As a theater buff who will travel for outstanding live theater, the Old Globe is quickly becoming (for me) a destination theater venue. This weekend, I saw their original musical production of Benny & Joon, which is based on the 1993 movie starring Johnny Depp, Aidan Quinn and Mary Stuart Masterson. I had a vague …
The theatrical stage play, Rest Upon the Wind, inspired by Kahlil Gibran’s most famous book, The Prophet, is based on the life and times of Gibran (1883-1931). It will be showcased with three shows at the NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts on October 3-4, 2015. Although the Lebanese poet/painter Kahlil Gibran lived over …
While the subject and ambition of Jordan Harrison’s Marjorie Prime must have seemed worth the undertaking, the production now at the Mark Taper Forum is mostly confusing. It is a difficult piece to write about, since ideally the goal appears to be that the smoke-and-mirrors plot should be discovered in the playing. However, the structure …
You have to do a little work to absorb the full range of playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney’s meaning in Choir Boy.
What LaBute is getting at here is ubiquitous: the monumental difficulty of communicating with one another.
“We are kind of obliged to categorize or label it, but it’s a complicated question.”
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