Email Author Alexis Soloski

2009 Stories by Alexis Soloski

• QUIET BATTLE

  published February 25, 2009

  Helen Benedict, a Columbia journalism professor, reports that while all soldiers in Iraq face hardships, "women have additional burdens: They are... More >>

• LOOKS COUNT

  published February 25, 2009

  In Neil LaBute’s play, a character concludes, beauty “has no real value with anything important or tangible in our lives.” I feel... More >>

• GUARANTEED LAUGHS

  published February 25, 2009

  Tartuffe, the hero of Moliere’s immortal farce is a con man par excellence. But director Jeff Cohen is not, or so he claims. He’s so... More >>

• AGE OF AQUARIUS

  published February 25, 2009

  “I got life, mother/I got laughs, sister/I got freedom, brother/I got good times, man,” declares this 1968 musical. Last summer’s... More >>

• HARD TIMES

  published February 25, 2009

  Bread lines and cloche hats haven’t yet returned to fashion, but it’s looking ever more like the 1930s out there. Bill Daugherty has... More >>

• WELCOME TO KAFKALAND

  published February 25, 2009

  “All that's plain as day is that we're brought here against our will, and we're continually tortured and starved,” says a character in... More >>

• BABY LOVE

  published February 25, 2009

  Kate Whoriskey has a 5-month-old at home, but she’s turning her directorial vision positively prenatal for the world premiere of Christina... More >>

• STAGE FOLLIES

  published February 25, 2009

  What good is it sitting alone in your room when you could come and listen to Jerome Kern's music and P.G. Wodehouse and Anne Caldwell's lyrics?... More >>

• Russian Dress-Up For Uncle Vanya and Leah's Train

  published February 18, 2009

  When Maxim Gorky witnessed a production of Uncle Vanya in 1898, he wrote to Chekhov: "[I] wept like a female, though I'm far from being... More >>

• Leslie Lee Goes Underground With The Book of Lambert

  published February 18, 2009

  The Bible contains some pretty oddball passages—the Revelations alone argue for the ancient existence of LSD. The Book of... More >>

• DARING TO DREAM

  published February 18, 2009

  When Martin Luther King Jr. offered his "I have a dream" speech, the FBI began to dream, too—about how they could discredit this man, who... More >>

• CRACKING UP

  published February 18, 2009

  If you’re old enough to have a quarter-life crisis, apparently you’re also old enough to write a musical about it. Writer-performers... More >>

• MAKING AN IMPRESSION

  published February 18, 2009

  As Michael Jacobs is best known as the creator of Charles in Charge and My Two Dads, it’s interesting that he’s turned his gaze to . . .... More >>

• FAMILY TIES

  published February 18, 2009

  Yasmina Reza’s play concerns two bourgeois couples deciding what to do about their sons. Christine Lahti, Annie Potts, Jimmy Smits, and Ken... More >>

• ROCK ON

  published February 18, 2009

  Music and Lyrics didn’t rock the box office and Everything’s Turning Into Beautiful, from a few seasons ago, wasn’t pretty. But... More >>

• SHAKESPEARE FOR TWEENS

  published February 18, 2009

  Children are never too young for a taste of Shakespeare. Or maybe they are. The New Victory Theater, New York’s premier kiddie venue, will... More >>

• OFF THE TRACK

  published February 18, 2009

  With rumored fare hikes and whispers of reduced service, the MTA isn’t making riders feel too jolly. But when a subway car stalls, the... More >>

• CURB YOUR TEEN

  published February 18, 2009

  Zooman is a juvenile delinquent of the first order, warped by nature and nurture. When he commits an atrocious act, a neighborhood Dad posts a... More >>

• COOL ROMANCE

  published February 18, 2009

  In the Bridge Project’s previous entry, The Cherry Orchard, the English played the nobles and the Americans the servants. Director Sam Mendes... More >>

• Flyovers Presents a Ho-Hum Ohio Honey Trap

  published February 11, 2009

  Debate still rages over whether narratives rely on three basic plots, seven, 20, or possibly as many as 36. Whatever that number, a film critic... More >>

• Odd Guy, Nice Pix in Disfarmer

  published February 11, 2009

  A tornado may have blown Dorothy to the glittering land of Oz, but in Dan Hurlin's biographical puppet play Disfarmer, a twister... More >>

• HOLD THE LINE

  published February 11, 2009

  Hello? Who is this? Oh, it’s you—that new production from the Foundry. You’re an adaptation of Avital Ronell’s philosophic... More >>

• STRINGS ATTACHED

  published February 11, 2009

  You can wear your fashionable three-corner chapeaus to this production by the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre, inspired by the Jewish... More >>

• WHAT'S COOKING?

  published February 11, 2009

  Can I get a Six Point ale, a plate of sliders, and a six-character play? That last item is actually on the menu—or, at least, in the... More >>

• WE WERE SOLDIERS

  published February 11, 2009

  The three senescent soldiers who form the company of Gerald Sibleyras’s comedy Heroes appear to have taken the message of David Bowie’s... More >>