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Friday, October 11, 2013

First Nighter: "A NIght With Janis Joplin" Gets Only a Piece of Her Heart by David Finkle

Comparisons may be odious, but in some cases, like this one, they're inevitable. Whenever performers--such...

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Thursday, October 10, 2013

First Nighter: All-Female "Julius Caesar" Works Except When It Doesn't by David Finkle

Does a week go by without a newspaper report somewhere on the subject of prisoners staging a Shakespeare play as part of...

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Thursday, October 3, 2013

First Nighter: Dee Dee Bridgewater Is Billie Holiday in Lady Day; Clint Holmes Is Himself in Stop This Train by David Finkle

Sometime in the winter of 1958, I had the chance to hear Billie Holiday on her closing night at Boston's venerated Storyville. For reasons I can't recall, I chose not to go. She died less …

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Tuesday, October 1, 2013

First Nighter: Jon Robin Baitz's "Film Society" Well Projected at the Beckett by David Finkle

Jon Robin Baitz is the rare example of a playwright whose every play--with possibly one or two exceptions--is even better than...

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Monday, September 30, 2013
Sunday, September 29, 2013

First Nighter: "Massive Attack V Adam Curtis" Explains Today's World But Not Really by David Finkle

Within minutes of Massive Attack V Adam Curtis beginning at the Park Avenue Armory, where it plays through Friday (October 4),...

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First Nighter: "Massive Attack V Adam Curtis" Explains Today's World But Not Really by David Finkle

Massive Attack, by the way, was seen from time to time when the three screens at the end of the hall were backlit. (There

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Thursday, September 26, 2013

First Nighter: Tennessee Williams's Memorable "Glass Menagerie," William Inge's Forgettable "Natural Affection" by David Finkle

As far as I know, the only remains of Laurette Taylor's performance in The Glass Menagerie as Amanda

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First Nighter: Tennessee Williams's Memorable Glass Menagerie, William Inge's Forgettable Natural Affection by David Finkle

It was when Tennessee Williams took him to see <em>The Glass Menagerie</em> that William Inge decided to become a playwright -- very much influenced, as it turned out, by his pal.

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:20PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

First Nighter: In "Arguendo" Elevator Repair Service Makes a Good Argument for Unbridled Enjoyment by David Finkle

Although I can't say I followed everyone of the ins and outs of Elevator Repair Service's Arguendo, at the Public, I had...

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First Nighter: In "Arguendo" Elevator Repair Service Makes a Good Argument for Unbridled Enjoyment by David Finkle

Although I can't say I followed everyone of the ins and outs of Elevator Repair Service's Arguendo, at the Public, I had

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 03:46PM[SHARE]
Friday, September 20, 2013

First NIghter: Basil Twist in Manhattan, IPA in Brooklyn by David Finkle

Anyone looking around New York City for something to do this weekend might want to check out the Japan Society in...

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First NIghter: Basil Twist in Manhattan, IPA in Brooklyn by David Finkle

Anyone looking around New York City for something to do this weekend might want to check out the Japan Society in Manhattan

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 12:20PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, September 18, 2013

First Nighter: As Opera, Anna Nicole Goes Bust by David Finkle

In a way you can't fault underfunded New York City Opera general manager and artistic director George Steel for scheduling Anna Nicole, now at BAM, as the opening for what could be the revam…

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First Nighter: As Opera, Anna Nicole Goes Bust by David Finkle

In a way you can't fault underfunded New York City Opera general manager and artistic director George Steel for scheduling <em>Anna Nicole</em>, now at BAM, as the opening for wh…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:08PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, September 17, 2013

First Nighter: Ethan Coen's "Women or Nothing" Doesn't Add Up to Enough More Than Nothing by David Finkle

If you think Broadway boulevard comedies are a thing of the past, you'd better think again. Ethan Coen--the half of the...

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First Nighter: Ethan Coen's "Women or Nothing" Doesn't Add Up to Enough More Than Nothing by David Finkle

If you think Broadway boulevard comedies are a thing of the past, you'd better think again. Ethan Coen--the half of the cinema's

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Monday, September 16, 2013

Seasons Come, Seasons Go, But Theater is Forever by David Finkle

What lies ahead on the road to Broadway, off- and off-off always looks bright in the Fall.

SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 11:02AM[SHARE]

First Nighter: Anne Washburn's "Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play" Does Go On and On and... by David Finkle

"I've never actually seen an episode of The Simpsons," Gibson (Gibson Frazier) admits in the first section of Anne Washburn's...

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First Nighter: Anne Washburn's "Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play" Does Go On and On and... by David Finkle

"I've never actually seen an episode of The Simpsons," Gibson (Gibson Frazier) admits in the first section of Anne Washburn's

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 01:55AM[SHARE]
Sunday, September 15, 2013

First Nighter: David Staller Tells Bernard Shaw's "You Never Can Tell" Rather Well by David Finkle

David Staller is likely the current world authority on George Bernard Shaw. For quite some time, under the auspices of...

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First Nighter: David Staller Tells Bernard Shaw's "You Never Can Tell" Rather Well by David Finkle

David Staller is likely the current world authority on George Bernard Shaw. For quite some time, under the auspices of the

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 07:29PM[SHARE]
Sunday, September 8, 2013

First Nighter: Regina Taylor Confronts the Computer Age Poorly, Matt Charman Does It Better by David Finkle

Whatever Regina Taylor is trying to get across in stop. reset., at the Pershing Square Signature Center's Romulus Linney

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First Nighter: Regina Taylor Confronts the Computer Age Poorly, Matt Charmian Does It Better by David Finkle

Whatever Regina Taylor is trying to get across in stop. reset., at the Pershing Square Signature Center's Romulus Linney,...

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Thursday, September 5, 2013

First Nighter: Lucy Thurber's Five Hill Town Plays Progress From Must-See to Less-Need-to-See by David Finkle

There's nothing wrong in presenting a cycle about a character progressing from damaging childhood to escape from psychological entrapment adulthood. Indeed, it's a great idea. But the over…

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First Nighter: Lucy Thurber's Five Hill Town Plays Progress From Must-See to Less-Need-to-See by David Finkle

There's nothing wrong in presenting a cycle about a character progressing from damaging childhood to escape from psychological entrapment adulthood. Indeed, it's a great idea. But the over…

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 06:57PM[SHARE]
Monday, September 2, 2013

Julie Harris: A Devoted Fan Remembers by David Finkle

She loved Theater, and Theater requited the long affair.

SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 12:11PM[SHARE]
Friday, August 16, 2013

First Nighter: "Soul Doctor" Celebrates Singing Rabbi Carlebach by David Finkle

Consider it my embarrassing oversight that Shlomo Carlebach was news to me when I showed up for Soul Doctor, the new...

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First Nighter: "Soul Doctor" Celebrates Singing Rabbi Carlebach by David Finkle

Consider it my embarrassing oversight that Shlomo Carlebach was news to me when I showed up for Soul Doctor, the new musical

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 02:26AM[SHARE]
Monday, August 12, 2013

First Nighter: "Love's Labour's Lost" Loses More Than Wins in the Park; Downtown's "Under the Greenwood Tree" As You'll Like It by David Finkle

It would be a pleasant chore to report that Shakespeare in the Park's Love's Labour's Lost is an amusingly silly musical

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First Nighter: "Love's Labour's Lost" Loses More Than Wins in the Park; Downtown's "Under the Greenwood Tree" As You'll Like It by David Finkle

It would be a pleasant chore to report that Shakespeare in the Park's Love's Labour's Lost is an amusingly silly musical...

SOURCE: Huffington Post at 11:16PM[SHARE]

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