Theater
This “Rocky Horror Show” for the Gen Z set contains (at least potentially) enough flash and zap to successfully put across a new take on a campy cult classic.
The “new” version of the Blue Man Group is all mayhem, all the time.
The late Robert Brustein’s shadow is long. But his legacy is problematic.
Even before the lights come up on the remarkable new production by Moonbox Productions, it is clear that this is a “Sweeney Todd” of a different order.
Assassinations may be so-last-generation, but gun violence, and what it reflects about American culture and human depravity, defines our own era as much as any.
In “Fat Ham,” Black pain and repressed desire are transformed into a celebration of liberation and empowerment — once the villain du jour, the patriarchy, has been dispatched.
Dramatist Donald Margulies seems to be putting his hand on the heart of the heartland — as well as taking the pulse of a pair of aging boomers.
“POTUS” supplies plenty of political amusement as it pits savvy, competent women against the blithering males running the American government.
Canada is far enough from New York and Broadway to ignore their siren drum beats.
Arts Commentary: More Cultural Coverage — But Less Culture?
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