Off-Broadway Theater Review: HERE LIES LOVE (The Public Theatre) by Victoria Linchong

THE REVOLUTION WILL BE DANCED Move over Evita, there's another Queen of Hearts in town. And she likes diamonds too. I'm talking about Imelda Marcos"she of the thousand pairs of shoes"who is …

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 7:13pm on May 6, 2014☆⚑

Off-Broadway Theater Review: GOOD PERSON OF SZECHWAN (The Public Theater) by Victoria Linchong

MUCH BETTER THAN GOOD The last thing that Brecht would have wanted is the audience to identify with his characters. But that's where the Foundry Theatre's production of Good Person of Szechw…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 8:36pm on October 29, 2013☆⚑

Off Broadway Theater Review: MANNA-HATA (Peculiar Works Project at the James A. Farley Post Office) by Victoria Linchong

TITLE Soaked to the skin and wrestling with a flimsy umbrella, I splashed across Eighth Avenue while reading the inscription on the James A. Farley Post Office, "Neither snow nor rain nor he…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 7:38pm on June 19, 2013☆⚑

Off-Broadway Theater Review: THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST (New Ohio Theatre) by Victoria Linchong

CALIFORNIA DREAMS The 2012 Ice Factory Festival closes with The Girl of the Golden West, a heartfelt musical ode to the great American myth based on David Belasco's 1911 novel, which had pre…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 1:25pm on August 5, 2012☆⚑

Off-Broadway Theater Review: MISS LILLY GETS BONED (New Ohio Theatre) by Victoria Linchong

SEX, LIES, AND ELEPHANTS There's an elephant in the room in Miss Lilly Gets Boned and it's not just the sexuality of the eponymous Sunday school teacher. It's an extraordinary hulking beast …

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 2:40am on July 22, 2012☆⚑

Off-Broadway Theater Review: FLYING SNAKES IN 3D (New Ohio Theatre) by Victoria Linchong

HISS HISS BANG BANG Four writers stand onstage and in unison announce their thesis, "We thought that making a show strictly about our poverty and history of abuse would make us severely unpo…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:47pm on July 7, 2012☆⚑

Off Broadway Theater Review: RUSSIAN TRANSPORT (The New Group) by Victoria Linchong

ALL IN ZI FAMILY In Russian Transport, comedienne Janeane Garofalo expands her range by playing a wisecracking Russian-Jewish matriarch whose domineering attitude toward her daughter conceal…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 8:45pm on February 8, 2012☆⚑

Off Broadway Theater Reviews: KUTSUKAKE TOKIJIRO and SHE KILLS MONSTERS (both at The Flea) by Victoria Linchong

UPSTAIRS/DOWNSTAIRS AT THE FLEA The Flea Theater is currently providing New York theater audiences an interesting illustration of the cultural gap between Asian-Americans and Asians from Asi…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 7:26pm on November 19, 2011☆⚑

Off Broadway Theater Review: THE DUMB WAITER (National Asian American Theater Company) by Victoria Linchong

WAITING FOR PINTER National Asian American Theater Company (NAATCO) takes a steampunk spin on The Dumb Waiter, Harold Pinter's classic absurdist thriller.  Director Andrew Pang makes grea…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 8:31pm on October 21, 2011☆⚑

Off Broadway Theater Review: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF KING JOHN (New York Shakespeare Exchange) by Victoria Linchong

THE KING YOU LOVE TO HATE Critics have thrown stones at The Life and Death of King John for centuries, but New York Shakespeare Exchange delivers such a clear, astute, and enjoyable producti…

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 2:45am on September 25, 2011☆⚑

Theater Review: HIGH by Michael Lombardo (N.Y.C. " Broadway) by Victoria Linchong

DRUGS AND RELIGION In full disclosure, I had a junkie boyfriend for about three years, so I have pretty firm opinions about drug addiction " none of them very sympathetic. Set in a Catholic …

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:04am on April 26, 2011☆⚑