Embroidery Staff Exhibition deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum Lincoln, MA Detail of Austin, Texas by Daniel Kornrumpf. Image courtesy of the artist. An embroidery “painting,” beautifully executed, done with detailed and elegant technique, of a brash, cool and vivid image. There is something callow and shocking in the expression of the figure in Daniel Kornrumpf’s […]
Winter’s Bone
Film (2010) Directed by Debra Granik Based on the novel by Daniel Woodrell Adapted for the screen by Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini With Jennifer Lawrence (Ree Dolly), John Hawkes (Teardrop), Kevin Breznahan (Little Arthur), Dale Dickey (Merab), Lauren Sweetser (Gail), Tate Taylor (Mike Satterfield), Garret Dillahunt (Sheriff Baskin), Sheryl Lee (April), Shelley Waggener (Sonya) […]
Endgame
Play by Samuel Beckett Directed by Eric Hill With David Chandler (Clov), Mark Corkins (Hamm), Tanya Dougherty (Nell), Randy Harrison (Nagg) Berkshire Theatre Festival Stockbridge, MA from Mind-Boggling Mazes by Dave Phillips, Dover Publications, 1979. Endgame is a classic of modernist theatre, but it can be, at times, frustrating in its lack of coherent narrative […]
Timon of Athens
Play by William Shakespeare Directed by Bill Barclay With Allyn Burrows (Timon of Athens), Bobbie Steinbach (Flavius), Will Lyman (Apemantus), Daniel Berger-Jones (Alcibiades), and Steven Barkhimer, John Kuntz, Joel Kolodner and Michelle Dowd in multiple supporting roles Actors’ Shakespeare Project Midway Studios Boston, MA Timon of Athens is minor and unsubtle Shakespeare, less performed than […]
Johnny Baseball
Musical Theatre Music by Robert Reale Lyrics by Willie Reale Book by Richard Dresser Story by Richard Dresser and Willie Reale Directed by Diane Paulus With: Colin Donnell (Johnny O’Brien), Stephanie Umoh (Daisy Wyatt), Charl Brown (Barman, Porter, Tim Wyatt), and Burke Moses, Jeff Brooks, Robert McClure, Joe Cassidy, Alan H. Green , Carly Jibson, […]