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Little Girls

Little Girls

BY CHRISTOPHER BYRNE | A significant measure of Roald Dahl’s genius was his ability to understand the darkness inherent in childhood from a child’s perspective. His 15 novels are beloved by young readers for what they perceive as his honesty — expressed in abstract comedy and absurd situations — about what they experience in the world. [...]

April 24, 20131 CommentRead More

Final Cut

Final Cut

BY DAVID KENNERLEY | Clifford Odets, the pioneering playwright acclaimed in the 1930s and beyond for his gritty realism, is enjoying a mini-resurgence on Broadway. Earlier this season, Lincoln Center Theater staged a gut-wrenching revival of “Golden Boy,” about a conflicted, self-loathing young man forced to choose between art and fame. Now the Roundabout Theatre Company [...]

April 18, 2013No CommentRead More

Being Max Steele

Being Max Steele

BY BRIAN MCCORMICK | Max Steele is a writer, blogger, singer/ songwriter, bandleader, performance artist, ersatz go-go boy, and self-affirmed figure of the New Gay Underground — a kind of folksy new millennium would-be Warhol or Wojnarowicz with strong lesbian influences. The suburban West Coast queer punk escaped to New York via Sarah Lawrence College, and [...]

April 10, 2013No CommentRead More

Hanging On for Dear Life

Hanging On for Dear Life

BY CHRISTOPHER BYRNE | Even if you care about the minutiae of the tabloid newspaper business in New York a quarter of a century ago, it will probably still be difficult to rouse any excitement for Nora Ephron’s posthumously produced non-play at the Broadhurst. The reason to see it, as the audience clearly illustrated 10 minutes [...]

April 10, 20131 CommentRead More

Montevecchi the Magnificent

Montevecchi the Magnificent

BY DAVID NOH | “I’m 80 years old and loving every moment of it!” cried Liliane Montevecchi to me in her exquisite leopard skin-lined jewel box of a Sutton Place apartment. “You know, sometimes people say, ‘You cannot tell your age and you cannot have another birthday!’ So I always tell them, ‘If you don’t [...]

April 10, 20131 CommentRead More

Flat Footed

Flat Footed

BY DAVID KENNERLEY | “Sex shouldn’t be comfy,” chides a drag queen in “Kinky Boots” after inspecting a pair of dowdy boots with a sensible block heel that a clueless shoemaker crafted for her. “Comfy is what’s putting you out of business.” Pity that the creative team chose to ignore this warning, producing a formulaic, feel-good [...]

April 4, 2013No CommentRead More

Skimpy “Breakfast”

Skimpy “Breakfast”

BY DAVID KENNERLEY | Back in 1966, producer David Merrick famously pulled the plug on a Broadway musical version of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” after just four previews. Not even the stellar team of Mary Tyler Moore, Richard Chamberlain, Sally Kellerman, Edward Albee (book), and Bob Merrill (score) could make it gel. Evidently, Merrick did not wish [...]

March 29, 2013No CommentRead More

Fairytales and Movie Magic

Fairytales and Movie Magic

BY CHRISTOPHER BYRNE | The reverence that many gay men of a certain age have for Lesley Ann Warren’s eternal hold on the role of Cinderella led to collective gasping and pearl clutching upon the announcement that Rodgers and Hammerstein’s beloved musical would “updated” by Douglas Carter Beane. Many of the distraught no doubt still imagined [...]

March 26, 2013No CommentRead More

Stonewall Stories

Stonewall Stories

BY DAVID KENNERLEY | The Stonewall riots have been the stuff of legend since the aggrieved patrons –– gays, lesbians, transgender, and some in drag –– fought back against cops during a routine raid on a sweltering night in June of 1969. That act of defiance, where LGBT folk charged “out of the closets and [...]

March 13, 2013No CommentRead More

A Fine Romance

A Fine Romance

BY CHRISTOPHER BYRNE | The intimacy of the theater at CSC is a surprising and powerful setting for the outsized emotions of Stephen Sondheim’s “Passion,” now getting a glorious staging under the direction of John Doyle. Performed on a largely bare stage, Doyle’s focus is the interaction between the characters and the various forms that love [...]

March 13, 2013No CommentRead More

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