Six… that’s how many shows I saw in New York City during a recent Theatre Weekend!
Friday night – “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime” Fantastic! A fascinating story with amazing visual effects.
Saturday matinee – “A Delicate Balance”, starring John Lithgow and Glenn Close. Drunk people yelling at each other! It must be an Edward Albee play. Bob Balaban owned every scene he was in.
Saturday Evening – “Disgraced” The worst dinner party ever ends in a wife beating. It’s about racism, but never really comes to any conclusion.
Late Saturday Evening – “Drunken Shakespeare” – The actors are drunk! The Audience is encouraged to be drunk too! Since I can’t drink it wasn’t as fun as it sounds. Too much audience participation was slightly embarrassing. There was some funny parody stuff, but it was buried under the booze.
Sunday matinee – “The Real Thing” – by Tom Stoppard, starring Ewan McGregor and Maggie Gyllenhaal. McGregor was great to watch…. he was channeling someone very posh like David Niven or someone.
Sunday Evening – “The Perfect Crime” Probably the worst play I have ever seen. The material wasn’t too bad (sort of an old-fashioned OTT murder mystery), but the actors were dry and tired, as if they had done this play over and over again for the past 20 years (which they had). I really hoped the flight home was safe, because I didn’t want this to be the last play I see on Earth.
The Great Theatre Experience 