…Cab»: la star que fut le jazzman Cab Calloway n’est jamais loin, avec son smoking blanc et ses airs de dandy. Il fera même une (ré)apparition. Mais «Cab legs», c’est aussi «jambes de taxi»: idée…

…personal destiny of its author and that of his contemporaries in general.” The many destinies Oscar Wilde contrived became alluvial mirrors turned loose on the world, particularly England, and himself. Wilde developed a hinged, somewhat…

…(a subgenre called “slash mpreg”). But, hey: Who’s afraid of the Albee estate? Not Scelsa. Her breezily intertextual, polysexual, queer-feminist dance remix reclaims that barren harridan Martha in the name of parody. Here’s a fruity…

…by a pair of marathon all-day perfs over the weekend), Fletcher’s Jim arrives at the office in a gaudy pink suit, although he still reviews papers from a secretary and carries a worse-for-wear weariness. His…

…Elevator Repair Service, an experimental theater company based in New York-an adaptation of “The Great Gatsby,” since nothing in the novel has be altered to conform to theatrical constraints. Nor is it precisely a theatricalization…

by Alexis Soloski In his autobiography, Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia’s favorite son, lists the 13 virtues that will lead to “moral perfection”—moderation, temperance, and cleanliness among them. Immoderate, intemperate, and frequently dirty, the Philadelphia Live Arts…

…the book to a rehearsal, and proposed it as potential material to John Collins, the company’s founder and director. Bodow, who is tall and animated, recalls, “I had recently turned thirty, like Nick Carraway, and…

…told from the point of view of the Compson family’s youngest son. Mute and mentally handicapped, Benjy cannot distinguish between past and present. In prose that is in turns lyrical and confounding, hilarious and tragic,…

…of the Compson household- Benjy’s two older brothers, Quentin and Jason; his beloved sister, Caddy; his hypochondriac mother; and the stalwart black maid, Dilsey, among others- onstage at once. Most of the roles are played…

…the show, and there are no rules that allow you to decode the production. It is all as unstable as Benjy’s narrative flux, played almost always by Susie Sokol. The realist set, reproducing a typical…