The Encounter
Conceived, Directed and Performed by Simon McBurney
GoldenΒ Theatre
December 24, 2016 Production website
ππππ out of 5.
Performance Art is alive and kicking in New YorkΒ City – and not is some wonderful, musty back corner of a warehouse but right here in the bright lights of Broadway!Β What about that!! Who would have “thunk.” Continue reading The Encounter→
Bright Colors and Bold Patterns
Written and Performed by Drew Droege
Directed by Michael Urie
Barrow Street Theatre
December 23, 2016 Production website
πππ out of 5.
I am in Palm Springs for a wedding of someone I have only heard of. I am in my mid-twenties and in the prime of my life. An older man – I guess we can call him my boyfriend – brought me along because every party needs some eye candy. I have no interest in attending the wedding, but I am digging the attention I am getting floating around this pool in my impressive tan and speedo. [Okay, this is not me – not me now, not me then, and regretfully, not me ever.]Β Continue reading Bright Colors and Bold Patterns→
Home again to Florida – but I refuse to unpack. Β I will need to shove a few more dollar bills into the luggage – but I am ready to bounce back in late December for a few WEEKS, not days, of Christmas and not-so-Christmas theatre. Β After all, all I want for Christmas is . . .
A Life
Written by Adam Bock
Directed by Anne Kaurrman
Playwrights Horizons
November 26, 2016 Production website
ππππ out of 5.
There are times I want to use these blogs to become one giant spoiler. This is so true of this play! You think the play is going to stay in this very naturalistic world of βa life in the day.β and then the play and most significantly, the set, does a 180 and another 180 and quite literally another 180. I mean literally! Continue reading A Life→
A Life
Written by Jordan Seavey
Directed by Mike Donahue
Labyrinth Theatre company
November 25, 2016 Production website
πππ out of 5.
I have walked into many, many theatre and have seen directors play with small and big spaces, with water and light, with benches and bleachers, with rocking chairs and grass terracing. I have sat in circles and squares, been inside and outside of the playing area – – but have never walked into a theatre in this configuration. The room was VERY small – perhaps only 300 square feet. There were raw wood platforms haphazardly placed around poles, furnace flumes and supporting walls. THERE WAS NO STAGE. Continue reading Homos or Everyone in America→