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This trailer is SO Will Eno. Not usually a big fan of his work, but I loved this play.

I saw A Kid Like Jake last night and thought it was absolutely fantastic -- so smart, so well-written, and so well acted (especially from Carla Gugino). Anyone else here see it?

I absolutely loved it, and think you should try to catch it before it closes this weekend. As I wrote in a blog post today, I'm reading Patti Smith's JUST KIDS right now and found they really spoke to each other.

My review of the show...

New York Times re-reviews the show (along with Peter and the Starcatcher):

If she could act she could be great in a Born Yesterday type show...

Saw the show last night...I thought it was a case of style over substance. Talented performers, lots of potential there, but ultimately left me cold. Brantley and David Cote were both there last night, as was Michael Friedman.

Thought I would add my review of the show to this post... Last night my partner and a friend of ours spent the evening dancing with Imelda Marcos and about 200 other strangers at The Public Theater’s Here Lies Love, and unlike many others from her time as the First Lady of the Philippines, we lived to tell the tale. With music by Talking Head’s David Byrne and directed with endless inventiveness by wunderkind Alex Timbers, I found the show to be a totally unique and enjoyable theatrical exper...

Are the two necessarily mutually exclusive? :)

Well, color me pleasantly surprised. And cautiously optimistic. I've been looking forward to the film adaptation of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August Osage County since the moment it was announced. Having seen the show twice on Broadway, I was blown away by it's depth, power and surprising comedy. Because the tightness of the original cast, made up primarily of actors from the Steppenwolf Theater Company, was integral to what made it work so well as a theatrical piece, I was con...