Two More Reviews Coming!

I have just caught up on my blog reading, and it is late, so I will not write any detailed reviews tonight. I just want to mention that the Berkeley Rep's staging of Charles Ludlam's Irma Vep was awful. Silly crap that seemed to come right out of Weimar Germany. Oops, Ludlam was associated with Warhol. Surprise! 1960's New York, Weimar Germany, too many connections for comfort.

I will probably also rant against Susan Sontag, who is quoted extensively in the program notes. Same program notes that compare Ludlam to Shakespeare and Moliere. Well, they all breathed air, but beyond that the similarities start to fade. The BRT director must have been absent for their outstanding staging of Ghosts.

The other review, this time highly favorable, was of tonight's performance by the Wiggles. Great show. I would go see it again.

Other than the fact that those two shows were both on my agenda for the week, there is another connection here. Stay tuned!

I am not sure how soon I will be posting any long posts, as we have a Symphony dinner to go to tomorrow and a baseball game on Sunday, followed by some other thing that I vaguely remember (I rely on Melanie to keep our social life straight).