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.
Continue reading “SELL/BUY/DATE (Mtc): Docu-Dramas; less of the former, more of the latter please”
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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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
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
All 3 play revivals this Broadway season have squandered special casts with staid at best, paltry at worst direction
— Steven Strauss (@aintnohero) March 22, 2017
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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)
Back in New York, back to Broadway. First stop, the current revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard, whose conflicted quality can be summarized in these artistic paradoxes:
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HUNDRED DAYS (The Bengsons; Under the Radar): Yet another "this is our love story" confessional song cycle (with some dialogue thrown in)
— Steven Strauss (@aintnohero) January 14, 2017
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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What follows is a pithy textual representation of The Babylon Line, Richard Greenberg’s oh-so Greenberg-ian new play currently running at Lincoln Center’s off-Broadway Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater through January 22:[1]
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Write All Nite 