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I've had a challenging and satisfying few hours chewing on the ideas and questions posed by Gus Schulenburg's new play Operating Systems, which I saw this afternoon. The description of the…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 01:39AMWhat a difference a director makes. When By the Way, Meet Vera Stark was done at the Second Stage, directed by Jo Bonney, it was hysterically funny, yet hard-hitting and even heart-breakin…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:41PMIt's easy to discuss the lack of gender parity in theatre, but what can be done about it? The League of Professional Theatre Women exists to answer that question and to make things happen, …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 07:37PMThe invaluable Mint Theater Company has found another underappreciated playwright from early in the last century. Elizabeth Baker grew up in an extremely religious household and didn't see h…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 07:33PMI am frequently blown away by the depth and quality of the New York acting community. Brilliant performances are everywhere.(I've linked to my reviews for shows I did indeed review.)THE ENSE…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 10:06PMIn 2018, I saw 74 shows. Only nine of them were on Broadway; those prices, even when discounted, keep scaring me away. However, I've lost little by skipping Broadway shows (as much as I woul…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 09:12PMAt the beginning of Erin Mallon's The Net Will Appear, 75-year-old Bernard climbs out of his second-story window to use the roof of the first floor as a deck. He sets up his camping chair an…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:42AM"What, another musical based on a late 20th-century movie?" you may ask. Well, yeah. But here's the thing: it's really good.Zurin Villanueva, Dove Cameron Photo: Monique CarboniWriter/l…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:12AMI expected to like Noura, Heather Raffo's play at Playwrights Horizon. I knew it was about a Christian Iraqi family living in the US, which I found intriguing, and that it delves into assimi…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 11:48PMWell-deserved raves for Martin Moran's heart-breaking solo piece, The Tricky Part, can be found at the Times, Theater Mania, and the Fordham Observer. I'm more interested in the why of …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 09:12PMMy latest essay is up at Art Times: I just voted, and I’m a nervous wreck. The sad truth is that no matter who wins, it’s not going to be pretty. We seem to have lost the ability as…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 08:42PMI see political correctness as largely a good thing. For me, it connotes trying to honor other people and their needs; calling people by their chosen names; respecting that people with diffe…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 10:48PMThe superb Druid production of Waiting for Godot, which is part of the Lincoln Center White Light festival, is damn close to perfect. Garry Hynes's meticulous direction exquisitely bala…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 04:42PMEvery couple of years, the theatre company Premieres commissions three sung monologues. The writers are given no limitations in terms of content or theme. The latest three monologues, Inner …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 04:42PMIf you have any interest in circuses; if you love the daring young people on the flying trapeze; if you are entertained by amazing juggling or impressed by feats of strength or fascinated by…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 04:06PMA woman becomes aware of her surroundings. She is standing on a table and holding a gun. Behind her is a man who looks like he has been tortured, or maybe hit by a car, his injured arm secur…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 10:32PMYou know that old writing rule, "Show, don't tell"? It makes a lot of sense, particularly in theatre, where we watch characters live their lives right in front of us. Of course, there's also…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 04:06PMIt's difficult this week to agree with the title The World Only Spins Forward. But in the story of Angels in America, the world did spin forward, as shown by this fascinating, info…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 12:12AMNancy Shedman sits reading in a large-ish, empty, nondescript room. Her husband, Coleman, comes storming in, full of accusations and anger. Little by little the room fills, and Coleman reali…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 02:36PMIt takes a lot of ambition to decide to do A Chorus Line at a small Off-Off-Broadway theatre. And it takes a lot of skill to pull it off. Luckily, the Gallery Players in Brooklyn have t…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 02:36PMIs it ungrateful of me to wish that Sharr White's play, The True, presented by The New Group, had more to offer? Perhaps. After all, there is already much to like here: solid writi…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 01:04AMCraig Lucas's new play, I Was Most Alive With You, is impressively ambitious. Performed simultaneously in English and American Sign Language (ASL), with some use of supertitles, it is an ext…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 01:04AMA Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur is not one of Tennessee Williams's masterpieces, but it still deserves a better production than the one currently being presented by La Femme Theatre Pro…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 06:48PMMore like a magazine story brought to life than an actual play, The Emperor still has much going for it, the main things being the performances of the protean and ever-fascinating Kathr…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 06:48PMIn the acknowledgements at the end of Playing to the Gods: Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse, and the Rivalry That Changed Acting Forever, author Peter Rader explains that he (with a …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 10:12PMIt was 1996. I was visiting from California and only had time for two shows. One, of course, had to be the new Sondheim, Passion. I had heard raves about Donna Murphy, who was, of …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 08:36PMGeorge Bernard Shaw's play Heartbreak House has been compared to the works of Chekhov. He himself hinted at the connection via the play's subtitle: A Fantasia in the Rus…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 01:12AMIs any theatre company in New York more consistently satisfying than The Mint? IMHO, the answer is a great big "No!"Larry Bull, Janie Brookshire, Ted Deasy, and Mary BaconPhoto: Todd Cerveri…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 03:24AMLast night I went to see The Band's Visit for the second time, with five other people. One had seen it before, the other four hadn't. When the show was over, we were all glowing.We sat …
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 07:06PMI get invited to a lot of shows, and it's not always easy to decide which ones to see. Often I rely on a familiar name: if person A is directing or person B is acting or person C wrote the m…
SOURCE: Show Showdown at 09:48PMMy latest Art Times essay is up:In some ways, it’s exciting news: Director Ivo van Hove will stage a production of West Side Story, with new choreography by Anne Teresa De Keersm…
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