The Knee Plays: Fair Game

I'll be away this weekend, in Saratoga for the races. But last night I managed to catch September 12th at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and also a performance of La Vie at the Spiegeltent (I still don't like it quite as much as Absinthe, but it's improved a lot since it's showing earlier in the summer). On Monday I'll see Karl Gajdusek's Fair Game and I'm hoping to reschedule Iphigenia 2.0 for Thursday.

Life is a Dream: The Delacorte

Am spending this weekend in San Francisco for a wedding and the following one in Saratoga playing the ponies, but will try to sneak a little theatergoing into my busy life of leisure. On Wednesday evening I'll see Charles Mee's version of Iphigenia at Aulis, Iphigenia 2.0 at the Signature. Have to brush upon my Euripides. Will also try to get to Midsummer Night's Dream at the Delacorte, with picnic basket in hand.

Straight from the hipster: Williamsburg, the Musical

Well, this week it's 15 plays as I prepare to cover the New York Fringe. Sure, I've just written an article discussing the Fringe's rather lackluster offerings, but I do hope I'm proved wrong. My schedule includes:

An Air Balloon...
Hillary Agonistes
BASH'd
Farm Trucks
And Somewhere...
Bukowsical
Williamsburg!
Bucharest Calling
Winter's Tale Project
Theremin
Ladies of Eola Heights
Notes on the Motherland
Semi-Permanent
Lost in Hollywoodland
Orientalrhythm

How can you read a blog at a time like this!: Masked

A lull before a mad round of fringing. Tonight I see Masked at DR2, a play about Palestinians by an Israeli playwright. Well, if a Jew can write "Springtime For Hitler"...
Friday I see Carson Kreitzer's Flesh and the Desert at SPF, about Las Vegas. Saturday it's Opus at Primary Stages, where I'll turn my rather tin ears to a play about a string quartet.

The Black Eyed: Chadorable

Ah, the slow season continues, though an air conditioned theater is not perhaps the worst place to while away the hours at present. This weekend I'll attend The Black Eyed at New York Theater, which features four Arab women chatting in the afterlife. And then I'll cast my vote on Election Day, part of the Second Stage Uptown series. On Monday, various colleagues and I will speak on a panel at SPF regarding New Critics/New Plays. (After a decade at this I wonder if I'm really so new. I suppose it's flattering. The Panel will take place from 5:30pm to 7:00pm at the Acorn Theatre, Theatre Row. Theatre Row is located at 410 West 42nd Street, between 9th and 10th Avenues.

Tapehead: Rose Mary Woods of Stretch

Have to admit I'm enjoying the slow season a bit. (It would be a little faster if I could convince the Lincoln Center Festival to give me tickets. Alas!) But this does allow more time for reading (detective novels and Paradise Lost), baking (raspberry tarts), ostensibly working on my dissertation, and teaching the rabbit tricks via Skinnerian behavioralist principles. On Saturday I'll chill at the Ice Factory, seeing New Georges's Stretch, about Nixon's secretary. On Monday I'll attend Broken Watch's Two Thirds Home.

What else ahve you seen and enjoyed?

Chillin': Tom Crean: Antarctic Explorer

Tonight I'll be seeing burlesque in COney Island and tomorrow enjoying some Bastille Day street theater celebrations, but am giving the rest of the week over to more traditional theater, including the People vs. MONA at Abingdon, Surface to Air at Symphony Space, and Tom Crean: Antarctic Explorer at the Irish Rep.

What have you all seen and enjoyed?

Tent City

Hardly any plays this week, really. Delighted to catch up on my busy schedule of viewing of British policiers, cooking of chilled soups, and petting of my lovely rabbit. Devastated to realize I missed the East Village chronicles. Do hope they bring it back. And always happy to hear if you've seen anything really wonderful. Saturday I'll see two shows at the Spiegeltent, Absinthe and La Vie. I understand they're serving actual absinthe at the party before so expect a sufficiently wormwood-laced review.

Drinking and Thinking: The Dinner Party

Preparing for a busy long weekend of theatergoing. Tonight I'm continuing my chamber musical run with Passing Strange at the Public. Tomorrow it's the final performance of The Dinner Party and The Argument by the wonderful Target Margin at the Kitchen. Sunday it's a revival of Sylvia Regan's 1940 Morning Star by Peccadillo and Monday it's off to Here for Goodbye April, Hello May by playwright and perilously funny singer/songwriter Ethan Lipton.

And, yes, I do absolutely need to book in to East Village Fragments.

Case studies: Eurydice

Went to One Thing I Like to Say Is last night, the final show in Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks fest. Saturday I see Romeo and Juliet in the park. I'm looking forward to Lauren Ambrose, and a picnic beforehand. Maybe cold chicken and watercress sandwiches. Yum! Sunday I see Eurydice with the wonderful Maria Dizzia. I didn't much care fro Ruhl's The Clean House, but would like to have my mind changed. And on Wednesday it's Horizon at NYTW, which I had to see after reading Michael Feingold's ecstatic review.

What else should I see?