Hurricane Diane
Written by Madeleine George
Directed by Leigh Silverman
New York Theatre Workshop
March 12, 2019 Production website
💉💉 out of 5.
You are not going to expect this one!Part homage to HGTV and part send up on Greek mythology, you just don’t know what you are getting.A god, Dionysus, now named Diane and described in the text as a “butch charm factor”is a very lively trans performer who is a bit all over the place.She has lots of energy but I am just not sure to what point. Continue reading Hurricane Diane→
Fiercely Independent
Written and Directed by Kathleen K. Johnson
Soho Playhouse
March 10, 2019 Production website
☠ out of 5.
This is total crap! God help you if you find yourself sitting here for 80 too long minutes. I did think the premise had promise. Take a married couple that is having trouble and put them in a hotel and go completely off the grid, off the booze and off the insults for 24 hours and see why comes of it. A day without technology – totally loving it from just this idea.
BUT, this couple had so little to say above the cliche’s that you “don’t hear me” and “I need your attention” and “where did we go wrong” and “I think it went bad long ago” and and and and. Continue reading Fiercely Independent→
Blue Ridge
Written by Abby Rosebrock
Directed by Taibi Magar
Atlantic Theatre Company – Linda Gross Theatre
January 4, 2019 Production website
💉💉 out of 5.
Tell me this isn’t a provocative blurb offered about the play – – “A progressive high-school teacher with a rage problem retaliates against her unscrupulous boss and is sentenced to six months at a church-sponsored halfway house, where she attends to everyone’s recovery but her own.”
I love to see new work and Atlantic Theater is a home to some of the best in the city.Blue Ridge is one of those new plays written by Abby Rosebrock and nurtured by the Atlantic Theatre Company.I am not the biggest fan of realism on stage.Sometimes I feel like I am watching a television show on stage. Continue reading Blue Ridge→
Nassim
Written and performed by Nassim Soleimanpour
with guest actor Thom Sesma
Directed by Omar Elerian
New York City Center Stage II
January 2, 2019 Production website
💉💉 out of 5
Man did I want to like this play – because I adore Performance Art.A week at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland is my idea of theatre heaven!But tonight it was Nassim at NY City Center Theatre.Nassim Soleimanpour is an actual playwright from Iran known here in the US for his big hit White Rabbit Red Rabbit – a play that Nassim, himself was never able to see in America as he was having trouble leaving his country and coming to the US. Continue reading Nassim→
The Slave Play
Written by Jeremy O. Harris
Directed by Robert O’Hara
New York Theatre Workshop
December 26, 2018 Production website
💉💉💉💉 out of 5.
“White people still have the whip” claims Jeremy O’Harris in his crazy, rollarcoaster of a work, Slave Play. It is perhaps the kinkiest and most unapologetic play I have seen in years. The crux of the play is a montage of three interracial couples (1. a young slave girl and her master; 2. An older plantation mistress with a biracial house slave; and 3. A white indentured laborer and the black male slave who oversees his work. At the beginning of the play, these three couples are caught in the throughs of their erotic fantasy of domination and submission. Continue reading The Slave Play→
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