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Thursday, February 26, 2015

Brooklynite review – superheroes hit New York in genial musical by Alexis Soloski

Vineyard Theater, New YorkWith characters created by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, this show has good jokes for Brooklyn aficionados but never generates real heat Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:01AM
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Elisabeth Moss, a Career Woman, in ‘The Heidi Chronicles’ by Alexis Soloski

Ms. Moss returns to Broadway, portraying a successful professional wondering if she can have it all in this 1988 Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning play.

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Sunday, February 22, 2015

Review: ‘The Winter’s Tale’ and Its Wronged Queen, via the Pearl Theater Company by Alexis Soloski

The Pearl Theater Company’s “The Winter’s Tale” plays out as a tipsy dinner party that skids toward tragedy over dessert.

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Friday, February 20, 2015

Review: ‘The Groundling,’ a Backstage Farce With Heartbreak by Alexis Soloski

Marc Palmieri’s half comedy and half tragedy, at Axis Theater, follows a landscaper turned playwright who hires some New York professionals to stage his work in his Long Island garage.

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Thursday, February 19, 2015

Faces to Watch: Heroes, Sidekicks, Cartoonists by Erik Piepenburg, Robin Pogrebin, Roslyn Sulcas and Alexis Soloski

The coming season brings exciting challenges for new artists working on and off Broadway.

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Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Review: In ‘Horseplay,’ a Terrible Actress Becomes Her Era’s Kim Kardashian by Alexis Soloski

Trav S.D.’s play, at La MaMa, is based on the life of Adah Isaacs Menken, a flamboyant liar and theater star of the mid-1800s.

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Hamilton review – founding father gets a hip-hop makeover by Alexis Soloski

Public Theater, New YorkThis exuberant and original new musical mashes up genres from rap to operetta, creating a flawed but glorious portrait of the face on the $10 billIn a letter to Georg…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:01AM
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Mac Wellman, a Playwriting Mentor Whose Only Mantra Is Oddity by Alexis Soloski

A professor at Brooklyn College has helped to turn out some of the city’s most wildly inventive young playwrights by shooing them out of their comfort zones.

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Friday, February 13, 2015

The Iceman Cometh review – a near-perfect Eugene O'Neill by Alexis Soloski

Brooklyn Academy of Music, New YorkLaughter in the dark rings loudly in this uncut, immaculately cast and virtuosically staged five-hour version of O’Neill’s excoriating drama Continue r…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AM
Thursday, February 12, 2015

Theater Review: Review: ‘Everything You Touch,’ a Brash Examination of Self-Image by Alexis Soloski

Sheila Callaghan’s volatile new work touches on beauty and body image, intimacy and alienation, art and commerce, fantasy and reality.

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Cush Jumbo Summons the Spirit of Josephine Baker at Joe’s Pub by Alexis Soloski

“Josephine and I,” Ms. Jumbo’s new solo show, tells the story of Josephine Baker, the St. Louis-born performer who became a legend in Paris.

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Brian Dennehy: 'My director says I have more rage than anyone he's known' by Alexis Soloski

At 76, the actor is currently climbing a theatrical mountain: the five hours of Eugene O’Neill’s bleak The Iceman Cometh. Yet he can’t resist – the playwright’s work, he says, is �…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:38PM

Brian Dennehy: 'My director says I have more rage than anyone he's known' by Alexis Soloski

At 76, the actor is currently climbing a theatrical mountain: the five hours of Eugene O’Neill’s bleak The Iceman Cometh. Yet he can’t resist – the playwright’s work, he says, is �…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:38PM
Sunday, February 8, 2015

Theater Review: ‘The Listeners,’ a Matthew Freeman Drama at the Brick by Alexis Soloski

The play “The Listeners” centers on two drifters, contradictions and shifting identities.

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Thursday, February 5, 2015

Theater Review: ‘City Of,’ by Anton Dudley, Has People and Parisian Statues by Alexis Soloski

Anton Dudley’s “City Of” focuses on four Americans stumbling around Paris, and a gargoyle named Pierre.

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Monday, February 2, 2015

Theater Review: ‘The Human Symphony,’ From the New York Neo-Futurists by Alexis Soloski

“The Human Symphony,” Dylan Marron’s new play, is performed by six audience members taking instruction from MP3 tracks.

