Blogs: Posts Tagged ‘ Steve Schneider ’

This is how it happens. You see the promotional materials for Carolann Valentino’s Burnt at the Steak. You read that it is a comedic portrayal of her experiences working in a New York steakhouse. You think to yourself that this could be fun – Hell’s Kitchen as a one-woman show, perhaps. Mere minutes into the...
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RibbitRePublic Theatre’s Boygroove (2005) was one of the best shows I’ve ever seen at the Orlando Fringe: a sendup of a seemingly one-dimensional subject (boy bands) that revealed layers upon layers of motivation and semiotics. The Canadian company’s Be a Man (which actually predates Boygroove) is almost identical when it comes to structure, with a four-man ensemble...
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When a show is titled Hitler’s Li’l Abomination, you feel kind of weird telling people “I loved it! It reminded me of all my relatives!” But if you grew up among Germans – especially ones who were only a few years removed from The Old Country – you’ll be beside yourself with nostalgic laughter as monologist...
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Tommy Nugent wants to tell you a story. He wants you to know how he evolved from a jaded, politically disengaged Fringe-circuit monologist into a zealous champion of the 99 percent – all because the Occupy movement came to his hometown of Detroit. He wants to tell you what he saw there, who he...
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The critical lexicon shouldn’t include phrases like “Hey, I couldn’t do it.” It’s hard to keep that thought at bay, though, when you’re watching someone like Robb Zeiser perform his feats of dexterity and concentration. He juggles metal tumblers. He holds cardboard blocks aloft in precarious, Escher-like formations. He balances more things on his...
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“Cute without being cutesy” is a tough needle to thread, but The Boxer manages it pretty ably. In writer Matt Lyle’s Depression-era romcom (previously staged in Dallas, Chicago and New York), a young woman (Gemma Fearn) poses as a man in order to stay afloat in a brutal economy. The best gig she finds is...
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A few years ago, I went to one of those MoveOn house parties where the featured entertainment was a screening of Robert Greenwald’s documentary Outfoxed. A bunch of us Orlando-area libs sat and watched in horrified fascination as Greenwald laid out the way in which the Fox News Channel had established itself as a disinformation...
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At the risk of sounding like a lefty cliché, I love me a good boycott. I love it when progressive groups boycott a supermarket chain over the exploitation of its produce growers. I love it when women’s groups boycott businesses that advertise on misogynist hate radio. And I even love it when fundamentalist Christians...
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The George W. Bush Library opens tomorrow. And there’s actually more to the story than the chance for another joke about oxymorons. Last Saturday’s New York Times included a sneak preview of the library (full name: The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum) that offered some interesting tidbits about the place. For one thing,...
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Frost/Nixon co-director John DiDonna has just announced that a special talkback session will follow the Monday, April 22, performance of the show at the Lowndes Shakespeare Center. The guest will be Orlando Weekly’s very own me, discussing the perils and pitfalls of historical fiction. If you read my review of the play, you know I...
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