Michael Sommers

2 days ago | nystagereview.com | Michael Sommers

Freed from her Victorian corsets as earnest Marian Brook of TV’s current The Gilded Age series, Louisa Jacobson rips into a juicy contemporary role as a swaggering prep school bro in Trophy Boys. Ball cap backwards, oxford shirttails flying, Jacobson rages around as a boisterous jock who constantly and hoarsely proclaims, “I love women!” amidst Emmanuelle Mattana’s short, sharp, seriocomic study in toxic masculinity.

1 week ago | nystagereview.com | Michael Sommers

Who enjoys The Crown, the dishy six-season British TV series dramatizing the affairs of the House of Windsor? Opening Tuesday, Prince Faggot delivers an episode of The Crown pushed ahead in time to the 2030s. In a new Off Broadway play, Jordan Tannahill spins a what-if story around Prince George, the UK heir to the throne. His fiction presents George as an 18 year-old gay art student at Oxford who shares a red-hot romance with Dev, a fine South Asian British man.

1 week ago | nystagereview.com | Michael Sommers

The splendid Montreal-based troupe of acrobats, gymnasts, dancers and circus artists known as The 7 Fingers currently makes a two-week appearance in far lower Manhattan at the Perelman Performing Arts Center, where its delightful Passengers opened on Sunday. Passengers is a Cirque du Soleil sort of entertainment, sans that estimable company’s typically extravagant décor and themes.

2 weeks ago | nystagereview.com | Michael Sommers

That ever-remarkable playwright and performance artist Taylor Mac claims this latest event, Prosperous Fools, is inspired by Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Moliere’s 1670 comedy about a rich slob who takes lessons in hopes of becoming a classy A-Lister. No need to brush up on it—this is not at all the story that the MacArthur and Guggenheim award-winning Mac presents in Prosperous Fools, which premiered on Thursday at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in downtown Brooklyn.

2 weeks ago | nystagereview.com | Michael Sommers

A popular mainstream actor, John Krasinski enjoys a profile as an agreeable white American guy, established by his role as the affable Jim in the long-running sitcom The Office and since maintained by subsequent projects and his cheerful visits to talk shows. Krasinski’s personable brand puts a deceptively happy face on Angry Alan, a dark comedy about a Mister Nice Guy whose online trip into the “Google vortex” causes his outlook on life to grow increasingly misogynistic.