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In a lot of ways, Birdman Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) is a creatively masturbatory exercise in pretension. It may also be brilliant.   Just look at that damn title! Uselessly subtitled, with inexplicable punctuation. It begs you to take it seriously, while creating just enough of a wink to pretend its better than […]

Is there competition in the mix? As Alicia is moving forward in the race for States Attorney, potential competition arises from television named Frank Prady played by the very talented David Hyde Pierce. This show seriously has the best guest stars, the King got game! Is Frank going to run? Alicia steps outside of her […]

 

I would be doing a disservice to the show if I only gave you an adult perspective of the new musical The Love Note. Perhaps I should co-author this review with myself at age 10. Theresa [28 years-old]: It is unheard of to attend a play at 10 am on a Sunday in New York […]

 

I was skeptical, at first, about this dystopian Noah’s Ark adapted from a French graphic novel and starring Captain America (forgive the unfairly depreciative evocation; I’ve always liked Chris Evans and know full well that most of the major superheroes right now are actually pretty good actors, but you know what I mean). The first […]

 

The Global Cabaret Festival came to an end with a rousing late-night performance from the great Jackie Richardson. I celebrated the first seven shows on my agenda in Part 1. Now that the festival is over (hopefully not forever- Global, tell us you’ll bring the festival back for year 8!), here are the rest of […]

The Bakelite Masterpiece (Tarragon Theatre) This new one-act by Kate Cayley tells the thematically rich (and fictionally embellished) story of Han van Meegeren (Georgie Johnson) whose sale of a Vermeer painting to a Nazi in occupied Holland put him on trial for treason at the end of the war. His life-saving argument that it was […]

 

The World Series came and went. It was a championship game that pitted a dynasty against an underdog. The Giants vs. the Royals. The World Series was a matchup of two Wild Card teams, where only one would be the receiver of the rings. This year, the San Francisco Giants came up on top, defeating […]

 

Okay, so it doesn’t look like many people are watching The McCarthys. And it’s true that it wasn’t the most original show that I’ve ever seen. It was pretty predictable and I didn’t’ like some of the jokes. But yes, I tend to laugh when other people are laughing, so I had a pretty fun […]