Well, technically this isn’t a playdate review, and no, I don’t literally do cocaine. I was fed up with online dating, so I went alone to the opening night of “Cocaine,” a two-hander by Pendleton King at the John DeSotelle Studio in Hell’s Kitchen. And in the crowded lobby of the Nubox I met a […]
Author: Cricket O'Connor
I’ve lived and breathed theater ever since I was a kid in St. Louis staging plays with my reluctant siblings. A Bachelor’s in theatre from the University of Missouri led to a Fulbright scholarship to study physical theater at the Grotowski Institute in Poland and from there to an internship at the English Theatre Berlin. As an anthropology minor, I’ve always been fascinated by human behavior in codified contexts, an interest I turned into a master’s thesis at the Humboldt University’s Berlin School of Mind and Brain, and one I seek to combine with my longstanding love of theater in my online dating and review column Playdate.
Painting the Roses Black: A Playdate Review of “Painted Alice”
Tortured artists are an insufferable bunch. As partners they tend to drag you down with them. As characters, though, they can be lots of fun to watch—when you’re not on the receiving end of the drama. Case in point: “Painted Alice: The Musical,” running through November 9 at the Plaxall Gallery in Astoria. I’ve seen […]
Why?
The product of over six decades of fruitful collaboration, Why? by legendary English director Peter Brook and French playwright Marie-Hélène Estienne is many things: a fanciful reimagining of the birth of theatre from the spirit of boredom, a playful comparison of the methods of Stanislavsky and his lesser-known but equally influential contemporary Vsevolod Meyerhold, a […]
Sweet Sorrow: A Playdate Review of Romeo and Juliet
Who would have thought proposing Romeo and Juliet as a Tinder date would get a girl ghosted? I mean I get it. To someone looking for a casual hookup what could be a bigger red flag? Here’s a guy who wants to vanish in the morrow and here’s a play where two people who just […]
Playdate Reviews The Last Croissant
You can tell a lot about a person by their sense of humor, or lack thereof. When “Doug” messaged me on Tinder and I mentioned I was only in town for the Hollywood Fringe Festival, he must have smelled easy prey. Little did he know he would find himself scowling through The Last Croissant, a […]