Topic: David Greenspan

David Greenspan goes it alone in his warm and witty take on the vintage drawing-room comedy "The Patsy," but he has great helpers: his hands...

Creepy 'Coraline'

0 View Larger Image . Coraline: Musical. Book by David Greenspan, adapted from the novel by Neil Gaiman. Music and lyrics by Stephin Merritt...

The Myopia

In a culture as supersaturated with digital eye candy as ours, David Greenspan's solo coup The Myopia is nothing short of revolutionary. Greenspan devotees know already that he is a one-man cabinet of wonders, voice fluting up from tenor to falsetto ...

Coraline

" Such is the advice that Coraline, nine years old, receives at a key moment in her struggle against the witch next door. If only Coraline, the musical that bears her name, could follow it! But watching Coraline is a frustrating experience, precisely ...

Musical "Coraline" even stranger than the book

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Neil Gaiman's acclaimed children's novel makes an uneasy transition to the stage in this off-Broadway musical adaptation featuring music by acclaimed indie rocker Stephen Merritt (Magnetic Fields). Although this version of "Coraline" is unlikely to have ...

Theater

If you haven't already heard of Coraline-the plucky preteen who faces down wicked powers prowling in her own home-then I envy you on your recent decade-long nap. Eeyore-ish genius Stephin Merritt (animus of the Magnetic Fields and other morose pop entities ...

The Power of Suggestion: David Greenspan

I am forever under the spell of Neil Gaiman's exquisitely disturbing Coraline. Was it the black button eyes of the Other Mother who Coraline discovers in the 'other' apartment, behind a door in her new house that was supposed to lead ...

Old Comedy After Aristophanes' Frogs

While Dionysus (Pedro Pascal) and his wisecracking slave Xanthias (Derek Lucci) are tooling around the Underworld on a road trip to find a decent playwright (as one does), they stumble across one of Hell's damned: After intermission, however, the Aristophanic plot ...

Beebo Brinker Chronicles

In putting Ann Bannon's lesbian pulp series-known as the Beebo Brinker Chronicles-onstage, Linda S. Chapman and Kate Moira Ryan should be playing with fire. In the '50s, Bannon's soap-opera tales of the love that dared not speak its name (at ...
In the keynote speech of Plato's Symposium, Socrates tells of his encounter with the oracular Diotima of Mantineia, who reveals to him the path by which man's attraction to beautiful appearances can lead to nobler ideas. The Dinner Party is ...