An experimental, messy production helps ring in the new year.
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Theater Review (LA): To Be Young, Gifted and Black at Actors Co-op
The production is fine but the content is flat in this portrait of the groundbreaking playwright.
Read More »Book Review: The Theatre of e. e. cummings Edited by George Firmage
Further proof, if any were necessary, that cummings was the first great modernist American writer.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): The Man Who Laughs – A Live Silent Film for the Stage
Based on an obscure Victor Hugo novel, this highly unusual production features live piano accompaniment, a brilliant live-marionette sequence, and free popcorn.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): The Vandal by Hamish Linklater
The Flea presents the world premiere of a twisted and artfully entertaining comedy with a shocker of an ending.
Read More »Movie Review: Best of RiffTrax Live: Manos – The Hands of Fate and Plan 9 From Outer Space
RiffTrax Live presents an encore of Manos: The Hands of Fate and Plan 9 From Outer Space
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): The Red and the Black by Deloss Brown
This cogently written, well-acted period piece is flawed but well worth seeing – especially if you're interested in the milieu of Les Misérables.
Read More »Interview: Voices Experimental Performance Director Jayanthi Siva-Lecolley
Welcome 2013 with a multi-disciplinary experimental fusion performance by Jayanthi Siva-Lecolley and Michael Corbidge.
Read More »Theater Review (LA): The Snake Can at the Odyssey
Kathryn Graf's new comedy-drama follows the lives of three middle-aged New Yorkers as they search for romance and personal fulfillment.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘Bethany’ by Laura Marks, Starring America Ferrera
A dominating performance by Ugly Betty's America Ferrera centers this incisive and gutsy new play.
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