Once on This Island
Book and Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens
Music by Stephen Flaherty
Choreographed by Camille A. Brown
Directed by Michael Arden
Circle in the Square
June 11, 2018 Production website
💉💉💉💉 out of 5.
Romeo and Juliet lands on a tropical island complete with sand and water, roosters and trucks, trees and a diapered goat.It was a lush and sensual evening in the theatre– one has almost gotten their ticket’s worth of entertainment before the show starts – – its like being invited to a living set that breathes and trickles, bubbles and lives!Continue reading Once on This Island→
Three Tall Women
Written by Edward Albee
Directed by Joe Mantello
Golden Theatre
June 10, 2018 Production website
💉💉💉💉💉 out of 5.
There is acting and then there is Three Tall Women.This play was simply a masterclass in acting.Three Women (obviously) dominate the stage and you simply cannot take your eyes off of them for a second. Glenda Jackson, Laurie Metcalf, and Alison Pill – WOW!Whoever arranged that coup of casting needs to get a big bonus. Continue reading Three Tall Women→
The Secret Life of Humans
Written and Directed by
David Byrne and Kate Stanley
59E59 Theatre
June 10, 2018 Production website
💉 out of 5.
Where are we going as a human race?Are things getting better, or are we walking to our own destruction?It sort of depends on the day and what section of the news you open first.The Secret Life of Humans is a transplant from the Edinburgh Festival last summer. The play covers a huge range of topics from a very collegiate lecture on the origin of man and the weary steps he has taken forward to the nonsense of a Tinder date that leads into a scavenger hunt over the “undisclosed work of un-named scientist working for the British government during World War 2.” Continue reading The Secret Life of Humans→
Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by Hugh Wheeler
Directed by Bill Buckhurst
Barrow Street Theatre
June 9, 2018 Production website
💉💉💉 out of 5.
And I will take a pie with that!Tonight I brought my group to the immersive production of Sweeney Todd, Demon Barber of Fleet Street at the Barrow Street Theatre.I love the perspective of environmental theatre that puts the audience in the center of the equation; it is just to nice to be PART of the story.We began with the quite good but quite small portioned pies that were served as a pre-show event to get you in the mood for the “real meat” pies that are served in the course of the story. It was fun.It got you into the environment. Continue reading Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street→
Cyprus Avenue
Written by David Ireland
Directed by Vicky Featherstone
The Public Theatre
June 9, 2018 Production website
💉💉💉 out of 5.
The baby is going to die.Don’t treat this as a spoiler to the play.From the very first moment when the baby is handled a bit too objectively – – you KNOW it doesn’t stand a chance – – – and for ninety terrible – beautiful and outrageously acted moments – we play out the inevitable tragedy. What made this play a bit brutal from the start was how close it plays through mental illness, depression and even suicide.Just days ago we lost Kate Spade and Andrew Bourdain.The world has just become too dangerous, too private, and too painful to take personal tragedy this casually!Continue reading Cyprus Avenue→
Once on This Island
