This week, I will be covering two shows in The Brick Theater’s Game Play Festival.  Not much to Pre-Game, but I did want to get a few things down before posting reviews later this week. This is the fifth year of the Festival, which highlights works that live at the crossroads of video gaming and performing arts,  and I am embarrassed to say this is the first … Continue reading GAME PLAY FESTIVAL PRE-GAME (Bonus Round)

Tomorrow I will be posting my review for Theater in Asylum’s production of #Coriolanus, a 21st Century, social media inspired adaptation of Shakespeare’s play, The Tragedy of Coriolanus.  But I must first air some grievances:  before deciding to see this I knew nothing about either Theater in Asylum’s work OR Shakespeare’s play.  Though I have caught up with the company as much as possible on … Continue reading #CORIOLANUS PRE-GAME: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S CORIOLANUS

This week I will be reviewing Mac Rogers’ play Frankenstein Upstairs.  Before the review posts tomorrow, I am putting up a series of “Pre-Game” posts, where I talk a little about the  Mac Rogers plays I’ve covered before and how perspective figures into each of them.  You can read the first part, about Rogers’ play Universal Robots, here. Throughout 2012, Gideon Productions presented the full cycle of … Continue reading FRANKENSTEIN UPSTAIRS PRE-GAME: THE HONEYCOMB TRILOGY

This week I will be reviewing Mac Rogers’ play Frankenstein Upstairs, which according to the press materials transplants the Frankenstein story into a contemporary Brooklyn apartment building.  As the title suggests, the main characters are Dr. Frankenstein’s downstairs neighbors.  This crafty slant doesn’t come as much of a surprise to me; I’ve been covering Rogers’ work for a couple of years now and have found … Continue reading FRANKENSTEIN UPSTAIRS PRE-GAME: UNIVERSAL ROBOTS