Email Author Alexis Soloski

2011 Stories by Alexis Soloski

• American Sexy Likes You, Whoreface

  published February 2, 2011

  Unless you're craving considerable lewdness, take care to use precise terms when performing an Internet search for American Sexy, Trista... More >>

• Cymbeline and The Misanthrope

  published January 26, 2011

  Too often, revivals of classics don’t so much resurrect plays as render them undead—either moving them to a place and time where... More >>

• LICENSED TO ILL

  published January 26, 2011

  In 1967, Surgeon General William Stewart announced, “It’s time to close the book on infectious disease.” That book still remains... More >>

• Blood From a Stone Smashes Things Up at the New Group

  published January 19, 2011

  You shouldn't cry over spilled milk, but characters do in Blood From a Stone, Tommy Nohilly's violent family drama staged by Scott... More >>

• Pants on Fire's Metamorphoses Puts Ovid Through Some Changes

  published January 19, 2011

  Ovid receives an anachronistic fan letter from Pants on Fire's Metamorphoses, a recent hit at the Edinburgh Fringe now playing at the... More >>

• DARK OBSESSION

  published January 19, 2011

  Instead of the Diary of a Young Girl, playwright Rinne Groff offers a play that might be titled The Memoirs of a Middle-Aged Man. In... More >>

• Under the Radar Returns to NYC

  published January 12, 2011

  Are actors necessary? Certainly they seem so. Who else would serve our amuse-bouche, babysit our children, look sultry in head-shot ads, and... More >>

• Freedom Club Takes Aim

  published January 12, 2011

  Many reasons have been offered for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, but historians rarely cite Shakespeare. In Freedom Club, however,... More >>

• Class Action Listings

  published January 5, 2011

  Theater & Performing Arts Exactly how should one address Jo “Boobs” Weldon, headmistress of the New York School of... More >>

• Alan Rickman Is a Corrupt Banker (in John Gabriel Borkman)

  published January 5, 2011

  Alan Rickman has a voice that's bitter and rich and sinister, like a malevolent cup of coffee. "At drama school, it was the subject of a great... More >>

• Spring Into Action

  published January 5, 2011

  If you’re already over Under the Radar (though we still thrill to it), you might curl up to a competing festival, such as P.S.122’s... More >>

• The Group Theater

  published January 5, 2011

  Back in 1948, Cole Porter wrote “Another Op’nin', Another Show” for the musical Kiss Me, Kate, a song outlining the typical... More >>

• LOVE BITES

  published January 5, 2011

  “Don’t hate the player, hate the game” hasn’t occurred to Alceste, the hero of Molière’s troublingly relevant... More >>