Thursday, January 26, 2012
... pre-vintage Shaw ... Shaw’s early play, The Philanderer of 1893, is a romantic comedy that’s as focused on the ideas of Henrik Ibsen as it is on love, and with good reason: for Shaw …
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 11:25AMSaturday, January 21, 2012
... artistic directors ... Ellen Stewart, the astoundingly brave and brilliant founder of La MaMa theater in NYC’s East Village, died just about a year ago, Jan 13, 2011. Since, from the t…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 03:56PMMonday, January 16, 2012
Albert Bierstadt, The Rocky Mountains, Landers Peak, 1863, oil on canvas, 73 1/2 x 120 3/4 in. 186.7 x 306.7 cm (for other paintings, full captions with dimensions at end) The MMA’s New Am…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 05:16PMFriday, January 13, 2012
There's one reason to see this film: Meryl Streep. The Iron Lady follows Britain’s Margaret Thatcher from aspiring politician to political powerhouse, from loving wife to grieving widow. S…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 02:57PMSaturday, December 31, 2011
... hidden image of a woman with a hat ... The American abstract painter Helen Frankenthaler died at the age of 83 just a few days ago and I’m writing because of something very interesting…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 06:59PMFriday, December 30, 2011
... here's the cold war ... Blood and Guts tells the story of the American thrust for influence in Afghanistan during the cold war through a close look at the lives and adventures of three i…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 01:20PMSunday, December 18, 2011
This is as good a movie as I’ve ever seen or ever hope to see. And it’s such a surprise. It’s filmed in black and white and as a silent film, about a silent film star, George Valentin …
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 05:33PMThursday, December 15, 2011
Ken Davenport, producer of Broadway and off-Broadway shows, posted on his blog, http://www.TheProducersPerspective.com , a summary of the Annual Broadway League's report about the demographi…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 05:10PMNEWS FLASH 12/15/2011: The Flea's Romantic Holiday Comedy LOOKING AT CHRISTMAS Comes to TV December 21 - 25 on Thirteen WNET Thirteen WNET will air The Flea Theater's acclaimed 2010 producti…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 03:13PMSaturday, December 10, 2011
... science vs. religion ... In an imagined encounter between Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis, two intelligent men discuss significant human issues. No sex, no violence. What a relief. It’s …
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 03:58PMTuesday, November 29, 2011
Reviewed by guest author John Buscarello ... against the current ... Undertow, a wonderful simple film, focuses on a modest town where a modern perspective starts to crack open a closed vill…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 03:36PMSaturday, November 19, 2011
The idea of an adaptation for theater of George Orwell’s first novel, Burmese Days of 1934, is appealing but this production does not rise alive from Orwell’s pages as a true dramatizati…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 06:21PM... The Marquis de Bradshaw ... One gets the impression that Thomas Bradshaw began by making a list of everything he could think of that might shock you re sexuality and worked his story to …
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 09:40AMMonday, November 14, 2011
... The Marquis de Bradshaw ... One gets the impression that Thomas Bradshaw began by making a list of potentially shocking sex scenes and sex talk and worked his story to get in as many of …
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 11:37PMSaturday, November 12, 2011
… art, life and wit!… If you enjoy the pleasures of really deep satisfying laughs coming fast one upon the next, see Clowns Full-Tilt. It’s marvelously performed, and constantly surpri…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 04:44PMThursday, November 3, 2011
... prismatic perfection ... LA STRADA shines like a gem. The writing, acting, music, movement, mis en scene are perfect. Based on Fellini’s great film of 1954, and now set in Spain, it te…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 11:24AMThursday, October 27, 2011
... a big musical on its way ... Odyssey calls itself an epic musical and it is. It has the look of a musical headed to Broadway and -- with some strengthening -- it will get there. Meanwhil…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 03:39PMSaturday, October 22, 2011
... not in our stars ... The cast is so star studded* that it’s surprising that this production comes out no more than a workman-like Lear. But that's still alot: since it’s such a great…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 06:10PMTuesday, October 18, 2011
... star struck ... This exhibition brings together 90 publicity photographs, made by the big studios, of major Hollywood stars: the earliest is of Theda Bara as Cleopatra of 1917, and the l…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 08:48AMSunday, October 9, 2011
Raft of the Medusa is powerful, intensely human, and totally real -- you are there. Like Gericault’s great shipwreck painting of the 19th Century based on an actual event, The Raft of the …
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 04:46PMThursday, September 29, 2011
... it beats me ... ? I really don't know why anybody thought this play was worth producing. It's a shipboard farce, a sendup of ship narrative cliches presented with something like frolicks…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 09:46PMSunday, September 25, 2011
... don't miss this play ... Benita Cereno is electric -- a powerful, hard hitting play, historically and philosophically resonant. Set around 1800, and based on an actual incident, modified…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 04:44AMThursday, September 22, 2011
… liminality … Crane Story takes up an interesting topic: mixed states of being. Characters are Japanese and American, can seem both male and female, and move between the world of the li…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 05:07PMSaturday, September 17, 2011
… so what’ll we do now? … With The Select, The Elevator Repair Service, an outstanding experimental theater company, has for some reason, created a complete misfire. The adaptation, th…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 05:44PMTuesday, September 6, 2011
Itamar Moses catches today’s lingo like butterflies. Completeness is about young people, in the Computer Science and Biology Departments of a university, talking about love, molecular biol…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 03:43PMSaturday, September 3, 2011
... the hesitation ... I went to Brighton Rock (not usually going to gangster films) because Graham Greene writes great stories and I hoped his story would survive the movie. It does: the st…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 01:44PMWednesday, August 31, 2011
FringeNYC 2011 Overall Excellence Award Winners Overall Production/Play: PigPen Presents The Mountain Song The More Loving One Overall Production/Musical: Yeast Nation Pearl's Gone Blue Perf…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 05:07PMWednesday, August 24, 2011
Guest review by Mark Haggard, Cambridge, UK Viewing the Edinburgh Fringe -- Two vignette reviews cannot do justice to the productive maelstrom that is Edinburgh Fringe Festival, run every Au…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 12:50PMThursday, August 18, 2011
Josh Grisetti and the cast of Enter Laughing, The Musical. Photo: Bay Street Theatre I never saw anything funnier than Enter Laughing. The situations are hilarious, the songs are fun, and th…
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 06:40PMTuesday, August 9, 2011
Sarah's Key contains some of the most powerful, heart-wrenching scenes ever filmed -- and they’re true. This film is important for making everyone aware of a particularly horrific episode …
SOURCE: Let's Talk Off-Broadway at 07:32PMFriday, 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 10:18AM 
