Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Thursday, November 28, 2013
The Secret Theatre: Don We Now Our Gay Apparel
Femme Fatale Theater and Secret Theatre present:
Queer Not Cool
Part of The Secret Theatre Late Night Series
Saturday, December 14
at 8:00PM
Don We Now Our Gay Apparel info and tickets
THE “DARLING OF DOWNTOWN CABARET” RINGS IN THE HOLIDAYS WITH
THE JOHN HUME & FRIENDS CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR!
Featuring MILA HENRY on piano
Haul out the holly and celebrate a queer-tastic Christmas when the “darling of downtown cabaret” John C. Hume opens his heart, his home and his legs to spread merriment, good cheer (and his legs) in his new show, The John Hume & Friends Christmas Spectacular!
NY Times Lensblog: Being Seen Inside An Unseen World
NY TImes Lensblog: Being Seen Inside An Unseen World
Gerard H. Gaskin’s photos of the vibrant, underground house ballroom scene, celebrated by mostly gay and transgender black and Latino men, have earned him recognition as a “Trinidadian Andy Warhol.” See and read more at the link above. Article by Whitney Richardson.
Monday, November 18, 2013
The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence
The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence, at Playwrights Horizons, November 16, 2013
Madeleine George's gimmicky new play, a riff on sidekicks named Watson and their roles in history (real and fictionalized), is Playwrights Horizons' latest commission to reach their mainstage.
The concept has merit, four Watsons all played by the same actor (John Ellison Conlee) flanked by three Mr. and Mrs. Merricks (David Costabile and Amanda Quaid), covering Sherlock Holmes' doctor friend, Alexander Graham Bell's assistant Thomas Watson, a computer repairman dweeb Josh Watson, and a fictional computer successor to IBM's 2011 Watson (a contestant on television's Jeopardy!).
Saturday, November 16, 2013
Playwrights Horizons discount offer - The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence
"The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence" at Playwrights Horizons
DISCOUNT TICKETS TO THE (CURIOUS CASE OF THE) WATSON INTELLIGENCE for YOUR READERS:
Regular run: Nov 15-Dec 29
Tues-Wed at 7, Thu-Fri at 8, Sat at 2:30 & 8, Sun at 2:30 & 7:30
Order by Dec. 2 with the code WATBLOG and tickets are $45 (reg. $70) for all performances Nov 15-Dec 29
Online www.ticketcentral.com/playwrightshorizons/online/
Call Ticket Central at (212) 279-4200 Noon to 8PM daily
In Person: Ticket Central Box Office, 416 W. 42nd Street between 9th & 10th Avenues
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All That Fall
"All That Fall" at 59E59 Theatre, November 10, 2013
(Photo by Carol Rosegg)
All was gray - the afternoon, the audience, and for the most part, the somewhat starry cast, featuring Eileen Atkins and Michael Gambon, arrives from London (mostly) in this minimally staged radio play by Samuel Beckett, directed by Trevor Nunn.
The story, being Beckett, is a bit nihilist, about an older woman of questionable health making her way to meet her blind husband at the train station. We shuffle along with Mrs. Rooney (Ms. Atkins) as she encounters a menu of rural British characters, the dung peddler Christy (Ruairi Conaghan) on his cart, the retired Mr. Tyler (Frank Grimes) on his bike, the Clerk of the Racecourse Mr. Slocum (Trevor Cooper) in his car, each in advancing means of transportation, but none speeding the dreary tale along. The aptly named Miss Fitt (Catherine Cusack), a protestant zealot gives Mrs Rooney the final bit of assistance upon arrival at the station.
Saturday, November 2, 2013
The Patron Saint of Sea Monsters
"The Patron Saint of Sea Monsters" at Playwrights Horizons, October 26, 2013
PH continues to develop new work for the stage, with this new play running in their Peter Jay Sharp Theater by Marlane Meyer. Develop is an accurate description in this case because, in addition to being a preview performance during which new changes were being performed for the first time, the play still needs a lot of work.
The premise is interesting: how people are perceived and how relationships can bring change to those involved either because of, or in spite of those perceptions. (That's my take, at any rate, since it took well into Act 2 for that theme to emerge.)
Thursday, October 24, 2013
The Snow Geese
"The Snow Geese" presented by Manhattan Theatre Club, October 20, 2013
An approaching winter of discontent is stirring as the lights come up on The Snow Geese, Sharr White's new play at Manhattan Theatre Club. It's November, 1917, and the Gaeslings have gathered at their country lodge outside Syracuse, NY to celebrate the opening of goose hunting season. The gloom of Theodore Gaesling's recent death looms over the proceedings as his widow Elizabeth (Mary Louise Parker) struggles to keep her chin up as her first-born Duncan (Evan Jonigkeit) prepares to ship out to fight in WWI France. Elizabeth's pious sister Clarissa (Victoria Clark) and husband Max (Danny Burstein) have taken up residence with Elizabeth after local anti-German sentiment has forced them out of their own home and Max's medical practice. The house staff has reduced to a new Ukrainian immigrant maid, Viktorya, whose beauty has enraptured younger son Arnold (Brian Cross).
Arnold has also been tasked with sorting out the books following his father's death, which turns out to me more of an autopsy of the family finances. It seems Theodore was no savvy businessman. Previous staff and accountants had drained the family's wealth.
What to do?
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
The Old Friends
"The Old Friends" at The Pershing Square Signature Center, October 17, 2013
(Photo by Joan Marcus)
Horton Foote was a prolific playwright. The Old Friends is actually a sequel to his second full-length play, Only the Heart first produced in 1942. It took nearly 20 years to get the first exploratory production of TOF, and another 20 before Signature Theatre produced a reading. This 2002 event inspired Mr. Foote to write the version currently on stage at the Signature.
Sunday, October 20, 2013
A Time to Kill
Posted by Mondschein
(photo: Carol Rosegg)
The prodigious author John Grisham has entered a third medium to recycle his work with Rupert Holmes' adaptation of his first novel "A Time to Kill" now running on the Great White Way. I've been a Grisham fan for many years, getting hooked first with "The Firm," which led me to "A Time..." and I've read almost everything he's written since then, good, bad or indifferent. I like that his work is an easy read, sometimes a little pulpy, but generally perfect for an afternoon on the beach or a couple of hours on an airplane.
Wisely, Mr. Grisham has turned over the adaptation of his work to someone who has strong experience in writing for the theatre. He gets off scott-free if the effort tanks, or gets all the glory for creating the source if the play becomes a hit. Don't forget, he's a lawyer at heart and understands how to balance the risk/reward equation.
For him, that's a good thing.
Playwrights Horizons discount - "The Patron Saint of Sea Monsters"
Discount tickets to The Patron Saint of Sea Monsters for my readers (both of you):
Regular run: Oct 18-Dec 1
Tues 7, Wed-Fri at 8, Sat at 2:30 & 8, Sun at 2:30 & 7:30
Order by Nov. 5 and use the code SAINTBLOG
$40 (reg. $60) for all performances Oct. 18-Dec. 1
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Call Ticket Central at (212) 279-4200 Noon to 8PM daily
In Person: Ticket Central Box Office, 416 W. 42nd Street between 9th & 10th Avenues
Friday, October 18, 2013
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Hedwig and the Angry Inch at the Belasco Theatre
Tickets go on pre-sale Oct 19 (american express cardholders)
General Public on Nov 2
