=As a newcomer to the #FreelanceLyfe, I’ve been revisiting some movies and shows from earlier this year trying to detect trends that would make for juicy pitches in the eyes of omnipotent editors.
Category: Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY Lights
DANIEL’S HUSBAND, and the Sniffle Show Championship of 2016-2017
Michael McKeever’s Daniel’s Husband proves yet again that Primary Stages continues to be a bafflingly ignored hotbed of quality new plays.
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946: THE AMAZING STORY OF ADOLPHUS TIPS (St. Ann’s Warehouse)
Kneehigh’s 946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips at St. Ann’s Warehouse is more sophisticatedly resonant than a large majority of theatrical kiddie fare, mostly because it sensitively touches upon mature aspects of war that other youth-focused shows mistakenly deem objectively inappropriate for children.
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SAMARA (Soho Rep)
Most of Soho Rep’s Samara left me cold, despite my admiration for the respective work of writers Richard Maxwell, Sarah Benson, and Steve Earl.
EVERYBODY (Signature): A BBJ Capsule
Like much of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ dizzyingly thought-provoking work (mostly for better but sometimes for worse; it makes writing about his plays in a focused manner consistently difficult, as the numerous seemingly dichotomous parentheses will attest), his Everybody – a contemporary…revival? adaptation? translation?…of Everyman that played at the Signature Theatre this season – intellectually operates on too many levels to comprehensively process in a solitary viewing. Unlike the declaratory way that such morality plays are often taught, Everybody post-modernly liberates and connects Everyman simultaneously from and to, respectively, its historical roots, allowing both plays to resonate with various audience members in as many different ways as there are different types of people in the crowd. Continue reading “EVERYBODY (Signature): A BBJ Capsule”
SELL/BUY/DATE (Mtc): Docu-Dramas; less of the former, more of the latter please
Anyone familiar with Sarah Jones probably knows her as an expert monologist, a performer capable of not merely playing but quite literally inhabiting various characters from ALL walks of life, regardless of age, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, or any of the other facets of personal identity.
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THE PENITENT (Atlantic): Dude, Where’s My *Fucking* Mamet? (Tweet-of-Consciousness)
Maybe that’s why I’m the only one still in his corner…kinda. ANARCHIST + CHINA DOLL were bad, but can we exclusively blame his writing?
— Steven Strauss (@aintnohero) March 24, 2017
MAN FROM NEBRASKA (Second Stage): Rapturously Sculpting Our Rapture (Tweet-of-Consciousness)
Almost felt like a movie w/ short, non-dialogue driven scenes featuring a series of characters sharing intimate exchanges in many locales
— Steven Strauss (@aintnohero) March 23, 2017
Theatre Roundup (Tweet-of-Consciousness)
THIS WEEK’S LINEUP
Bull in a China Shop (LCT3)
Dear Evan Hansen (Broadway)
Escaped Alone (BAM)
THE GABRIELS: Election Year in the Life of One Family (Public)
Hamilton (Broadway)
Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (Broadway)
The Object Lesson (NYTW)
The Present (Broadway)
The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (McKittrick)
Sunday in the Park with George (Broadway)
Tell Hector I Miss Him (Atlantic)
Tweet of Consciousness: Weekend News Roundup
News regarding Escape to Margaritaville; Sweat; Hamilton in London’s quest to stop scalpers/touts; the Stuttering Association for the Young (and Bruce Springsteen, kinda); the Ambassador Theatre Group/Colonial Theatre; and the Nassau Coliseum:
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