I'm going to see the new (not sure if it actually is or not) David Mamet play tonight. (By which I obviously really mean that one with Kevin Spacey and Jeff Goldblum in it.) Is it going to be shit? I'm quite hard to please when it comes to the theatre.
― Upt0eleven, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 12:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Definitely not a new play. I was tempted by this - I love Goldblum but not so sure about Spacey. It's a great play though.
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 12:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Thanks for that, I'm looking forward to it now.
It seems it is not at all new. 1988 according to wiki.
― Upt0eleven, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 12:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Spoke to a couple of people at the weekend who'd seen it, they were impressed.
I live just round the corner but haven't seen anything there since Spacey took over - this is the first one that's looked vaguely tempting.
― ledge, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 12:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Newsnight Review savaged it, but other than that I know very little about it. And Nick Broomfield was one of the people doing the reviewing and he hates everything.
Has anyone seen The Masque of The Red Death?
― Anna, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 12:52 (sixteen years ago) link
'the new David Mamet play' is on now in nyc
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 14:39 (sixteen years ago) link
The London play is Speed-the-Plow?? I saw it on Broadway w/ Ron Silver, Joe Mantegna, and Madonna. It was meh.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 14:43 (sixteen years ago) link
has anyone in nyc seen the new richard foreman, um, "theater-machine?" been curious to see something of his for awhile now..
― impudent harlot, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
theatre be too expensive for much of ilx i suspect.
― CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 15:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I saw that Mantegna/Silver/Madonna Speed-The-Plow too. Direction was top-notch. In retrospect, I wish I had also seen the replacement cast (Bob Balaban, David Rasche, Felicity Huffman).
― Eazy, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 17:40 (sixteen years ago) link
macbeth is opening tonight! at bam... should be exciting except the weather is gonna keep people away ;(
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 21:51 (sixteen years ago) link
I bet they'll make the Trek. :)
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 21:54 (sixteen years ago) link
=)
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 21:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Newsnight Review savaged it
OK, this is probably definitely worth seeing then.
― Ned Trifle II, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 22:14 (sixteen years ago) link
has anyone in nyc seen the new richard foreman, um, "theater-machine?" been curious to see something of his for awhile now.. Haven't seen this but I've seen his stuff in the past and it was really good.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 12 February 2008 22:50 (sixteen years ago) link
The play was really good, although very short. Hard to get over the 'that's Jeff Goldblum and Kevin Spacey' aspect of it though. Seemed to me to be more about sex and power contextualised by the movie business that an actual critique of Hollywood itself, but what the hell do i know?
My ticket for last night was only twelve quid so if ILXors go to gigs they can afford to go to plays.
― Upt0eleven, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 10:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Patrick Stewart notes possibility of unnamed production that will reunite him with McKellen on stage within next 18 months.
― gabbneb, Friday, 22 February 2008 17:36 (sixteen years ago) link
xcited to see macbeth
― Surmounter, Friday, 22 February 2008 18:35 (sixteen years ago) link
hear it's good. i wish he would shave that awful mustache off though!
things i will be seeing in next few months: ghosts @ the pearl sunday in the park with george @ studio 54 parlour song @ the atlantic gypsy (preview for the revival w/ patti lupone! lols! awesome!) some other stuff i'm forgetting.
― tehresa, Friday, 22 February 2008 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link
What do you think - True West, American Buffalo, or The Zoo Story?
― Eazy, Friday, 22 February 2008 18:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Did anyone see Metamorphosis at the Lyric?
― czn, Friday, 22 February 2008 19:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Did not.
Saw Doctor Atomic at the Lyric last month, or at least the last two hours of it -- took someone's 10th row seat at intermission instead of shelling out $160 for a ticket.
Fantastic show.
― Eazy, Friday, 22 February 2008 20:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Rock 'n' Roll is really great
― gabbneb, Sunday, 24 February 2008 07:46 (sixteen years ago) link
o damn I saw Starlite Express when I was like eleven. pretty silly.
― will, Sunday, 24 February 2008 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Starlight
Dennis Letts (father of Tracy Letts and 'til now appearing in August: Osage County) has died of cancer, alas.
― Eazy, Sunday, 24 February 2008 16:20 (sixteen years ago) link
parlour song was pretty good. a little heavy-handed at times, but chris bauer was excellent. emily mortimer, a little blah.
gypsy was... uh... i don't even know how to describe it. traumatizing?
― tehresa, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 18:37 (sixteen years ago) link
wot, you don't like psycho-mama musicals?
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 18:38 (sixteen years ago) link
except for the fact that surprise! bill raymond aka 'the greek' from the wire was in it (though a v. small part). funny, seeing two wire actors on stage w/in days of each other!
