Wednesday, January 2, 2008

We're #3 of the 10 best theater shows according to TIME Magazine

A little freaked out by it, that I'm part of this amazing company that's getting all kinds of recognition. WOW! I guess the blood, sweat and tears are really paying off. And to think I love everyone I work with...I'm completely blissed out!!!


The 10 Best Theater Shows
Thursday, Dec. 13, 2007 By RICHARD ZOGLIN
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1694450,00.html
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/113556.html

#1
August: Osage County
An ex-professor's suicide is the impetus for a ferocious family get-together in this horribly named but miraculous new play by Tracy Letts.

#2 | Journey's End
R.C. Sherriff's WW I play, beautifully revived on Broadway, is a harrowing portrait of men who face war's ordinariness and incomprehensibility.

#3 | Fuerzabruta
Another wordless, acrobatic, gloriously mindless performance spectacle from the De La Guarda folks.

#4 | The Overwhelming
An import from Britain, J.T. Rogers' Rwandan-massacre story is important without being dutiful.

#5 | Wooster Group's Hamlet
The tragedy re-enacted in front of a filmed version of the 1964 Richard Burton staging. Oddly watchable.

#6 | Pygmalion
Claire Danes' Broadway debut was spirited, charming and emotionally compelling. One sharp Shaw.

#7 | Grease
Even with reality-TV stars, a stylish, happy, underappreciated revival.

#8 | The Farnsworth Invention
Aaron Sorkin's account of the battle between two TV pioneers is, like his TV shows, slick, talky, entertaining.

#9 | Eurydice
The Orpheus myth retold with admirable freshness from the point of view of his bride, by Sarah Ruhl.

#10 | Intimate Exchanges
An all-but-unproducible play cycle by Alan Ayckbourn--one premise, 16 permutations--smashingly staged.

1 comment:

Trevor said...

YEE-HA! Number 3 is my favorite.