Archive for November, 2008:
Thankful For This
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These are the stories that inspire me. I filmed this on November 4th, 2008. Yeah, I know, technically she broke the law, but man, it moved me like [...]
“Fata Morgana”: 71% Sweet – UPDATED
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Although Vajda’s three-act comedy occasionally falls prey to patches of inert dialogue, director Marilyn Fox’s psychologically assured production, blessed by Audrey Eisner’s gorgeous period costumes, possesses a delicate, melancholy emotional [...]
“The Holy Mother of Hadley, New York” – 50% – Bitter
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Wiechmann’s profoundly humorless writing often feels like an attempt to cross Under Milk Wood with the 1990s religious movie The Rapture, albeit with incredibly inert plotting and flat dialogue. Much [...]
“Shock Therapy” – 50% – Bitter
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There’s a party going on at the home of a prominent psychiatrist who is too busy talking on the phone to his celebrating clients to go to the party. Attending [...]
Theatre Rhino Not Gonna Do it
Check out San Franciso-based Theatre Rhinoceros’ highly theatrical (and imaginative) response to the whole Prop 8 fallout here.
Leave it to a self-professed “queer” theatre company in San Franciso to offer [...]
Is There Such a Thing as Conservative Theatre?
Found this nugget on the Wall Street Journal site. Thanks to Matt Wells at the needtheatre blog for the link. Raises an interesting question: Where are all the [...]
“Cute with Chris”: 50% Bitter
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Leavins’ droll act has a kind of muted beauty and profundity lurking beneath his otherwise snappy and amiable presentation.
Steven Leigh Morris – Los Angeles Weekly
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Representative clips from Leavins’ online series, [...]
Is America No Longer A Racist Society?
What the what??? That’s right. I asked the question. Is America no longer a racist society?
Now just hold on, people. Breathe. Exhale. And read on.
Do [...]
Surviving the Critics
Steven Leigh Morris – da man – over at LA Weekly offers a lovely intimate portrayal of a critic-playwright suffering the slings and arrows of – wait for it – [...]
“Lions”: 100% Sweet – UPDATED
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The strong ensemble, though, piles through these uneven aspects to deliver an all-around touching portrait of Middle America, a reminder that “real Americans” need not be so reductively characterized as [...]
