Email Author Alexis Soloski

2012 Stories by Alexis Soloski

• The Bad and the Better

  published July 11, 2012

  Let’s get loud. The Amoralists, perhaps New York’s shoutiest theater company, reunites for a dark detective story about two troubled... More >>

• Dan Fishback's The Material World

  published July 11, 2012

  Is it sizzling in here or is it merely the annual arrival of Dixon Place’s Hot! Festival, a celebration of queer performance? It kicks off... More >>

• Serious Money

  published July 11, 2012

  Does PTP/NYC suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder in reverse? Every summer, it celebrates the solstice with a repertory schedule composed of... More >>

• Triassic Parq: The Musical

  published July 11, 2012

  Seems like every year we learn new facts about dinosaurs. Some were much smaller than we thought, others smarter than thought. And now, it seems,... More >>

• BACKSEAT DRAMA

  published July 11, 2012

  The Merry Wives of Windsor is William Shakespeare’s sole comedy set in England from start to finish. Director Hamilton Clancy is so... More >>

• Hamlet

  published July 4, 2012

  “I could be bounded in a nutshell,” says Hamlet, “and count myself a king of infinite space.” Happily, Hamlet will have... More >>

• Monster

  published July 4, 2012

  Dr. Frankenstein and his murderous creation occur in this supple and extremely creepy adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel by Neal Bell, a... More >>

• The Sensational Josephine Baker

  published July 4, 2012

  Writer/performer Cheryl Howard has her work cut out for her portraying the woman Ernest Hemingway called “the most sensational . . . anyone... More >>

• Good Year for Hunters Bears Its Oddness

  published June 27, 2012

  Good Year for Hunters, a collaboration between writer-directors Jess Barbagallo and Chris Giarmo, could never have played the old Ohio... More >>

• Final Curtain: The Last of Ed Wood

  published June 27, 2012

  No matter how poor the special effects at this fest, they can’t be worse than the auteur it honors, a director who believed a couple of pie... More >>

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  The Bad and the Better Will Likely Not Play Lincoln Center

  published June 20, 2012

  Let it not be said that director Daniel Aukin lacks range. Fresh from remounting 4000 Miles, Amy Herzog’s intimate, graceful... More >>

• Recall Has Kid Trouble

  published June 13, 2012

  Lucy, the teenage heroine of Eliza Clark’s Recall, produced by Colt Coeur at the Wild Project, seems unlikely to score well on her... More >>

• Space//Space Heads Into the Ether

  published June 13, 2012

  Space is infinite. And it's constantly expanding. The same cannot be said of the set for Banana Bag & Bodice’s Space//Space, a... More >>

• Cock: Fight Club

  published May 23, 2012

  British playwright Mike Bartlett likes a good fight: between husbands and wives, parents and children, teachers and students, Europe and the... More >>

• Summer Theater Guide: Alan Cumming Prepares a Lincoln Center Macbeth

  published May 23, 2012

  Twenty-seven years ago, Alan Cumming made his professional theater debut, appearing as Malcolm in a Glaswegian Macbeth. This summer,... More >>

• OBIES 2012: What Off-Broadway Needs Now

  published May 23, 2012

  It would seem churlish to say that Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway lack for anything. We have more than 200 brick-and-mortar theaters (to say... More >>

• When Clowns Play Hamlet

  published May 23, 2012

  Hamlet complains that he has of late, but wherefore he knows not, lost all his mirth. So why not send in the clowns. That’s what H.M.... More >>

• Jukebox Jackie

  published May 23, 2012

  The short-lived Warhol superstar Jackie Curtis has been dead nearly 30 years, but downtown stalwarts such as Justin Vivian Bond and Bridget... More >>

• SIMPLER TIMES

  published May 23, 2012

  Gothic, pastoral, baroque, homespun, and ineluctably weird, the National Theater of the Unites States of America never opts for just one mode when... More >>

• Chimichangas and Zoloft

  published May 23, 2012

  Some women age with remarkable grace, and some, like Sonia, the heroine of Fernanda Coppel’s play, mark their 40th birthday by running away... More >>

• Murder in the First

  published May 23, 2012

  Prisons are rarely lauded for their kindness, clemency, and fine conditions and Alcatraz certainly wasn’t a model of the form. Dan... More >>

• Love Goes To Press

  published May 23, 2012

  Martha Gellhorn boasted an impressive résumé—war correspondent, novelist, wife to Ernest Hemingway. The Mint Theater reminds... More >>

• Harvey

  published May 16, 2012

  Recent fossil discoveries have posited that early, sizeable relatives of the rabbit may have weighed more than 30 pounds. And still these... More >>

• Potted Potter

  published May 16, 2012

  Seven book, eight movies, thousands of product tie-ins. Do you long for more Harry or do you wish the boy who lived had died long ago? If you... More >>

• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

  published May 9, 2012

  Diamond’s are a girl’s best friend, but a plum role for an up-and-coming actress? That’s chummy, too. Megan Hilty has scored... More >>