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→
Angels in America Part 2: Perestroika
written by: Tony Kushner
Directed by Marianne Elliott
Neil Simon Theatre
June 8, 2018 Production website
💉💉💉💉💉 out of 5.
Now Part 2 – and what in the holy hell can ytou talk about in a a review.An audience sits through 4 blissful hours of theatre that engages everyone of your senses, challenges your brain with history, metaphors, poverty and sheer intelligent discourse for 4 hours and NEVER leaves you bored.I have never been to a show that I thought could just go on and on forever and I would just willing sit and absorb.Continue reading Angels in America Part 2: Perestroika→
Angels in America Part 1: Millennium Approaches
written by: Tony Kushner
Directed by Marianne Elliott
Neil Simon Theatre
June 7, 2018 Production website
💉💉💉💉💉 out of 5.
The Theatre just doesn’t get better than the last few minutes of Angels in America – Millenium Approaches.All the magic and the prophecy that is laid out in the the early scenes literally comes crashing down in the final moments of the play.It is an epic moment – in the truest sense of the word.The play itself starts out with some LOUD rolling epic music that nearly takes the roof off of the place, and you wonder is the play is EVER live up to that soundtrack.Well, it does and then some! Continue reading Angels in America Part 1: Millennium Approaches→
A Letter to Harvey Milk
Lyrics by Ellen M. Schwartz
Music by Laura Kramer
Book by Ellen Schwartz, Cheryl Stern, Laura Kramer, and Jerry James
Directed by Evan Pappas
The Acorn Theatre
May 12, 2018 Production website
💉💉 out of 5.
A Letter to Harvey Milk was just such a sweet way to spend a Saturday afternoon in NYC.From the notices of the play it was difficult to tell what the musical was actually going to be about.Was it going to be some kind of a biography of Harvey Milk or a story of an older Jewish man trying to come to piece with being a widower after so many years of a happy marriage – – or – or was it going to be a story of the power of writing as a way to release your mojo?Which?How? To what end? Continue reading A Letter to Harvey Milk→
Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
