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Backstage LA Review: ‘Cyrano’
Published: April 30, 2012 By Travis Michael Holder / for Backstage The most altered concept in “Cyrano,” Stephen Sachs’ new play “inspired by” Edmond Rostand’s familiar classic, is that Troy Kotsur plays the title role without help from Max Factor. Playing a character so well-known that he no longer needs a last name, Kotsur’s nose [...]
Jason Rhyne’s “If You Were Gay” – The Michael Douglas Edition
The Eugene O’Neill Center recently awarded Michael Douglas their 12th Annual Monte Cristo Award for his contributions to the theater. At the gala event at the Edison Ballroom in New York, performers Colman Domingo and John Tartaglia performed a parody of “If You Were Gay” from the musical AVENUE Q – by lyricist Jason Rhyne. [...]
‘Freud’s Last Session’: A dying man of science and a young Christian
Published: March 27, 2012 by Chris Jones for the Chicago Tribune “Freud’s Last Session,” the hit off-Broadway play now in commercial residence at the Mercury Theatre, replete with the original New York cast, imagines that a dying and exiled Sigmund Freud invites a young man to his study in London, on the very eve of [...]
Review: Freud’s Last Session (Mercury Theater)
Published: March 27, 2012 By Clint May / for Chicago Theater Beat Any debate between a believer and a non-believer (about anything, anywhere, at anytime) is probably going to remain frustratingly agnostic. There’s an evolutionary (already I have to use an incendiary term) reason for this called the ‘argumentative theory of reasoning’ and it does [...]
On Now: La Última Sesión de Freud
The Argentina Independent Posted on 16 February 2012 On the eve of Britain’s entry into World War II, Sigmund Freud, a Jew exiled to London from Vienna, is plagued with oral cancer, fast approaching death, and remains as avowedly unconvinced as ever, by the illusion of God. Enter C.S. Lewis, an established middle-aged novelist and [...]
