![]() ![]() Cleverly self-referential and unflinching in its send-up of gay online culture (especially for someone who is Black, fat, and femme), it defies any one-sentence summary and yet is the runaway critical and audience hit of the season. ![]() A Strange Loop follows Usher as he struggles to write a musical while working as an actual usher for The Lion King on Broadway. Up for 11 Tony Awards, including best lead actor (Spivey) and best new musical, it is the most nominated show of the season-and more than any other category, winning best new musical promises a lift in ticket sales and the possibility of touring, further solidifying the show into the canon. The fevered reception of this mind-bending show affirms that the revival-fatigued musical-theater landscape is hungry for innovation, sex, and unabashed queerness in its stories. Jackson’s masterpiece, A Strange Loop, starring Jaquel Spivey as Usher. Now six months later, the Lyceum is home to Michael R. was nominated for best lead actress in a play (O’Connell), best direction of a play (Waters), and, unsurprisingly, best sound design of a play (Mikhail Fiksel). That these two shows played to packed houses-and both got two week-extensions-speaks to the appetite for unconventional work in Broadway houses post-COVID. ran alongside Is This a Room, the equally unsettling and true story of Reality Winner’s FBI interrogation that script is a transcription of the original interview, but, unlike Dana H., the actors are speaking the words themselves. It is a singular performance without precedent when in Tony history has there been a nominee who did not utter a word of their own but was directed, mouth and body, by an offstage recording? Dana H. Higginbotham is the mother of playwright Lucas Hnath, who recorded her brutal recounting of the ordeal and set it to stage-and for an uninterrupted 75 minutes, O’Connell mouthed Higginbotham’s words with uncanny synchronicity, less a lip sync than a total possession of the character and an incantation of the vagaries and fog of trauma itself. Starring Dierdre O’Connell and directed by Les Waters, the play, which ran for eight weeks at the Lyceum Theatre last fall, is the harrowing true story of Dana Higginbotham’s abduction and five-month-long torture at the hands of a white-supremacist criminal she becomes involved with while working as a chaplain at a Florida hospital. And not only did audiences show up but these endeavors were also rewarded by the Tony Awards, which will air on Sunday, June 12 with recent Academy Award winner Ariana DeBose as host. Though utterly debilitating for the industry, the year-and-a-half-long COVID break-which ended when the play Pass Over began previews on August 4 ( Springsteen on Broadway reopened in June but was billed as a concert)-forced a reset that shook up Broadway houses and made room for some of the most wildly compelling and surprising commercial theater in recent memory. While Kendall didn't caption five gorgeous snaps or post any pics (yet) with her man, the recent pictures say a thousand words.A one-woman lip-sync marathon a metafictional musical about race, sexuality, and identity Rachel Dratch crawling around on hallucinogens-these are just some of the revelatory Tony-nominated productions and performances on offer this Broadway season, the first since theaters closed in March of 2020. She certainly looked right at home lounging aboard a lavish yacht in a long, textured neon green gown in pics shared on Aug. Kendall has continued to rock her new signature lime green hue while abroad, matching her 818 logo. Kendall and Devin also celebrated the NBA player's Olympic victory during a trip to Lake Tahoe earlier this month. promoting her new liquor company, ending her summer campaign with multiple bartending appearances in the Hamptons. The Keeping Up With the Kardashiansstar road-tripped throughout the U.S. BFF Fai Khadra accompanied the couple to the Amalfi Coast, stopping in Capri and other dream destinations along the Mediterranean. ![]() #DANA SCHWARTZ KENDALL JENNER SERIES#The supermodel shared a series of snapshots from her romantic getaway with boyfriend Devin Bookeron Aug. ![]() Kendall Jennertook a break from her 818 Tequila tour to bask in the last few drops of summer aboard a luxe yacht in Italy. Next stop for Kenny's Tequila Delivery truck: Italy! ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |