Friday, February 3, 2012
Teachout reaffirms Guirgis' Motherfucker in its Miami production; hard not to notice the surnames of the cast, as opposed to these.Sarah "Maths Geek" Benson on Soho Rep's guiding principle: …
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:30AMWednesday, February 1, 2012
The February issue of American Theatre is out, and it includes the complete text of Stephen Karam's lovely, insinuating comedy/drama, Sons of the Prophet, which was perhaps slightly over-pra…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 09:34AMTuesday, January 31, 2012
Fred Armisen's recent dump on the one-man show is easy pickin's, no doubt, but it's smile-worthy nonetheless (h/t Playgoer). (For a look at a long sketch toward the above, see Armisen and Br…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 03:40PMWhen faced with the choice to save her lover by submitting sexually to his torturer, Tosca sings "Vissi d'arte." When Billy Bigelow is faced with the daunting prospect of being a father, he …
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 09:48AMMonday, January 30, 2012
I know he's been busy putting together TEDxBroadway, but how did the industrious blogger at Producer's Pespective miss Jonah Lehrer's interesting piece about collaboration, in last week's Ne…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:49AMWednesday, January 25, 2012
The post-Tina Brown New Yorker has not been known for its squeamishness (am I the only one who vividly remembers the awkward shock of that hilariously severe Tilda Swinton nude photo spread …
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 09:49AMMonday, January 23, 2012
A start to a busy week, post-Queens move, means some quick hits to start:Mike Daisey breaks through the Ira Glass ceiling and apparently gets through to Apple brass.Terry Teachout's lovely t…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 02:03PMSaturday, January 21, 2012
My friend and colleague Molly Smith Metzler had a really shitty Christmas: She got a bad case of mono just as her long-anticipated and star-studded New York debut, Close Up Space, got a bad …
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 09:56PMThursday, January 19, 2012
After from a six-month sublet in Cobble Hill, Greenpoint, Brooklyn has been my New York home since early 2006. I moved here with my then-girlfriend when our relationship was shaky, and we we…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 07:10AMFriday, January 13, 2012
"The experience of watching Jerusalem confirmed something in me I’ve suspected for some time. In life, I may be a progressive Christian, but when it comes to the theater, I’m a complete …
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 03:52PMWednesday, January 11, 2012
photo by Walter McBrideOne of the first reviews I wrote for Back Stage West back in 1993 was a slam of Control Freaks, a lurid and seriously flawed attempt by the playwright Beth Henley to r…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 02:20PM“The Jacksonian,” the latest work by the Mississippi-born playwright Beth Henley, is about goings-on in her hometown in 1964.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:39PMIt just so happens that this month I've got two reviews of Sondheim that are only accessible in print form. First, a belated consideration of the current Follies in the latest Sondheim Revie…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 08:17AMTuesday, January 10, 2012
Forget tweeting in the theater; that's positively genteel next to the stories I got in response to this morning's question on American Theatre's Facebook page. I asked, "Have you ever talked…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 11:05AMJill Dolan wins one for the blogosphere.Won't this project simply reinforce the New York Times' disproportionate influence?The overheated discussion about Tom Loughlin's slightly ridiculous …
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 07:55AMMonday, January 9, 2012
"Video projection is to the experimental auteur as the second-act opening monologue, 'I had this dream last night' and late-night drunken truth-telling are to American playwrights."-David Co…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 02:02PMFriday, January 6, 2012
Los Angeles skyscrapers & Echo Park lake from BigstockIt took me a while—about five or six years, I'd say—of trial and error to figure out where the best theater in Los Angeles was (…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 04:21PMTuesday, January 3, 2012
The year is but three days old, and I'm already slammed with deadlines, so a link list is the best I can do at the moment...Charles McNulty (sort of) longs for the well-made play.Claudia La …
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 05:50PMThursday, December 29, 2011
A block away from my sister's house in Valparaiso, Indiana, where, alas, I'll be just through the New Year. Otherwise I'd so be there.
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 03:57PMTuesday, December 27, 2011
Econo-blogger Tyler Cowen is a truly odd duck, and as such he says some intriguing things almost as often as he says deeply strange things. His weirdly contrarian TED anti-talk about his sus…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 12:38PMFriday, December 23, 2011
Can't explain why, but this Flanders and Swann's riff on Mozart's fourth horn concerto sounds like Christmas to me. And with that I sign off the Wicked Stage for a spell, until something sti…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 12:04PMFriday, December 16, 2011
These things aren't supposed to mean anything, but that Christopher Hitchens' thoroughly examined life ended on the same day as the misbegotten Iraq war for which he was the most vociferous�…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:06AMThursday, December 15, 2011
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
An extraordinary post by Ta-Nehisi Coates, urging us to take account of our own ordinariness when contemplating moral quandaries, happens to include a resonant illustration from my area of c…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 01:09PMMonday, December 12, 2011
A favorite I couldn't include in my piece on Maple and Vine, from playwright Jordan Harrison in answer to the question of when he fell in love with theater:In third grade, I was in this musi…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 08:00AMFriday, December 9, 2011
Apropos my thoughts on Stick Fly, I recalled this (unused) quote from Lynn Nottage, from when I talked to her about By the Way, Meet Vera Stark:One of my constant frustrations is that there …
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 02:23PMIs the New York Post on some kind of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever jihad? First there was Riedel's vulture-circling notice, and now a preemptive slam from Jonathan Podhoretz, conservati…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 12:22PMI don't want to rehash my thoughts from my last post, about the way I think we often condescend to our own enjoyment of plays that entertain us, but it was on my mind even moreso with Lydia …
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 10:20AMWednesday, December 7, 2011
I've been wondering for a while whether StageGrade ruins my theatergoing experiences. When I saw War Horse, for instance, I had just read every review and was thus familiar with what purport…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 01:55PMThe author of Stick Fly talks about race, class and cussing.
SOURCE: Time Out New York at 10:48AMTuesday, December 6, 2011
Kendrick Brown and Estella Henderson in the Houston's Ensemble Theatre production of Stick Fly (photo by Nathan Lindstrom for the Houston Chronicle)I've seen Lydia Diamond around TCG over th…
SOURCE: The Wicked Stage at 11:58PM 
