Bartlett Sher Restores Eliza Doolittle’s Rebellious Voice by Barry David Horwitz With his award-winning revival of 50s masterpiece “My Fair Lady,” Bartlett Sher has reasserted the secrets of Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion” that provide the musical with its story and its script. As a bold feminist and socialist, Shaw focused his comic wit on the…
Terry Guest Fashions a Fabulous Foray into Drag by Barry David Horwitz Terry Guest’s play about two drag queens in Albany, Georgia proves yet again that these gals have always been the sharp cutting edge of gay liberation. Guest builds a stairway of poetic language to conduct Courtney (delightful Devin Cunningham) and her acolyte Vickie…
Michael Gene Sullivan’s Comedy Enlightens with Laughter by Barry David Horwitz There’s a very big character in “The Great Khan” and it’s the Khan, himself, played by a wonderfully funny Brian Rivera. Playwright Michael Gene Sullivan uses the bigger than life Khan to channel a timely and important idea. The idea is that we…
Duncan Macmillan’s Boy Next Door Finds Hope in Lists by Barry David Horwitz We all hope we can be as resilient and warmhearted as the Narrator that William Hodgson ardently brings to life in this stunning one man show. Hodgson is our own Tom Hanks. In Macmillan’s “Every Brilliant Thing,” Hodgson is charming, warm,…