- David Mamets November, reviewed for the Advocate by Don Shewey
Boston Marriage, his only all-female play, was a mock-formal Oscar Wilde-like comedy of manners about a lesbian love triangle Romance was a crazy courtroom drama with more men in suits spilling out of the closet than the final scene of In and Out
- REVIEW: THE ALTRUISTS * Vineyard Theatre, New York City . . .
Like the marriage of a people-pleaser and a misanthrope, it’s a closed system, which is the only appropriate environment for farce, which is the form of Silver’s plays His latest play, *The Altruists*, tackles the passions and pretensions of Manhattan leftist do-gooders
- David Mamets November, reviewed for the Advocate by Don Shewey
Boston Marriage, his only all-female play, was a mock-formal Oscar Wilde-like comedy of manners about a lesbian love triangle Romance was a crazy courtroom drama with more men in suits spilling out of the closet than the final scene of In and Out
- The Beebo Brinker Chronicles, reviewed for The Advocate by . . .
In New York, Laura meets Jack (David Greenspan), an aging gay businessman with whom she eventually settles into a marriage blanc, and the title character (played by Jenn Colella), a charismatic butch-dyke Lothario in a DA haircut and elevator-operator’s coveralls
- Amanda Plummer Acts Differently, by Don Shewey
Technically speaking, Amanda Plummer came from the brief marriage of two flamboyant actors, Tammy Grimes and Christopher Plummer To some people, that explains everything
- The Beebo Brinker Chronicles, reviewed for The Advocate by . . .
In New York, Laura meets Jack (David Greenspan), an aging gay businessman with whom she eventually settles into a marriage blanc, and the title character (played by Jenn Colella), a charismatic butch-dyke Lothario in a DA haircut and elevator-operator’s coveralls
- Don Williams: The Last Gentleman - Don Shewey
The good life Williams sings about so movingly, in which love and happiness, marriage and parenthood, salvation and survival are all part of the natural order, is becoming a thing of the past; domestic bliss is still available, but the warranty has run out
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