Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Making theatre about US politics is fraught. Whether he is deliberately snubbed or consciously included, shades of Trump abound in narrative injustices,
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(Photo: Joan Marcus)Mart Crowley’s 1968 landmark play about gay men in New York does not feel like a 50 year-old play. While the film (from 1970) version is camp and heavy-handed, this pro…
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Mike Lew’s Teenage Dick is a high school-set tongue-in-cheek tragicomedy that riffs on Richard III. Discontent with being class secretary, and wanting
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It’s always easy to find reasons to be grumpy about the Tony Awards. Whether it’s overcritical omissions (what do you mean there’s
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Leaving Angels in America, I tingle. I am covered in tears and exhaling joy. The time has passed quickly. None of it has felt laborious. And I carry with me the feeling of religious devotion…
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In his one-man show John Lithgow: Stories by Heart, the charming stage legend recounts tales of his youth but at the heart
Linked From The Stage Registration at 09:00PMSunday, December 31, 2017
Due to job woes I was not able to get over to the UK much this year. So really...my list is a Top 10 of Edinburgh.1. Joan2. Lucy McCormick's Triple Threat3. Us/Them4. Letters to Windso…
Linked From Mildly Bitter's Musings at 07:18PMSince I did not end up going to Edinburgh this year I did not have enough shows in the UK to make a separate top 10 list. So I'm combining US and UK shows this year because it's my lis…
Linked From Mildly Bitter's Musings at 06:27PMSaturday, November 25, 2017
The Band's Visit is a gentle exploration of the unexamined lives of ordinary people from artists David Yazbek and David Cromer.
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David Henry Hwang revises his M. Butterfly at a propitious moment. Nicole Serratore reviews
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Anna Ziegler explores the internal turmoil of tennis players on court and off in The Last Match. Nicole Serratore reviews.
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Diana Oh makes an unapologetic call to arms to queer the world. Nicole Serratore reviews.
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Boom Bat Gesture's 'Do Your Worst' series asks artists to create deliberate flops. Nicole Serratore asks them about failure, DIY theatre, and Spiderman.
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JB Priestley’s between-the-wars drama, Time and the Conways bears the hallmarks of a well-made play of the period. It’s suffused with class
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John Doyle’s Off-Broadway production of Shakespeare’s As You Like It is a mild-mannered affair – a passable production of limited enchantments. It’s
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Preserving performance is a challenge. How do you document multi-faceted work that involves sound, light, text, bodies, and music? Video may take images of it but rarely captures it. For Ann…
Linked From Mildly Bitter's Musings at 02:00PMNew York collaborative theatre heroes The TEAM are staging 'Primer for a Failed Superpower', a multi-generational pop concert of protest songs. Nicole Serratore sits in on rehearsals.
The po…
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Theatre productions beamed into the cinema act as soft diplomacy for the industry. It expands access beyond physical theatres and national boundaries,
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Andrew Garfield in Angels in America (Photo: Helen Maybanks)Sometimes a show is a time capsule to another part of your life. I saw Tony Kushner’s Angels in America on Broadway just after I…
Linked From Mildly Bitter's Musings at 09:59PMSunday, July 9, 2017
Photo: Play Co.Guillermo Calderón's play Villa is about three women asked to resolve the impossible--how should they treat the remains of General Pinochet's demolished Villa Grimaldi, …
Linked From Mildly Bitter's Musings at 06:20PM(Photo: Johan Persson)Can a play be both rich and slight? Jez Butterworth's The Ferryman makes me believe so. Set in Armagh, Northern Ireland in 1981, it is inevitable that The Fe…
Linked From Mildly Bitter's Musings at 05:48PMFriday, June 30, 2017
When it opened Off Broadway in 1991, Scott McPherson’s Marvin’s Room was viewed through the lens of the Aids crisis – the
Linked From The Stage Registration at 05:13AMThursday, June 29, 2017
We ended up not doing this piece for Exeunt...but I had these fake Obie awards that I wanted to give out for work in 2016 so I thought I would share. Best Play About Economic AnxietyDominque…
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In Simon Godwin’s taut production of Measure for Measure the audience enters the theatre via the back entrance through Mistress Overdone’s brothel. Greeted by
Linked From The Stage Registration at 08:00PMThursday, June 22, 2017
Sales of George Orwell’s novel, 1984, have skyrocketed since the inauguration of Donald Trump. It’s an apt moment for Robert Icke and
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Activism, terrorism, and Turkish politics shape this Performative Essay starring two tortoises
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The first rule of Derren Brown: Secret is you need to keep it secret. Magician and mentalist Brown is making his American
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Laura Linney and Cynthia Nixon give strong voices to the complex women in Lillian Hellman's play The Little Foxes
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Screen addiction threatens to steal all the attention in Broadway's Anastasia.
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Mega-musical Miss Saigon is back on Broadway. But despite the presence of its trademark helicopter the thrills are limited in Laurence Connor’s
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With contrived accents and mannered performances, Terry Kinney’s production of Arthur Miller’s The Price lacks genuine dramatic punch. The tension in this
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