Name: Ethan Stanislawski
Dateline: New York, NY
Weblog: tynansanger.com [RSS]
Articles: 44
First Published: Friday, June 13, 2008
Last Published: Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Currently listing articles 44-1:
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Theater Review (NYC): Vice Girl Confidential by Todd Michael— Pure spoof generates boisterous laughs in this former Fringe Festival hit, but it leaves you feeling empty afterward.
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Theater Review (NYC): American Buffalo by David Mamet— In arguably his best play, David Mamet gives a better explanation for the current economic crisis than any economist could provide.
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Theater Review (NYC): As We Speak by John Patrick Bray— Other than its use of technology, Bray's adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' novel is too amateurish to resonate in any real way.
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Theater Review (NYC): Missa Solemnis or The Play About Henry— Just as Proposition 8 is passed, a new play by Roman Fesser examines the impossible dynamic of homosexuality and Mormonism.
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Theater Review (NYC): Harm's Way by Shem Bitterman— A deft new political play by Shem Bitterman falls victim to a lackluster staging.
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Theater Review (NYC): If You See Something Say Something by Mike Daisey— America's greatest monologist moves his fury from theater to homeland security, with a distrust of capitalism as the common bond.
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Theater Review (NYC): Life After Bush by Noah Diamond and Amanda Sisk— This play makes no excuses about its politics—and is a better play because of it.
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Concert Review: Galactic at the Fillmore at Irving Plaza, NYC, October 17, 2008— The New Orleans jazz funk greats hit New York, with horns and hip-hop in tow.
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Theater Review (NYC): Woyzeck by Georg Buchner at UNDER St. Marks and BAM— Two productions of Woyzeck hit New York in the wrong place at the right time.
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Theater Review (NYC): Bedroom Farce by Alan Ayckbourn— One of the greatest living British playwrights continues to have an awkward reception in America.
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Theater Review (NYC): Something Weird...in the Red Room— Weirdness can't make up for poor execution in Rachel Klein's Halloween special.
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Theater Review (NYC): Villa Diodati at the New York Musical Festival— With youthful energy suddenly emerging in musical theater, Villa Diodati seems at least 50 years out of date.
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Theater Review (NYC): Taboos by Carl Djerassi— Carl Djerassi, the inventor of the Pill, sees his scientific perspective conflict with his dramatic one in Taboos.
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Theater Review (NYC): Quickening— Privacy may be on the way out, but this abortion story makes compelling drama out of one of women's most private matters.
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Theater Review (NYC): An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen— The Phoenix Theatre Ensemble throws modernism under a bus with its watered-down staging of Ibsen's classic.
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Theater Review (NYC): A Great Place to Be From by Norman Lasca— The heat gets to the characters, but's that's as far as this ambitious play goes.
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Book Review - The New York Dolls: Photographs by Bob Gruen— For a band that's too big for one medium, Bob Gruen's photography at least captures the New York Dolls' glamorous side.
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Theater Review (NYC): A Perfect Ganesh by Terrence McNally— A forgotten masterpiece by Terrence McNally gets a timely revival by WorkShop Theater Company.
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Theater Review (NYC): The Chalk Boy by Joshua Conkel— Teen girl anxieties meet existential angst in Joshua Conkel's The Chalk Boy.
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Book Review: Mind to Mind - Infant Research, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis, edited by Elliot L. Jurist, Arietta Slade and Sharon Bergner— Takes on the psychoanalytic concept of mentalization, one of the most difficult — and most rewarding — clinical practices.
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Theater Review (NYC/Fringe Festival): Creena DeFoouie and The Redheaded Man— The NYC Fringe Festival concludes with a taste of the weird and the traumatic.
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DVD Review: John Oliver - Terrifying Times— John Oliver, one of The Daily Show's best correspondents, makes an awkward transition to stand-up.
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Theater Review (NYC/Fringe Festival): Zombie and The Corn Maiden— Two adaptations of Joyce Carol Oates novellas at the NYC Fringe show two approaches to staging psychology.
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TV Review: The Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget— By roasting Bob Saget, a comedian whose very career is itself a joke, Comedy Central made traditional insult humor obsolete.
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Theater Review (NYC/Fringe Festival): The Boy in the Basement and Kansas City Or Along The Way— At the NYC Fringe Festival, The Boy in the Basement shines while Kansas City Or Along The Way flounders
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Book Review: Pharmakon by Dirk Wittenborn— With Pharmakon, Fierce People author Dirk Wittenborn turns the plot hole into an aesthetic choice, with fascinating if imperfect results.
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Theater Review (NYC/Fringe Festival): Cake and Plays...But Without the Cake and The Grecian Formula— Monsoons is a stark, blackly comedic vignette about a failed first date, frequently hilarious, but never letting its audience laugh too long.
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Book Review: The Way We'll Be - The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream by John Zogby— John Zogby reports on the future of American values with more than poll results in mind.
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Movie Review: What We Do Is Secret — The Germs get the punk biopic treatment in the filth and fury of What We Do Is Secret.
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Concert Review (NYC): Butthole Surfers at Webster Hall, July 29— The Butthole Surfers fulfilled their volatile reputation at their first New York concert in years, forcing themselves back into the spotlight.
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Movie Review: Sixty Six— Sixty Six, an unlikely film about London Judaism, can't be tagged with traditional genre labels.
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Theater Review (NYC): The Artistical Process of Mark and Andy by Jeff Sproul— This play does a truly commendable job of making something out of nothing.
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Theater Review (NYC): What To Do When You Hate All Your Friends by Larry Kunofsky— Larry Kunofsky's hilarious new play explores the absurd social dynamics of modern adult friendship.
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Theater Review (NYC): Stain by Tony Glazer— This melodramatic new play by Tony Glazer can't find the dramatic conviction to support its offensiveness.
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Theater Review (NYC): TRACES/fades by Lenora Champagne— This insufferable experimental work is probably better suited for the art gallery than the theater.
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Book Review: Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age by Maggie Jackson— Distracted author Maggie Jackson is more distracted by her own predetermined opinions.
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Theater Review (NYC): The Strangerer by Mickie Maher— A fine existential play comes to New York, and will either baffle its audience to catharsis or bore it to sleep.
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Music Review: The Hold Steady - Stay Positive— The best bar band in the world becomes one of the best bands in the world, period.
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Movie Review: August— August, which concerns a failing tech stock circa 2001, is equally bankrupt as a film.
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Theater Review (NYC): Life in A Marital Institution by James Braly— James Braly's nakedly honest one-man show covers more than one side of married life.
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Connecting New York and Chicago: A Four-Year Theatrical Odyssey— Going from New York to Chicago and back, you could see the Chicago invasion coming a mile away.
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Book Review: The Death of the Critic by Ronan McDonald— If the critic isn't dead, his postmodern cousin is on life support.
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Theater Review (NYC): The Pleasures of Peace by the Medicine Show Theater Ensemble— Fighting complacency, one wisecrack at a time.
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Dissonance and Dissidents Between Marxist Theory and Practice in Tom Stoppard’s Rock 'N' Roll— In two contrasting worlds, Stoppard's play shows how Marxist materialism became indefensible in the Soviet bloc.
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