Spike Jonze Lines Up Another Absurdist Film
Wunderkind Spike Jonze has already shown an admirable bent for the absurd in his first time out with Being John Malkovich. Now the actor-director is sizing up a surreal short story by F. Scott...
View ArticleComics have fun in ``G-Men''
G-Men From Hell (Comedy, color, PG-13, 1:38) By Dennis Harvey SAN JOSE (Variety) - Based on Michael Allred's cult comic book series ``Grafik Muzik,'' ``G-Men From Hell'' offers a modestly mounted but...
View ArticleRegional Roundup: No More Vaginas in Connecticut?
For over 32 years, Berkeley Repertory Theatre has consistently been the Bay Area's most adventurous company in presenting provocative revivals of classics as well as introducing audacious,...
View ArticleAn absurdist `Dream,' aptly done
verything exploded in the 1960s, and musical theater was no exception. You need more than one revolution to get from ''My Fair Lady'' to ''Hair,'' and Cuban-born playwright Maria Irene Fornes's 1968...
View ArticleSemi-Pro
Will Ferrell, at the best of times, is an acquired taste. The blockbusting comedian and headlining star of Anchorman and Talladega Nights regularly bludgeons his audience into submissive giggles by...
View ArticleCromwell's role of the elder Bush fictionalized
The funniest moment in Oliver Stone's W. is when the film fades to black and announces: "The End." It's not the end of anything other than the movie, and James Cromwell, the actor who portrays George...
View ArticleLauren Ambrose, Andrea Martin join 'Exit the King'
The Associated Press NEW YORK - Lauren Ambrose and Andrea Martin have joined the cast of the Broadway-bound production of Eugene Ionesco's "Exit the King." Ambrose, best known for her role as Claire...
View ArticleWill Ferrell has mixed reviews as Bush on Broadway
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Comic actor Will Ferrell's debut show on Broadway lampooning George W. Bush opened to praise and criticism for his impersonation of the former president honed on TV's "Saturday...
View ArticleConan says bye to New York with some old friends
NEW YORK -- Conan O'Brien said goodbye to New York and NBC's "Late Night" by passing out shards of his stage, enjoying one last rub from Will Ferrell and promising fans he wouldn't grow up for an...
View ArticleEditorial: The battle of France
Rioters have been rampaging in France for weeks because French President Nicolas Sarkozy has proposed raising the retirement age from 60 to 62. The reform is hardly enough to balance the country’s...
View ArticleAbsurdist tragicomedy takes Firehouse stage
Two minor characters from Shakespeare's "Hamlet" are the stars in "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead," an absurdist tragicomedy that opens Friday, March 1, at the Firehouse Brewing Theatre. ......
View ArticleAbsurdist theater on school board tiring
To the editor: Following is an open letter to the Attleboro School Committee. ......
View ArticleREVIEW: Absurdist comedy ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ is best left vacant
Editor’s note: The collective geniuses behind the Weekend film reviews realized there isn’t much in the way of theater offerings right now. In lieu of making this reviewer suffer, we decided Redbox...
View ArticleGeeky absurdist comedian at Stage 33 Live
BELLOWS FALLS — Ed Smyth will weave a bent-mind fabric of brain-twisted topics and micro-sketches as the featured performer of the "3rd Thursdays @ 33" series opener on Thursday, at Stage 33 ......
View ArticleFX Is Turning Carmen Maria Machado’s Feminist Horror Stories Into a TV Series
Her Body and Other Parties, the acclaimed collection of absurdist horror stories by Carmen Maria Machado, is getting the TV treatment after FX beat out the competition to win the rights to the book....
View ArticleTHEATER REVIEW: An evening of absurdist one acts by Theatre UNCA
Time and space mean nothing in the absurdist universe. All signs and symbols of modern life were up for reconsideration and ridicule in the one-act plays staged last weekend by TheatreUNCA. First up...
View ArticleAbsurdist play "Tragedy" on Puzzle Piece stage for end of season
Puzzle Piece Theatre is closing the curtain on its successful sixth season with a tragedy. It is night, the sun has set — will the light ever return? Fortunately, there is an intrepid news team...
View ArticleAbsurdist ABBA: Lesser Known Players mount puzzling pop-inspired whodunit
A series of bizarre crimes pit two Swedish detectives, a pair of polar opposite partners, against a fearsome foursome of internationally famous musical murderers racking up a rising body count — maybe....
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