I guess I just don’t get Falsettos. The Tony Award® winning musical may have been fresh at its 1992 Broadway debut—it’s mainstream depiction of gay couples was certainly trailblazing—but it now feels vexingly thin, dated and dull. The intimate, conversational operetta by William Finn and James Lapine, directed here by James Lapine, captured a period […]
Archives for June 18, 2019
First Look at The Face Zone, spoken-word vignettes with matching surreal art
It all started with two overlapping events in childhood. To amuse the five-year-old me, my father drew a face on the inside bottom of a large water thermos that he used for tennis. When you looked into the empty container, you could see a swollen horizontal slit at the end where the halves of the […]