Monthly Archives: August 2009

Review: The Bacchae

Originally reviewed for GaySocialites.com. Avant garde director JoAnne Akalaitis, who has a long and ambivalent history with the Public Theatre (she was its Artistic Director for one controversial, embattled season after founder Joe Papp died), returns from an absence of … Continue reading

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Review: Avenue Q

Originally reviewed for GaySocialites.com. Six years on, and soon to close, Avenue Q is still an extraordinary pleasure. Even though in some ways it’s an intimate, puppet-scaled show, it has such raucous comedy and raunchy energy that it easily projects … Continue reading

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Review: Klea Blackhurst

Originally reviewed for GaySocialites.com. Singing like Ethel Merman comes very naturally to Klea Blackhurst. Ethel’s voice was one of very few singing voices she heard in her early childhood, so she thought all singers sounded like that. As a result, … Continue reading

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Review: Dirty Stuff

Originally reviewed for GaySocialites.com. Jonny McGovern’s high-energy one-man romp through pop culture and gay New York nightlife, Dirty Stuff is probably one of the best shows at this year’s FringeNYC, and maybe one of the best in the city. Jonny—of … Continue reading

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Review: Burn the Floor

Originally reviewed for GaySocialites.com. First things first: Burn the Floor features several, extended, lusciously gratuitous displays of male flesh. Tight, mostly European dancer flesh. That, and a couple of hours of always energetic—and occasionally stunning—dancing, makes it worth seeing as … Continue reading

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