Posts from — August 2010

How Jennifer von Mayrhauser’s costumes evoke the spirit of Edward Albee’s new play

In the Playwrights Horizons production of Edward Albee’s Me, Myself & I, twin brothers wear matching outfits. Their loopy mother, who can’t tell them apart after twenty-eight years, wears a blowsy nightgown, and the doctor who shares her bed wears a suit, even when he’s under the covers.

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Most of us have had an identity crisis, but it probably hasn’t resulted in an edgy musical about naughty gay sex. But that’s exactly the outcome in It Must Be Him, Kenny Solms’ new comedy about a once-beloved television writer who is desperately trying to recapture his professional mojo while he navigates his love life.

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Your guide to theatre in B.A., Buenos Aires, Big Apple

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In this installment of TDF Passport, we journey south to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Buenos Aires is a city rich with live performance, and because of the dollar-to-peso exchange rate, tickets are very affordable. Here are five things to keep in mind before you go.

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A new play uses history and fiction to argue about faith

Mark St. Germain could have created a fictional psychoanalyst and a fictional Oxford professor. He could have put those characters in a fictional British estate on the eve of World War II and had them debate life, death, and religion.

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Part III: Hearing political voices

If you want it to be, then The New York International Fringe Festival can be nothing but silliness, shirtlessness, and sass. Of the 197 productions appearing in this summer’s festival—which runs through August 29—dozens are agreeably frothy, offering tales of Texas beauty queens, camp counselors in love, and farm animals who become the darlings of the art world.

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