Meteor Shower
Starring Amy Schumer
Written by Steve Martin
Directed by Jerry Zaks
Booth Theatre
January 3, 2018 Production website
💉💉💉 out of 5.
Meteor Shower was 80 minutes of good sincere fun. Amy Schumer showed up and did her magic and the audience was hers for the afternoon. The lines were sincerely funny and the ensemble of the two quite contrasting couples gave lots and lots of opportunities for laughs. Watching the beautiful slick couple of Laura Benanti and Keegan-Michael Key interact with the decidedly not slick couple of Amy Schumer and Jeremy Shamos was very rich in comic moments. Even the chest wounds of a direct meteor hit – – brought the house down as it squirted blood every time there was a cough or laugh. Continue reading Meteor Shower→
Junk
Written by Ayad Akhtar
Directed by Doug Hughes
Lincoln Center Theater
Vivian Beaumont
December 31, 2017 Production website
💉💉💉 out of 5.
Usually my first criteria in looking at a play is to see if I cared for any of the characters on stage. I want to be able to identify with at least someone and follow them through some struggles. I want to see them suffer and learn/feel something from their suffering. However in Junk, I could care less about any of the character on stage – and this play had well over a dozen characters on stage. Usually that would be the end of the story for me when it comes to a play. But Junk is different – Continue reading Junk→
Afterglow
Written by S. Asher Gelman
Directed by S. Asher Gelman
The Loft at the Davenport Theatre
December 29, 2017 Production website
💉💉💉 out of 5.
I need to apologize to The Afterglow. As I walked up the three long flights of staircases, I just knew this was going to be a thin, exploitive gay “event” that was going to pretend to be a play – but ultimately just be gay for gay’s sake. BUT, I had a great time. it was a fun story. It had a cast or three young men that were just having good ol’ infectious fun! Continue reading Afterglow→
Bright Colors and Bold Patterns
Written and Performed by Drew Droege
Directed by Michael Urie
Soho Playhouse
November 16, 2017 Production website
💉💉💉 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.] Continue reading Bright Colors and Bold Patterns→
Torch Song Trilogy
Written by Harvey Fierstein
Directed by Moises Kaufman
2nd Stage
June 23, 2017 Production website 💉💉💉 out of 5.
This Torch Song needed to have its torch lit! I saw the original Torch Song back in the Eighties with a younger Harvey Fierstein and his unmissable, low, rumbling voice. I remember as a young man in my twenties – I was blown away by every single scene. I had never seen a drag queen – much less the preparation that drag queens go through to complete the transformation. I had never been to a gay bar (sheltered, I know) much less a gay bar with a “back room.” I couldn’t imagine an entire scene of a straight couple and a gay couple shacking up together and swapping partners – all played out in a scene that takes place on a stage-filling bed. And then that big coming out scene with (in the original, Estelle Getty) It changed my world – and clearly it opened the door for Will and Grace, Modern Family and the inclusion of gays in a hundred stories, movies and TV shows to come. It changed the world for gay men in the entertainment world – for sure! Continue reading Torch Song Trilogy→
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