Month: February 2005

It’s usually not a good thing when your landlord takes an interest in your love life. But in Annie Wilson’s case, a little meddling is just what she needs. Having recently lost what she thought was the love of her life, she’s uprooted herself to a new apartment across town. The landlord tells her 3A…

Game show hosts, goateed beatniks, and a chorus line of bathing beauties? Why, it could only be a McCarthy hearing! Time Track Productions takes an absurdist look at the red scare by envisioning the questioning of J. Robert Oppenheimer as a fifties-era variety show. It’s hard to take on the politics of fear, whether vintage…

Our love for Belgium doesn’t stop at frites and chocolate; the Flemish have as much a knack for the avant-garde as their Dutch neighbors. Take De Onderneming, the minimalist, director-free company that is the latest import in the Guthrie’s World Stage Series. This four-member troupe of street performers will reprise The Notebook and The Proof,…

By now you’ve probably heard all about the New York wunderkinds, Andrew Rasmussen and Rob Laqui, who are bringing Andrew Lippa’s award-winning jazz musical to town. But Joseph Moncure March remains obscure. He’s the man whose 1928 prose-poem spectacular inspired the musical, which recounts the booziest, bawdiest, sleaziest and most stylin’ bash in 1920s Manhattan.…

As the baby boomers age, we expect to see a lot more shows set in retirement communities. And why not? As a latter-day version of dorm life, with drugs (non-recreational), sex (nineteen women for every guy), and gossip (what else is there to do all day?), it makes for perfect theatrical fodder. In this play,…

This 27-year-old Harlem painter has hundreds of collectors on a waiting list for his work–artists don’t get any hotter than he is right now. At first glance, the six paintings by Wiley on view here are a crack-up. Handsome young black men in urban street wear assume classic poses of religious figures and events like…