American Sexy Likes You, Whoreface by Alexis Soloski

Bad play looks at bad kids being bad

SOURCE: Village Voice at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Ho! and Looking at Christmas Stuff New York's Stockings by Alexis Soloski

New pieces by Brian Dykstra and Steven Banks join a Yule-logged season

SOURCE: Village Voice at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

The joy of corpsing: why giggling fits the theatre by Alexis Soloski

When laughter erupted on stage in a US production starring Patrick Stewart, the audience lapped it up. Why?

SOURCE: The Guardian at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Permission review - spanking comedy makes its mark by Alexis Soloski

Lucille Lortel Theater, New YorkChristian Domestic Discipline, in which a wife submits to being spanked by her husband, is the subject of a slyly poignant play that packs a wallop Continue r…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 9:11am on May 21, 2015☆⚑

Review: 'Macbeth,' Accelerated, at Public Theater by Alexis Soloski

The Public's Mobile Shakespeare Unit, which usually performs at places like prisons, returns home with its brisk production of Shakespeare's tragedy.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00pm on May 20, 2015☆⚑

The Way We Get By review " Neil LaBute's inarticulate characters irritate by Alexis Soloski

Second Stage, New YorkAmanda Seyfried and Thomas Sadoski star in a morning-after drama where they talk endlessly without saying anything of substance Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 7:14am on May 20, 2015☆⚑

Review: Ensemble Studio Theater's '35th Marathon of One-Act Plays' by Alexis Soloski

In just two hours, Series A of the marathon races from Manhattan to Brooklyn, from a port town in Kenya to the capital of Idaho, from the 1950's to right now.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00pm on May 18, 2015☆⚑

Review: 'The Flatiron Hex,' a Delirious Tale With Puppets and Ickiness by Alexis Soloski

Created by the puppeteer James Godwin, this show centers on an I.T. expert and shaman trying to protect a city amid a toxic swamp.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 6:11pm on May 18, 2015☆⚑

Review: In 'Heartbreak,' Talk Is Complicated by Alexis Soloski

Ariel Stess's play at the Bushwick Starr, centered on the family of a building company owner, abounds in wordplay.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 5:56pm on May 14, 2015☆⚑

Safely Costuming 'Permission,' a High-Impact Comedy From Robert Askins by Alexis Soloski

Paloma Young, a Tony Award-winning costume designer, assembled clothing that could cushion the spanks in "Permission," a comedy about spousal corporal punishment.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:29pm on May 14, 2015☆⚑

Review: 'Major Barbara' at Brave New World Repertory in Brooklyn by Alexis Soloski

George Bernard Shaw's 1905 play pits a Salvation Army officer's "blood and fire" and against her munitions manufacturer father's "money and gunpowder."

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 5:52pm on May 10, 2015☆⚑

Review: In 'Cool Hand Luke,' the Ultimate Escape by Alexis Soloski

The Godlight Theater Company brings a hero back to life at 59E59 Theaters.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00pm on May 7, 2015☆⚑

Lydia Leonard Talks About 'Wolf Hall' by Alexis Soloski

The actress, who plays Anne Boleyn in the plays, has been nominated for a Tony for her role.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 1:03pm on May 6, 2015☆⚑

Review: 'Let Us Now Praise Susan Sontag,' by Sibyl Kempson by Alexis Soloski

The inaugural production by Ms. Kempson's company, 7 Daughters of Eve Thtr. & Perf. Co., is a consideration of how stories are told and who gets to tell them.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:25pm on May 5, 2015☆⚑

Review: 'The Floatones,' Making Song and Sense of Life and Nonsense by Alexis Soloski

Jim Neu's musical about four characters who form a doo-wop group based on nonattachment.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 5:18pm on May 5, 2015☆⚑

Review: 'Six Rounds of Vengeance,' in Vegas, No Actual Boxers Necessary by Alexis Soloski

This Vampire Cowboys show relies on westerns, samurai stories, action movies, blaxploitation flicks and vampire chillers.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 6:21pm on May 3, 2015☆⚑

Review: 'Your Blues Ain't Sweet Like Mine' Takes On Race by Alexis Soloski

Ruben Santiago-Hudson's drama, at Two River Theater in New Jersey, is less a play than a poignant, often powerful polemic.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 5:32pm on April 30, 2015☆⚑

Tony nominations aren't kind to new American plays by Alexis Soloski

British imports dominated the awards announcement, with The Curious Incident or Wolf Hall likely to win best play. But where is Hugh Jackman's nomination? Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:41am on April 28, 2015☆⚑

Grounded review " Anne Hathaway goes full throttle in one-woman show by Alexis Soloski

The Public theater, New YorkHathaway gives a heightened performance as a drone pilot and director Julie Taymor turns up all the dials, in a chilling play about the effects of killing by remo…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 6:25am on April 27, 2015☆⚑

Review: 'Yokohama Rosa,' With Michiko Godai, at Japan Society by Alexis Soloski

A homeless Japanese woman inspired Ms. Godai's performance in this play.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 5:31pm on April 26, 2015☆⚑

Airline Highway review " down and out in New Orleans and on Broadway by Alexis Soloski

Samuel J Friedman theatre, New YorkLisa D'Amour's play about life in a hopeless motel is an orgy of tinsel and beer with no sight of a story Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 8:59am on April 24, 2015☆⚑

The Visit review " vengeful Chita Rivera sharpens Kander and Ebb's dark vision by Alexis Soloski

Lyceum theatre, New YorkThis musical treatment of Dürrenmatt's revenge satire has star turns from Rivera and Roger Rees, but a romanticised plot plays weakly beside its macabre twists Conti…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 6:46am on April 24, 2015☆⚑

Something Rotten! review " Shakespeare musical is comfortable but not clever by Alexis Soloski

Though it features a twerking Bard and a song called I Hate Shakespeare, this new comedy about his rival playwrights is too nice to be truly iconoclastic Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:10am on April 23, 2015☆⚑

Doctor Zhivago review " a mega-musical sprinkled with inadvertent comedy by Alexis Soloski

The Broadway Theater, New YorkMore overblown than overwhelming, this melodramatic musical has minimal impact despite some good songs " and Lara's wig is ridiculous Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 9:00pm on April 21, 2015☆⚑

Review: In 'Emily Climbs (Machine Méchant),' a Botched Rebirth by Alexis Soloski

"Emily Climbs" seems like a singular story, but it's actually two stories told by three actors playing the same character.

SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 6:03pm on April 20, 2015☆⚑