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“Longing for Grace” at the East to Edinburgh Festival at 59E59 Theaters (Closed July 28, 2013)

July 22, 2013 | Off-Broadway > | Tags:

“Longing for Grace” is a short play examining the misfortunes of Grace Kelly during her life as the fairytale princess of Monaco and after marrying Prince Rainier III whom she had met while attending the Cannes Film Festival. There are no surprises in the script of the all too familiar story which hailed major publicity about Grace Kelly’s private life…

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“The Year I Was Gifted” at the East to Edinburgh Festival at 59E59 Theaters (Closed July 20, 2013)

July 18, 2013 | Off-Broadway > | Tags:

Monica Bauer’s one-woman show “The Year I Was Gifted” deals with the heartfelt and endearing themes of loyalty, integrity, survival, and perseverance. It also highlights what occurs when the antitheses of these themes prevail in any segment of the human community and, particularly, in LGBT community and its community of authentic supporters. In “The Year I Was Gifted,” the fifteen…

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“Bette Davis Ain’t For Sissies” at East of Edinburgh at 59E59 Theaters (Closed July 11, 2013)

“Her hair is Harlow gold, her lips sweet surprise / Her hands are never cold, she’s got Bette Davis eyes.” (Donna Weiss, Jackie DeShannon) Jessica Sherr has those Bette Davis eyes along with remarkable Davis lookalike hair and lips. This actor utilizes all of these assets to create a winning retrospective of Bette Davis’ personal life and career. The 1939…

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“Bull” at 59E59 Theaters

May 23, 2013 | Off-Broadway, persuasion > | Tags:

Lifeboat Ethics collides with and colludes with evolutionary theory’s “survival of the fittest” and places the audience adrift in a moral sea in Mike Bartlett’s “Bull” currently playing at 59E59 Theater B. On the surface, “Bull” seems to be about office downsizing drama. Tony’s (Adam James) team of two – Isabel (Eleanor Matsuura) and Thomas (Sam Troughton) – are a…

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“The Girl I Left Behind Me” at 59E59 Theaters

May 16, 2013 | LGBTQ+, mean girls, Off-Broadway > | Tags:

“After the ball is over/After the break of morn After the dancers’ leaving/After the stars are gone Many a heart is aching/If you could read them all Many the hopes that have vanished/After the ball.” “After the Ball,” Charles K. Harris (1892) A group of brave and talented women left hearts aching after their performances: aching men’s hearts; aching women’s…

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“Bullet Catch” at 59E59 Theaters

April 10, 2013 | Off-Broadway > | Tags:

“I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now from up and down and still somehow/ It’s cloud’s illusion I recall, I really don’t know clouds at all. I’ve looked at love from both sides now from give and take and still somehow/ It’s love’s illusion I recall I really don’t know love at all. I’ve looked at life from both…

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“Good with People” at 59E59 Theaters

April 4, 2013 | Off-Broadway > | Tags:

An overturned chair on an otherwise bare carpeted stage “speaks” volumes about the current status of the Seaview Hotel in Helensburgh Scotland. Upright that same chair and the audience is transported back in time to a flashback of epic proportions. Move the chair about the stage during the flashback and the scenes change disclosing a tryst between two persons, two…

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“Botallack O’Clock at 59E59 Theaters (Closed June 9, 2013)

March 30, 2013 | Off-Broadway > | Tags:

Surrealism collides with abstract expressionism in Eddie Elks “Botallack O’Clock” currently running at 59E59 Theater C as part of the “Brits Off-Broadway” Festival. Mr. Elks’ dramatic canvas reinvents and reimagines the brush strokes of Roger Hilton’s richly complex life and the result is performance art at its best. Eddie Elks’ palette includes paint pots full of real interviews with Hilton…

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“On the Head of a Pin” at 59E59 Theaters (Closed March 10, 2013)

February 26, 2013 | Off-Broadway, on the head of a pin > | Tags:

When people want to express the total pointlessness of something, they sometimes say that thing is as silly as “arguing over how many angels could dance on the head of a pin.” The familiar phrase is also a rather cynical description of what might be considered a tedious concern with irrelevant details. For Caliban (a civilian version of Taliban perhaps),…

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“All in the Timing” at Primary Stages at 59E59 Theaters (Closed April 14, 2013)

In his seventeenth-century poem “On Time,” John Milton envisions humankind’s triumph over “envious Time.” Milton writes, “When once our heav’nly-guided soul shall clime, / Then all this Earthy grosnes quit, / Attir’d with Stars, we shall for ever sit, / Triumphing over Death, and Chance, and thee O Time.” Time (and all its vicissitudes) is the subject of “All in…

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