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This summer, Randal Myler’s off-broadway hit, “Love, Janis,” seared the national stage for the first time, presenting the meteoric rise and fall of iconic 1960s rock vocalist Janis Joplin based on letters that Joplin wrote home to her parents. In the two-actor set, singer-actress Katrina Chester (“Sex and the City”) portrayed Joplin as she lived hard and drank hard, convincingly mimicking Joplin’s raspy singing voice and incendiary stage presence in the live performance of 19 Joplin classics. Meanwhile, actress Morgan...
With the exception of the offhand Off-Broadway staging, the transcendentally bizarre and transsexually titillating “Rocky Horror Show” has been largely experienced by audiences in its big-screen “Picture” form. For decades, fans of the cult classic have taken pleasure in dressing up as characters and yelling obscenities at midnight screenings. But this fall, HRDC will be offering a live alternative for those who tend to linger around Loews Harvard Square late on a Saturday night in Frank-N-Furter drag. Director John R. Drake ’06 says...
...behavior of the stockbrokers at Brooks, Weinger, Robbins & Leeds might have made for a biting off-Broadway play about sleazy morality on Wall Street -- if only the firm were fictional. The young professionals at the Manhattan penny-stock trading firm allegedly sold cocaine in stairwells, traded drugs for insider stock tips and routinely signed false names on important documents, among other offenses. Last week seven of the not-so-satirical brokerage employees were hauled away in handcuffs as part of a 19-person drug bust; it was one of the biggest undercover actions ever carried out in the Manhattan financial...
Vienna, staged off-Broadway in a church, has a sporadic text by Historian Charles Mee Jr. but nothing like a narrative. Played behind a gauzy scrim, it juxtaposes lyrical nudity and erotic mania, chivalrous honor and military obsession. Some of the images may be dreams, recounted by Freudians in the city where he practiced. Some are chillingly literal and hint of worse horrors yet to come: one woman, speaking in German of a pleasure jaunt, appears to mention Dachau, where the Nazis built a concentration camp. Most striking, however, are the wordless tableaux: the supple blond man who, with boots...
...appears to be, as in most Shaw productions these days, to provide a showcase for acting in the old grandiloquent, gestural style. By that measure, You Never Can Tell is a thoroughgoing delight. Hagen can be one of the stage's great ripsnorting viragoes, as she demonstrated last year off-Broadway in the title role of Shaw's Mrs.Warren's Profession. At first it seems a little odd to see her instead as a dithery, warmhearted mother who is preoccupied with her children's welfare, but she brings to the part a serene decency that makes her a believable object...