http://justshowstogoyou.com/blog Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:14:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en photo: T. Charles Erickson Andrew Bovell's dour, downbeat play, which flashes back and forward on several connections within an Anglo-Aussie family over four generations and eighty years, isn't for passive theatregoers; its ambitious structure demands patience and concentration just to connect who is who (despite the characters' family tree in the ... http://justshowstogoyou.com/blog/2010/03/21/when-the-rain-stops-falling/ photo: Joan Marcus Even if you are a fan of both Michael Feinstein and Dame Edna, as I am, you may feel that watching them take turns on, fight over, and share a stage in their duo show All About Me is a case where two equals less than one. The ... http://justshowstogoyou.com/blog/2010/03/19/all-about-me/ photo: Larry Cobra This latest show from The Amoralists (whose The Pied Pipers of The Lower East Side was a breakout hit last year) stays at or near fever pitch: it combines the in-your-face exhibitionism of reality TV with the energy of slapstick farce. A lesser playwright would set these blue-collar ... http://justshowstogoyou.com/blog/2010/03/18/happy-in-the-poorhouse/ The decidedly ridiculous pleasures of Valley of the Dolls, still one of the crown jewels of camp movie trash, made their hilarious way onto the stage for this one-night-only reading to benefit Actors Fund. The casting was inspired, which says something considering the revolving door of talents announced, canceled and ... http://justshowstogoyou.com/blog/2010/03/16/valley-of-the-dolls/ I caught up with the Jim Brochu's solo show Zero Hour and immediately wanted to talk to him about playing the legendary entertainer Zero Mostel. First, take me back to the day that your caricature went up at Sardi's. I was in Los Angeles when they put it up! The first time ... http://justshowstogoyou.com/blog/2010/03/14/quick-qa-jim-brochu/ Reviewed for Theatermania. http://justshowstogoyou.com/blog/2010/03/12/next-fall-2/ There's much to admire in this Broadway revival of the Anne Sullivan-Helen Keller story - above all else a riveting performance by Abigail Breslin - but, as you've likely already heard, the staging is a serious problem. (It pains me to say it, as I thought director Kate Whoriskey's staging ... http://justshowstogoyou.com/blog/2010/03/11/the-miracle-worker/ photo: Carol Rosegg Even by the vaunted standards of other Kander and Ebb musicals, The Scottsboro Boys is an especially potent mix of bitter social comment and rousing showbiz razzle-dazzle. The real-life story from the Deep South in the 30's - of the infamously unjust arrest and prolonged imprisonment of 9 ... http://justshowstogoyou.com/blog/2010/03/11/the-scottsboro-boys/ My Q&A with Melissa Errico is up at TDF Stages. http://justshowstogoyou.com/blog/2010/03/10/qa-melissa-errico/ I was delighted to chat with up-and-comer Sam Underwood about his performance as Marchbanks in Candida at Irish Rep. What makes a young actor from London decide to train in America? I was in an acting program in London but took a leave to come over in a play by Willy Russell ... http://justshowstogoyou.com/blog/2010/03/10/quick-qa-sam-underwood/