As a film, the tiny indie musical Once (shot over 17 days for a mere $150,000) was such an unlikely hit that it’s easy to be cynical over whether a big-budget Broadway adaptation could capture the same magic. But Olney’s intimate, stirring production of the show that would go on to win eight Tonys and […]
Archives for February 11, 2019
Review: BLKS, poet Aziza Barnes’ breakout play, is cracking them up at Woolly
BLKS at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company starts and ends with a scream, for reasons you cannot guess. Despite unexpected turns in the plot, you can count on BLKS to consistently provide a front-row seat to the physical and emotional feelings of Black women and femmes. In a society that so often censors Black women for […]
Review: John Cameron Mitchell’s Origin of Love Tour
They say you should never meet your heroes, but what about crowd-surfing them? That was what I was thinking the night of February 8, as I helped keep John Cameron Mitchell aloft as he made his way through the orchestra on the hands of adoring Hedwig and the Angry Inch fans. We had gathered to […]