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Servile Disobedience

Servile Disobedience

BY DAVID KENNERLEY | If you crossed “The Devil Wears Prada” with “The Rachel Zoe Project” (an early episode with the nerdy, bow-tied Brad Goreski), you might spawn something like “I Wanna Destroy You,” the wicked romantic comedy now playing on Theatre Row. Written by Joshua Conkel (“MilkMilkLemonade”), the warped plot centers on Beau (Anthony Johnston), [...]

May 22, 2013No CommentRead More

GAYFEST NYC Returns

GAYFEST NYC Returns

BY DAVID KENNERLEY | In 2007, Bruce Robert Harris and Jack W. Batman hatched a plan to produce a theater festival dedicated to giving emerging gay playwrights a voice. A vital force in gay theater, the scrappy little festival emerged as a success on many levels. One of their productions was even nominated for a GLAAD [...]

May 22, 2013No CommentRead More

Beyond Those Wire Hangers

Beyond Those Wire Hangers

BY DAVID NOH | Appropriate for Mother’s Day, Christina Crawford blew into town with her show, “Surviving Mommie Dearest” at the Snapple Theater, and it was a must for anyone obsessed with her harrowing story, her formidable adoptive superstar mom, Joan Crawford, Hollywood in its so-called Golden Age, or that infamous camp cult favorite movie with [...]

May 22, 2013No CommentRead More

Trips and Falls

Trips and Falls

BY CHRISTOPHER BYRNE | Longing permeates the plays of Horton Foote. Whether his characters are pining for a parent, a connection, or, in the case of “The Trip to Bountiful,” a lost home, Foote’s ability to dramatize the inescapably human, existential unease we all feel is his unique gift. He sets his plays in and around [...]

May 22, 2013No CommentRead More

Papi Dearest

Papi Dearest

BY DAVID KENNERLEY | When you go see a play about Cuban hustlers, chances are you expect a certain amount of swarthy macho studs, furtive sex, and self-deception. In Eduardo Machado’s richly ambitious new work, “Mariquitas,” you get plenty of that and much more. And I’m not just talking about full-frontal nudity. Set in a gay-friendly [...]

May 8, 20131 CommentRead More

Mommie Issues

Mommie Issues

BY DAVID KENNERLEY | “Surviving Mommie Dearest,” starring none other than Christina Crawford herself — that’s right, the abused adopted daughter of Hollywood megastar Joan — is billed as “an empowering and inspirational new production,” limited to only five performances Off Broadway, that includes a film documentary about her healing the wounds of a tortured childhood. [...]

May 8, 20131 CommentRead More

Gut Wrenching

Gut Wrenching

BY CHRISTOPHER BYRNE | In “The Nance,” Douglas Carter Beane’s extraordinary new play set in 1937, during vaudeville’s waning days, creaky-joked, groan-inducing broad theatricality is the background for a heartbreaking tragedy about a man trapped in a sense of himself and his place in the world that puts the love he longs for out of his [...]

May 8, 2013No CommentRead More

Baranski’s Timing

Baranski’s Timing

BY DAVID NOH | I  have been enslaved by the comic talent of Christine Baranski ever since seeing her in John Guare’s brilliant classic “The House of Blue Leaves.” As the endearingly coarse, deliriously deluded Bunny Flingus, she had a moment when she fantasized about her loser composer lover, Artie, winning an Oscar, and she said, “And [...]

May 8, 2013No CommentRead More

Divine Dish

Divine Dish

BY DAVID KENNERLEY | When I first heard that Bette Midler was returning to Broadway, after a 30-year absence, to take on a new solo play portraying notorious Hollywood agent Sue Mengers, I was both thrilled and concerned. Would the Divine Miss M, with her distinct, outsized personality, be able to disappear into another character? After [...]

April 24, 2013No CommentRead More

Stuck in the Basement With You

Stuck in the Basement With You

BY CHRISTOPHER BYRNE | The first thing you need to know about “Buyer & Cellar” is that it’s a hilarious and heartfelt comedy, one of the most delightful evenings to be had on the New York stage right now. Jonathan Tollins’ new one-man show was inspired by a home design book written by Barbara Streisand. In [...]

April 24, 2013No CommentRead More

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