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Thursday, March 28, 2019

Off-Broadway Theater Review: IF PRETTY HURTS UGLY MUST BE A MUHFUCKA (Playwrights Horizon) by Anna Hulkower

PRETTY HURTS SO GOOD The title of Tori Sampson’s If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka is a sly retort to Beyoncé’s 2013 song “Pretty Hurts,” both of which lament the negative imp…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:54PM
Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Off-Broadway Review: SMART BLONDE (59E59) by Anna Hulkower

BLONDE, YES: SMART? WELL… It’s tempting, if unfair, to compare Willy Holtzman’s Smart Blonde to the 1963 Broadway musical Funny Girl: both use flashback to frame the biographies of you…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:05PM
Monday, February 11, 2019

Off-Broadway Review: MIES JULIE (Classic Stage Company) by Anna Hulkower

DON’T MIES IT In Mies Julie, Yaël Farber’s contemporary adaptation of August Strindberg’s 1889 play Miss Julie, Farber swaps out Strindberg’s Swedish estate for a prosperous far…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 10:09PM
Sunday, February 10, 2019

Broadway Review: CALL ME MADAM (Encores!) by Anna Hulkower

CALL ME UNDERWHELMED For City Center’s 75th anniversary season, Encores! has revived a show from its second year, Call Me Madam — only the second show it has ever repeated. Irving B…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 06:12PM
Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Off-Broadway Review: ON THE SPOT: AN IMPROVISED MUSICAL EXPERIENCE by Anna Hulkower

HITS THE SPOT As someone who has logged many hours crawling up 10th Avenue in a Megabus, the bright purple-and-white Y2K-esque signage of Yotel has always been intriguing landmark. Since I a…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 03:06PM
Thursday, December 27, 2018

Off-Broadway Review: WICKED CLONE, OR HOW TO DEAL WITH THE EVIL: THE CINEMA MUSICAL (Indiggo Twins at the John Cullum Theatre) by Anna Hulkower

SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY CLONES It’s hard to react to the details of this show with anything but resigned bemusement. So, while some of what I’m about to say may sound like I hated Wick…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:04PM
Friday, December 14, 2018

Off-Broadway Review: BITTER GREENS (59E59) by Anna Hulkower

A BITTER PILL TO SWALLOW It is said that every playwright’s first play needs to be about themselves before they are able to move onto more expansive material. This maxim seems to hold true…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:18PM
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