Jan 1, 2020
And here’s Siegfried and Caroline! I wish we’d have seen more of them together - but at least they got together. They are a wonderful couple! Happy New Year!
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And here’s Siegfried and Caroline! I wish we’d have seen more of them together - but at least they got together. They are a wonderful couple! Happy New Year!
My Dinner With Andrea Takes Feminism to the Limit
My Dinner With Andrea Takes Feminism to the Limit
Review: My Dinner With André from Charlotte’s Off-Broadway By Perry Tannenbaum Thanks largely to Anne Lambert and Charlotte’s Off-Broadway, the Queen City’s fiercest proponent of homegrown professional theatre and her spunky little company, we have now seen two provocative new plays by her sister, Susan Lambert Hatem. Not surprisingly, since Lambert is also a founding member of Chickspeare –…
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Flouting History and Scholarship, Shakespeare in Love Fancifully Dramatizes How the Bard Became the Bard
Flouting History and Scholarship, Shakespeare in Love Fancifully Dramatizes How the Bard Became the Bard
Review: Central Piedmont Theater Production of Shakespeare in Love
By Perry Tannenbaum
For centuries, theatergoers and scholars have mulled over the question of how William Shakespeare became the magisterial genius he was, how as a poet and playwright he came to know so much, write with such a honeyed tongue, and move so many so deeply. In 1998, screenwriters Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard tackled…
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Bound and Gagged in a Georgia Cabin
Bound and Gagged in a Georgia Cabin
Review: Exit, Pursued by a Bear By Perry Tannenbaum
It’s been 28 years since I saw a murderous woman binding a man to a chair onstage, and I haven’t forgotten the spectacle of that near rape-victim turning the tables – and a spool of duct tape – on her would-be rapist. Maybe there were other instances after that stunning UNC Charlotte production of Extremities in 1991, one of the top five dramas…
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Hatem’s Confidence (and The Speech) Loses Its Way but Delivers a Poignant Ending
Hatem’s Confidence (and The Speech) Loses Its Way but Delivers a Poignant Ending
Review: Confidence (and The Speech) By Perry Tannenbaum
Say what you want about Jimmy Carter, he wasn’t about lining his pockets with money or telling other nations what to do, and he certainly wasn’t about cozying up to the Russians. Among his more controversial – and principled – actions, President Carter slapped a grain embargo on Russia in response to their invasion of Afghanistan and pulled…
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A Georgia-Born Playwright Reappraises Carter – in the Age of Trump
A Georgia-Born Playwright Reappraises Carter – in the Age of Trump
Preview: Confidence (and The Speech) By Perry Tannenbaum
Oceans are rising. California keeps burning. Women are still facing stalkers, abusers, detractors, and depressed wages. Innocent blacks are beaten and shot in the back by rogue cops – or point blank by vigilantes. Wouldn’t it be great to be led by a President who cares? While Obama nostalgia and Hillary regrets are keenest, all other past…
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Homespun Barbecue Apocalypse Improves With Age
Homespun Barbecue Apocalypse Improves With Age
Review: BARBECUE APOCALYPSE and More By Perry Tannenbaum
In a year that included Lucas Hnath’s The Christians, Robert Schenkkan’s The Great Society and Rebecca Gilman’s Luna Gale among the top contenders, I could only give Matt Lyle’s Barbecue Apocalypse a lukewarm endorsement for best new play of 2015, ranking it #13 among 27 eligibles that I read for that year’s Steinberg Awards. Nor did…
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