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SEE HOW THEY RUN

September 19, 2022 By 1 Comment

SEE HOW THEY RUN

SEE HOW THEY RUN is a handsomely mounted period piece with a clever premise undermined by an irksome dithering about its tone and a rampant directorial lethargy. Calling out tropes from cinema and literary mysteries with the sort of wild abandon from which the pacing would have profited, this uneven comedy takes us to 1953,… Read More »

Tagged With: Agatha Christie, detective, farce, London, murder, mystery, neophyte, screenwriter, theater

CYRANO, MY LOVE

December 13, 2020 By Leave a Comment

CYRANO, MY LOVE

CYRANO MY LOVE is an ebullient comedy of errors that recounts the fraught confluence of art, commerce, and egos that gave birth to Cyrano de Bergerac, the most successful play in French theater history. As witty and wise as that character himself, it is a love letter to the creative process that spares none of… Read More »

Tagged With: Belle Epoque, Comedie Francaise, Cyrano de Bergerac, Paris, playwright, Sarah Bernhardt, stage, theater

Priscilla Queen of the Desert: The Musical — John Fisher Interview

May 25, 2017 By Leave a Comment

Priscilla Queen of the Desert: The Musical — John Fisher Interview

John Fisher is a busy man. Actor, playwright, and Executive Director of Theatre Rhinoceros, the longest running queer theater in the world. Simultaneously. Such a workload prompted me to ask him when he found time to sleep when we spoke on May 12, 2017. The larger subject was Theatre Rhinoceros’ production of Priscilla, Queen of… Read More »

Tagged With: ACT, African-American artists, American Conservatory Theater, amnesia, art, art and commerce, art and culture, Bohemian Grove, Charles Ludlum, commerce, David Mamet, Disco, Donald Trump, Humphry Slocombe, LGBTQ, marketing, marriage equality, musical, Priscilla’s Tim Tam Slam, queer theater, Shakespeare, The Anarchist, The Iceman Cometh, theater, Theatre Rhinoceros, transgender, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

MIDSUMMER IN NEWTOWN

January 31, 2017 By Leave a Comment

MIDSUMMER IN NEWTOWN

The word “safe” comes up over and over again in MIDSUMMER IN NEWTOWN, Lloyd Kramer’s elegiac yet emotionally gripping documentary about the aftereffects of the Sandy Hook Massacre on the survivors. As in, the sense of being safe has been taken from everyone involved forever. The question becomes how to deal with it. Kramer’s film… Read More »

Tagged With: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Anna Grace Project, catharsis, Connecticut, musical, outreach, PTSD, Sandy Hook Massacre, theater, therapy, Trauma

THE SALESMAN — Asghar Farhadi

January 28, 2017 By Leave a Comment

THE SALESMAN — Asghar Farhadi

When I spoke with Asghar Farhadi during the Mill Valley Film Festival on October 14, 2016 about THE SALESMAN, one of us (me) fully anticipated that it, like his Oscar™-winning film A SEPARATION, would be nominated for an Oscar™.  Neither of us could have anticipated that when it was, in fact, nominated, Farhadi would not… Read More »

Tagged With: Academy Award, Arthur Miller, Asghar Farhadi, assault, Biff, crumbling building, Death of A Salesman, feminisim, Iran, obsession, Oscar, Parisa Bakhtavar, revenge, Taraneh Alidoosti, Tehran, theater, Willy Loman

Al Pacino Exalts THE HUMBLING

January 25, 2015 By Leave a Comment

Al Pacino Exalts THE HUMBLING

THE HUMBLING is a throwback to a time when attention spans were longer, characters were created out of complex and even contradictory behaviors, and the story was an extension of the characters, not a glib contrivance. Based on the 2008 novel of the same name by Philip Roth, it is a study of Simon Axler, an actor crumbling as he feels his craft drifting away leaving him in limbo between reality and delusion, comedy and tragedy, meaning and nothingness.

Tagged With: Al Pacino, Buck Henry, delusion, Greta Gerwig, lesbian, May-December romance, mental breakdown, Philip Roth, Shakespeare, theater, thespian, transesexual

Richard Linklater Richard & Christian McKay on ME AND ORSON WELLES

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Richard Linklater Richard & Christian McKay on ME AND ORSON WELLES

ME AND ORSON WELLES is a fascinating glimpse of what it might have been like to work with Welles during his enfant terrible period. The film, interesting though the subject matter is, succeeds because of the way Christian McKay become Welles in all his brilliant, infuriating glory. The first thing I wanted to know when I talked… Read More »

Tagged With: 1930s, based on a true story, book to film, Christian McKay, fascism, Holly Gent Palmo, Julias Caesar, Orson Welles, Richard Linklater, Robert Kaplow, Shakespeare, theater, Vince Palmo, Zac Efron

Tom Weidlinger Has A DREAM IN HANOI

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

I doubt that there’s ever been a documentary quite like Tom Weidlinger’s A DREAM IN HANOI. It follows the collaboration between an American theater company with a Vietnamese on on a production of Shakespeare’s A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS’ DREAM staged in Vietnam, and performed partly in English and partly in Vietnamese. The cast and crew blend… Read More »

Tagged With: documentary, Shakespeare, theater, theater shakespeare vietnam war, Tom Weidlinger, Vietnam, Vietnam war

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