55 Shades of Gay
Written by Jetron Neziraj
Directed by Leigh Silverman
Qendra Multimedia (Kosovo)
La Mama Theatre Workshop
March 15, 2019
Production website
💉 out of 5.
55 Shades of Gay has the very best of intentions. It sets out to be a burlesque production about LGBT politics in the Balkans. At its best, it is is an irreverent and satirical in look at the world the LGBT experience, systemic corruption, crippling unemployment, and crumbling infrastructure in Kosovo.
Kosovo has it rough. Continue reading 55 Shades of Gay →
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 →
King Lear
Starring Glenda Jackson
Written by William Shakespeare
Music by Philip Glass
Directed by Sam Gold
Cort Theatre
March 11, 2019
Production website
💉💉💉 out of 5.
This is a major chew for an audience. For a crowd that is going to the theatre expecting all to be would up in a 90 minute intermission-less night, Lear coming in at almost three hours and thirty minutes is a test. Of course to see the incandescent Glenda Jackson take on this role of lifetime at the age of 82 is worth the wait!
I wanted to adore this show . . Continue reading King Lear →
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 →
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