CASEY AND DIANA: MAYBE YOU HAD TO BE THERE

CASEY AND DIANA: MAYBE YOU HAD TO BE THERE

A strange thing is happening to what is, to me, recent gay history: it’s being made holy. I’m thinking of director Joe Mantello’s TV version of playwright Mart Crowley’s 1968 script, The Boys in the Band, for instance. Mantello’s interpretation is an endless parade of...
DEAD DRONE: DEAD ON ARRIVAL

DEAD DRONE: DEAD ON ARRIVAL

Dead Drone is one of the worst shows I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen thousands of shows. It’s the writing. Even scripts this bad often start off with the best of intentions, of course. In Dead Drone, playwright David Mott takes on climate change, the toxicity of social...
DEAD DRONE: DEAD ON ARRIVAL

DEAD DRONE: DEAD ON ARRIVAL

Dead Drone is one of the worst shows I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen thousands of shows. It’s the writing. Even scripts this bad often start off with the best of intentions, of course. In Dead Drone, playwright David Mott takes on climate change, the toxicity of social...
BURNING MOM: DIDN’T LIGHT MY FIRE

BURNING MOM: DIDN’T LIGHT MY FIRE

It’s not terrible. That’s the best I can muster. Playwright and director Mieko Ouchi’s Burning Mom, which is based on her own mom’s experience, is about a 63-year-old Calgary woman named Dorothy, who heads off to Burning Man with her adult son Kevin and his pal...
HOME DELIVERIES: BRINGIN’ IT HOME (MOSTLY)

HOME DELIVERIES: BRINGIN’ IT HOME (MOSTLY)

Catherine Léger’s Home Deliveries is about sex as possession, which is how she frames monogamy. Based on the 1970s movie, Deux femmes en or, an erotic comedy, Home Deliveries follows Florence and Violet, heterosexually married women who live next to each other in an...