Sunday, June 2, 2013
... the storm of war ... This outstanding exhibition moves ones thoughts between intimate experience and vast philosophical and artistic vision, all combining to give a vivid sense of the Ci…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 01:13PMWednesday, May 22, 2013
This musical adaptation conveys to a remarkable extent the epic scope and compelling narrative force of Flaubert’s novel. One is intent, watching the musical, on catching every word and th…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 07:35PMThursday, May 16, 2013
Richard Foreman and the Ontological-Hysteric Theater that he founded in New York City in 1968 have been icons of avant garde theater. He’s made a number of statements about his philosophic…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 05:01PMTuesday, May 14, 2013
Raising awareness of difficult and agonizing aspects of existence has a powerful place among the purposes of art. Qureshi’s roof garden installation certainly does that. The installation r…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 03:53PMSunday, May 12, 2013
Whatever Williams may have worked out for himself in this 1981 exercise of adaptation, he didn’t do any good for Chekhov, much as he admired the Russian playwright. Evidently it was import…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 10:56AMMonday, April 29, 2013
Kon-Tiki is one of the world’s great stories -- not so well told in this movie BUT the story is SO good it’s worth seeing the movie anyhow. It's an astonishingly audacious adventure. The…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 11:12AMMonday, April 22, 2013
... beyond Peter Pan ... Best known now for Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie was a popular playwright in early 20th-century London and here’s a chance to see two of his witty and enjoyable comedies…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 04:36PMFriday, April 5, 2013
Kathryn Hunter in Kafka's Monkey. Photo: Keith Pattison Kafka’s Monkey is original, creative and one of the great theater experiences. It brings together a great author, a talented playwri…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 09:18PMTuesday, April 2, 2013
This exhibition is very interesting and also somewhat disappointing. Inevitably, among the over 200 photographs relating to a vast defining event, the American Civil War, some are powerful i…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 06:20PMSunday, March 31, 2013
Sonia Villani as Eurydice and Marco De Ornella as Orpheus. Photo Alan Roche This is a vibrant, imaginative and creative play, formed in part from the myths of Echo and Narcissus and Orpheus …
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 07:19PMSunday, March 24, 2013
L-R Jordan Kaplan as Lawyer, Eric Emil Oleson as Father, Jacques Roy as Arthur, and Tom Schwans as Professor. Photo: Debby Goldman Taking as its starting point that “Nobody really likes Sh…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 04:20PMThursday, March 21, 2013
Good News! Metropolitan Museum of Art to Open 7 Days a Week Starting July 1 Will Open Mondays throughout Year for First Time in 42 Years As of July 1, 2013, The Metropolitan Museum of Art wi…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 04:34PMMonday, March 18, 2013
A group of archaeologists and others attached to them are holed up in and around what’s referred to as a modest, rustic cabin -- but the set presents us with a vast lodge -- engaged in exc…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 03:13PMThursday, March 14, 2013
This is a middling play -- if you see it you’re not sorry but you don’t need to see it. Gurney is very talented at engaging the viewer with recognizable character types involved in conte…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 05:30PMFriday, March 8, 2013
If you’ve never seen Henry IV Part 1, the Pearl's production will bring you close to it and if you’ve seen it before you’ll love it all over again. This last assumes you’ve loved it …
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 10:08PMFriday, February 22, 2013
The world doesn’t need this musical. Set in a fictional Irish village, Innisfree, in the 1920’s, it’s about the “cute Irish,” and their quaint ways including the great fun of settl…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 10:13AMThursday, February 14, 2013
Isaac’s Eye takes as starting points what it asserts are a few “truths,” (e.g., Newton stuck a needle into his eye as a scientific experiment, Newton was engaged once but never married…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 10:39PMWednesday, February 6, 2013
Bleak bleak bleak -- a bold way to start a play, but it works wonderfully. Strangers, a woman and a boy, on a cold, road at night, next to a cemetery, waiting for a bus, but the vivid charac…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 05:05PMWednesday, January 30, 2013
Picnic is a huge delicious ice cream of a fantasy you don’t even have to feel guilty about giving in to it because it comes in the guise of hard bitten realism. I loved it. The action take…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 08:43PMWednesday, January 23, 2013
What a disappointment! I went to Clive because of two actors, Ethan Hawke, who was outstanding recently in Ivanov at Classic Stage, and Vincent D’Onofrio whose superb acting I watch with f…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 04:13PMFriday, December 14, 2012
… singing about work … People talked about working in Studs Terkel’s oral history book of 1974, Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do -- …
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 05:29PMSunday, December 9, 2012
Watch out for that that telescope! ... Allison Buck as Amanda, Seth Moore as Worthy. Photo Aaron Zebrock ...elixir of joy … Winter doldrums? …. Let Restoration Comedy completely restore …
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 10:28PMThursday, December 6, 2012
After great success with his plays Waiting for Left and Awake and Sing! in 1935 -- and a stint of movie writing in Hollywood -- Odets returned to Broadway with Golden Boy in 1937. Being fami…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 09:54PMWednesday, November 28, 2012
… translations … Le Luxe I, 1907 * (*full captioins below) Le Luxe II, 1907-8 Although this large exhibit covers most of Matisse's painting career, it has a specific focus: to bring toge…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 07:00PMSaturday, November 17, 2012
Stag at Sharkey’s, 1909, oil on canvas, 36 1/4x48 1/4 in (92x122.6 cm), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collections, c. The Cleveland Museum of Art As I began to walk throug…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 07:15PMFriday, November 16, 2012
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SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 03:53PMTuesday, November 13, 2012
Ivanov is not as perfect a play as Chekhov’s Three Sisters or The Cherry Orchard, which came later, but I enjoyed it even more -- filled with fascinating and amusing characters, it spills …
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 06:25PMTuesday, November 6, 2012
. . . not a dragon tattoo but a . . . Simon and the Oaks is about two families with characters so vivid, attractive and complex that one becomes totally absorbed in them, worries for the obs…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 07:38PMWednesday, October 10, 2012
Heresy is topical, very funny, and totally enjoyable modern parable filled with references to today’s politics and based, roughly, on the life of Christ. Some of the characters have Biblic…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 06:31PMSunday, October 7, 2012
… aviation pioneers … Interestingly, diaries give an important slant on a character but they aren't a last word! A play about an encounter among three early aviators, Charles Lindbergh, …
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 06:39PMMonday, October 1, 2012
This is an excellent production of a very well written and engrossing play that leaves off with an unpleasant sense of sound and fury signifying not much. It’s about a husband and wife who…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 04:10PM 
