Monday, November 8, 2021
"The temerity to see yourself at the center of it all": Does Will Eno's newest critique the myth of the hero's journey, or just give us another example of it? Ran Xia isn't so sure.
The pos…
SOURCE: exeuntnyc.com at 02:26PMSunday, November 19, 2017
Ran Xia reviews Big Dance Theater's interpretation of the diaries of Samuel Pepys.
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SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 10:35PMMonday, November 13, 2017
Ran Xia reviews Gardiner Comfort's show about living with Tourette Syndrome.
The post Review: The Elephant in Every Room I Enter at Next Door at NYTW appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 05:43PMSunday, October 29, 2017
Ran Xia reviews Luis Alfaro's steamy adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy, set in So. Central L.A.
The post Review: Oedipus El Rey at The Public Theater appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 10:27PMTuesday, December 11, 2012
I can make an endless list of musicals adapted from classic fictions: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Plautus's Pseudolus), Man of La Mancha (Don Quixote), Les Miserables; No…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PMTuesday, November 27, 2012
The name National Alliance for Musical Theatre is as old as I am. In 1989, the first annual NAMT Festival of New Musicals was held in NYC. The festival was created to solve two of the most n…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:41AMMonday, November 19, 2012
Some shows are pure entertainment, inviting the audience to have a good laugh, like the slapstick extravaganzas of One Man, Two Guvnors; Lend Me a Tenor; She Stoops to Conquer; Don't Dress f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:20PMWednesday, November 7, 2012
Words are weapons. Chinese novelist Lu Xun used to say that he fought with his pen. His satires and stories made a whole generation of youth stand up and fight for what they believe in. The…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:00PMWednesday, October 31, 2012
"Lives of great men all remind us / We can make our lives sublime, / And, departing, leave behind us / Footprints on the sands of time."
– A Psalm of Life, Henry Wadsworth LongfellowI sit…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMWednesday, October 24, 2012
Here's the total disclosure: I learned American English by watching Sex and the City because it was surely, I naively thought, the cannon version of how New Yorkers talk and live. What I als…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMWednesday, October 17, 2012
In a print shop called Hammer Press in downtown Kansas City, I bought a post card for each state I've visited in my 3.5 years in America. I counted: 15 states plus Washington DC.I've always …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:00AMWednesday, October 10, 2012
Remember Marcy Park from The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee? That girl speaks six languages, plays Chopin and Mozart, excels in hockey and rugby...She's the poster girl of the Asian …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:00AMWednesday, October 3, 2012
Kelvin Moon Loh and I are fellow citizens of Twitterland; I first discovered his blog where he jots down his experience being an Asian American Idiot on tour of Green Day's punk rock musical…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00PMWednesday, September 26, 2012
I've always been fond of abstract art: a whole spectrum of colors and a wide variety of shapes twirling and swirling into beautiful shades of dreams…everything is open to interpretation an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 07:00AMWednesday, September 19, 2012
Paul Nolan, who played the title role in last season's Broadway revival of Jesus Christ Superstar, recently scored the role of Ben in the upcoming musical Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots at …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:18PMWednesday, September 12, 2012
How do you solve a problem like… juggling too much stuff all at once? For some it's a draining chore; for others an enjoyable rush…many a times it's a lifestyle we sign ourselves up for.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:16PM 
