Reviewing theater from Broadway to the Fringe since 1994
John Turturro gives a masterful performance of Berenger that perfectly balances the character’s sorrowful ambivalence, quiet strength, and deeply human vulnerability. He and Paul Giamatti are brilliant together, and both actors have impeccable comedic timing that will leave your sides aching.
Luckily, playwright Lindsay Joelle (TRAYF, The Garbologists) not only pondered, but dug in and applied her creative juices to pen Dalloway: First Love, a creditable version of 18-year-old Clarissa and her cohorts during one indelible summer. Her play is the perfect backstory — it enriches Woolf’s novel for those familiar with its characters without alienating or abandoning those who have never read it.
Lindsay Joelle’s Dalloway: First Love was inspired by Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, but the play stands on its own and is a beautiful story in its own right.
‘Starf*ckers’ — Written and performed by John Kuntz. Directed by Alex Lonati. Lighting Design by Sawyer Grabow; Sound Design by Alex Lonati and Anna Drummond. The run has ended. By Shelley A. Sackett When local playwright, actor, director and solo performer John Kuntz débuted Starf*ckers in 2000 at Speakeasy Stage Company, it garnered the Norton…
