NEW YORK – On Set With Theda Bara features David Greenspan playing complex characters entwined in an imaginative, pronounced immersion into what is reality, what is gender, what is being alive, who are we now, who have we been, and who will we become growing out of what matters to us.
NEW YORK – Sweeney Todd at the Lunt Fontanne Theater is a whopper of a tale, and the charm of this musical the last two times I saw it was that it pulled me into this preposterous story.
NEW YORK – King Lear at the Theatre at St. Clements explored human frailties like narcissism, madness, betrayal, and death that transcend centuries since this play was first written, and those tragic flaws live on today.
Brendan Hunt’s The Movement You Need playing at Soho Playhouse is an uproarious stand-up solo circus act that will have you loving the man even more than you already do.
Russian Troll Farm at the Vineyard Theater is a story of people spying and creating madness who don’t realize they are the observed as well as the observers. Oops.
Cassie Workman’s astonishing Aberdeen at the Soho Playhouse is a tragic poem of Euripidean intensity chronicling for us the life and death of Kurt Cobain and what his passing meant to her. She conjures for us the hero, the quiet god, full of flaws and glories akin to the Greek and Roman deities.
The Animal Kingdom by Ruby Thomas, now at the Connelly Theatre, is a pressure cooker of a play that glides by in a flash – Sam (Uly Schlesinger) has recently tried to kill himself and is now in an institution of some sort for his own safety and may be in a place where he might find some surcease.
There’s A Little Starch Left at Don’t Tell Mama – somewhere in the flotsam and jetsam of the holiday, I forgot to pay special tribute to Lynn Henderson, who performed There’s A Little Starch Left – her new one-woman show – in December – I am a friend of Lynn’s and had watched her for over a year as she prepared for this show.
The Phoenix Theatre Ensemble’s stage adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment by Marilyn Campbell and Curt Columbus is nothing short of stupendous.
