Disco Pigs
Written by Edna Walsh
Directed by John Haidar
Booth Theatre
January 13, 2018 Production website
💉💉💉💉 out of 5.
What the hell were they saying? From the moment Disco Pigs began and two captivating young actors pulled apart flaps in the back wall essentially narrating their birth at the same time in the same hospital – you just couldn’t understand what they were saying. I thought, at first it was because it was an Irish play – set in Cork – and they were just taking this dialect thing a BIT too far. Then I realized Continue reading Disco Pigs→
The Band’s Visit
Music and Lyrics by David Yazbec
Book by Itamar Moses
Directed by David Cromer
Ethel Barrymore Theatre
January 12, 2018 Production website
💉💉💉💉 out of 5.
From the first moment of music I was won. The Egyptian music was so wonderfully foreign to me – and so passionate and emotional – It was an entire show before the first character entered. It is hard to describe the wonderfulness of this show. I suppose if you were schooled in international music you would have heard some of this Jewish/Egyptian/Arabic music and all of its unique orchestration it would be old hat you – but, for me, it was new, new, new. Passion played out is such new and unusual ways. Continue reading The Band’s Visit→
Mankind
Written by Robert O’Hara
Directed by Robert O’Hara
Playwrights Horizons
December 30, 2017 Production website
💉💉💉💉 out of 5.
Mankind was a most unexpected treat. The advert for it mentioned that it was a satire about a world in which there were no more women, and men were left to give birth to babies without them. Ouch! I thought this was going to be a cheap – woman hating – even gay celebration play – but I was wrong! Nothing in this play was gay and nothing in this play was about hating women – far, far from that. Continue reading Mankind→
Farinelli and the King
Written Claire Van Kampen
Directed by John Dove
Belasco Theatre
December 23, 2017 Production website
💉💉💉💉 out of 5.
Mark Rylance rules the world! AND for this particular production I was gifted with seats right on the stage. It felt almost like being part of a private audience in some courtly manor. This was going to be one of my favorite theatre memories in a long list of productions.
Mark Rylance – – There is no way he can be on stage without all eyes being riveted to his work. It is hard to explain this stage charisma. The best that I can explain it is that he is SO very present on stage that you really believe he has NO idea what is going to happen in the next moment. He is like a small child playing in the now and hearing the words coming out of his mouth for the first time. It is ALL discovery. Continue reading Farinelli and the King→
The Pipeline
Written by Dominique Morisseau
Directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz
Lincoln Center Theater at the Mitzi E. Newhouse
June 26, 2017 Production website 💉💉💉💉 out of 5.
I go from the wonderment and colossal budget of Groundhog Day to the basement of Lincoln Center to a play that has a teachers desk, a lunch table and a couch, a VERY white wall and some very harsh florescent lighting. And I will take the second play over the first any day. Pipeline was another play that I knew very little about before the show. I knew it was about a teacher (familiar ground) and about a black student trying to navigate life in a ROUGH urban school – or survive a very preppy private school (certainly much less familiar ground.) Continue reading The Pipeline→
Disco Pigs
