In Transit
Book, Music, and Lyrics by Kristen Ajderso-Lopez, James-Allen Ford, Russ Kaplaj, and Sara Wordsworth
Directed and Choreographed by Kathleen Marshall
Circle in the Square Theatre
March 23, 2017 Production website
💉💉 out of 5.
InTransit: a new musical was just too cute – just way, way way too cute. For people of my generation, it was as if Up With People were doing an homage to the mass transit system of New York. It really is hard to fault the piece. It so cleverly used the thrust staging of the Circle in the Square Theatre where a working treadmill provided the necessary illusion of a subway car whizzing back and forth across the city’s underground. Continue reading In Transit→
Gorey, The Secret Life of Edward Gorey
Written and Directed by Travis Russ
Life Jacket Theatre Company
January 4, 2017 Production website
💉💉 out of 5.
This play was a bit of mystery to me. Gorey was one of those plays that I purposely chose NOT to research and NOT toread any biography on Edward Gorey’s life. I wanted to come to the play as a blank canvas. – – This is where I got lost. Continue reading Gorey, The Secret Life of Edward Gorey→
les Liaisons Dangereuses
Written by Christopher Hampton Directed by Josie Rourke
Booth Theatre
December 30, 2016 Production website
💉💉 out of 5.
I experienced something in this show that I have never experienced (or at least in my memory – and certainly not in a Broadway show) – – I never knew it was over. The final card playing scene of the play was happening and then there was a pause in the talk and then the lights went out and the play was over. I felt like I had experienced some kind of lapse in consciousness. This moment meant nothing to me. Continue reading les Liaisons Dangereuses→
Aubergine
Written by Julia Cho
Directed by Kate Whoriskey
Playwrights Horizon
September 4, 2016 Production website
💉💉 out of 5.
I had thought I had seen everything, but then a play comes along that is titled Aubergine – – or eggplant as most people would say. I admit that due to my lack of vegetable knowledge – I spent most of the first half of this play waiting for some character named Aubergine to appear – – and he did, but as part of a casserole. Continue reading Aubergine→
The Flying Doctor by Moliere
Written by Moliere
directed by Michael Doliner
FlexCo Theatre
July 2, 2016 Production website
💉💉 out of 5.
I am a baked potato. This is no joke. I am a baked potato. Sometimes you go to theatre just because it is there – and tonight was that night. This production of The Flying Doctor by Moliere was advertised in the smallest of print in the most hidden column of the recent Time Out magazine. It took place in the backroom of a tiny gallery in Chinatown and promised a glass of champaign. I’m in! Continue reading The Flying Doctor by Moliere→
In Transit
