The Minutes
Written by Tracy Letts
Directed by Anna D. Shapiro
Cort Theatre
March 11, 2020
Production website
💉💉💉 out of 5
All of the advertising says that you are going to get a big surprise and twist at the end of this production – and granted you do, and, obviously, I am not going to spill the beans here. The problem I have with this big moment is that it was rather predictable 40 minutes into the show. You weren’t able to predict how visual this surprise was going to be – but you knew how the tables were going to get changed and the absent councilman was going to figure into the mix. Continue reading The Minutes →
GNIT
Written by Will Eno
Directed by Oliver Butler
Theatre for a New Audience
Polonsky Shakespeare Center
March 10, 2020
Production website
💉💉💉💉💉 out of 5.
I loved, loved, loved this show. It is one of the very few “5 needle” productions I have given out over the past few years. Every single moment of the play was a treasure. I couldn’t wait for the next scene or the next change in plot. Even after its 2+ hour run time, I wanted more and more. I have read so many posts in Facebook over Spring Break of my friends and former students taking in Moulin Rouge, Come From Away, The Inheritance, and on and on and rightly raving about each show. BUT, if they miss Gnit, they are missing New York theatre at its very best! If my friends and former students value my opinion, then THIS must become their must see! Here are a few reasons this play thrills:
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The Perplexed
Written by Richard Greenberg
Directed by Lynne Meadow
Manhattan Theatre Club
March 8, 2020
Production website
💉💉 out of 5.
The Perplexed did that and did that for over 150 minutes and did that without any prize for having stayed the course. I felt like I was in these expositional first few scenes of a comedy where you do not expect much to happen except the setup that is going to so pay off when you get to the last half of the show. I was more than willing to be patient! But this was exposition that went on and on and right to the last moment and felt like a long, long joke that was refusing to get the punch line!
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72 Miles to Go . . .
Written by Hilary Bettis
Directed by Jo Bonney
Roundabout Theatre Company
Laura Pels Theatre
March 8, 2020
Production website
💉💉💉 out of 5.
I really wanted to love this play; I really did. I was thinking it was time for a good play to really deal with the DACA debate and the personal stories of those who are living through the experience and the fear.
72 Miles to Go . . follows a splintered family over 10 years of strength, struggle and love, as they face the profoundly personal drama of immigration. Seventy-two miles. That’s the space between Nogales, Mexico and Tucson, Arizona—and the world of distance that separates a mother at a shelter and her American-born husband and children. Continue reading 72 Miles to Go . . . →
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