My review of the first program of this year’s SUMMER SHORTS festival of one-act plays at 59E59 Theaters has just been posted on CultureVulture.net. Check it out and let me know what you think. For me, the high point of the evening is Alexander Dinelaris’s “In This, Our Time,” especially the performance of Ted Koch (below, with Erin Darke) as a homicide detective who’s formed a strong emotional bond with the daughter of the rather crazy woman he’s been dating and about to dump. The low point is definitely another loathsome play by Neil LaBute called “The New Testament.” You can read my review in full here.
Archive for the 'theater reviews' Category
Theater review: SUMMER SHORTS 5, Series A
August 12, 2011Theater review: THE PATSY and JONAS
July 26, 2011
My review of David Greenspan’s latest show, a double-bill of The Patsy and Jonas produced by the Transport Group at the Duke on 42nd Street, has just been posted on CultureVulture.net. If you know me, you know I’m a huge Greenspan fan, and this show doesn’t disappoint. Check out my review here, and also check out the show, which plays through August 13.
Theater review: THE ILLUSION
July 13, 2011My review of Tony Kushner’s The Illusion has just been posted on CultureVulture.net. Check it out and let me know what you think. Better yet, go see the show and let me know what you think. Its run finishes on Sunday, and it features very fine work by director Michael Mayer, designers Christine Jones, Susan Hilferty and Kevin Adams, veteran performers Lois Smith, David Margolies, Henry Stram, Peter Bartlett, and Sean Dugan, as well as some young actors new to me, including Amanda Quaid (of the famous Quaid dynasty — daughter of Randy, niece of Dennis).
Henry Stram, Lois Smith, and David Margolies in Tony Kushner's "The Illusion"
Theater review: RADIOTHEATRE’S 2ND H.P. LOVECRAFT FESTIVAL
July 13, 2011As a theater critic, I grew up in the field of adventuresome Off- and Off-Off-Broadway. So when I spend too much time covering Broadway shows, I feel like I’ve strayed far from home, and it’s time to check out something a little farther from the beaten path. This week it was Radiotheatre’s “2nd H.P. Lovecraft Festival” at Under St. Mark’s, in the East Village. My review of the show has just been posted on CultureVulture.net. Check it out and let me know what you think.
H. P. Lovecraft
Theater review: ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL & MEASURE FOR MEASURE in Central Park
July 4, 2011
Annie Parisse and Tonya Pinkins in "All's Well That Ends Well" (photo by Joan Marcus)
My review of the two Shakespeare in the Park productions playing in rep at the Delacorte Theater has just been posted on CultureVulture.net. Check it out and let me know what you think. It starts off:
“It has been a steamy summer in New York City. The newspapers have bristled with lurid, titillating details of high-placed politicians and their sexual peccadilloes: the New York state congressman and the Tweeted crotch shots; the French pol, the Guinean housekeeper, and the Sofitel room’s semen-splashed wall. Those don’t hold a candle, however, to the filthy doings at Shakespeare in the Park…”
You can read the entire review online here.
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