Noh Joke: A Review of “One Green Bottle”
The first minute of Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre’s One Green Bottle, running at La MaMa through 8 March, is already well worth the ticket price. Where… Read More »Noh Joke: A Review of “One Green Bottle”
Sebastian Middlesex
Pinter à l’américaine: A review of “The Dumb Waiter”
Precision is a quality we expect of detectives and surgeons, not playwrights. Yet it’s precisely what makes Pinter’s plays so unnerving. The pregnant pauses like… Read More »Pinter à l’américaine: A review of “The Dumb Waiter”
An Ear to the Celestial Vault in “The Listening Room”
One of the pleasures of attending fringe theatre is discovering unexpected troves of art tucked away in underground spaces. A prime example is The New Ohio Theatre, which, to judge by the imposing vault door, once concealed wealth of a more mundane character.
Theatrical Investigations: A Review of ‘Ludwig and Bertie’
‘Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.’ A famously pregnant quote that, like much of Wittgenstein, defies easy interpretation, idiomatic translation. Though perhaps… Read More »Theatrical Investigations: A Review of ‘Ludwig and Bertie’
Behind the Looking Glass: A Review of ‘A Strange Loop’
…but the musical numbers are so expansive, inventive, subversive, so side-splittingly funny that one quickly catches one’s breath. This is, after all, a musical, and… Read More »Behind the Looking Glass: A Review of ‘A Strange Loop’
A Modest Proposal, or Why I Did Not Attend the Hollywood Fringe Festival
The first thing that struck me on my virgin tour of Los Angeles last October was the homeless problem. On a cab ride from LAX… Read More »A Modest Proposal, or Why I Did Not Attend the Hollywood Fringe Festival