Monday, November 22, 2010
[Originally published in Show Business Weekly]Photo/Ari Mintz How do you put an original play on Broadway? To Craig Wright, the comically dazzling writer of Mistakes Were Made, it involves s…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 12:23PMSunday, November 21, 2010
Originally published in The New Yorker, Nov. 8, 2010. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 62.Art imitates life imitating art in this aggressive but ultimately dispassionate story of S…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 11:54PMFirst, take the The Odd Couple. Then, have a Norwegian author, Ingvar Ambjornsen, adapt it for the whimsical climate of Oslo. Specify that, although it begins in a madhouse, neither of your …
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 08:47PMSaturday, November 20, 2010
Originally published in The New Yorker, Nov. 1, 2010. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 35.Here's your classic story of relationships, both with Lin Fanghui's family--three children,…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 07:30AMFriday, November 19, 2010
Originally published in The New Yorker, Oct. 18, 2010. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 86."Your recent change, of course, has crushed your father. He long hoped that you would foll…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 07:22PMLong Story Short is, to make a long story short, an awful show. In a year of theater filled with killer comic monologues, Colin Quinn is overwhelmingly underwhelming. This isn't a total surp…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 12:05PMThursday, November 18, 2010
Originally published in The New Yorker, Oct. 25, 2010. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 14.A rough litany, but one filled with unusual--and thereby intriguing--events: as Means dri…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 05:58PMWednesday, November 17, 2010
After After the Revolution, I stood around and surreptitiously listened to a group of older theatergoers--some in tears--as they mulled over whether there was a broader appeal to Amy Herzog'…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 01:01PMTuesday, November 16, 2010
Originally published in The New Yorker, Oct. 11, 2010. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 25.Munro's latest, like much of her work, is very simply written, and doesn't bother trying …
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 07:04PMMonday, November 15, 2010
[One of The New Yorker's 20 Under 40]Originally published in The New Yorker, Oct. 4, 2010. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 92.What's the deal with pen-and-paper role-playing games? …
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 01:30PMSaturday, November 13, 2010
I'm bummed that it looks as if I won't be able to check back in with Eliza Clark's Edgewise, especially now that it's in the hands of director Trip Cullman and the well-curated Play Company,…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 12:54AMGo and check out The Debate Society's earnest little video plea for the funding they need to bring back the acclaimed Buddy Cop 2 (my review of show's earlier run, here). And then, you know,…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 12:40AMI grew up on comic books (though not this one), so maybe I'm just a little biased when it comes to this sort of unabashedly loose show, but there's just something purely enjoyable about the …
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 12:29AMFriday, November 12, 2010
Photo/Joan MarcusA man sits in a lonely chair in a lonelier room, talking into a video camera, but really, to himself. The walls are as stained as his mattress, and striped with constructio…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 12:03PMThursday, November 11, 2010
In Doris to Darlene, Jordan Harrison attempted to tell a generation-spanning story through the power and evolution of music (specifically, Wagner); in Amazons and Their Men, he more succinct…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 11:06PM 
