Sunday, June 17, 2012
I don't think Chekhov ever used the term "creep" to describe his characters, and yet that perfect word choice is one of the little joys that makes Annie Baker's adaptation of Uncle Vanya&nbs…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 08:19PMSaturday, June 16, 2012
The very funny concept behind Luther, the second of three plays running as part of Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks festival, is that Walter (Gibson Frazier) and Marjorie (Kelly Mares) have adopt…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 02:16AMThursday, June 14, 2012
At the heart of Women's Project Theater's We Play for the Gods is the sense that there are untold riches at the fingertips of the fourteen playwrights, directors, and producers -- all w…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 01:49AMWednesday, June 13, 2012
In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt, while campaigning against his former protegee William Howard Taft and the Democratic nominee, Woodrow Wilson, was shot by John Flammang Schrank. The bullet was s…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 01:50AMFriday, June 8, 2012
Photo/Joan MarcusFood and Fadwa opens with a crash course on Palestinian parties, a direct address from Fadwa (Lameece Issaq) to her studio audience that both fills us in on the premise…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 01:15AMWednesday, June 6, 2012
Democracy's a lovely thing -- everybody ought to have their voice heard -- but it's dangerous, too. After all, popularity, volume, and ideas aren't always enough to string together a coheren…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 03:38PMTuesday, June 5, 2012
Kenneth Lonergan's Medieval Play, had to have been produced under threat of thumbscrews. Sir Ralph (Josh Hamilton) and Sir Alfred (Tate Donovan) are pillagers of the lowest order -- though t…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 01:05AMIf My Children! My Africa! occasionally falls prey to schooling us, it is at least at the hands of the very gifted James A. Williams, and it is at least motivated by the relateable frus…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 01:01AMWill Eno's Title and Deed seems to operate in a vacuum. Christine Jones's set hangs geometric shapes in mid-air, looking like shrapnel frozen in time, and Ben Stanton's lighting is…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:59AMGiven that Kenneth Lonergan's Medieval Play is running in the Signature's largest space, I have to wonder if artistic director James Houghton was aiming for a Dante-like vibe in the spa…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 12:57AMFriday, June 1, 2012
Photo/Heather Phelps LiptonJapan's Takarazuka Review appears to be such a glorious contradiction of ideals that it seems almost impossible that it's never been the subject of a play before. …
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 05:07PMTuesday, May 29, 2012
Perhaps the greatest compliment I can send Company XIV's way is that this exciting, dance-fusion troupe (under the expert leadership of Austin McCormick) continues to evolve with each new sh…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 03:44PMPhoto/Corey TatarczukPerhaps the greatest compliment I can send Company XIV's way is that this exciting, dance-fusion troupe (under the expert leadership of Austin McCormick) continues to ev…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 03:41PMMonday, May 21, 2012
Photo/Bella MuccariAs it turns out, Wonderful Town isn't all that wonderful: sixty years can be rough on any musical, especially one with a book as chasm-like as the one that's bee…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 06:53PMWednesday, May 16, 2012
All the big shows on Broadway have opened, I've got my (mother's) subscription to the Signature Theater taking me on a wonderful tour of works -- old and new -- from Fugard, Eno, and Lonerga…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 05:52PMSunday, May 13, 2012
Photo/Scott J. FettermanHere's poetic justice for you: a successful artist invites the embittered, distant friends of her old Bohemian collective to visit her mansion, to reminisce about the…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 10:00PMWednesday, May 9, 2012
It's the strength of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire that is reflected in the relative success of this all-black revival, not Emily Mann's directorial decisions. Well, and…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:12AMIt's the strength of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire that is reflected in the relative success of this all-black revival, not Emily Mann's directorial decisions. Well…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 12:10AMTuesday, May 8, 2012
There is a great distance between any two people, not just across generations -- Leo (Gabriel Ebert) shows up at his grandmother Vera's (Mary Louise Wilson's) door after going AWOL on a bike…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 11:43PMFour thousand miles: that's a whole lot of distance. Almost as much, perhaps, as the distance between any two people, not just across generations -- Leo (Gabriel Ebert) shows up at his grand…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 11:40PMFriday, May 4, 2012
"Play the game," yells the actor (Steven French), dressed in his finest cryptic-old-man robes. "We are playing the game," replies Kevin (Kevin R. Free), taking a moment on the sofa-fort of C…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 10:30AMMonday, April 30, 2012
Not every brain-boosting scientific experiment has to go awry (Rise of the Planet of the Apes, The Lawnmower Man), but where's the drama in smooth sailing? August Schulenburg's a smart playw…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 05:57PMThursday, April 26, 2012
So stop me if you've heard this one before: according to Jonas Nightingale (Raul Esparza), the trick behind his revival scam is essentially a two-act set up, in which you promise a miracle s…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 09:00PMWednesday, April 25, 2012
Lonely, I'm Not; bored, I am. Paul Weitz's new play at Second Stage isn't awful, it's just awfully empty in its exclamatory presentation of Porter (Topher Grace), a once-vicious, work-obsess…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 08:50PMLonely, I'm Not; bored, I am. Paul Weitz's new play at Second Stage isn't awful, it's just awfully empty in its exclamatory presentation of Porter (Topher Grace), a once-vicious, work-obsess…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 08:47PMTuesday, April 24, 2012
From the sound of it, Nice Work If You Can Get It is setting itself up from failure: classic Gershwin songs harshly bolted onto a Prohibition-era farce that's adapted by Joe DiPietro fr…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 08:50PMFrom the sound of it, Nice Work If You Can Get It is setting itself up from failure: classic Gershwin songs harshly bolted onto a Prohibition-era farce that's adapted by Joe DiPiet…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 08:49PMSunday, April 22, 2012
It's unprofessional of me, I know, but at a certain point in Clybourne Park, I stopped taking notes. I was just so enjoying Bruce Norris's overlapping dialogue -- lines that would be content…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 01:42AMIt's unprofessional of me, I know, but at a certain point in Clybourne Park, I stopped taking notes. I was just so enjoying Bruce Norris's overlapping dialogue -- lines that would be co…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 01:41AMSaturday, April 21, 2012
It's not hard to see what attracted David Auburn (Proof) to a historical subject like Joseph Alsop. The twenty odd years covered by The Columnist (1957-1978) were tumultuous ones for Am…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 03:26AMIt's not hard to see what attracted David Auburn (Proof) to a historical subject like Joseph Alsop. The twenty odd years covered by The Columnist (1957-1978) were tumultuous ones f…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 03:25AM 
