Million Dollar Quartet: artistry and marketing

by | Jun 30, 2023 | Review

Director Bobby Garcia’s production of Million Dollar Quartet is so slick. His direction is tight, the design is fantastic, and the cast has talent pouring out of them. But I also felt like I was being marketed to and that significantly cut into my enjoyment. It might...

Julius Caesar: splendid

by | Jun 24, 2023 | Review

Director Cherissa Richards’s production of Julius Caesar for Bard on the Beach is riveting from start to finish. I have never experienced such a successful interpretation of this play. Part of the credit has to go to Stephen Drover’s driving adaptation, which cuts...

Rotterdam: I liked its inhabitants

by | Jun 23, 2023 | Review

This production of Rotterdam from the new queer company Under His Lyre features good work by emerging actors in a script that’s pretty bad. In Rotterdam, playwright John Brittain tells the story of Fiona and Alice. They’re a couple, and Alice is just about to...

As You Like It (most of the time)

by | Jun 19, 2023 | Review

It’s wonderful. There are holes in it. But it’s still wonderful. When I first saw director Daryl Cloran’s Beatles-inspired adaptation of As You Like It in its premiere at Bard on the Beach five years ago, I was smitten. Cloran has cut half of Shakespeare’s text and...

Beautiful (in some ways): The Carole King Musical

by | Jun 17, 2023 | Review

There are so many great songs in this show. And there’s so much talent on the Arts Club stage. But there’s so little story in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical that it often feels more like a concert than theatre. Douglas McGrath’s slim book follows the legendary...