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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Am I Too Old for This Shit?: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson at the Public Theater by Jason Clark

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson is historical revisionism for the late-term SNL era. The post Am I Too Old for This Shit?: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson at the Public Theate…

SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 11:00PM

Monday, April 5, 2010

Silly Boys and Girls (and Puppets): Lend Me a Tenor and Stuffed and Unstrung by Jason Clark

If you’re ready to have a gay old time, the funny flurries are showering New York these days. The post Silly Boys and Girls (and Puppets): Lend Me a Tenor and <em&g…

SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 03:03PM

Monday, March 29, 2010

Strangers in a Strange Land: A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick and In the Heat of the Night by Jason Clark

A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick feels woefully under-rehearsed when not just plain amateurish. The post Strangers in a Strange Land: A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick&l…

SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 02:06PM

Monday, March 22, 2010

Sex and Violence in Downtown NYC: Caligula Maximus and Alice in Slasherland by Jason Clark

There’s a lot going on in its 75 minutes, and it’s great to see someone truly using the vast entirety of the wonderful Ellen Stewart Theater at La MaMa. The post Sex and Violence in Down…

SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 01:50PM

Friday, March 19, 2010

One Year Revisited: God of Carnage on Broadway by Jason Clark

Dylan Baker, always a reliable assist in stage and film, does work that is nothing short of transformative. The post One Year Revisited: God of Carnage on Broadway appea…

SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 04:00PM

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Review: Suzan-Lori Parks’s The Book of Grace at the Public Theater by Jason Clark

Suzan-Lori Parks’s blackly comic Southern gothic is sprinkled with poetic assertions on postwar distress and home-life abuses. The post Review: Suzan-Lori Parks’s The Book of G…

SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 06:00PM

Monday, March 15, 2010

Gay Old Times, Part Deux: Next Fall and The Pride by Jason Clark

Next Fall isn’t about “old” times per se, but its content seems firmly rooted in the seriocomic patterns of seasoned old pros. The post Gay Old Times, Part Deux: Next Fall<…

SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 01:00PM

Friday, March 5, 2010

Great Performances: The Temperamentals and Venus in Fur by Jason Clark

Despite its historical nature, The Temperamentals is anything but a dry history lesson. The post Great Performances: The Temperamentals and Venus in Fur</em…

SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 05:44PM

Thursday, March 4, 2010

The Miracle Worker at Circle in the Square by Jason Clark

It’s awfully hard not to feel like you’re missing something throughout this Miracle Worker. The post The Miracle Worker at Circle in the Square appeared first on Sla…

SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 12:00AM

Friday, February 26, 2010

Blind at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater by Jason Clark

Here is a tragedy told with absolutely no momentum. The post Blind at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater appeared first on Slant Magazine.

SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 12:00AM

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Gay Old Times: The Boys in the Band and Yank! by Jason Clark

A gay renaissance appears to be hitting NYC theater these days. The post Gay Old Times: The Boys in the Band and Yank! appeared first on Slant Magaz…

SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 12:00AM

Monday, February 22, 2010

Review: Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park at Playwrights Horizons by Jason Clark

The strength of Clybourne Park lies in how Bruce Norris keeps subverting the types represented. The post Review: Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park at Playwrights Horizons …

SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 07:21PM

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Extinction at the Cherry Lane Theatre by Jason Clark

If Psych ever goes the way of this play’s title, he’s got a home on the stage whenever he wants it. The post Extinction at the Cherry Lane Theatre appeared first on …

SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 06:59PM

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Happy Now? at Primary Stages by Jason Clark

The thumbprint of Alan Ayckbourn seems firmly impressed into the pages of playwright Lucinda Coxon’s Happy Now? The post Happy Now? at Primary Stages appeared first on…

SOURCE: Slant Magazine at 12:07AM

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