Monthly Archives: January 2010
Review: Time Stands Still
Originally reviewed for GaySocialites.com. Manhattan Theatre Club does very well with plays by Donald Margulies. His Sight Unseen was the first play to be an unqualified success in their Broadway theatre in 2004 (called the Biltmore at the time, now … Continue reading
Review: Present Laughter
Originallyreviewed for GaySocialites.com. In aging matinee idol Garry Essendine, the central character in Present Laughter, playwright and gay sophisticate Noël Coward created one of the great comic monsters of the modern theater. All the greater because behind his arrogant, preening … Continue reading
Review: The Mikado
Originally reviewed for GaySocialites.com. I remember seeing a production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s 1885 operetta The Mikado when I was a kid and thinking it was one of the most hilarious things I had ever seen. So, when I saw … Continue reading
Filed under musical, Off-Broadway, review, theatre
Review: The Orphan’s Home Cycle, Part One
Originally reviewed for GaySocialites.com. The late Horton Foote is known for his detailed, closely observed plays about lives in small-town Texas. That might sound dry and dreary, but his plays are anything but; Foote focuses on genuinely humane individuals trying … Continue reading
Filed under Off-Broadway, play, review, theatre
