I depart this morning for Chicago, where I’ll be hanging out with Our Girl, eating at Hot Doug’s, the world’s greatest hot dog emporium, visiting Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House for the very first time, spending a night in yet another Frank Lloyd Wright house, and seeing three plays (see next Friday’s Wall Street Journal for details).
It’s a busier-than-usual schedule, and I don’t know whether it’ll leave any room for blogging, but if it does, you’ll hear from me–or her. Either way, I’ll be back in New York early next week and back at my desk shortly thereafter.
Archives for May 10, 2007
TT: So you want to see a show?
Here’s my list of recommended Broadway and off-Broadway shows, updated weekly. In all cases, I gave these shows favorable reviews in The Wall Street Journal when they opened. For more information, click on the title.
Warning: Broadway shows marked with an asterisk were sold out, or nearly so, last week.
BROADWAY:
• Avenue Q (musical, R, adult subject matter and one show-stopping scene of puppet-on-puppet sex, reviewed here)
• A Chorus Line (musical, PG-13/R, adult subject matter, reviewed here)
• Company (musical, PG-13/R, adult subject matter and situations, reviewed here)
• The Drowsy Chaperone (musical, G/PG-13, mild sexual content and a profusion of double entendres, reviewed here)
• Frost/Nixon (drama, PG-13, some strong language, reviewed here, closes Aug. 19)
• LoveMusik (musical, PG-13, adult themes, reviewed here)
• A Moon for the Misbegotten* (drama, PG-13, adult situations, reviewed here, closes June 10)
• Talk Radio (drama, PG-13, adult subject matter, reviewed here)
• The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (musical, PG-13, mostly family-friendly but contains a smattering of strong language and a production number about an unwanted erection, reviewed here)
OFF BROADWAY:
• The Fantasticks (musical, G, suitable for children old enough to enjoy a love story, reviewed here)
• Biography (drama, PG-13, adult subject matter, reviewed here, closes May 20)
CLOSING THIS WEEKEND:
• Salvage (The Coast of Utopia, part 3)* (drama, PG-13, nudity and adult subject matter, reviewed here, closes Sunday)
• Shipwreck (The Coast of Utopia, part 2)* (drama, PG-13, nudity and adult subject matter, reviewed here, closes Saturday)
• Voyage (The Coast of Utopia, part 1)* (drama, G, too complicated for children, reviewed here, closes Saturday)
TT: Almanac
“No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.”
W.H. Auden (quoted in Time, Dec. 29, 1961)