The Hunter
Becomes the Hunted
"I was this magazine’s theater reviewer. Now I’ve co-written a Broadway musical. Those jobs have one big thing in common.
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"What’s it like to make things for a living?
"Everyone wants to know, because who doesn’t want to make things? But everyone especially wants to know what it’s like to make things for a living if you’re someone who used to break things for a living — in either the good way or the bad way. Especially the bad way."
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Theater Review:
David Mamet’s The Anarchist
"Mamet still believes in characters, but barely. He’s most interested in them as agents of basic argumentation; they’re up there to deposit the black-and-white Go stones of his logical grid. What those stones spell out, at the end of the night, is a deep anger no less fierce and consuming than his mid-period 'fuck'-offs.
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"It’s the fury of a mind divided against itself: Mamet, like most American conservatives (and most Americans, period), is both a libertarian and an authoritarian, and the paradox is vexing and thrilling for him. But it is a forensic rather than a dramatic anger, and LuPone and Winger are quite obviously suffocating up there."
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Theater Review:
Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark
"As maximalist camp, it succeeds thunderously. Is that what it intends to be? Irrelevant.
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"To ascribe intent would be to limit the power of this show’s occasionally frightening, often confounding, always metastasizing imagination.
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"I recommend Spider-man never open. I think it should be built and rebuilt and overbuilt forever, a living monument to itself."
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