Thursday, August 7th, 2008
While negativity in theatre reviews is hardly anything new, and I’m relatively sanguine about it after a decade as a press agent, I was struck over the weekend by the unanimity of the condescension on display in reviews of a new Off-Broadway show, Flamingo Court. The production, apparently set in a Florida development, is [...]
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Thursday, November 8th, 2007
For those who spend the majority of their theatregoing time in Broadway venues, its extraordinarily refreshing to see work in a rawer, less production-heavy style. The current production of Black Watch at St. Ann’s Warehouse, an impressionistic drama about a Scottish regiment in Iraq offers exactly such perspective. While video is employed and [...]
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
I regret that The Wall Street Journal doesn’t allow me to link you to the full text of Peggy Noonan’s Saturday “Declarations” column, because it has a number of provocative comments about the source of today’s creative arts. While jumping off from a brief dissection of a likely fictitious piece of war reportage from The [...]
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Friday, November 2nd, 2007
Watching the Second Stage Theatre production of Edward Albee’s Peter and Jerry last night, I found myself drawn back to, of all places, high school.
For those who don’t know Peter and Jerry, it’s actually two one-act plays on the same bill: Albee’s landmark The Zoo Story comprises Act II, while Act I, Homelife, is a [...]
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
Were I a lazy blogger (as opposed to the intermittent one I appear to have become), I would awaken every day and simply point readers in the direction of the blog from the Guardian newspaper in England.
With an array of commentators both in the U.K. and on occasion here in the U.S., this site manages [...]
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