“We both may be susceptible to full moons,” a sophisticated Virginia ingénue, Leslie (Betsy Morgan), tells a Texas rancher, Bick (Lewis Cleale), when he visits her home to buy a horse. [Read more...]
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Alexander C. Kafka is deputy editor of The Chronicle Review magazine of The Chronicle of Higher Education, and has contributed arts and book reviews, as well as personal essays, to The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, and many other publications.
Rock ‘n’ Roll
May 3, 2009 By 1 Comment
“What you like about brains,” a Czech emigrant classics student named Lenka tells the Communist Cambridge philosophy don Max in Tom Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’ Roll, “… is that they all work in the same way. What you don’t like about minds is that they don’t.” [Read more...]
Ragtime
April 27, 2009 By 2 Comments
“We never know when our feelings will creep up on us and go boom and startle us,” says the character Mother to her friend Tateh in Ragtime. [Read more...]
Menopause The Musical
April 19, 2009 By 11 Comments
“The show is about WOMEN … not about theater,” writer/producer Jeanie Linders says in a press-kit Q&A about Menopause: The Musical.
OK, then how to evaluate it?
Women? Two thumbs up! Five stars! Must see!
But this show? Dismal. [Read more...]
Chicago
April 3, 2009 By 1 Comment
Perhaps you remember the wonderful scene in the 1979 Bob Fosse film All That Jazz in which Ann Reinking and Erzsebet Foldi-playing the Fosse stand-in Joe Gideon’s girlfriend and teenage daughter, respectively-perform a little living-room jazz-dance number for Roy Scheider, who plays Gideon. The performance is a lovely, homey respite from Gideon’s hectic speed-and-booze-fueled preparation for a Lenny-like biopic and a Chicago-like Broadway show. [Read more...]
