The Encounter
Conceived, Directed and Performed by Simon McBurney
Golden Theatre
December 24, 2016
Production website
💉💉💉💉 out of 5.
Performance Art is alive and kicking in New York City – and not is some wonderful, musty back corner of a warehouse but right here in the bright lights of Broadway! What about that!! Who would have “thunk.” Continue reading The Encounter
A Life
Written by Adam Bock
Directed by Anne Kaurrman
Playwrights Horizons
November 26, 2016
Production website
💉💉💉💉 out of 5.
There are times I want to use these blogs to become one giant spoiler. This is so true of this play! You think the play is going to stay in this very naturalistic world of “a life in the day.” and then the play and most significantly, the set, does a 180 and another 180 and quite literally another 180. I mean literally! Continue reading A Life
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Comedic-ballet by Moliere
Music by Jean-baptiste Lully
directed by Denis Podalydes, Societaire de la Comedia Francaise
Lincoln Center Festival
July 24, 2016
Production website
💉💉💉💉 out of 5.
I should never have gotten those seats so close to the stage! Although I was so happy to score tickets in the fourth row for this very popular Lincoln Center Festival, I neglected to remember that since the production would be done in French; and sense I do not speak French; and since they would provide a captioning board above the proscenium – – I should never have set this far forward. Continue reading Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Small Mouth Sounds
written by Bess Wohl
directed by Rachel Chavkin
An Ars Nova Production
Pershing Square Signature Theatre
July 23, 2016
Production website
💉💉💉💉 out of 5.
This was was perhaps the most profound occurrence of déjà vu that I have ever experiend in the theatre. As my blog mentioned a few weeks ago, I took a week out of my theatre watching to attend a self-actualization weekend in the woods of the Hudson River Valley. We were kept in small cabins without any “luxuries”, fed a diet of grains and vegetables, kept off of any kinds of kinds of technology and, most challenging, kept in total silence for the entire workshop. Continue reading Small Mouth Sounds
No End to Blame: Scenes of Overcoming
PTP/NYC [Potomac Theatre Project]
Atlantic Stage 2
Written by Howard Baker
Directed by Richard Romagnoli
Production website
💉💉💉💉 out of 5.
God it is great to see a good play with actors that work WITH each other and CARE, CARE, CARE about what they are saying. No End to Blame is that play. After a string of weak plays, I was thrilled. I kicked off my shoes, curled up in my seat, and “willingly suspended my disbelief.” Continue reading No End to Blame