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Written by Dion Boucicault
Directed by Charlotte Moore
Irish Repertory Theatre
December 28, 2019 Production website
💉💉 out of 5.
You walk into the Irish Repertory Theatre and are greeted by the sweetest little postage stamp of a set.Taking no more than 20’ in circumference, the stage is a revolve that features a simple door in the middle with a few pieces of attractive furniture flanking it.With just a rotation or two, we are taken to all of the necessary exterior and interior locations with ease. Continue reading London Assurance→
The Inheritance
Written by Matthew Lopez
Directed by Stephen Daldry
Ethel Barrymore Theatare
December 26, 2019 Production website
💉💉💉💉 out of 5.
Nothing is more wonderful then curling up with a good book – a good thick book that will take you though the lives of many people and occupy many hours of page turning –and when the book is a good one the time just cannot be beat!In Matthew Lopez’s beautifully sculpted play, The Inheritance you in in for a full day’s read in the best possible sense – it is being read live right in front of you.The seven plus hours of production occupies your day from 2:00 to 10:00pm and gives you four intermissions and a dinner break.It is theatre heaven!The staging even provides 28 men sitting around the giant coffee table of a stage – all in bare feet – ready to take us through the journey. Continue reading The Inheritance→
Marvin J. Taylor on Underneath the Skin
Mise-en-scene, Direction, Coreography, Video, Costume, and Set Design by John Kelly
Original Texts by Samuel Steward
NYU Skirball Theatre
October 12, 2019 Production website
💉💉💉 out of 5.
Underneath the Skin was a smart, smart play. It was a most novel dance-theatre piece based on the life of the classic star-****er and sexual maverick, Samuel Steward. Yes, this was another gay play but the fascinating history that came with the play made it much more than that! Here we have a living biography of Samuel Steward (1909-1993) who redefined himself often. He succeeded as a novelist, poet, scholar, gay erotic fiction writer, and tattoo innovator. And during all that he had time to sleep with Valentino, Lord Alfred Douglas (Boise), and Rock Hudson – while chumming up with good friends Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder. Is there enough material here for a night in the theatre?? Hell, yes!! Continue reading Marvin J. Taylor on Underneath the Skin→
Company XIV: Queen of Hearts
Created by Austin McCormick and Company
Company XIV Theatre
October 10, 2019 Production website
💉💉💉 out of 5.
Burlesque is alive and well and now living in Brooklyn. Company XIV’s seductive spin on the story of Alice in Wonderland, Queen of Hearts is a quite the success and quite the sexcess. From the minute you walk into the dim, highly incensed room of the theatre and are greeted by a most handsome collection of androgynous men in heels, you know that you are in store for an Alice in Wonderland that your mother never took you to.
#DateMe An OkCupid Experiment
Created by Robyn Lynne Norris
Written by Robyn Lynne Norris, Bob Ladewig, and Frank Caeti
Directed and Choreographed by Lorin Latarro
Westside Theatre
June 30, 2019 Production website
💉💉 out of 5.
I love experimenting in theatre – and I love the idea that the ever present cell phone, might, in some way to be tamed and become a help to theatre rather then its arch nemesis!Date Me is such an experiment.It is really much more of a comedy improvisation than a play.When you first enter the theatre you are directed to take out your cell phone and create a mock entry on a dating site just for that performance’s audience.It is those pictures and those “dating preferences” that become the basis for the improvisations and the fun of the evening. Continue reading #DateMe An OkCupid Experiment→
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