BITCH, YOU AGING GOOD In the tradition ’80s sitcoms but with elements of telenovela melodrama, Bitch Slap! is a hilarious, over-the-top spoof comedy written and directed by San Francisco’s inaugural drag laureate D’Arcy Drollinger. Bitch Slap first opened in 2017 and is back on stage through May 18 at Oasis. D’Arcy Drollinger, Katya Smirnoff The […]
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4K Restoration Nationwide Screenings Include May 10 in NY at Film at Lincoln Center (Opening) and May 12 in LA at the American Cinematheque Emerging from the void, mysterious drifter Gaunt (The Sting’s John Heffernan) wanders the upstate countryside in a daze with only his bible for company. But after happening upon the murder of […]
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BrhyM, a portmanteau of Bruce Hornsby and the experimental chamber ensemble yMusic, have released their debut album, Deep Sea Vents. released March, 2024. Distinctive, harmonic, inventive, and wholly accessible, the album contains 10 songs about water and the ways we live with, in, or against it, Deep Sea Vents is Hornsby and yMusic as you […]
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WHAT THE HUCK! Author Gregory Fletcher has had a bit of fun with Mark Twain’s classic tales of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn and readers are likely to share in the romp. Fletcher has repurposed many of the characters and situations from Twain’s original: the characters are a little older, and some of the situations […]
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A THEATRICAL LOOP-DE-LOOP Playwright Michael R. Jackson’s acclaimed A Strange Loop (winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 2022 Tony Award for Best Musical) is a shocking work of genius, beautifully brought to Boston’s Wimberly Theatre by SpeakEasy Stage and Front Porch Collective and director Maurice Emmanuel Parent, starring Kai Clifton as Usher, “a fat American […]
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JUST A SENSE The North Coast Repertory Theatre is currently presenting the world premiere of Sense of Decency, a psychological drama adapted from a 2013 book by American author Jake El-Hai titled The Nazi and the Psychiatrist. The book has been adapted by Jake Broder, who is the play’s co-director with David Ellenstein. The original […]
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A SWEET OFF-THE-GRID MUSICAL With the unexpectedly huge American response to Netflix’s Virgin River, there seems to be a great longing to see what life might be like in a tiny, forested community instead of the hustle and bustle of semi-anonymous city life. From It’s a Wonderful Life to The Andy Griffith Show to Northern […]
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HOW GOOD YOU GOT IT There’s an old saying that goes, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” But is “fixing” always a bad thing? What if that fix is not about correcting what’s wrong but more about deepening, exploring, and re-emphasizing what’s right? The creative team behind the current Broadway revival of the ’70s […]
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A PLAY FOR THE PEOPLE Written by Ibsen in 1882, An Enemy of the People is a powerful drama that reminds us, as a discouraging premonition, how people would go against truth and honesty in order to protect their personal interests. This version, adapted by playwright Amy Herzog and directed by her husband Sam Gold at Circle in the Square […]
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MEAN GIRLS MEETS THE THIRD REICH Three teenage girls sit at a table in a bunker of some kind bored out of their minds tasting food three times a day before it is sent off to Hitler. They have clearly been convinced that this job is a privilege, for if one should die of poisoning […]
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