Mike Nichols cracked Neil Simon’s theatrical code by rewriting how it was staged.
Author: Steven Strauss
Album Roundup: October 12-18
A short but sweet week:
Trailblazer
Blaze is most interesting, perhaps ONLY interesting, when contextualized within Ethan Hawke’s topsy-turvy career.
‘Hale County This Morning, This Evening’
Hale County This Morning, This Evening is a documentary version of experiential cinema.
Tom Hardy
Venom might as well have been titled Tom Hardy, because he’s basically the only reason to see it.
Playwrights Norizons
In my ever-expanding quest to cover on these here Write All Nite pages EVERY show I see, productions from one of the most prominent off-Broadway theatres will always be left outside of this scope.
Album Roundup: October 5-11
This week in music:
NicAuteur Cage
If Nicolas Cage had the focus and discipline to sit down and write a screenplay, then to get off his ass to direct it, AND THEN was given the free artistic reign of final cut, with no oversight to tame and restrain his overindulgent tendencies, Mandy would be the result.
Smokey and the Dissipation
It’s impossible to eulogize an artist whose work you’re largely unfamiliar with.
Schooled
Critical circles perpetuate two schools of thought concerning artistic canons that really piss me off.
