I love doing those mood board features because it's everything that interests me in how art comes out: what went into it. After George Kay for Lupin, here's J Blakeson for I Care a Lot. So. Much. Fun. I could have talked to him for hours!
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Frank Grillo has long been a mover in the world of B action so it was fun to write about his latest, Boss Level. I just wish I had liked it more. Thataway for the review.
P.S. I'm pleased with that kicker.
I loved Derek DelGaudio's show In & Of Itself and talking to him about his new memoir was just as bracing and intellectually exciting as I hoped it would be. Thataway for the Q&A.
I got on Twitch to watch the latest show from the M-34 company, a multichannel staging of Kafka's missive to his dad. Click here for the review.
Forget what you thought you knew about theater: in 2021, all bets are off. For more on what's on offer, check out my latest streaming column in the Times.
Lots of potential in Anna Moench's play Sin Eaters, which I checked out for the Times, but it doesn't quite come to fruition. Click here for the review.
My latest column about streaming theater leads with two big anniversaries: 35 years for The Colored Museum and 25 for Rent. Check it out here.
Scott R. Sheppard wrote a play for Theater in Quarantine. Not only is it good, but the technical aspects of the staging blew me away. Read more here.
Strike another one from the dream list of interviews: I chatted with Barbara Sukowa for the New York Times. Profile is here.
I reviewed the Hulu version of Derek DelGaudio's In & Of Itself for the Times. Loved it! The link is here.
I talked to George Kay about what he influenced him when he was working on the Netflix hit Lupin — he is the creator and showrunner. Click here for what I think is quite a fun piece.
The fourth and final season of Call My Agent! is dropping on Netflix today. A good opportunity to look at what made this series so good. Without spoiling anything, I'll say that it ends on a low that's also a high. Click here to read more.
At this point streaming theater has become its own art form, and it shows no sign of slowing down. Here's my latest column, with a new batch of shows.
Prepare to step into a rabbit hole of content when you read my story about Averno, the setting for several musicals — and so much more. Click here for the entryway.
Most American viewers haven't heard of the title character of the new series Lupin — which didn't stop them from sending the show to the Netflix top 10 last week. I wrote about Lupin the man, Lupin the myth and Lupin the series with showrunner George Kay, director Louis Leterrier and star Omar Sy. Thataway!
Louis Armstrong, Moms Mabley, Dorothy Dandridge, Benny Goodman, Agnes de Mille and many others walk into a theater: what could possibly go wrong? I wrote about the 1939 Broadway flop Swingin' the Dream for the Times. Click here and be amazed by the swing-tacular that failed.
It takes more than a pandemic to stop experimental theater and to my great joy the avant-festivals of January are happening this year. Thataway for my preview.
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