― tehresa, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 18:40 (sixteen years ago) link
morbs i spent the whole time wishing i was watching bernadette do it. really the production was just very ehhh and not what you would expect for a 'broadway' production (it's a city center transfer). also, arthur laurents must be getting pretty senile...
― tehresa, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 18:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I've never seen it, i just know a few of the songs... I would wish I'd seen Merman or Lansbury.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 18:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Rock 'n' Roll only has a few days left, and it ain't cheap, and attention is required, but you guys won't regret it.
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 18:47 (sixteen years ago) link
i wanted to see it, but no time before it closes :(
― tehresa, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 18:53 (sixteen years ago) link
dunno if jaymc is still reading this thread but if he's interested in checking out goat island's final work it opens in chicago on the 27th of March.
http://www.goatislandperformance.org/current.htm
sadly i'll miss it in glasgow because i'm away that weekend.
― jed_, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 19:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Cool, thanks for the tip, jed.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 4 March 2008 19:30 (sixteen years ago) link
ATC curtain-raises South Pacific
― gabbneb, Thursday, 3 April 2008 21:30 (sixteen years ago) link
i'd like to go to the theatre in the next couple of weeks, and i want to see something hard-going and bleak, for about a tenner (don't care if i get a shitty seat). in london. any suggestions? -- emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 18 February 2006 12:32
West Ham v Everton? -- Alba (Alba), Saturday, 18 February 2006 12:41
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Bravo!!
― the pinefox, Thursday, 3 April 2008 23:47 (sixteen years ago) link
LAT Review
― gabbneb, Thursday, 3 April 2008 23:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I really dislike musicals on the whole, but my aunt wants to take me to that and I'm tempted to see it because it has so many great songs.
Haha, going to a musical about sailors with my aunt. So gay.
― Hurting 2, Friday, 4 April 2008 00:02 (sixteen years ago) link
i wish i had been at south pacific tonight instead of mamma mia (with visiting in-law who sprung for the tickets).
― tipsy mothra, Friday, 4 April 2008 04:30 (sixteen years ago) link
sting for nolte!!
― czn, Friday, 4 April 2008 06:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Brantley swoons
― gabbneb, Friday, 4 April 2008 23:58 (sixteen years ago) link
wtf w/ gypsy getting all those raves????
― tehresa, Saturday, 5 April 2008 00:06 (sixteen years ago) link
also i saw sunday in the park last weekend... the george was good, probably like him better than mandy, but i just feel like the play itself is problematic... the pretty music and awesome design were not enough to compensate for the fact that the show takes soooo long to go anywhere.
― tehresa, Saturday, 5 April 2008 00:07 (sixteen years ago) link
New Yorker WaPo Seattle P-I
― gabbneb, Monday, 7 April 2008 18:03 (sixteen years ago) link
i saw crooked at the women's project tonight. it was goooood!
― tehresa, Friday, 18 April 2008 05:24 (sixteen years ago) link
saw one of the greatest shows of my life last night at the tramway in glasgow - Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's "Myth". he's one of the main people in the company Ballet C de la B. 20 performers acted out an incredibly intense dance piece based around manga and character based multi level computer games. it really was a stunning and profound experience.
http://www.resmusica.com/images/paris_myth_cherkaoui.jpg
http://files.fluctuat.net/images/m/y/myth-600.jpg
i'm going to see Ann Liv Young's sexually explicit take on "Snow White" tonight. pray i get out in one piece.
http://www.cassero.it/files/gb07/ann_liv_young.jpg
incredible interview with her here:
http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/dance/2108/pure-as-the-driven-snow
In her streamlined new show, Snow White, Young dances, has sex with a dildo, screams her head off and sings along to music by Styx, Beyoncé, Mary J. Blige and Pat Benatar. ... In Paris, Emily hit me in the face with a sword, really hard, by accident. I played with that; I said something like, “You just hit me in the face. You fucking bitch.” It hurt, but it was also no big deal and she was just mortified and some of the people in the audience really felt for her. In Amsterdam, the dildo fell off during the middle of the show and it’s a vital part of the show—it has to be on her—so I said, “Michael get your ass over there and tape it!” The audience lost it. It’s funny to see what people think is funny. They like it when people are humiliated.
― jed_, Friday, 18 April 2008 16:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh how I hope that show goes on tour.
― Eazy, Friday, 18 April 2008 16:47 (sixteen years ago) link
the Ann Liv Young show? where are you, Eazy?
― jed_, Friday, 18 April 2008 16:49 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm in Chicago.
New thread idea: 'We don't really care about a nude woman playing Snow White, dancing, having sex with a dildo, screaming her head off and singing along to music by Styx, Beyoncé, Mary J. Blige and Pat Benatar, do we?'
― Eazy, Friday, 18 April 2008 16:53 (sixteen years ago) link