The Queens Players' version of The Imaginary Invalid is Molière updated with expressions such as "doesn't know his ass from his elbow," a pull-my-finger joke, and of course a swine flu reference.
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I Have Been to Hiroshima Mon Amour
Chiori Miyagawa's play should be required viewing for all anti–nuclear proliferation advocates. Not because it would fire them up—you must already be impassioned if you're aiming to stop the spread of nuclear weapons—but because the play makes brittle poetry of unimaginable horror.
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Danny and Sylvia: The Danny Kaye Musical
Whatever else you can say about it, YouTube is an archive of videos of long-dead actors, viewable on demand. So if you're unfamiliar with Danny Kaye, who died in 1987 and was a supreme comic talent, enjoy the banquet.
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'The Brothers Bloom' is a blooming wonderful little flick.
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"I'm sorry. Sweet just doesn't cut it," Jennifer Aniston's character, Sue Claussen, tells defeated suitor Mike Cranshaw, played by Steve Zahn. That sums up this so-so romantic comedy, which, while sweet, doesn't cut it in the romance and comedy departments.
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To kick off the Americas Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theaters comes Canadian playwright Morris Panych's 'The Dishwashers,' in a production from Massachusetts' Chester Theatre Company.
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Laura Schellhardt's play works best when it pursues a comic vein. Nina's attempts to teach Rill the art of seduction (practiced on her co-worker, the ever-busy Foxworth) are very funny.
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This 1996 adaptation of the Tom Hanks film comedy Big lasted only six months on Broadway. Yet a cult following has kept it alive, cementing the musical's reputation as a costly failure that deserved a better fate.
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If practice makes perfect, then Jan Duncan should be able to handle stagings of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic in her sleep, having helmed three previous productions over the decades.
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Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's Pulitzer-winning play of 1936 is still as delightfully cornball as it was in its Broadway debut—and certain to go on for decades if people don't lose their abilities to recognize love and happiness in all its guises.
