Monday, 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…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 05:53PMPhoto/Julie LembergerPresented by the Chelfitsch Theater Company as a co-production of the Japan Society and Under the Radar Festival.I first encountered the work of Toshiki Okada in the Pla…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 05:07PMThursday, January 12, 2012
Photo/Julie LembergerThe Bee is a co-production of the Japan Society and the Under the Radar Festival.Mr. Ido (Kathryn Hunter) arrives home one day to find that his family has been take…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 05:20PMWednesday, January 11, 2012
Photo/Carol RoseggThe well-meaning American is alive and kicking in Zayd Dohrn's Outside People, in which Malcolm (Matt Dellapina), the would-be vegan/Communist from Williamsburg, Brook…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 06:45PMDoes anybody out there understand the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act)? I recently had a review of a show that I covered back in 2010 taken down off this site because it had in some wa…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 05:33PMSunday, January 8, 2012
Photo/Carol RoseggHow the World Began is a frustrating play, both intentionally and unintentionally so. The central premise, quickly revealed, is that Susan Pierce (Heidi Schreck), a te…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 02:00PMFriday, December 9, 2011
[Note: War Horse releases in theaters on 12/25. It's the perfect holiday film, notwithstanding the graphic war-scenes, so you might consider buying your tickets now, especiall…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 04:42PMThursday, December 8, 2011
Photo/Nathan JohnsonIn 1934, after a two-year crime spree that painted the star-crossed bandits as revolutionary heroes in a depressed America, Bonnie and Clyde are violently gunned down in …
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 02:08PMNostalgia can be a crippling thing, which sends people who are afraid of the future hurdling back into the safety and comfort of the past. But it's served the young and talented Jordan Harri…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 01:13AMWednesday, December 7, 2011
I had the recent opportunity to speak with a director regarding the clash between the poor critical reception of the show and what appeared to be much warmer responses from the audience. I u…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 01:35AMMonday, December 5, 2011
If you're a profound optimist like Pischik (Ken Cheeseman), the sort of man who rests so easy in the knowledge that everything will somehow work itself out that he's practically a narcolepti…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 01:56PMMonday, November 28, 2011
The great thing about site-specific theater is that even when the play's awful, you're at least somewhere new. Thankfully, Alex Goldberg's It Is Done isn't awful -- just mediocre -…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 07:14PMThe great thing about site-specific theater is that even when the play's awful, you're at least somewhere new. Thankfully, Alex Goldberg's It Is Done isn't awful -- just mediocre -- and…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 06:45PMSunday, November 20, 2011
Douglas (Jerry O'Connell) is a slick, Yaddo-referencing, New Yorker-ready writer; the smug sort of guy who likes to talk about the so-called "interiority and exteriority" of his peers. Izzy …
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 09:31PMTuesday, November 15, 2011
Real life is rarely as simplistic as fairy tales make it out to be, and the road to reconciliation is never paved with breadcrumbs. Nonetheless, there's hope and beauty in Carla Ching's …
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 08:14PMMonday, November 14, 2011
Photos/Monique CarboniThomas Bradshaw has been reading too much of the Marquis de Sade's Philosophy in the Bedroom, for his play, the at-best-pornographic Burning, has only one mot…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 08:05PMFriday, November 11, 2011
Comics, particularly the long-running ones, often suffer from a sort of disassociative identity disorder, in that they've been worked on by so many writers and artists that they no longer be…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 06:13PMWednesday, November 9, 2011
The first in a series of unresearched, immediate responses to things I've read in American Theater and/or other arts-related magazines.From the November '11 American Theater: …
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 06:57PMPhoto/Kristen VaughanThe Runner Stumbles, written in 1974 (and on Broadway in 1976), may be based on the true story of the murder of Sister Mary Janina back in the early 1900s (the play is s…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 06:16PMTuesday, November 8, 2011
Photo/Gerry GoodsteinLife used to be easy, posits the puppet Tyrone: "When you had to shit, you just let it drop." But as humankind evolved, started working together in groups, things like "…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 10:37AMMonday, November 7, 2011
Photo/Carol RoseggThere's perhaps too much of Anna "Annie" Edson Taylor in Michael John LaChiusa's new musical about the last twenty years of her life, Queen of the Mist. For while it's…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 11:12AMSaturday, November 5, 2011
Photo/Ryan WijayaratneAre you still reeling from your last relationship? Unable to find work? Stuck wearing a ridiculous reindeer sweater for the Christmas holidays? It sounds as if you need…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 05:41PMSunday, October 23, 2011
Photo/Meghan MooreThough the core members have come and gone over the years, the Reduced Shakespeare Company (best known for The Complete Works of William Shakespeare [abridged]) is as thank…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 07:54PMSaturday, October 22, 2011
Several times now, I've had last minute things come up that conspire to keep me from covering this year's annual dose of The Pumpkin Pie Show, the creepily poetic show from Clay McLeod Chapm…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 12:20PMThursday, September 15, 2011
As we've seen over the last few years, greed may not actually be all that good for the economy, but when it comes to the theater, the bubble on Wall Street dramas hasn't even come close to b…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 12:37PMWednesday, September 14, 2011
If going to the theater seems a little like visiting an exotic country, the Berserker Residents have merely made that more literal. The moment you arrive at Ars Nova, you are given travel do…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 10:02AMTuesday, September 13, 2011
They don't make musicals like Follies any more. In fact, even in the unassailable repertoire of Stephen Sondheim, there is hardly anything like it. I mean, a musical about two married couple…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 03:57AMMonday, September 12, 2011
Photo/Anton NickelEver read 3nuts or Garfield Minus Garfield? If so, then you'll feel right at home with the latest full-length production from the New York Neo-Futurists, The Complete and C…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 11:12PMWednesday, August 24, 2011
There are plenty of theater companies out there that produce plays about women who have lost their fathers: grief is a popular topic. But there are few that are willing to risk pursuing su…
SOURCE: That Sounds Cool at 11:15PMThere are plenty of theater companies out there that produce plays about women who have lost their fathers: grief is a popular topic. But there are few that are willing to risk pursuing such…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 11:14PMAt one point, however long ago, you were a kid, and when you were, you probably spent some time playing with toys, making up intricate stories with which the various characters might inter…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 10:50PM 
