Monday, May 24, 2010

Wrapping Up A Year of Theatergoing. Part I: Fall Semester

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Forget for the moment how the New York “season” is defined. I’d like to use this occasion to review my own season of theatergoing in 2009...
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Kudos to Annie Baker, 2010 Obie Award Winner

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THIS JUST IN!!! How lovely to see that playwright Annie Baker has won an Obie Award for her play Circle Mirror Transformation . ...
Monday, May 17, 2010

Where Are the New Playwrights? They're Here! They're Here!

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A question that is frequently asked in the wonderful world of theater is “where are the new playwrights?” There always seems to be a fear...
Thursday, May 13, 2010

Two new shows: One warm and inviting, the other smarmy and farcical

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Aficionados of edgy plays about the angst-filled lives of sophisticated, cynical, and smarmy characters should skip down to my review ...
Saturday, May 1, 2010

The Burnt Part Boys: Earnestness is Not Nearly Enough

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The best thing about The Burnt Part Boys , now in previews at the Playwrights Horizons, is its evocative title. Unfortunately, the music...
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Sunday, April 25, 2010

The Aliens: A Gem of a Play by One Gem of a Playwright

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If you saw and enjoyed Circle Mirror Transformation earlier this year, you know that the theater world has been granted the gift of an exc...
Monday, April 19, 2010

I Never Sang For My Father: A Gift from a Master of Language

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“Death ends a life, but not a relationship.” I jotted down this quote on my program while viewing the Keen Company’s poignant reviva...
Sunday, April 18, 2010

Enron: Full of Sound and Fury, But Signifying Precious Little

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Was the irony intentional? Enron , the much-anticipated British theatrical import about the rise and fall of the Enron Corporation, re...
Tuesday, April 6, 2010

The Glass Menagerie: Deconstructing Memory

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Never trust a memoirist. Haven’t we learned that lesson yet? Remember James ( A Million Little Pieces ) Frey being upbraided by Opra...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Song List from Sondheim Tribute

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In response to a request , here is the list of songs in the order they were performed at the second of the two tribute concerts for Stephen...

Sondheim at 80: All-Star Tribute with the NY Philharmonic

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In this, the season of tributes to the glorious god of musical theater, Stephen Sondheim, it would be difficult to top the two days of c...
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Saturday, February 27, 2010

Brave Men and True: The Temperamentals

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Near the end of The Pride , Alexi Kaye Campbell’s solidly-acted, emotionally moving play juxtaposing the lives of gay men in the 1950s a...