Category Archives: Theatre
Bridge Project presents ‘As You Like It’ – BAM Harvey Theater
If you know anything about Sam Mendes, then you know he is the Academy Award winning director of American Beauty (And: Jarhead, Revolutionary Road, and Away We Go). If you know anything else about him, you know he is married to Kate Winslet (Titanic, obviously). However, if all you know are Mendes’ film projects and […]
Age of Iron – Off Broadway
Interested in some more bad theatre? Good, me too. Went and saw Age of Iron, an off Broadway adaptation of Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida, and Thomas Heywood’s Iron Age. Based on the Trojan war, this epic literally has you in your seats for 3 hours. Three hours of bad accents, and uncomfortable chairs. I’d tell […]
Broadway: Busts and Bravados
There is a mystique about Broadway that is unmistakable, but hardly describable. An aura of phosphorescent candy-coated glow, a wondrous, dizzying place where stars rise and aspirations coagulate into a tangled web of talent and money. But when the dust settles, are we sure that all that glittered was gold? Here’s a tip, just because […]
County of Kings
Last night I had myself the honor of seeing a show at the New York Public theatre called, County of Kings. It is a one person show, written and acted by Lemon Andersen (credits include The Soloist, Miracle at St. Anna, Inside man, and most famously HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, which he won a Tony […]
After Miss Julie
This weekend I got to put a big check mark on my “Life Long to-do” list. Right between “Go Skydiving” (which probably will never happen) and “Read Finnegan’s Wake” (which I tried, and decidedly will not happen), is “Go Backstage at a Broadway Show.” Check. That’s right. A friend of mine got comped tickets to […]
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