I’ve never quite had a Broadway experience like Aaron Sorkin’s tedious, exposition-laden film-script-on-stage The Farnsworth Invention. It is a play, in that it’s being performed in a playhouse by a staggering nineteen actors. But it is no more a work of drama than any of the various one-hour long History Channel documentaries currently filling my TiVo […]
The Glorious Ones is musical theatre as only Lincoln Center Theater could present it. It’s interesting if you live between 61st and 82nd streets on the West Side. It’s funny if the last piece of comedy you experienced was Neil Simon’s Laughter on the 23rd Floor. It’s bawdy if you actually use the word bawdy […]
In the digital age, more and more of America’s popular ”entertainments” have been moved inside the home, leaving the door open for the theatre to once again establish itself as not only an insular, culturally-specific artform but as the universally relevant enterprise that produced Death of a Salesman and A Raisin in the Sun. The […]