iKilL is a exhibition of excellent choreography performed by a well-drilled ensemble. Auteur director Izumi Ashizawa has gathered a team of talented young actors. Together, they seek to portray the horrors and consequences of violence and war in a series of short vignettes performed in the style of Japanese physical theater.
Archives for July 2011
Gypsy & the Bully Door
They can take away your home, but they can’t take your spirit. Sara Josephine James knows this better than any of us — she’s responsible not only for her own spirit but for numerous others as well.
Next stop for Adventure’s Dream play is Singapore
Michael J. Bobbitt and members of Adventure Theatre are setting off on an adventure of their own when their Nippon Airways flight departs July 27th, touches down in Japan the next day before landing them in their final destination, Singapore.
Pop!
Andy Warhol played the deadpan fool but was nobody’s fool. The pop artist is still making money after death. One of his self-portraits sold for $38.4 million in a bidding war at an auction in May, 2011. Now Warhol is alive at Studio Theatre in a glitzy, high-powered, wildly funny musical, with book and lyrics […]
e-Geaux (beta)
Maybe it was the 10pm curtain or the Ting-Tings pre-show soundtrack. Maybe it was the average audience age (30 years, roughly, according the production) but an unmistakable buzz was building at e-Geaux (beta), an original, hilarious Gen Y jab-fest hitting the Facebook generation nail on the head.
Shelter in Place
Christmas Eve. Three co-workers. The office of Homeland Security. Thus unravels the story of Shelter in Place, a light-hearted one act where three unsuspecting office mates find themselves trapped in their building during a shelter in place lockdown, instantly transforming their casual banter into confrontation as the day progresses.
I See You
If I See You were an item of produce, it would have been grown in a home garden free of pesticides or chemicals, being watered and pruned daily by a gentle and caring caretaker.
When ET Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
If aliens came to visit Earth, would we be proud of our world? James Levy’s joyful sci-fi rock opera puts humanity under the microscope as we observe first contact between a fading rock star and a few very groovy extraterrestrials.
A Piece of Pi
There is no pie in A Piece of Pi. I feel it’s necessary to point this out, because after all, there are clowns. So one might expect some pie-throwing with a show title like that. Or some mathematical musings on the nature of pi. But, there are neither.
Patrick & Me
Avenue Q asked the question, “What Do You Do With A B.A. In English?” Historian Anthony Cohen asks the audience a similar question, “What do you do with a history degree?” In his one-man Fringe show, Patrick and Me, he attempts to answer the question. Lost and unsure of what he should do after college, Cohen went on […]
Ever So Humble
A weekend motor trip through Western New York state and Connecticut brought me to Ithaca where a new comedy by Tim Pinckney was having a world premiere at the newly refurbished Hangar Theatre, a highly regarded regional theatre, now under the artistic direction of Peter Flynn.
Master Class
Yes, Tyne Daly as “Maria Callas” is the primary reason to see this smashing revival of Terrence McNally’s play Master Class at the Manhattan Theatre Club’s Friedman Theatre on Broadway. But I think McNally’s play has been unfairly dismissed as a star vehicle without much power of its own and, in this, I disagree. It’s […]