The Fringe Festival (July 30-Aug.9) released its complete schedule today, a 20-page program encompassing 160 shows at 22 different venues. No one knows anything about this year’s crop of shows yet, but here are the ones I’d pay $12 to see—and why:
Sarah, your Ovaries are Drying Up, Crankador Productions, (Musical/Comedy)
A musical comedy that promises “sarcastic reproductive organs” as you follow Sarah…
A Delicate Balance @ The Guthrie
I’ve come to the regrettable conclusion that many of the great family-dysfunction plays of the twentieth century (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Tennessee Williams), A Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Eugene O’Neill), Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller), to name a few) are becoming obsolete. Or at the very least their anachronisms are starting to look like charming artifacts of another era, like women’s…
1.06.09: Frost/Nixon @ The State Theatre
Richard Nixon’s admission, in the legendary 1977 television interview with David Frost, that he “let the American people down,” may be the last time a U.S. president has looked into a TV camera and told the unvarnished truth. There are currently three different ways to experience this particularly poignant moment in American history: In the Ron Howard film Frost/Nixon now playing at not nearly enough…
11.28.08: A Christmas Carol @ The Guthrie
We don’t need Scrooge anymore, right?
So why is he still around? Is it because of Hollywood’s lack of creativity–their seeming need to remake anything? A Christmas Carol has begotten Jimmy Stewart’s It’s a Wonderful Life, Disney’s Scrooge McDuck, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Bill Murray’s Scrooged, etc., etc. Is the Scrooge meme just mindless proliferation in the name of tradition, in the same way…
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