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Sunday, February 1, 2015

Theater Review: ‘Shesh Yak’ Stars Laith Nakli and Zarif Kabier by Alexis Soloski

“Shesh Yak,” created by Laith Nakli, is set four years ago during the first heady days of protest during the uprising in Syria.

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Friday, January 30, 2015

A Month in the Country review: Taylor Schilling stars in pleasant but anaemic play by Alexis Soloski

The star of Orange is the New Black proves that she’s a real theatre actor, but for all the fine performances, this is a tepid revival of a second-rate play Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:47AM
Monday, January 26, 2015

Theater Review: ‘Nevermore,’ a Musical Biography of Edgar Allan Poe by Alexis Soloski

Jonathan Christenson’s “Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe” opens at New World Stages.

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Theater Review: ‘Da,’ Hugh Leonard’s 1978 Tony Winner, Via Irish Rep by Alexis Soloski

“Da,” Hugh Leonard’s semi-autobiographical work, is a memory play with a spectral turn as a son is visited by his father’s ghost.

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Let the Right One In review – an uncanny love story of pure theatricality by Alexis Soloski

St Ann’s Warehouse, New YorkHaving played in London and Scotland, this stage version of the Swedish book and film has lost none of its eeriness – or its brutality Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:49AM
Thursday, January 22, 2015

Into the Woods review – a bare-bones take on a meaty musical by Alexis Soloski

The Harold and Miriam Steinberg Centre for Theatre, New YorkA lo-fi version of Stephen Sondheim’s classic, currently in the cinema, manages to be both lucid and moving – despite the odd …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:00PM

Theater Review: ‘Winners,’ a Domestic Comedy at Ensemble Studio Theater by Alexis Soloski

Maggie Bofill’s domestic comedy “Winners” stars Grant Shaud and Florencia Lozano as a couple with relationship and peanut butter problems.

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‘Rasheeda Speaking’ Stars Tonya Pinkins and Dianne Wiest by Alexis Soloski

“Rasheeda Speaking,” by the Chicago playwright Joel Drake Johnson, is a dark comedy about racism both covert and obvious, and stars Tonya Pinkins and Dianne Wiest.

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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Theater Review: ‘Mrs. Mayfield’s Fifth-Grade Class of ’93 20-Year Reunion’ by Alexis Soloski

Caps Lock Theater’s immersive, site-specific “Mrs. Mayfield’s Fifth-Grade Class of ’93 20-Year Reunion” enlists its audience members as classmates.

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Thursday, January 15, 2015

Honeymoon in Vegas review – high rollers in a low-rent show by Alexis Soloski

Nederlander Theatre, New YorkDrab sets, bad politics and wince-inducing stereotypes sink this threadbare production, in which Tony Danza steals scenes but can’t save themThe first rule of …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:00PM

Theater Review: Reggie Watts and Marie-Caroline Hominal Come to the Public Theater by Alexis Soloski

The Under the Radar theater festival at the Public Theater features Reggie Watt’s “Audio Abramovic” and Marie-Caroline Hominal’s “The Triumph of Fame.”

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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Theater Review: Andrew Schneider’s ‘Youarenowhere’ Is at the Coil Festival by Alexis Soloski

In Andrew Schneider’s inventive, astounding and inexplicably shirtless “Youarenowhere,” part of the Coil festival, digital marvels synchronize with analog dance and personal revelation.

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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Constellations review: Wilson and Gyllenhaal see stars in each other's eyes by Alexis Soloski

Samuel J Friedman theatre, New YorkThe play may fixate on physics, but the chemistry between the two leads is potent enough to move an audience to tearsIf the science at the center of Nick P…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:00PM
Friday, January 9, 2015

Courtney Love's 'theatricalised concept album' sounds practically amphibian by Alexis Soloski

Prototype festival, New YorkKansas City Choir Boy, the singer’s show with composer Todd Almond, has wayward charisma and shades of The Odyssey and Kurt Weill – but there’s no erotic ch…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:49AM
Thursday, January 8, 2015

Theater Review: ‘My Voice Has an Echo in It,’ Part of the Coil Festival by Alexis Soloski

In “My Voice Has an Echo in It,” by the Temporary Distortion multimedia theater company, four band members play for six hours in a room-size box walled by mirrors.

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All that Chat

2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic