Bar habituates and Southern race riots are the subjects of this uproarious revival of radical, 1960’s-style political satires that skewer race relations.
Category: Reviews
CasablancaBox
The beloved, classic movie gets a tiresome performance art deconstruction. Multi-media, arch writing, exaggerated direction and superficial acting abound.
Jack Charles V The Crown
A 73-year-old, Aboriginal actor, ex-con and ex-junkie tells his harrowing and redemptive life story in this fascinating and dynamic performance art piece.
His Royal Hipness Lord Buckley
This exhilarating recreation of the 1950’s cult performer’s nightclub act has a grand central performance, a dynamic jazz trio and an inventive script.
Old Times
Harold Pinter’s enigmatic classic is wonderfully enhanced by a foreign cast with their delightful accents in this striking small-scale production.
Lavender Songs: A Queer Weimar Berlin Cabaret
Jeremy Lawrence is spellbinding performing 17 songs, mostly in drag, in this haunting show that conveys the decadence and despair of Weimar Germany.
Blankets and Bedtime: 3 Restless Plays
A 1960’s closeted gay movie star and psychosexual conflicts in a Shanghai brothel during W.W. II are in this program of compelling one-act plays.
Gorey: The Secret Lives of Edward Gorey
The eccentric cult writer and artist’s life is explored in this fascinating play with three actors portraying him, as well as the use of animation, film and puppets.
Long Day’s Journey into Night
A starry well-chosen cast powerfully enacts this perfectly staged beautiful revival of the lengthy classic American play about a troubled family.
Beckett Trilogy: Not I /Footfalls/ Rockaby
Irish actress Lisa Dwan is spellbinding in this striking presentation of three enigmatic short works by the legendary 20th century playwright.