cultural commentary from the desk of Don Shewey
My review of Charles Busch’s Olive and the Bitter Herbs, produced by Primary Stages at 59E59 Theaters, has just been posted on CultureVulture.net. Check it out here and let me know what you think.
Dan Butler, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Richard Masur, and David Garrison in "Olive and the Bitter Herbs" (photo by James Leynse)
My review of Charles Busch‘s new play The Divine Sister, playing Off Broadway at the Soho Playhouse, has been posted on CultureVulture.net.
“The Divine Sister is the latest in a long line of comedies by Charles Busch that chew up the most familiar conventions of some stage/screen genre and reconstitute them as campy burlesques…None of the cast members will be winning any awards for the subtlety of their performances. Some of their mugging is so extreme, it’s a wonder they don’t sprain their faces. But they’re clearly having a ball clowning around onstage.”
You can read the entire review online here.
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