Posts Tagged ‘neal weaver’
INFLUENCE: 100% Sweet
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Sometimes, Bitterman’s internecine politics are so abstruse, they should be accompanied by Wikipedia supertitles. Yet director Steve Zuckerman’s staccato, Mamet-esque pacing keeps things lively, and his actors attack their material [...]
THE UNEXPECTED MAN: 67% Sweet – UPDATED
BITTER
I wish I could say that the play’s culmination is worth the investment of the slow buildup or that the enjoyment of art, as life, is in the journey, [...]
BARBRA’S WEDDING: 50% Bitter
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In Barbra’s Wedding, now showing at the Blank’s 2nd Stage Theatre, playwright Daniel Stern (the actor of Home Alone fame) has captured the pathetic ghost of showbiz past and made [...]
THE BALLAD OF EMMETT TILL: 83% Sweet – UPDATED
BITTERSWEET
The problem may be one of taste, but it ties directly back to the compulsion to spill the guts theatrically. Finney’s staging of the abduction starts brilliantly, with a pair [...]
BROADS, THE MUSICAL: 50% Bittersweet – UPDATED
BITTER
I loved the four gals playing the Broads – all talented – but the show needs a major overhaul. Too many jokes are tired old cliches – and singing about [...]
CALLIOPE ROSE: 75% Sweet – UPDATED
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“Calliope Rose” features innovative and clever staging. Writer and director Bill Sterritt’s script contains some heady concepts but does not neglect the emotional quotient. It is a fascinating glimpse of [...]
CELADINE: 60% Sweet – UPDATED
BITTERSWEET
Evered apparently set out to write a modern Restoration comedy, but his play is too pale, genteel, and bloodless to qualify. It’s all pleasant enough, and it’s not without charm, [...]
TITUS ANDRONICUS: 67% Sweet – UPDATED
BITTERSWEET
If anything, Elliot’s production is slightly too straightforward and contextually threadbare. Although the dialogue is articulately rendered, the stagecraft is prosaic and unambitious – the violence is strangely reigned in [...]
SEASCAPE WITH SHARKS AND DANCER: 100% Sweet
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Meet Ben and Tracy, the hero and heroine of Seascape With Shark And Dancer, Don Nigro’s unconventional romance, now playing at Studio/Stage. First-rate performances by Matthew Hannon and Christine [...]
THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES: 89% Sweet – UPDATED
BITTERSWEET
The script has an unending flow of verbal and physical high jinks but too many sitcom-quality one-liners and a lazy reliance on popular culture for easy laughs. There also is [...]
