What Rhymes w/the Aliens' Great God Harper
In my last post I dumped a little on the critical herd for film reviewers. They ain't the only ones. I've seen a lot of theatre, this year I added a second off-Broadway subscription because it looked like a very good season at Playwrights Horizon. I'm glad I did, not so much because all those plays have been wonderful but because the Broadway season -- there isn't a show on Broadway which I really want to see and haven't yet, so if not for the off-Broadway stuff I'd be going without. Recently, I've seen a lot of plays that have had varying degrees of critical fawning but to my eyes are falling a little bit or a lot short, though unlike things like Harper Regan , which I walked out of, or Detroit , which collapses into inanity if it doesn't start there, are interesting failures. The Whale by Samuel Hunter. So you've got this really really fat guy brilliantly played by Shuler Hensley. We're talking 600 lbs fat. At first, it's hard to appr...