The Imaginary Invalid Written by Moliere Directed by Jeffrey Hatcher Red Bull Theater at New World Stages May 31, 2025 Production website 💉💉 out of 5.
Imaginary Invalid, as produced by the Red Bull Theatre, is an 80 minute “take” on the classic Moliere farce. It felt like the production thought the audience did not have the attention span to enjoy the full 2+ hours so they set out to give you this “Las Vegas edited” production that will get you back out in the streets in no time. It was not a good thing. At its heart, the play lacked the necessary timing of a farce. It limped by and didn’t have the motivation and passion to fly by your eyes.
The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse book, music and lyrics by Michael Breslin book, additional music and lyrics by Patrick Foley vocal arrangements by Michael Breslin & Dan Schlosberg music direction and orchestrations by Dan Schlosberg choreographed by Jack Ferver directed by and developed with Rory Pelsue Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center May 27, 2025 Production website 💉💉 out of 5.
The Last Bimbo of the Apocalypse is inspired by a photo that ran on the cover of the November 29, 2006 issue of The New York Post. The headline blared “Bimbo Summit” over a picture of much-maligned party girls Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, and Paris Hilton driving away from an L.A. nightclub. The cover was accompanied by an article titled “3 Bimbos of the Apocalypse” and featured classy upskirt photos. It was the perfect distillation of early-2000s rabid paparazzi overreach and the vicious culture of gossip that pervaded the media then and still exists today. It is here that the play poses the imaginary dramatic question – –
Bowl EP Written and directed by Nazareth Hassan Music by Free Fool Vineyard Theatre May 15, 2025 Production website 💉💉 out of 5.
Bowl EP and the National Black Theatre – – – from all I could read about it going into the production was NOT going to be a production geared to my demographic – but that wasn’t going to stop me from going to seeing the production and expanding my theatrical repertoire. I love challenging myself as an audience member. The play sells itself as follows: Kelly K Klarkson and Quentavius da Quitter need to find a name for their rap group. Through flirty interludes, cringy overshares and practicing their “ollies”, they grow increasingly closer. Skating and Smoking. Skating and Drinking. Skating and exorcising a demon. With live skateboarding and original music, enter Bowl EP:
Drag: The Musical Book, Music, & Lyrics by Justin Andrew Honard, Tomas Costanza, & Ashley Gordon Directed & Choreographed by Spencer Lee New World Stage December 30, 2024 Production website 💉💉 out of 5.
Produced and introduced by none other than Liza Minelli herself, Drag, the Musical centers on the rivalry of two drag clubs each facing its own set of troubles. At the Cat House—where Savannah St. James (Jan Sport), The Tigress (Jujubee) and Puss Puss DuBois (Nick Laughlin) hold court—girl boss Kitty Galloway (Alaska Thunderf*ck) is dealing with imminent eviction. Across the street at the Fish Tank, house mother Alexis Gillmore (Nick Adams, of Broadway’s Priscilla, Queen of the Desert) is in big trouble with the IRS; fellow queens Tuna Turner (Lagoona Bloo), Popcorn (Luxx Noir London) and Dixie Coxworth (Liisi LaFontaine) push her into seeking help into seeking help from her estranged accountant brother, Tom (played by Rent’s Adam Pascal).
The Beacon Written by Nancy Harris Directed by Marc Atkinson Borrull Irish Repertory Theater October 20, 2024 Production website 💉💉 out of 5.
The Beacon tells (in a most uninteresting, jumbled way) the story of Bev (Kate Mulgrew) a famed painter of abstract art welcoming her son Colm back to the family cottage with his new American bride just has Bev has embarked on a full-scale renovation replacing most of her walls with glass in an odd desire to seek more privacy. Enter an old family friend and home renovator, Donal who shares a secret (but not that scandalous) past with her son to be followed by a late inclusion of a local true crime podcaster interested in the death of Bev’s ex-husband and what do you get? – We don’t get much.
