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 many years to direct Euripides’ ancient Greek tragedy The Bacchae, a sexy, violent and haunting tale [...]
Entries from August 2009
August 24, 2009
Review: The Bacchae
August 22, 2009
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 to the back of Broadway’s Golden Theatre.
In case you don’t know, the musical follows recent college [...]
August 15, 2009
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 Big Gay Sketch Show and “Gay Pimp” fame—has stripped this version of Dirty Stuff down to just [...]
August 5, 2009
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 hot summertime fun.
Just fun, not anything deep, or anything particularly sophisticated. First conceived as a special [...]
