In reviews, as in all reporting, major pragmatic realities must be made known upfront. It is then necessary to convey right away that Daniele Scattina’s Clan Macbeth is performed in Italian. This may well discourage those not conversant in that fluid …Read more
Love triangles, sexual liberation, and relationship complexities abound in Micheline Auger’s Donkey Punch, in which characters challenge themselves to either live up to the person they think they are or fight for the person they want to be. The play, …Read more
From the moment she steps onstage, you won’t want to take your eyes off of Courtney Act for one second. Courtney Act, a drag performer who has appeared on Australian Idol and RuPaul’s Drag Race, and played Angel in RENT, has brought a cabaret show to …Read more
Sleep Well is a short, one-man show about one man’s strange night with his even stranger roommate. Glynn Borders, writer, producer, performer and director, right away tells the audience, “This is a show about weird shit.” He does not disappoint. Bord …Read more
Two disclaimers: this is not a new version of the Richard Rodgers 1962 musical, No Strings, and; this reviewer confesses to having had pre-curtain anxiety. As in a disinclination to see a play about three gay men struggling with sexual entitlement (i …Read more
Whenever I read that an off-off Broadway theater company is putting on an eighty-year-old farce, my face instinctually contorts into the most apathetic, judgmental, completely involuntary eye-roll that it can possibly form. I don’t say this with prid …Read more
The son of Phineas Fenn – a skinny Hitchcock presenter – invites the audience to share in his father’s covert history, and everybody’s off to summer camp, as it were. Drop Dead Perfect by Erasmus Fenn (funny about the names, eh?) then reveals the twi …Read more
No show should be allowed to be as fun as Mark LaPierre’s Zombie Strippers. Set in the graveyard of an unnamed city, the show plays out like a Scooby-Doo episode imagined by the people behind Porky’s. Tiffany (Elle Bensinger) and Jinx (Sariah) are tw …Read more
Imagine that Sally Field had played Norma Rae using Carol Channing’s Dolly Levi as inspiration, and you can only begin to conceive the way in which Lynne Wintersteller takes hold of the stage as the title character in Mother Jones and the Children’s …Read more
It’s 1793 and Madame Marie Tussaud, 32, has just been commissioned by revolutionaries to make Queen Marie Antoinette’s death mask; the infamous Madame Deficit, as she was called in pamphlets, who had been guillotined a few weeks before her 38th birth …Read more
