Curtainup Founder & Editor Elyse Sommer's Epilogue -- I've passed the torch for reviewing and editing new theater productions on and off-Broadway and elsewhere. However, I'll continue to sound off here with my take on Live and Onscreen Entertainment. As for Curtainup's extensive content since 1996-- it's all sill available at www.curtainup.com

Friday, March 15, 2013

No folly -- to see this Talley's Folley



Talley's Folly
Talley's Folly - One can not only feel the play's forever lilting tempo in Michael Wilson's vibrant new direction, but also the feel of freshness that comes from a director who reveres it but not as an embalmed classic. . . Read More

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Great for movie buffs-- probably too long for the less movie obsssed


One of  the theater world's  most produced up and coming playwrights  has   tapped into her own  love of  movies  in  a  fascinating  but  exhaustingly    long  and  pause heavy new play set in  a  shabby  movie theateer. . .




The Flick
The Flick - Annie Baker, whose other plays have also been lauded for their informally structured, protracted naturalistic style, may be demanding a lot, especially from one segment of the audience, with her exceedingly long and ultimately remarkable new play in which movie games replace theater games . .