The Pipeline
Written by Dominique Morisseau
Directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz
Lincoln Center Theater at the Mitzi E. Newhouse
June 26, 2017 Production website 💉💉💉💉 out of 5.
I go from the wonderment and colossal budget of Groundhog Day to the basement of Lincoln Center to a play that has a teachers desk, a lunch table and a couch, a VERY white wall and some very harsh florescent lighting. And I will take the second play over the first any day. Pipeline was another play that I knew very little about before the show. I knew it was about a teacher (familiar ground) and about a black student trying to navigate life in a ROUGH urban school – or survive a very preppy private school (certainly much less familiar ground.) Continue reading The Pipeline→
The Little Foxes
Written by Lillian Hellman
Directed by Daniel Sultan
Manhattan Theatre Club
Samuel J. Friedman Theatre
June 18, 2017 Production website
💉💉💉💉 out of 5.
I am such a fan of theatre the pushes the envelop and challenges the way we “think” theatre should be done. I love when they take the “major dramatic structure” that I teach every day of my working life and mess around with it. I celebrate the rule breakers.
Oslo
Written by J.T. Rogers
Directed by Bartlett Sher
Lincoln Center Theater at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre
June 16, 2017 Production website
💉💉💉💉 out of 5.
This play took me to school in the most wonderful way. I knew the play was a dramatization of a true meeting between the Israelis and the PLO in Norway that was responsible for a first real, although brief, truce between these long time enemies. The history is vital for our country to understand – especially since we keep sticking our nose into the business often to the detriment of the peace. Continue reading Oslo→
Sweat
Written by Lynn Nottage
Directed by Kate Whoriskey
Studio 54
June 14, 2017 Production website
💉💉💉💉 out of 5.
Who actually are those people that voted for Trump as the President of the United States? Who are those people? Ironically in the liberal bastion that is New York we are given an answer. Sweat focus on a small union-working collection of people in the heartland of the country. Their jobs are dependent on the manufacturing industry that is being so damaged by the NAFTA agreement that became such a contentious piece of legislation in the recent national election. Continue reading Sweat→
The Play That Goes Wrong
Written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields
Directed by Mark Bell
Lyceum Theatre
June 10, 2017 Production website
💉💉💉💉 out of 5.
One of my most favorite guilty pleasures in the theatre is British farce! There is something about such a proper, well-speaking group like the Brits suffer hilariously in front of an audience – – and deliciously suffer they do in this play. In the vain of Michael Frayn’s Noises Off we have the classic comedy about the farce making fun of making farces. It may sound like an inside joke to theatre people, but it was not. EVERYONE sitting around me was laughing from the start to the finish. Continue reading The Play That Goes Wrong→
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