Some ‘Regrets’ in a Hotel in Reno

Written by Doug Strassler on April 25, 2012. Posted in NY Press Exclusive, Uncategorized

It’s not been a good year for Manhattan Theater Club’s City Center series, which included Zoe Kazan’s dramatically anemic We Live Here and Molly Smith Metzler’s amateurish Close Up Space. If Matt Charman’s Regrets, directed by Carolyn Cantor, is the best of the bunch, it’s only because it is raising the bar from a subterranean
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Worst Theater of 2011

Written by Mark Peikert on December 28, 2011. Posted in Arts & Film, Theater

This past year has seen some memorable moments on stage (Playwrights Horizons’ offerings; Nina Arianda on Broadway—twice!), but they all pale in comparison to the amount of wrongheaded dreck that theatergoers had inflicted upon them. As everyone gazes with holiday-glazed eyes at glasses half full, let’s look at the other half of that glass, containing
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Unfit for Inhabitation

Written by Mark Peikert on October 24, 2011. Posted in Arts & Film, Theater

Remember when actors just wanted to direct? Those were the days. Now, it seems, actors like to fancy themselves wordsmiths with stories to tell worthy of expensive Off-Broadway productions. Zach Braff made a convincing case for himself as a playwright this past summer with All New People; Zoe Kazan, a New York City stage favorite,
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