In the spirit of what my peeps over at GaySocialites.com call “shameless self-promotion,” I’m directing a play in the Fringe called GROUPIES, and I’d very much like all you “drama queens” to come see it!
Here’s the info:
GROUPIES
at The Studio @ Cherry Lane Theatre
At FringeNYC
Fri August 14 8:45 pm
Sat August 15 1:45 pm
Wed August 19 7:00 [...]
Entries from July 2009
July 29, 2009
News: I’m directing “Groupies” in FringeNYC
July 24, 2009
Review: Phantom of the Opera
I have to say right off the bat that I’ve never been a big fan of the music from Phantom. In my other life as a theater practitioner (hey, some critics know what they’re talking about), I’ve had more than a few green room goonies thrust the Original Cast Recording in my face saying “hey, [...]
July 19, 2009
Review: Old Queen
There couldn’t be a more perfect show for my first review at GaySocialites.com than Old Queen. In this moving, often hilarious performance art piece, Penny Arcade laments that today’s young queers (and queens) have more information at their fingertips than ever, but what they lack, she speculates, is context. Providing that larger picture, when she [...]
July 17, 2009
Review: Vanities
It’s a bad sign for a musical when you’re listening to the songs waiting on the edge of your seat for the dialogue to return. The engaging story of Vanities centers on the lives and friendship of three women who first become friends as Texas high school cheerleaders in the early 60s. Over time, stretching [...]
July 15, 2009
Review: Mamma Mia
New York theatre critics are such bitches! I used to ignore theatre reviews for any given show until I’d written my own, but with a high-profile show like Mamma Mia I inevitably got wind of what my colleagues are saying—and their negativity about Mamma Mia genuinely surprised me. From the concept alone, it’s clear that [...]
July 14, 2009
News: Hair Joins National Equality March
In an unprecedented move, the producers of HAIR: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical have announced they are canceling the show’s Sunday, October 11th performance so that the entire cast can join the National Equality March in Washington, D.C. The announcement was made this evening by the cast of HAIR at a spirited rally in Los [...]
July 11, 2009
Review: Thank You for Being a Friend
There’s a cute show somewhere in “Thank You for Being a Friend,” an unauthorized musical parody of “The Golden Girls.” That show would have the same cast and a trimmed version of the same script, but these crazy kids would have to bust their butts rehearsing to transform the uneven mess currently on the stage [...]
July 10, 2009
Review: The 39 Steps
Thank goodness the small and charming 39 Steps is now playing at the small and charming Helen Hayes Theatre. The first time I saw it at the American Airlines Theatre, I felt like I was just seeing it in the wrong theater. That’s decidedly the case with this very physical British comic import. Based on [...]
