For a musical about a future without death, Deathless feels dissonantly lifeless.
Tag: A Crazy Mirror Showing Us Both in 5-D
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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IN TRANSIT (Broadway)
Does anyone else still want to hear the “Director’s Cut” of In Transit that axes the score-tanking beatboxing?
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.
Stage It Like You Dream It
A new week, a new screen-to-stage idea.
An Ode to Asghar Farhadi
After seeing Asghar Farhadi’s Academy Award-winning The Salesman earlier this year, I posted the following tweetstorm on Twitter:
Why – in 300 Words – THE AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE, LIGHTS OUT, and Many Other Horror Flicks Should’ve Just…Come to Broadway?! (or Off, or Off-Off, or Off-Off-Off, etc. ad infinitum)
Add last year’s The Autopsy of Jane Doe and Lights Out to the long list of excessively derivative, and thus increasingly tired horror movies that would be better suited for the stage.
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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You Can’t Stop the Arts (Tweet-of-Consciousness)
As if I needed another reason to adore @HarveyFierstein – PREACH BROTHER: https://t.co/kZDCS7jfUJ
— Steven Strauss (@aintnohero) March 27, 2017
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Write All Nite 