Posts Tagged ‘variety’
Variety Lays off Chief Film and Theatre Critics
Yup. And on and on it goes.
Check out this story over at the LA Times. David Rooney, chief theatre critic for Variety and Todd McCarty, chief film critic are history. [...]
FORGIVENESS: 100% Sweet
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The human heart’s capacity to get past the atrocious sins of others in order to grant forgiveness is bracingly dramatized in stage and TV scribe David Schulner’s world premiere, packing [...]
WIREHEAD: 50% Bitter
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Audience members more fond than I am of the sci-fi, futuristic fantasy genre may take to Wirehead more than I did. One thing at least is undeniable. Echo Theater [...]
THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES: 70% Sweet – UPDATED
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All right, given this impressive pedigree, what’s my beef? Well, beyond the play’s passé style, I have trouble with the workmanlike use of the symbolic roses that inspire the title [...]
NORTH ATLANTIC: 86% Sweet – UPDATED
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With an ensemble that includes such company stalwarts as Kate Valk, Ari Fliakos and Scott Shepherd, along with Oscar winner Frances McDormand, who was in the delightful 2002 Wooster Group [...]
THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES: 89% Sweet – UPDATED
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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 [...]
COUSIN BETTE: 100% Sweet – UPDATED
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At least one key performance is over laden with shtick, and some fine-tuning of others is in order. Still, Doukas is terrific, delivering a consummate performance that arouses, for her [...]
WHY TORTURE IS WRONG, AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM: 100% Sweet – UPDATED
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Durang is getting a lot off his chest, and off ours. The laughter he generates is from nonsense about nonsense, unnervingly true and cathartic, and beautifully performed.
Steven Leigh [...]
CAROUSEL: 100% Sweet – UPDATED
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Michetti’s story-theater approach surely will be the most talked-about aspect of this production. The stage directions, meant for the production team’s eyes only, are spoken, “Our Town”-like, by the grandfatherly, [...]
KINGS OF THE KILBURN HIGH ROAD: 100% Sweet – UPDATED
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The setting, the characters, the behavior — a pub, heavy drinking, nastiness — are all quite stereotypical Irish in Jimmy Murphy’s “The Kings of the Kilburn High Road,” receiving its [...]
