387 stories from Usher Nonsense
This is a jewel of a production. Pristine. Reckless. Inspired.A few years ago " actually quite a bunch of years ago " I saw two productions of Beckett: Endgame and Waiting For Godot, both…
Seriously. Have you ever been to a musical where the entire audience hummed along with every song? Or clapped. Or sang. Or cheered. Hmnn?Well, then you just might want to get on over to…
What a sad and shameful society we can be when we put our minds to it. And the fact that we find humor and love in the dirty little allies where we are forced to hide reminds us that hope i…
Because I don't read anything about a show before I go see it (I prefer to read about what I was supposed to think after the fact) I thought this was a musical about The Rascals. I also tho…
Okie dokie then. This is one that will make you sit up and take notice. Don't get too comfortable because Lyle Kessler is the kind of writer who likes to move the furniture around " and I'…
Oh puh-leeze!!! What in the heck is going on here? Halfway through the first act I leaned over to my chum and said, "I didn't know we were going to see American Idol! And when I looked in…
Richard Greenberg is a very lucky man. This production is a gift that elevates his text to a dizzying height. Truly a shining example of the best of ensemble work.This is the story of a fa…
There is so very much that is wrong with this production it makes your brain flutter. But NONE of it is the writing. That is a certainty.This is a beautiful retelling of the tale of the ma…
Tanya Barfield is a writer with enormous vision. She takes in the whole world with one glance. In this play she takes on racism, adoption, homosexuality, US-Africa relations, not to mentio…
When I was a kid, a guy named Louis Mastrobatisto used to visit our house regularly. Most times he would bring along his guitar and a portable amp. He'd sit in the living room and play. S…
I love tissue paper. So much color that takes up so much eye real estate and yet weighs nothing. With just a little touch of tissue one can masque a myriad of deficiencies. So, naturally,…
Nora Ephron is a sage. I would say "was" but when the printed word is still here it makes the message very much in the present. And in this play she is telling the story, not of a Lucky Gu…
Well I ain't been this happy since the pigs ate my little brother. Seriously. This show could have been as dull as watching people in an endurance contest. Oh, right. That's what this wa…
I was trying to think of one word to describe this play. Sophomoric. That's the word. It's astonishing that it has lasted so long, having had other incarnations in and out of New York. B…
Darling, this play is so utterly empty that when the first act ended I couldn't believe there was a second act! If Holly Goligthly saw this production, I bet that would have been her reacti…
There is a great deal of talk about the Mound Builders " a people who lived on this continent thousands of years ago and who are being slowly and systematically erased by people putting up p…
At the very least, any production that wants to address the Stonewall Riots of 1969 has to be acknowledged as ambitious. The events of June 28, a969 are iconic. The gay community finally g…
I really, really, really, really liked this play. And it is really, really, really, really L-O-N-G. Because Annie Baker is such a good writer, I am pretty certain that the length of this p…
Well this one has me stumped. Not that I don't get what is going on. I don't get why.Olga Knipper (Bianca Amato) is waiting in a St. Petersburg theatre for a rehearsal of The Cherry Orchard…
A long time ago a friend of mine said in passing that she believed many women fell in love with the men who fell in love with them first.Ain't that the truth. For Sally Talley (Sarah Paulso…
Well it doesn't get any more charming than this. Even without a prince who carries that particular moniker. This prince (Santino Fontana) is named Topher, short for Christopher. And he, t…
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I guess I am the last one to discover Marilyn Maye. Jeese I hope not. She should be slaying new fans right and left. But where have I been?No matter. It made the discovery of this magic l…
I am not a person who laughs a lot at the theatre. I'm a Yanky, first of all. Second, I am usually thinking about what is going on. It is rare that a full fledged bark leaves my mouth " a…
There were the Sisters of Bellville, and there is a Belleville New Jersey where Danny Stiles said you could still dance the old fashioned way.This ain't them.This Belleville isn't Belle at a…
