Email Author Alexis Soloski

2013 Stories by Alexis Soloski

• Best of Thames

  published March 20, 2013

  During This House, James Graham's sly, acerbic survey of government tumult throughout 1970s Britain, one politico remarks that... More >>

• The (*) Inn: Do Not Disturb

  published March 13, 2013

  Target Margin, the experimental theater company led by artistic director David Herskovits, never takes the easier route when a twistier one... More >>

• Detroit ’67: Get Ready

  published March 13, 2013

  For a comedy-drama about an African-American brother and sister trying to run an after-hours joint out of their basement, Dominique... More >>

• The North Pool: Class Struggle

  published March 6, 2013

  To glimpse Donyale Werle’s set for Rajiv Joseph’s The North Pool at the Vineyard is to return to the futility, pettiness,... More >>

• AMERICAN PRINCESS

  published March 6, 2013

  Little Lord, a theater company with high-camp ethics and dollar-store morals, takes a cheekily sacrilegious approach to one of our country’s... More >>

• The Madrid: Mama Tried

  published February 27, 2013

  Fathers disappear. Telephone men fall in love with long distance, traveling salesmen never come home from the road. But our culture quails at... More >>

• The Wild Bride: Devil May Care

  published February 27, 2013

  Oh, the litany of wedding-day traditions—the bouquet, the garter, the rings, the borrowed, the blue. But here’s a custom not often... More >>

• The Revisionist: Pole Position

  published February 27, 2013

  "Am I a terrible person?” David (Jesse Eisenberg) asks his Polish cousin Maria (Vanessa Redgrave). “I think I might have some anger... More >>

• The Vandal

  published February 27, 2013

  While Holly Hunter was originally announced as the star of Hamish Linklater’s playwriting debut, her replacement, the wondrous Deirdre... More >>

• The Radiant

  published February 27, 2013

  Here’s one show that just might glow in the dark. The Red Fern Theater Company presents The Radiant, Shirley Lauro’s play about... More >>

• On the Head of a Pin

  published February 27, 2013

  Plenty of angels can dance on the head of a pin, but shamed reporter Lily Strauss won’t be encountering many of them when she sets out to... More >>

• Clive

  published February 27, 2013

  Have a Baal. Playwright Jonathan Marc Sherman resets Bertolt Brecht’s tale of a misunderstood poet to 1990s New York City. Ethan... More >>

• Years of Sky

  published February 27, 2013

  Seems like quite a lot was happening on a grassy knoll on November 22, 1963. Not the shots that killed Kennedy, of course, but a budding... More >>

• Detroit '67

  published February 27, 2013

  “Detroit could be some kinda Mecca,” says a character in Dominique Morrisseau’s play. “Colored folks moving this city... More >>

• Jackie

  published February 27, 2013

  Wear your best pillbox hat for the American premiere of Elfriede Jelinek’s bioplay about the former first lady Jackie Kennedy Onassis. The... More >>

• The Lying Lesson

  published February 27, 2013

  Does Carol Kane have Bette Davis eyes? Let’s hope so. In Craig Lucas’s latest play, a two-hander directed by the incisive Pam... More >>

• The Revisionist

  published February 27, 2013

  As an actor, Jesse Eisenberg has carved out a career playing young men who are smart, slightly smarmy, and crushingly naïve. As a playwright,... More >>

• Jonathan Cake and Maggie Siff Feud and Frolic in TFANA's Much Ado

  published February 20, 2013

  Flowers wilt. Chocolates molder. Card stock yellows. Shakespeare knew—in his comedies and tragedies both—how abruptly even the... More >>

• Really Really: School for Scandal

  published February 20, 2013

  Zosia Mamet, of Girls fame, stars in Paul Downs Colaizzo’s Really Really for MCC Theater. You might also expect to see the... More >>

• UNHOLY MATRIMONY

  published February 20, 2013

  Sure, plenty of women get cold feet on their wedding day. But our heroine could be forgiven for some severe frostbite: It seems that her father... More >>

• THE DEEP END

  published February 20, 2013

  Though Rajiv Joseph is still comparatively new on the playwriting scene, he’s made a splash with dramas involving relationships as... More >>

• House Hunters

  published February 6, 2013

  Since the latest financial crisis reared, some 4 million homes have been foreclosed upon. That's good news for Crystal (America Ferrera) . . .... More >>

• Automata for the People

  published February 6, 2013

  Autograph seekers: Ready your pens. New stars have been born. Or soldered, maybe. Meet Takeo and Mimoko, each a Robovie R3. With a couple of... More >>

• Baal Buster

  published February 6, 2013

  Ethan Hawke allures even in filthy leather pants and a ridiculous dye job. This is no mean feat. He stars in Clive as the titular... More >>

• Ramblin' Man

  published February 6, 2013

  When was the last time a tortilla chip led you to a discourse on ontology? As Robert (Noah Robbins), an antic teenager, loiters at a bus stop... More >>