Sunday, February 20, 2011
Here's a piece I did about Rinne Groff, whose new play Compulsion, is now running Off-Broadway at the Public Theater. The cast includes Mandy Patinkin and an Anne Frank marionette:Rinne Grof…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 10:10PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 26, 2011
With America's political attention aimed at ourselves these days, and what little energy we have to focus on international affairs devoted to conflicts in the Middle East, Honey Brown Eyes' …
SOURCE: Blank New World at 11:22AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 19, 2011
The first time I saw Pablo Schreiber act was either in the TV crime drama The Wire or the Off-Broadway play Sin: A Cardinal Deposed. Both were around five or six years ago, and the order esc…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 11:59AM[SHARE]Friday, January 14, 2011
How I am growing to embrace weird downtown experimental theater. I quite liked Tom Ryan Thinks He's James Mason Starring in a Movie By Nicholas Ray in which a Man's Illness Provides an Esca…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 03:19PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 11, 2011
This stark, tense, and brilliantly acted deconstruction of Nicholas Ray's film Bigger Than Life is a provocative evening of experimental theater.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 21, 2010
So many theater folks have bemoaned the lack of new hits on Broadway this fall that I wonder if anyone's noticed all the fabulous new plays that were part of the Off-Broadway landscape, usua…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 02:50PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 15, 2010
The first time I saw David Harbour on stage I couldn't help noticing that he's incredibly beautiful. It didn't take long to realize he's also very talented and smart (a Dartmouth grad, to bo…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 05:04PM[SHARE]Friday, December 10, 2010
Anyone who's caught Pee-wee Herman's Broadway show and isn't a polar bear or a penguin might have noticed that the theater was freeeeeezing! Even though I saw it on a moderate November after…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 03:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Someday I hope to have as transformative an experience at a Neil LaBute play as I did when I saw The Mercy Seat with Sigourney Weaver and Liev Schreiber. It was the day after a snowy Christm…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 03:37PM[SHARE]Friday, November 19, 2010
Had the pleasure of introducing a friend to the work of one of my favorite contemporary playwrights, Adam Rapp, last week when I was assigned to review the New York premiere of the first fu…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 02:27PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Here's my love letter to the marvelous Michael Shannon ... also known as my review of Craig Wright's Mistakes Were Made. I didn't expect the Oscar-nominated actor to be such a scintillating…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 10:43AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 3, 2010
No, I'm not talking about last night's election results, I'm referring to In the Wake, Lisa Kron's ambitious new play (here's my Time Out New York review) that begins during the chaotic mes…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 10:23AM[SHARE]Friday, October 22, 2010
Earlier this week a Facebook friend announced that "In my head all day, Richard Harris has been whining about a cake." This of course sent me to my iTunes library because I suddenly had to h…
SOURCE: Blank New World at 03:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 14, 2010
I'm a relatively new convert to avant-garde downtown theater scene, and when I see shows as captivating as director Ivo van Hove's Little Foxes, I wonder what took me so long. He certainly s…
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