Village Voice | Theatre

Genders Duke It Out Again in Fanny, Happy Now?, and Dog and Wolf

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600

Men always want, or think they want, something other than what they have. Women always want to keep what they have; they just want it to be new and different all the time. "With this the gist and sum of it," as Dorothy Parker once asked plaintively, "What earthly good can come of it?" And the ans...

Mark Stewart and Heidi Rodewald's Making It

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600

For a debut only a few days after Valentine's Day, Mark "Stew" Stewart and Heidi Rodewald, members of the band Negro Problem and the creators of the Obie- and Tony-winning musical Passing Strange, have crafted a song cycle sweeter, tarter, and more eloquent than any box of conversation hea...

On the Creepy Feminist Drama Trifles

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600

Susan Glaspell's 1916 play Trifles appears in anthologies as an example of American realism and feminist drama. But Brooke O'Harra, co-founder of the Theatre of the Two-Headed Calf, seems to have another genre in mind for her production: science-fiction. Based on a real-life murder that Gl...

Imagery and Humor Offset The Garage's Stark Commentary

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600

"Tonight, I'll be treating you to some new blood!" cries the MC at the underground wrestling club "The Garage"—heralding the arrival of Binat, the adolescent champion du jour. In the Zagreb Youth Theatre's muscular, enthralling production, wrestling serves as a motif for a post-communist so...

A Brief History of Co-Opted Images in The Jackie Look

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0600

Anyone who has ever rolled their eyes at—or felt pangs of revulsion from—the trinkets and commemorative items sold near Ground Zero will find they're on Karen Finley's side during her new show, The Jackie Look, in which she assumes the persona of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who...