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Edgy

Posted on July 18, 2014, 9:57 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Close Up, Theater Reviews and Commentary.

The shows discussed here, brave and iconoclastic about sex, or mixing opera and cabaret, or presenting the opposition of plutocracy and philanthropy with theater piece tools, remind us how vital it is that the theater keep on giving us things we haven’t seen before, might not be comfortable watching, things that stun us and surprise us. I would go so far as to say that if theater ever stops giving us edgy work, it will cease to be theater. Here’s to edgy.

Tags: 120 Days of Sodom, 42nd Street, A Chorus Line, A Day in the Life, Alfred Kinsey, anal sex, anilingus, Arthur Schnitzler, Austin, Austin Cauldwell, auteur, Ayhn Rand, Bertolt Brecht, Bob Dylan, bread and circuses, chateaux, Claire Tow Theater, clog dancing, Comet of 1811, Comet of 1812, Dave Malloy, David Abeles, David Anzuelo, de Sade, Deep Throat, desensitization, deus ex machina, edgy, Ella Dershowitz, ephebophilia, erections, frottage, Gerard Damiano, hang-ups, Harry Reems, Home depot, incest, inhibitions, Internet, Intimacy, Joey Hood, Judy Garland, Kazino, Keith Randolph Smith, La Ronde, Laura Campbell, Leo Tolstoy, libertinage, libertine, Lincoln Center, Linda Lovelace, Margaret Dumont, masturbation, Meatpacking Distric, Mickey Rooney, moraltiy, Natasha, New Group, Paul Soileau, Pauline Reage, Pierre, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, pornography, pudor, Rachel Maddow, Rude Mechs, Scott Elliott, sex fantasies, slutty, Spring Awakening, Stop Hitting Yourself, Story of O, tap dancing, The Surrender, theater piece, Theatre Row, Thomas Bradshaw, Thomas Graves, Toni Bentley, War and Peace, Woody Allen
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Shepherdstown 2012 and the Rise of the Rolling Premiere

Posted on February 1, 2013, 11:19 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Close Up, Theater Reviews and Commentary.

Theater Reviews Page | Previous Theater Review | Next Theater Review Shepherdstown 2012 and the Rise of the Rolling Premiere Published in the Hopkins Review, Winter 2013, New Series 6.1 Take a healthy organism, deny it the environment in which it grows, and it may seek a new environment and new ways of propagating. Serious American theater […]

Tags: Adolf Eichmann, Aldous Huxley, All My Sons, Anne Marie Nest, Apple laptop, Argentina, Arthur Miller, artificial insemination, Atocha, Atocha bombing, Barcelona, Bess Wohl, Bob Clyman, Body Heat, Brave New World, Buenos Aires, Captors, Contemporary American Theater Festival, David Plotz, de Sade, Dr. Phil, Dunkin' Donuts, Ed Herendeen, Eichmann In My Hands, El Al, Emma Bovary, Evan M. Wiener, Facebook, femme fatale, Final Solution, Frost/Nixon, genocide, George Bernard Shaw, George Clooney, Gidion's Knot, Harry Stein, Hedda Gabler, Herman Wouk, Holocaust, homoseuality, Humana Festival of New American Plays, Iago, In A Forest Dark and Deep, Israel, Jacobean tragedy, Jason Manuel Olazabal, Joey Collins, Joey Parsons, Johanna Day, Johnna Adams, Joseph Tisa, Kathleen Turner, Lawrence Kasdan, Lillian Hellman, Louisville, Madrid, Malvern, Mary McCarthy, Milton Johns, Mossad, Much Ado About Nothing, Neil LaBute, New Haven, No Exit, noir, Ossian, People's Light & Theater, Peter Morgan, Peter Z. Malkin, Philadelphia, Philip Goodwin, Polonius, Portia, President Richard Nixon, Rebecca Harris, Richard III, Richard Nixon, Robin Walsh, rolling premiere, Rosalind, secrets, Shepherdstown, Sorrows of Young Werther, Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams, The Exceptionals, the Genius Factory, Third Reich, tryout houses, War and Remembrance
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