randy Lawson, Richard Latta, Shaun-Avery Williams (Richie), Sissy Bell, The New York Shakespeare Festival, Thomas Henke (Bobby), Tony Award Winner

The original production of “A Chorus Line” opened in 1975 Off-Broadway at The Public Theater and transferred to The Shubert Theater on Broadway three months later to be nominated for twelve Tony Awards, winning nine and being awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It was a groundbreaking musical that was the first Broadway show to be performed without an intermission…

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Off-Broadway Review: “The Bedwetter” at Atlantic Theater Company’s Linda Gross Theater (Closed Sunday, July 10, 2022)

June 13, 2022 | bedwetter, Off-Broadway, the bedwetter > | "The Bedwetter", Adam Schlesinger, Ahron R. Foster, Anne Kauffman, Ashley Blanchet, Atlantic Theater Company, Bebe Neuwirth, Caissie Levy, Charlotte Elizabeth Curtis, Charlotte MacLeod, costume design by Kaye Voyce, Darren Goldstein, dialects by Kate Wilson, Ellyn Marie Marsh, Emily Zimmerman, hair and wig design by Tom Watson, Joseph Verlezza, Joshua Harmon, lighting design by Japhy Weideman, Linda Gross Theater, Margot Weintraub, music direction by Henry Aronson, music supervision and coordination by Dean Sharenow, orchestrations by David Chase, projection design by Lucy Mackinnon, Richard Hodge, Rick Crom, Sarah Silverman, scenic design by Laura Jellinek, sound design by Kai Harada, Telsey + Company / Rachel Hoffman, Theatre Reviews Limited, Zoe Glick

Comedy is usually a successful way to approach any discussion about a difficult and awkward situation and often eases the tension surrounding the stigma that might be associated with the uncomfortable problem. Comedy writers have used this technique for years creating some of the most successful sitcoms that deal with controversial social issues. It may be more difficult to implement…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Exception to the Rule” at the Black Box Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center (Closed Sunday, June 26, 2022)

In “Exception to the Rule,” currently playing at the Black Box Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center, is playwright Dave Harris more concerned about what might be the exception to the rule in his play’s inner-city high school classroom or what is the rule that looms over classroom one eleven’s detainees on the last day of the week…

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