With films like Grizzly Man and Cave of Forgotten Dreams Werner Herzog has repeatedly proven the poetic capabilities of nonfiction filmmaking. A Herzog documentary often raises as many questions as it answers. It not only presents information on such …Read more
Perhaps the greatest merit of Matteo Garrone’s Tale of Tales is its lack of attempt to ever really explain itself, with regards both to its magic and its morality. In terms of its magic, when it occurs, which it does with great frequency, it occurs s …Read more
There is something about Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull that seems to invite frequent reinterpretations and adaptations. Perhaps it is the depth of the characters, the subtlety, or the universal themes that do not grow old. As with the endless reimagini …Read more
With its blurring of the lines between author and creation, Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author contains many themes that are well suited to be explored through the medium of puppetry. Theodora Skipitares’s play Six Characters (a …Read more
On the centennial of his birth, Samuel Beckett’s Not I, a notoriously difficult work for any actor, will be presented alongside two other Beckett shorts, Footfalls and Rockaby at NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts from April 13-17. A rare …Read more
For those whose familiarity with Tennessee Williams is centered primarily on better known works like The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the two obscure one acts presented in Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company’s …Read more
Based on the book by Paul Auster, City of Glass commences its prismatic tale with a case of mistaken identity after which signs are generally loosened, if not wholly severed, from what they signify. This detachment of signs unfolds in a detective-noi …Read more
The acting in The Good Girl is often frustratingly projected slightly away from the audience and the staging is slightly unbalanced at times. It is worth making that the first line of this review, and getting it out of the way, elsewise it would be a …Read more
The term that most aptly defines Defendant Maurice Chevalier, Alexis Chevalier’s play about his great-granduncle, is structure; structure with regards to both the play itself and with regards to what this play represents. Regarding the play, it is th …Read more
There are many points in Benjamin Crotty’s Fort Buchanan at which the thematic guts come piercing through with poignant vividness, and one in particular stands out with a painful mixture of humor and humiliation. Roger Sherwood (Andy Gillet) is a gay …Read more