Email Author Alexis Soloski

2012 Stories by Alexis Soloski

• Pam MacKinnon, Sam Gold, and Oliver Butler: A Directors Roundtable

  published December 26, 2012

  How on earth can anyone act naturally when surrounded by three of New York’s best directors? Gather together Sam Gold, Oliver Butler, and... More >>

• Volpone: Your Ben Jonson Con Man

  published December 12, 2012

  Does flu season have you in its wheezy grip? Do you suffer headache, sinus pain, body aches as you drag yourself to the Lucille Lortel for Ben... More >>

• Seven in One Blow, or The Brave Little Kid

  published December 12, 2012

  Despite the Axis Company’s slate of typically grim, gruesome shows, their hearts are clearly in the right place--tucked safely into their... More >>

• Mummenschanz

  published December 12, 2012

  Does the prospect of a Swiss theater troupe fail to fill you with delight? Do mask and mime not lift your spirits? Then you and your offspring may... More >>

• LIVE CHAT

  published December 12, 2012

  If you think you might rather spend 
an evening surfing the Web than out 
at the theater, Quiara Alegria Hudes has 
a play... More >>

• The Other Place

  published December 12, 2012

  In Sharr White’s play, Juliana Smithton (Laurie Metcalf) is a research scientist fearing a diagnosis of the brain cancer that killed her... More >>

• A Civil War Christmas: Season's Theatrical Greetings

  published December 5, 2012

  Paula Vogel’s A Civil War Christmas, at New York Theatre Workshop, unfurls on December 24, 1864—a few months before... More >>

• Hearts Like Fists

  published December 5, 2012

  Adam Szymkowicz leads a mild-mannered existence offering hundreds of droll reviews of playwrights. But he has a not-so-secret identity as a... More >>

• The Flying Latke

  published December 5, 2012

  This may be the one recorded instance in which a theatrical production would actually benefit from more schmaltz. Certainly, the chicken fat will... More >>

• Tube

  published December 5, 2012

  Have you seen that cat playing the piano? How about the toddler coming off anesthetics? Did you know they were part of the theatrical avant-garde?... More >>

• Bread & Puppet Theater

  published December 5, 2012

  Pesto to the people! A communal holiday antidote to the consumerist season, Bread and Puppet pop into Theater for the New City with their annual... More >>

• P.S. Jones and the Frozen City

  published December 5, 2012

  Idle hands are the devil’s playthings, but since the success of the scurrilous puppet play Hand to God, Robert Askins has apparently... More >>

• Working

  published December 5, 2012

  Take this job and . . . sing it? In celebration of Studs Terkel’s centenary, Prospect Theater Company offers a musical adaptation of the... More >>

• Love Song

  published November 28, 2012

  As strange meet-cute tales go, falling in love with the woman who attempts to burgle your apartment likely features fairly high on that list. In... More >>

• The Good Mother

  published November 28, 2012

  Francine Volpe isn’t, to the best of our knowledge, nocturnal, but she certainly prefers the nightside of human emotions, tending toward the... More >>

• Reid Farrington's A Christmas Carol

  published November 28, 2012

  God bless us, each and every one. Even those appearing exclusively on video or via hologram. Reid Farrington, who delights in new technologies,... More >>

• Ingenious Nature

  published November 28, 2012

  Everything we ever needed to know about mating we learned from our hunter-gatherer ancestors. At least, that’s the claim of evolutionary... More >>

• Emotional Creature

  published November 28, 2012

  Having already given voice to the vagina, playwright Eve Ensler decides to return to the rest of the female body, focusing particularly on young... More >>

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  Holiday Guide: Arts Listings

  published November 21, 2012

  MUSIC Edited by Seth Colter Walls Dinosaur Jr. December 1 You might call any album other than... More >>

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  Holiday Guide: Nature Theater of Oklahoma's Theater of the Mundane

  published November 21, 2012

  Kelly Copper and Pavol Liska, the long-married founders of the Nature Theater of Oklahoma, are lounging in a booth at their favorite soba... More >>

• We Are Proud to Present...: From Cow Costumes to Genocide

  published November 14, 2012

  What’s in a name? Well, in the case of Jackie Sibblies Drury’s We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of... More >>

• The Good Mother: Mom's the Word in the New Group's Latest

  published November 14, 2012

  “I’m dirty,” moans Larissa (Gretchen Mol), the title character of Francine Volpe’s play The Good Mother.... More >>

• Radiance

  published November 14, 2012

  Hooray for Hollywood? This Cusi Cram play, the first in Labyrinth’s new season, takes place in a dive on the wrong side of the Sunset strip.... More >>

• Sorry Has Nothing to Be Sorry For

  published November 7, 2012

  To see Sorry on Election Day, the very day on which writer-director Richard Nelson has set his Apple family drama, is to sit among an... More >>

• THE RINGMASTER

  published November 7, 2012

  In his brief life, Anton Chekhov churned out a handful of theatrical masterworks, dozens of short stories, and thousands of letters. So it’s... More >>