Email Author Alexis Soloski

2013 Stories by Alexis Soloski

• Reasons to Be Happy, in which Neil LaBute May Hate Inanimate Objects

  published June 19, 2013

  A box of ice cream sandwiches suffers a vicious assault in Neil LaBute's Reasons to Be Happy, produced by MCC. As does a vending... More >>

• Venice Unites Rap and Shakespeare, Shakily

  published June 19, 2013

  Composer-lyricist Matt Sax loves hip-hop. He also loves Shakespeare. These enthusiasms unite—not always smoothly—in Venice,... More >>

• Roadkill Places Its Audience in Perilous Proximity to its Violations

  published June 19, 2013

  Are you sitting comfortably? Then you are not attending Cora Bissett's Roadkill, a site-specific screed against human trafficking... More >>

• Lively Speech Buoys Somewhere Fun

  published June 12, 2013

  The playwright Jenny Schwartz savors words the way a more indolent person might gorge on bonbons—delighting in language's sound, shape,... More >>

• John Guare Looks to the East in 3 Kinds of Exile

  published June 12, 2013

  At 75, many a man might reasonably think of retirement. Instead, John Guare has embarked on a fresh career. In 3 Kinds of Exile, the... More >>

• Far From Heaven Stays Strictly Earthbound; Classic Stage Company Revives Caucasian Chalk Circle

  published June 5, 2013

  Don't bother bringing tissues to Far From Heaven, the chilly musical adaptation of Todd Haynes's 2002 film. Haynes updated a classic... More >>

• Murder Ballad and The Weir Go Beyond the Grave; John Turturro Plays House at BAM

  published May 29, 2013

  Theaters are haunted places. Specters are said to lurk in dressing rooms, phantoms in the fly space. Even the most unsuperstitious houses leave... More >>

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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 >>