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Four Nights, Four Shows – NYC Theatre Binge

I spent four nights in NYC in a trip that featured attending Rainbow Book Fair, a couple days in my day job’s office and four shows. I probably should’ve seen more people, but it was impossible to resist the draw of seeing some musicals. So I spent three...

The Last Five Years – The Movie

I’ve been a huge fan of The Last Five Years since I saw it off-Broadway in the spring of 2002. I saw it twice and became fans of Jason Robert Brown musicals as well of its lead actors Sherie Rene Scott and Norbert Leo Butz. The show is pretty much all...

“Other Desert Cities” at Redwood Curtain

Other Desert Cities is the first show we’ve seen at Redwood Curtain where we’ve also visited the original Broadway version. The cast, anchored by Cassandra Hesseltine in the central role of Brooke Wyeth, delivers solid performances portraying a family...

The Country House & On the Town

On our recent post-GRL trip to NYC I got the chance to partake of some of Broadway’s most recent offerings. First was the new Donald Margulies play The Country House. Blythe Danner is the matriarch of a quirky theatrical brood who gather at the family house in...

It’s Only a Play

Shortly before we left NYC in early July, I started seeing posters for It’s Only a Play, which was scheduled to play a limited run starting in October. I was sad to miss it. First because it’s a Terrece McNally comedy. Second because of the cast: Nathan...

Joffrey Ballet – Swan Lake

While we were in Chicago for GayRomLit, one of our anniversaries fell on Sunday, so we decided to go to the Joffrey Ballet’s premiere production of Swan Lake choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon. This is our third production of the classic ballet, having seen...