Gently Down the Stream
Written by Martin Sherman
Directed by Sean Mathias
Public Theatre
April 15, 2017
Production website
💉💉 out of 5.
I wanted to like this play. I really wanted to like thus play, It had everything going for it: the writer, Martin Sherman and the wonderful Harvey Fierstein. But I did not like this play. It just never took off and then it became way too predictable and way to driven by monologues that just didn’t matter to me. Continue reading Gently Down the Stream
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