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Theater Review: Asolo Rep’s Venus in Fur
Love, sex, sadomasochism–there’s something for everyone in David Ives’ Venus in Fur, now showing in an Asolo Rep production at the Historic Asolo Theater. Well, maybe not something for those under 17 (the theater’s recommended guideline for audience members). Since Ives’ play, a hit both off Broadway and on, stems from the novella Venus in [...]
Read More >>Theater Review: The Game’s Afoot
By Kay Kipling Lovers of Sherlock Holmes (and I count myself as one) can never get enough of the superlative sleuth, even in versions that have little to do with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s original. We’re just mad about him. Holmes isn’t really a character in Ken Ludwig’s comedy-murder mystery, The Game’s Afoot, which just [...]
Read More >>Theater Review: “The Heidi Chronicles”
By Kay Kipling Wendy Wasserstein’s The Heidi Chronicles, about art historian Heidi Holland coming of age from the 1960s to the 1980s, touched a chord with many viewers when it first bowed in the late 1980s—and took home both a Tony and a Pulitzer Prize, too. With its often funny, often touching look at the [...]
Read More >>Theater Review: Asolo Rep’s “Glengarry Glen Ross”
By Kay Kipling It’s certainly no coincidence that the music leading us into the curtain rise for the Asolo Rep‘s Glengarry Glen Ross is jazz. The dialogue between the characters of this David Mamet play comes off like jazz; it’s as if these people are improvising, riffing off what one of them says and bouncing [...]
Read More >>Theater Review: Asolo Rep’s “You Can’t Take it With You”
By Kay Kipling For a company like Asolo Rep, the Kaufman and Hart classic You Can’t Take It With You is a perfect marriage. With its repertory acting troupe and FSU/Asolo Conservatory cast members, a large ensemble piece like this one, filled with diversely eccentric characters, allows the Asolo to truly deliver on all of [...]
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