Will Eno is this generation’s Samuel Beckett, isn’t he?
Author: Steven Strauss
ALL THE FINE BOYS at The New Group
Erica Schmidt’s All the Fine Boys at the New Group Theatre chronicled how systematic patriarchy first destructively subsumes and dictates the worldviews of two girls too young to know any better.
LINDA at the Manhattan Theater Club
Very few other playwrights so evocatively plumb the plights of modern women as Penelope Skinner.
THE OUTER SPACE at the The Public Theater
In The Outer Space at the Public Theater – the best musical of last season – the inimitable Ethan Lipton utilized the ludicrously wide range of his musical voice to leave Earth far behind, both literally and figuratively, to obtain new, creatively absurd and absurdly creative, allegorically-resonant perspectives on the existentialism of Earth-bound existence.
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THE FATE OF THE FURIOUS Questions the Fate of the FURIOUS Franchise
The Fast and the Furious franchise shares more with Marvel movies than just overflowing box office riches. At their cores, they seek to offer audiences exactly what they expect, which basically constitutes nothing more than things that go BOOM.
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THE CIRCLE (James Ponsoldt)
When the most striking aspects of a cinematic adaptation of a novel that’s anything but novel (see what I did there?) cannot even be solely credited to the movie itself, it’s safe to say that no one needs to particularly rush to see it (especially since reading the original book – presumably worthwhile enough for a studio to spend money obtaining the film rights – would almost surely be a better use of time).
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, and A Quasi-Defense of Disney
Once upon a time, Disney mastered the art of manufacturing fairy tales, mostly for better…but somewhat for worse too.
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A Kind Of Apology to Blumhouse Productions
Last year, I posted a rather negative takedown of Blumhouse Productions, in which I bemoaned their lack of ingenuity in the name of box office riches and likened this formula to that of modern-day superhero movies, specifically those of Marvel Studios.
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#NotMyPowerRangers
Unlike the hordes of deplorables who may use the hashtag that serves as the title of this piece to express their grievances regarding the casting-diversity in this year’s big-screen adaptation of Power Rangers, I wish to direct its sentiment not at the cast’s inclusive representation — one of the few redeeming qualities in the whole affair — but rather at the generic, superhero dreck that surrounds them.
THE LIGHTNING THIEF: THE PERCY JACKSON MUSICAL
Since The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical – based on a popular young adult book series – is now going on tour, my belated thoughts on its New York City engagement at the Lucille Lortel Theatre earlier this year have become relevant once more:
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Write All Nite 