Review: A distilled ‘Kite Runner’ struggles to fly on Broadway
What the novel slowly reveals through Amir’s reflective point of view, the play just speaks, abandoning all finesse. Like most high school love affairs, Broadway’s “Kite Runner” may be best off forgotten.
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You’ll Want to Lose Yourself in this Magical ‘Into the Woods’
It’s almost impossible to offer a summary of Into the Woods that makes justice to the story, or rather, the nebula of stories that comprise it. “Anything can happen in the woods,” says Cinderella’s Prince to the Baker’s Wife. Indeed, the woods are where worlds collide, an in-between place where nothing is what it seems. […]
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‘The Bedwetter’ Shows What It’s Really Like for a Girl
I’ve never really understood Sarah Silverman, I don’t get her “quirkily” vulgar comedy, her baby-voiced delivery, or her music video about “fucking Matt Damon”. Maybe it’s a generational thing, who knows. Regardless, I was quite nervous walking into The Bedwetter, a new musical playing at the Atlantic’s Linda Gross Theatre, based on Silverman’s memoir The […]
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