Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews?
March 11, 2010 By 2 Comments
Despite the whimsical title, Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews? is a serious conversation, about serious stuff. It is about art, and – this is the genius of Kornbluth, that eventually he always gets down to the bones of the thing – about love. [Read more...]
Marc Kudisch in Terrence McNally’s Golden Age
March 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Terrence McNally’s new play Golden Age, which just had its successful debut at Philadelphia Theatre Company, opens March 12th in the Kennedy Center’s Family Theatre with new rewrites and a new director (Walter Bobbie, [Read more...]
Mondo Andronicus
March 10, 2010 By 2 Comments
Who knew thundering electric guitars, buckets of blood, and Elizabethan tragedy would go together so well? Heavy metal and horror clash with the immortal words of Shakespeare in Molotov Theatre Group’s disturbing, funny, and bleak Mondo Andronicus. [Read more...]
Some Girl(s)
March 7, 2010 By 1 Comment
Here’s how you can tell when your play is working: you’ve got an Amen Corner. On the night I saw No Rules Theatre take its maiden voyage with a fine production of Some Girl(s), the Amen Corner was in full voice, gasping in shock and recognition at the audacity of the dialogue and the plot points. Brothers and sisters, welcome to Church – the Church of Neil LaBute. [Read more...]
Next to Normal, Happy Now?, Present Laughter
March 5, 2010 By 2 Comments
In the early spring of 2008 I caught the first New York production of Next to Normal, off Broadway at Second Stage. I reviewed it favorably in this column. Now, eight months into its run in a revised form, back on Broadway, I visited it again recently. [Read more...]
The Fool at the Circus
March 5, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A sequel to the very successful production last season, A Classical Fool! A fun silent show based around movement in the style of silent films and set in a circus.
Directed by Nicholas Allen
Musical Scene Stealers – Winter, 2010
March 4, 2010 By 13 Comments
Two young undertakers, two angels and their lover, a colorful instrumentalist and singer, a pie-baking assistant, a quarreling and vocally gifted couple, a distraught girlfriend who’s gone to pot, [Read more...]
Mauritius
March 3, 2010 By 4 Comments
Top Pick! — Bay Theatre’s production of Mauritius is a rocket trip to a world both violent and profoundly cynical, where lives and relationships are held cheaply. [Read more...]
Amazons and Their Men
March 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The Frau reclines into her seat, smoking a fine cigar; she distracts herself with artistic integrity, blissfully ignorant of the stomping boots of war outside her studio. This duly summarizes Jordan Harrison’s Amazons and their Men as presented by Forum Theatre. [Read more...]
Chumbale (Every Love Bird Needs a Nest)
March 3, 2010 By 3 Comments
When you consider that Facebook is banned in some communist countries today, Chumbale, an area premiere, is wickedly funny, and extraordinarily brave. [Read more...]
