Friday, August 5, 2011
PRESS RELEASE Yeast Nation, photo Jay Sullivan Contact: Ron Lasko @ 212-505-1700 x. 11, [email protected] First Sold Out Performances Announced NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL FRINGE FESTIVAL ** 1…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 10:18AMSaturday, July 23, 2011
Guest review by Mark Haggard, Cambridge, UK The National Theatre has a great reputation for brilliant staging of old and new drama based on historical fact, to which witness the great succes…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 11:17PMMonday, July 18, 2011
… the Forest of Arden … What could be better than circling the fruitful fields of Sylvester Manor’s Community Supported Agriculture farm to arrive at the windmill, sitting on the verda…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 05:01PMMonday, July 11, 2011
It’s a sit-com in reverse -- everything that looks normal and every-day turns out ghastly. This dark comedy takes potshots at the over-influence of the media and various clichés of popula…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 09:39AMSunday, June 26, 2011
TRU -- for Truman -- is a one-person play that takes up Capote’s life after he published in Esquire magazine chapters of his novel Answered Prayers in which he exposed the seamy side of th…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 08:06PMThursday, June 23, 2011
Unnatural Acts is a strong and thought provoking play based on a true and tragic event: the purge of a group of gay men at Harvard University in 1920. The catalyst was the suicide of Cyril W…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 08:00PMFriday, June 17, 2011
… All aboard … A Little Journey is about what happens to a group of strangers back when travel across our broad United States meant a four-day train trip. Who’d be sharing your Pullman…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 05:38PMTuesday, June 7, 2011
In Cave of Forgotten Dreams, you follow Werner Herzog and his 3-D camera into one of the rarest and least accessible spots on earth -- Chauvet Cave in Southern France. Here, on its bumpy wal…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 10:51AMSaturday, June 4, 2011
… It was the best of times … Midnight in Paris is as much a pleasure to watch as Woody Allen’s best films even though it’s not as good -- the fantasy is so powerful. This time travel…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 04:14PMSunday, May 29, 2011
… “an extravagant trifle” … The Illusion is well produced, stunningly acted, and trivial. It's interesting, though, for the attention it brings to formal aspects in theater history. …
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 05:03PMFriday, May 27, 2011
Throwing convention to the winds, a girl from a well-to-do San Francisco Jewish family joins a traveling theater troupe to get herself to the wild west, where she meets and marries, well, co…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 04:17PMFriday, May 20, 2011
The Independent Theater Bloggers Association (the “ITBA”) is proud to announce the 2011 recipients of the Third Annual Patrick Lee Theater Blogger Awards. Patrick Lee was one of the ITBA…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 09:49PMThursday, May 19, 2011
... What is it? ... I went to Sleep No More thinking, from what I'd heard, that it would be an exciting, deconstructed version of Macbeth. That is, I expected to see a play since it's listed…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 12:02PMThursday, May 5, 2011
Midday, 1960, Anthony Caro, painted steel, 7' 73/4" x 37 3/8" x 12' 1 1/4" (233.1 x 95 x 370.2 cm), collection of the Museum of Modern Art, NY, photo: MMA There are two ways t…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 03:21PM... normalcy meets end of world ... Future Anxiety is a vast, crisp ensemble play that brings you to the future by following through on everything that's undermining our earth as we know and…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 12:09PMSunday, May 1, 2011
... triple play ... What a romp! What sheer fun! Moliere would have loved The School For Lies . And what a record, three for three, for Classic Stage and David Ives: 2009: Classic Stage prod…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 07:22PMWednesday, April 20, 2011
I thought an opera, Seance on a Wet Afternoon, would likely be an exciting stretch for a talented musical theater composer and lyricist like Stephen Schwartz, author of Godspell, Pippin and …
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 09:36PMTuesday, April 19, 2011
Born Yesterday by all accounts was a wonderful play when it opened on Broadway in 1946, it's been a wonderful movie (a couple of times) and it's a wonderful play today. It's a love triangle …
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 03:56PMMonday, April 18, 2011
A big problem for A Minister's Wife is that, unlike most of Shaw's plays, Candida is in my view -- though others disagree -- dated. It has to do with a woman determining her own fate but the…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 01:13PMTuesday, April 12, 2011
... existentialism among the pioneers ... Which way to turn? Whom can we trust? It's 1845 and three couples, one wife pregnant, one couple with a little boy, journeying west in covered wagon…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 07:28PMTuesday, April 5, 2011
... transformations ... The setting, the deck of Claire’s beach house around Montauk, on the East End of Long Island, is delightful and the play is pleasant in a summery way well into it, …
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 03:45PMSaturday, April 2, 2011
... observations and interpretations ... The exhibition includes 57 works of art by 40 artists, small oil paintings and works on paper. Works are divided into three groups: quiet rooms with …
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 04:47PMThursday, March 24, 2011
... "Great Work Can Happen Anywhere" *... March 22 I attended a panel** on "The Land of Plenty" -- New works in the NYC theater scene," with a focus on sustaining In…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 02:31PMTuesday, March 22, 2011
A rumored connection to Shakespeare's the thing here -- not the play. Is Double Falsehood based on a play Shakespeare wrote* in collaboration with John Fletcher,* that has come down to us th…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 07:00PMSunday, March 13, 2011
Pipeline Theatre Company's Caucasian Chalk Circle is one of the best productions I've seen all season, if not the best. It's a complicated and fascinating play within a play, fired by Brecht…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 05:17PMFriday, March 11, 2011
.. if you want to have a good time ... Cactus Flower is an engaging, delightful light comedy, beautifully presented currently at the Westside Theatre. I'm sure the whole audience left smilin…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 10:38AMThursday, March 10, 2011
... two great productions ... (lucky playwright!) In the Wooster Group's visceral production of Williams' Vieux Carre, a writer/narrator allows his memory to transport him to the past, and t…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 02:31PMMonday, March 7, 2011
Two boxers in a local club in Scotland run by the trainer Bobby Burgess take separate paths to the top. Unfortunately the play fails to let us in on the obstacles either of them faces or how…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 12:27PMMonday, February 28, 2011
... mixed ... With flashbacks and fast forwards, Barney's Version follows Barney Panofsky through the saga of his three wives. First, as a sort of straight-man in Rome among his more footloo…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 04:44PMSunday, February 27, 2011
Mark P. Haggard writes from England ... ... disturbing questions ... Many people had their say on the Wall Street fraud (it would be indulgent to merely call it a crisis or crash, when a ban…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 01:04PMSunday, February 13, 2011
... three ages of women ... Chekhov wrote Three Sisters for production on a proscenium stage but I think he would have been thrilled to see this expansion of his work in Classic Stage's magn…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 07:13PM 
