Site-specific productions are the true double-edged swords of the theatre world.
Tag: New York City Serenades
Diamonds in the Rough
I love finding old theatres hidden amongst the concrete buildings – and often in them, usually down dusty hallways and up gorgeous flights of stairs (or vice versa) – that comprise the jungle of New York City.
IT ME
Besides AAAAAAAll the obvious reasons, I’m so looking forward to Springsteen on Broadway because I’ll finally be able to read my beloved theatre critics writing about the Boss.
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All The World’s a Stage, and All the Men and Women Merely Selfish Audiences
My main problem with criticism today, both formal and informal, can be summarized in the phrase: “the selfish audience.”
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GOD OF VENGEANCE & RHINOCEROS at the New Yiddish Rep
In the endearingly-enigmatic climactic scene of Jim Jarmusch’s brilliantly-weird and weirdly-brilliant Paterson, a mysterious yet undeniably-wise member of the literati proclaims, “Hearing poetry translated is like taking a shower wearing a raincoat.” When the camera flashes to the opened book on his lap, the page contains a poem in both its original language and the reader’s native tongue.
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YEN at MCC Theater
If you’re looking for a normal review of last season’s Yen at MCC Theater, then keep looking.
ON THE EXHALE at The Roundabout Theatre Company
Martín Zimmerman’s On the Exhale at the Roundabout Theatre Company was a 60-minute masterclass in non-polemical and thus effective theatrical activism, anchored by the best performance of last season by Marin Ireland and the ingenious direction of Leigh Silverman.
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WAKEY, WAKEY at the Signature Theatre
Will Eno is this generation’s Samuel Beckett, isn’t he?
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.
Write All Nite 