THE REVOLUTION WILL BE DANCED Move over Evita, there’s another Queen of Hearts in town. And she likes diamonds too. I’m talking about Imelda Marcos—she of the thousand pairs of shoes�…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:13PMMUCH BETTER THAN GOOD The last thing that Brecht would have wanted is the audience to identify with his characters. But that’s where the Foundry Theatre’s production of Good Person of Sz…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:36PMTITLE Soaked to the skin and wrestling with a flimsy umbrella, I splashed across Eighth Avenue while reading the inscription on the James A. Farley Post Office, “Neither snow nor rain nor …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:38PMCALIFORNIA DREAMS The 2012 Ice Factory Festival closes with The Girl of the Golden West, a heartfelt musical ode to the great American myth based on David Belasco’s 1911 novel, which had p…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 01:25PMSEX, LIES, AND ELEPHANTS There’s an elephant in the room in Miss Lilly Gets Boned and it’s not just the sexuality of the eponymous Sunday school teacher. It’s an extraordinary hulking …
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:40AMHISS HISS BANG BANG Four writers stand onstage and in unison announce their thesis, “We thought that making a show strictly about our poverty and history of abuse would make us severely un…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:47PMALL IN ZI FAMILY In Russian Transport, comedienne Janeane Garofalo expands her range by playing a wisecracking Russian-Jewish matriarch whose domineering attitude toward her daughter conceal…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:45PMUPSTAIRS/DOWNSTAIRS AT THE FLEA The Flea Theater is currently providing New York theater audiences an interesting illustration of the cultural gap between Asian-Americans and Asians from Asi…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 07:26PMWAITING FOR PINTER National Asian American Theater Company (NAATCO) takes a steampunk spin on The Dumb Waiter, Harold Pinter’s classic absurdist thriller. Director Andrew Pang makes grea…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 08:31PMTHE KING YOU LOVE TO HATE Critics have thrown stones at The Life and Death of King John for centuries, but New York Shakespeare Exchange delivers such a clear, astute, and enjoyable producti…
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 02:45AMDRUGS AND RELIGION In full disclosure, I had a junkie boyfriend for about three years, so I have pretty firm opinions about drug addiction – none of them very sympathetic. Set in a Catholi…
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