Email Author Alexis Soloski

2013 Stories by Alexis Soloski

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  Theater Summer Guide: In Mr. Burns, A Post-apocalyptic World Is Held Together Only by The Simpsons

  published May 22, 2013

  A few years ago, a playwright, a director, and seven actors sheltered together in a disused bank vault far below Wall Street. Huddled behind a... More >>

• Songs of Disco and Dictators

  published May 22, 2013

  When David Byrne dances he seems both absorbed in the movement of his body and detached from it, torso and legs vibrating rhythmically, face... More >>

• The Golden Dragon: Umami Dearest

  published May 15, 2013

  Did you order a side of magical realism with your moo goo gai pan? Is that a dash of absurdism in your tom yum? In Roland Schimmelpfennig’s... More >>

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  The Theatrical Universe Crowds Webster Hall for the 58th Annual Obie Awards

  published May 15, 2013

  Is Off-Broadway a galaxy far, far away? Stars effervesced Monday night, when theatrical luminaries and icons of TV and film thronged the East... More >>

• The Notebook of Trigorin

  published May 15, 2013

  The last year has seen numerous adaptations of Anton Chekhov by the likes of Annie Baker, Tina Satter, Kristen Kosmas, and Big Dance Theater. But... More >>

• Nikolai and the Others: Russian Hour

  published May 8, 2013

  What if composer Nikolai "Nicky" Nabokov, choreographer George Balanchine, composer Igor Stravinsky, designer Sergey Sudeikin, and a host of... More >>

• Core Values Takes a Busman's Holiday

  published May 8, 2013

  In the office lexicon, are there words more demoralizing than "corporate retreat"? Not for employees of Skyline Travel, the decaying agency at... More >>

• Bunty Berman Presents ...: Lights, Camera, Lassi

  published May 8, 2013

  The sunshine. The palm trees. The dashing leading men. The lissome starlets. The spangles. The elephants? As you may have guessed, Ayub Khan... More >>

• Pippin: Ring Tone

  published April 24, 2013

  A recent college grad finds himself back home, careerless and directionless. His rich father, interfering stepmother, and doting grandmother... More >>

• Collapse: Bridge and Trouble

  published April 17, 2013

  The Women’s Project tends to favor domestic comedies that play like tragedies. Or maybe it’s the other way around. Recent shows... More >>

• Orphans: Oh, Brothers

  published April 17, 2013

  Any Broadway show has much to live up to: burgeoning production costs; audience hopes inflated by high ticket prices; competition from film,... More >>

• Mayday Mayday: Lucky Break?

  published April 17, 2013

  If you were to wander backstage, into green rooms and dressing rooms and the dark spaces of the wings, you might hear performers whispering a... More >>

• The Dance of Death: Domestic Violence

  published April 17, 2013

  Edgar and Alice are soon to celebrate their silver wedding anniversary. What would constitute an appropriate gift? Arsenic? Cyanide? A neatly... More >>

• Living Dead in Denmark

  published April 17, 2013

  Hamlet might have had an easier time deciding whether or not to take revenge had he had legions of undead at his command. That’s the case in... More >>

• Bullet Catch

  published April 17, 2013

  Magicians have been performing the bullet catch, a seemingly dangerous illusion wherein a magician appears to trap a bullet in his hand or mouth... More >>

• Mass

  published April 17, 2013

  Robert Honeywell’s new musical at The Brick just might give you a sympathetic earache. This new tuner, performed exclusively by women and... More >>

• The Dance of Death

  published April 17, 2013

  Obviously everyone who wishes to be married should be allowed to do so, but is marriage such a desirable institution? Few portraits of it are more... More >>

• The Last Will

  published April 17, 2013

  How might you feel if upon reading your husband’s final testament, you learned he’d left you his second best bed? Playwright Robert... More >>

• Who's Your Daddy?

  published April 17, 2013

  A few years ago, Johnny O’Callaghan, an unemployed queer actor, decided he had to adopt a Ugandan orphan named Odin. Then he created a... More >>

• The Memory Show

  published April 17, 2013

  You may not think Alzheimer’s is something to sing about. But the Transport Group politely disagrees. This new musical by Sara Cooper and... More >>

• Collapse

  published April 17, 2013

  You can’t fault Allison Moore for originality. Few playwrights would consider a deadly bridge collapse and post-traumatic stress disorder as... More >>

• Goldor $ Mythyka: A Hero Is Born: Let It Role

  published April 10, 2013

  In 2007, a young Ohio couple with a penchant for role-playing games robbed nearly $8 million from an armored car company and were promptly... More >>

• COMEBACK KID

  published April 10, 2013

  Perhaps you felt a bit faint during Tristan Sturrock’s swooningly romantic turn as the male lead in Kneehigh Theatre’s Brief... More >>

• Education Supplement: Class Action Listings

  published April 3, 2013

  Art Want to learn to draw, but hours spent outlining Old Masters, landscapes, and flower vases don't inspire you? Well, Dr.... More >>

• Buyer & Cellar

  published April 3, 2013

  Following a long-running TV show and some successful stage stints, actor Michael Urie no longer needs to suffer demeaning day jobs. But perhaps he... More >>