Saturday, 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 f…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 03:25AMFriday, April 20, 2012
One of the perks of writing about theater is being able to afford it, in that tickets are generally comped. Fortunately, last week, I was given the opportunity to give away some free tickets…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 12:50PMThursday, April 19, 2012
In a departure from 2009's This Beautiful City and 2010's In The Footprint, this latest Civilians show, You Better Sit Down: Tales From My Parents' Divorce makes a drastic reduction in scope…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 03:51AMPhoto/Joan MarcusIn 2009's This Beautiful City, The Civilians turned the lens of their investigative theater on a megachurch in Colorado and cut through religion to capture the essence of a …
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 03:47AMSunday, April 15, 2012
There's a star being caught in Peter and the Starcatcher, and it ain't the unnamed Boy (Adam Chanler-Berat) who will, by play's end, become Peter Pan. Which is not to say that Chanler-B…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 11:36PMThere's a star being caught in Peter and the Starcatcher, and it ain't the unnamed Boy (Adam Chanler-Berat) who will, by play's end, become Peter Pan. Which is not to say that Chanler-B…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 07:40PMSaturday, April 14, 2012
The Big Meal shifts across eighty years of dinners, starting with a random pickup between Sam and his waitress, Nicole, and ending with an epically casual goodbye that confronts death a…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 03:27AMFriday, April 13, 2012
In Sixty Miles to Silver Lake, Dan LeFranc smoothly glided between seven years worth of tender/awkward trips between a divorced father and his maturing son; in his even more ambitious a…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 11:24PMThursday, April 12, 2012
The latest series of themed performances at the international 59E59 features two Scottish plays, directed by the playwrights, that deal with loss via character's reactions to historic (or ne…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 11:54PMThe lovely people over at Seminar have offered me a chance to share my experiences at the show with all of you, or, to be more specific, two winners of the following contest. Now I have…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 12:37PMTuesday, April 10, 2012
I recently attended a preview performance of this whimsical and inventive prequel to Peter Pan, and I thought I'd offer readers the chance to win (1) voucher (for two tickets for any perform…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 06:23PMSaturday, April 7, 2012
More polished than your average tech-demo/theater-hybrid, Planet Egg takes up the baton from where the delightful Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer left it, and crafts a t…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:34AMMore polished than your average tech-demo/theater-hybrid, Planet Egg takes up the baton from where the delightful Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer left it, and crafts a two-ma…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 12:33AMWednesday, April 4, 2012
The Taming of the Shrew can be a very funny play -- and probably should be, lest one linger too long on the sexist implications that one either believes are being mocked by Shakespeare or ta…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 09:43PMThe Taming of the Shrew can be a very funny play -- and probably should be, lest one linger too long on the sexist implications that one either believes are being mocked by Shakespeare …
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 09:36PMTuesday, April 3, 2012
I think we're well past spoilers on the plot of Porgy and Bess, but at the climactic point of the play, at which Porgy (Norm Lewis) has pulled a knife from his leg-brace and stabbed his cras…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 11:30PMPhoto/Deborah AlexanderThis engaging work from Gideon Productions taps into the themes of humanity that made Mac Rogers's previous foray into science-fiction (Universal Robots) so compe…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 04:03PMPhoto/Deborah AlexanderTwelve years ago, dying aliens were found on an expedition to Mars, and their ambassador managed to convince the astronauts to smuggle the seeds of their race back to …
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 03:55PMWednesday, March 28, 2012
You're at work and you decide to check your e-mail. Somewhere along the line, you must have gotten your e-mail address on one of these various blasts, but that's OK, because the stars have a…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 06:13PMWednesday, March 21, 2012
There's much to appreciate about the message at the muscular heart of The Lady from Dubuque, particularly David Esbjornson's fluid staging, the ease of which only serves to cast the two visi…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 04:49PMI had the pleasure of attending a talk-back performance of The Lady from Dubuque, in which a wonderfully cantankerous Edward Albee took the opportunity to wonder why critics today …
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 04:48PMTuesday, March 20, 2012
I think I've figured out why some people are afraid of clowns: it's because they're kids who have never grown up. It can be a little frightening to see adults so recklessly free, so literall…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 01:33AMPhoto/The Artigiani TroupeI think I've figured out why some people are afraid of clowns: it's because they're kids who have never grown up. It can be a little frightening to see adults so re…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 01:32AMFriday, March 16, 2012
I first covered Venus in Fur over two years ago, back at CSC, with Wes Bentley opposite an already stunning Nina Arianda: I thought it was a sexually charged play that needed to wo…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 01:30AMThursday, March 15, 2012
Hot damn; I still love Nina Arianda's performance as much as when I first encountered Venus in Fur two years ago at CSC, but unfortunately, I've yet to see anyone who could match up to …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 11:21PMForget Venus in Fur; the real power play walking the boards this year is Red Bull's revival of Jean Genet's savage 1947 drama, The Maids. Claire (Jeanine Serralles) and Solange (Ana Reeder) …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 10:44PMPhoto/Carol RoseggForget Venus in Fur; the real power play is to be found in Red Bull's revival of Jean Genet's savage 1947 drama, The Maids. Claire (Jeanine Serralles) and Solange…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 10:42PMWednesday, March 7, 2012
I don't doubt the accuracy of the picture Katori Hall paints of the former Memphis project she's titled her play Hurt Village after. Though many of her characters come across as stereot…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 02:44PMI don't doubt the accuracy of the picture Katori Hall paints of the former Memphis project she's titled her play Hurt Village after. Though many of her characters come across as st…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 02:25PMMonday, January 30, 2012
Photo/Deborah AlexanderGiven that it recently closed after a brief run at the out-of-the-way, yet extremely charming, Secret Theater, you probably missed Mac Rogers's Advance Man. And ironic…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 01:42PMMonday, January 16, 2012
Photo/Heiko KalmbachPresented by The Carol Tambor Theatrical Foundation as "The Best of Edinburgh Festival"The wonderful thing about YouTube videos is that they tend to be short. They can pr…
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