Kenji Fujishima
Central Operations Analyst, Citizen and Film Critic at Freelance
Film and theater critic, general arts enthusiast, constant seeker of the sublime.
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2 weeks ago |
theatermania.com | Kenji Fujishima
There are only two design credits in the program for I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan: set and costume designer Arnulfo Maldonado and lighting designer Yuki Nakase Link. Not that their work is negligible. Maldonado furnishes an otherwise bare stage with a couch and white screens, and Link deploys lighting cues to suggest moments when the drama moves to a different setting.
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3 weeks ago |
theatermania.com | Kenji Fujishima
If nothing else, the new Broadway revival of Glengarry Glen Ross demonstrates just how difficult it is to get playwright David Mamet’s distinctive dialogue style exactly right.
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1 month ago |
theatermania.com | Kenji Fujishima
Those who went to journalism school back in the day will surely remember one value many of its professors trumpeted: the aim for objectivity, of simply reporting facts to allow readers to draw their own conclusions. Is it enough to be impartial, though, when it comes to speaking truth to power, especially when such powers actively amplify misinformation and try to return the United States to a regressive status quo?
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1 month ago |
theatermania.com | Kenji Fujishima
Drag: The Musical is still running at New World Stages, but another drag act has set up camp across the hall. Last Call, the new play by Peter Danish that opened there Sunday night, might seem like the stuff of serious drama at first glance: a speculative dramatization of an apparently real-life encounter between classical-music legends Leonard Bernstein and Herbert von Karajan at a Vienna hotel in 1988, when both maestros were in the twilight of their careers.
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1 month ago |
theatermania.com | Kenji Fujishima
One thing you can’t accuse The Great Privation (How to Flip Ten Cents Into a Dollar) of being is polemical. Nia Akilah Robinson’s new play, making its U.S. premiere with Soho Rep., is inspired in part by an enraging bit of America’s past: the way Black bodies have been exploited, even commodified, in the name of scientific progress. But instead of using that as the launching pad for an angry screed, Robinson takes a broader, more magical-realist, lyrical approach.
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My latest review for @theatermania is of the new off-Broadway solo play I'M ASSUMING YOU KNOW DAVID GREENSPAN. Among other things, it's a highly eccentric tribute to a luminary of downtown New York City theater. Read more about it here: https://t.co/XZctwtDWSB https://t.co/iwZniZ8guf
RIP Val Kilmer. He features in one of the formative movies of my youth, TOP SECRET!, so naturally, this is what I immediately thought of when I heard he had passed: https://t.co/bffEw4csYv
My latest review for @theatermania is of one of the hottest tickets on Broadway right now: a revival of GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS starring Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk, and Bill Burr. How is it? Read all about it here: https://t.co/K4JNljJuWe https://t.co/VJNeRzS2Mv
