Fresh picks of the season: queercentric theater is in full bloom--if you know where to look.If you're a theater maven worth your salt, you're always after the scoop on which tickets are bombs and which are necessities of life. Unfortunately, if you happen to live farther than a cab tide from your theater of choice, you're bound to miss some gems. Don Shewey notes a few shows everybody's talking Everybody's Talking was a game show that aired on ABC in 1967. External links
LAST CHANCE: Mainstream pop fans may flock to Broadway's Elvis show All Shook Up or the Beach Boys-based schlockfest Good Vibrations, both of them Mamma Mia! wannabes Wannabes is an online interactive soap and game created for the BBC by Illumna Digital. Wannabes follows on from Jamie Kane, the BBC's previous foray into online interactive drama. The show/game consists of 14 10 minute episodes released twice a week. , but hard-core rockers would be better off checking out gay playwright Christopher Shinn's On the Mountain. Shinn's hip soundtrack to last season's Where Do We Live proved he's tuned into the musical tastes of 20-somethings. The new show (at Manhattan's Playwrights Horizons Playwrights Horizons is a not-for-profit Off-Broadway theater located in New York City dedicated to the support and development of contemporary American playwrights, composers, and lyricists, and to the production of their new work. through March 13 only) revolves around a rock-and-roll room mid iPod-generation daughter's shared obsession with a musician based on the late, great Kurt Cobain--shades of Lisa Cholodenko's Laurel Canyon Laurel Canyon can refer to several things:
SHORT RUNS: No one ever called Gertrude Stein and Samuel Beckett two tons o' fun. But the avant-garde Wooster Group's House/Lights (first seen in 1999) makes a delirious de·lir·i·ous adj. Of, suffering from, or characteristic of delirium. theatrical mash-up of Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (1938) is a libretto for an opera by the American modernist playwright and poet Gertrude Stein. For avant-garde theatre artists from the United States, the text has formed something of a rite of passage——the Judson Poets’ and a 1960s soft-core porn film called Olga's House of Shame. Revived at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn through April 10, the show features a virtuosic performance by Wooster superstar Kate Valk Kate Valk is a founding member of The Wooster Group, a collective of artists who make new work for the theater. Under the direction of Elizabeth LeCompte and with its associates and staff, the Group has created nineteen theater pieces, four dances, three radio plays, five and a guest appearance by Suzzy Roche as the Devil. Jeff Cohen, whose Worth Street Theater Company last year revived Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, has cast Beckett's Happy Days (at Classic Stage Company in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of through March 13) with two of off Broadway's most flagrantly out gay actors: Lea DeLaria as Winnie, buried up to her waist and then her neck, and David Greenspan as her ragamuffin husband, Willie. This casting may be outlandish yet shrewd, since these performers are likely to tap directly into the clown-show wryness that underlies Beckett's existential drama. Meanwhile, Boston residents and visitors won't want to miss the American Repertory Theatre's March 5-26 production of Christopher Marlowe's Dido, Queen of Carthage, staged by gay British novelist and Shakespeare scholar Neil Bartlett, who has cast Joni Mitchell impersonator John Kelly as Cupid in this drama about "a world whose only rule is beauty, whose only law is desire!" Shewey writes on theater for The New York Times. |
|
||||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion