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Written by Halley Feiffer
Directed by Trip Cullman
The Robert W. Wilson MCC Theatre Space
June 29, 2019 Production website
💉💉 out of 5.
This play just didn’t meet its audience.I have to say that it is the first play that I have been to in NYC in which 1/5 of the audience just left at intermission. The premise of the show was really fun.Imagine the energy of a Chris Durange and the naughtiness of a Joe Orton tackling Chekov’s Three Sisters.Sounds fun!Continue reading Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow→
Smiley
Written by Guillem Clua
Directed by Ismanuel Rodriguez
Repertorio Español
June 28, 2019 Production website
💉💉💉 out of 5.
I was a bit worried when I bought tickets to RepertorioEspanol’s production of Smiley.After all, it was all in Spanish and beyond a few niceties, Spanish is all Greek to me.Two things swayed my opinion though.They offered live subtitles above the proscenium, much like an Italian opera AND the play was brought out in the press as one of the most interesting offerings for World Pride Month.I took a chance andwent.It was so damn fun and interesting.Continue reading Smiley→
The Happy Sad: We Need to Talk
Written by Ken Urban
Directed by McKenna Perry
The Producer’s Club and Applecor
June 27, 2019 Production website
💉💉💉 out of 5.
Warning:Whis will be a bit bias of a review in that one of my prized former students is part of this eager young group of actors working to stage this play in a tee tiny theatre.It was just such a joy to see him and really, such a wonderful time just experiencing the story.
The Happy Sad is all about being a twenty-something and facing the dating world of New York City.Most of the show is about trying to find your label or your definition when it comes to dating.Are you gay, straight or bi?Are you interested in an open relationship?What really is an open relationship?Does race or age play into the formula? Continue reading The Happy Sad: We Need to Talk→
Life Sucks
Written by Aaron Posner
Directed by Jeff Wise
Theatre Row – Acorn Theatre
June 23, 2019 Production website
💉💉💉 out of 5.
Life Sucks – totally sucked in the first 10 minutes but then moment by moment totally become one of my most memorable plays of the summer.Life Sucks is “sort of adapted from ‘Uncle Vanya,’” as playwright, Mr. Posner puts it. (He had already gone to the Chekhov well three years ago with his well-received “Stupid _____ Bird,” based loosely on The Seagull. Here in Uncle Vanya land, the forlorn Vanya still shares a home with the plain Sonia but now we appear to be in the United States since there is talk of student loans and American money.Both Vanya and the brooding Dr. Aster still pine for Sonia’s stepmother, Ella. Continue reading Life Sucks→
Ink
Written by James Graham
Directed by Rupert Goold
Manhattan Theatre Club
June 21, 2019 Production website
💉💉💉💉💉 out of 5.
Ink is an explosion and of far more than just ink.I have never found a play that winds up so hard and so fast.The punch that it delivers at the end of Act 1 truly hit me viscerally and left me limping back to the lounge for the men’s room. It is one fast furious roller coaster.I had thought that I was going to see one of those comparatively gentle, sentimental plays such as “The Front Page” that explores the backstory of what it takes to put out a daily newspaper in the American 40’s.Well, this is London and this is nothing but brutal.Continue reading Ink→
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