Off Broadway
The Movement You Need
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.
Holli Harms
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.
WOMEN ON FIRE: Fair is Foul – Get there! You will be challenged and uplifted. Which is what theatre is all about.
The Handspring Puppet Company presented an adaptation of J.M. Coetzee’s novel The Life & Times of Michael K at St. Ann’s Warehouse into a lyrical triumph of a production.
Killin’ Republicans may sound like an extreme anti-GOP motto, but it’s a hilarious reference to American politics looking back 150 years or so. Perhaps the sequel is Killin’ Democrats or Progressives? Put on your thinking caps for a wild rock n’ roll ride through American history linked by actress Jodie Foster and her famous, bizarre, and twisted encounter with neo-Nazi stalker John Hinckley, Jr.
Mikel Murfi is quite simply astonishing in this extraordinary performance of an ordinary life, a simple, beautiful life, the life of Pat Farnon.
