Author: Steven Strauss
JOHN LITHGOW: STORIES BY HEART (Roundabout)
The title John Lithgow: Stories By Heart succinctly describes this one-man play starring, who else, John Lithgow, currently running at the Roundabout Theatre Club’s American Airlines Theatre:
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SHADOWLANDS (Fellowship for Performing Arts)
Fellowship for Performing Arts’ revival of William Nicholson’s 30-year-old, Tony Award-nominated Shadowlands — directed at a monotonously dull pace by Christa Scott-Reed at Theatre Row — is a period play that persistently plays the artificial period, not its timelessly human truth.
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DIASPORA (Gym at Judson)
At a time when so many curmudgeons complain that every story has already been told on the stage and screen, Birthright remains a surprisingly untapped subject. A group of horny, wealthy adolescents partying their way through an exotic foreign locale? WHERE’S MY TICKET?!
1945 (Ferenc Török)
A Jewish family returning at the end of World War II to their home village that handed them over to the Nazis is not the type of story one would expect to be given the western treatment.
THE WOLVES (Lincoln Center)
If you’re even remotely tapped into the theatre world, then you’ve already read all the much-deserved praise regarding Lila Neugebauer’s direction of the true-ensemble in Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves, currently winding down its third (3rd!) production in New York City, this time at Lincoln Center’s off-Broadway Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. As such, hopefully you won’t fault me for not repeating it here.
DEDICATION 6 (Lil Wayne)
Writing about Emimen and Lil Wayne in the same week — is it the mid-naughts up in here (up in here)?!
2017 Double Features
There are almost too many great movies in theaters right now; it’s hard to keep up!
SCHOOL GIRLS; OR, THE AFRICAN MEAN GIRLS PLAY (MCC)
Theatres around the world should produce Jocelyn Bioh’s School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play.
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WHO’S HOLIDAY! (Westside Theatre): How the Grinch Stole Seuss!
Dirtying up a beloved childhood icon is one of the most reliable comedic formulas available to comic artists; it also tends to be a reliable formula to get sued.
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