A couple of weeks ago, the satire site McSweeney’s published an article entitled, “How Can I Help to Promote Diversity Without Relinquishing Any of My Power?” This title alone could serve as an incredibly succinct synopsis of Joshua Harmon’s Admissions, now playing at Studio Theatre, where Harmon’s previous play Bad Jews holds the distinction of […]
Archives for January 21, 2019
Jeffrey review. Paul Rudnick’s comedy of love in the time of AIDS
There’s no such thing as love without risk. Risk of rejection. Risk of your partner finding someone else. But for gay men in the ‘80s and ‘90s, at the height of the AIDS crisis, love and sex carried more than just emotional risk—there was physical, mortal danger to be dealt with as well. And so, […]
Review: Submission, a dystopian view of Muslim Brotherhood’s takeover of Europe
Do you think we have problems, with our enormous partisan divide? It is 2022, and the French are electing a new President. In one corner, the National Front’s Marine Le Pen (Stacy Whittle), France’s Apostle of Intolerance, for whom the concept of national identity is seamlessly fused with the identity of the native-born. In the […]
Review: Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights gets the Pointless treatment in Visions of Love
The Pointless Theatre collaborators are skilled adaptors of familiar stories. Using a unique visual approach to theater and storytelling, the company finds the pulse points, the underlying heart beats of each story, and finds fresh ways to bring it all to the stage. They accomplished this with Sleeping Beauty, Minnie the Moocher, Imogen, and now […]
School of Rock: The Musical review
I normally don’t like dumb movies of the kind in which the actor Jack Black has made a conspicuous brand. But School of Rock, the sleeper hit from 2003, wasn’t that dumb—it was funny and sweet, a crowd-pleaser featuring a soundtrack from my youth and a career-defining turn from Black. Now School of Rock: The […]