1999 Archives
Well…. This will be a nice segue for what I’m about to write….
From the archives. College of Charleston sure had (hopefully still has) an awesome theater program.
College of Charleston’s Macbeth, Review
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The Have Nots! Have Lots, Piccolo Spoleto Review
1999 Archives
MAN! Brandy, Tim, and Greg are still kicking it! They just performed this past Saturday, April 16th! Charleston is lucky to have such dedicated comedy and theater artists successfully bringing it to the Lowcountry. I have been to Second City in Chicago several times. I always had just as much fun with The Have Nots! Other cities Charleston’s size do NOT have this. Support it.
This was a review for Charleston City Paper back in 1999…. One wonders how the transexual idea thrown at them might be played differently today, if at all? Leave it to good comedians to know the room, and know how the larger culture evolves (and hopefully improves), and act appropriately — while always JUUUUST testing that line, that gray area, for safe-space questioning and cathartic release. Comedy. Stand-up and improv. Some of America’s greatest gifts to humanity…. And these guys do it very well.
(Oh, I really was there for the review — even though, duh, I guess I could have heard someone in the audience say, “Dominatrix” in that webcast….)
I see from their calendar that ‘their’ theater, Theatre 99, has not scheduled much yet during the huge local counterpart to Spoleto, the Piccolo Spoleto Festival. (And I also see that Piccolo itself has yet to release their schedule — and won’t until May 18?!?!? … For a Festival that opens May 27?!?!? … WTF??!?!). Look out for a plethora of performances at Theatre 99 that 2 weeks, likely of high quality, if ‘archived’ history is any judge, when they brought in the likes of Spalding Gray to perform.
Review of Jeffrey Hatcher’s Scotland Road, at Footlight Players
A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking, Review
College of Charleston’s Much Ado About Nothing
Archives 1998
My first review for the Charleston City Paper — August 19, 1998. … Geez, my first published theater review ever, actually. Before this, before moving to Chucktown, I had been a goofy playwright in Seattle. But going to a medical university, y’know, there isn’t a whole lot of time, so I switched gears and just enjoyed others’ performances every now and again. But I thought I could stay a little involved by writing reviews — and hoping to encourage others to support the arts.
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I’m a booster, yo!
The Last Night of Ballyhoo, by Alfred Uhry, Charleston City Paper review, April 1999
1999 Archives
Back in my past life before I turned to neurology and healthcare, I had playwriting classes with Mr. Uhry while at NYU’s Dramatic Writing Program. He seemed like a very decent fellow. Perhaps a personal story about him someday, if anyone wants hear it….
Charles Busch’s Psycho Beach Party, review
Archives 1998
My review of Pluff Mud’s Psycho Beach Party. Man that was good.
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Eric Bogosian’s Suburbia, review
1998 Archives
My Charleston City Paper review of Eric Bogosian’s Suburbia, produced by the College of Charleston, October, 1998.
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Frankenstein at the Charleston Stage Company, a review
The Guest Director, review of Franklin Ashley’s Southern farce
Archives 1998
Gonna flow with the archived local theater reviews for a while…. My reivew of The Guest Director, by College of Charleston theater professor, Franklin Ashley, for the Charleston City Paper, October 28, 1998. I am sad to see that Professor Ashley passed away in 2018. He seems to have been a wonderful fellow.
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