Did Timothy Douglas really serve as artistic director of Remy Bumppo Theatre? Or did I just dream it? The guy’s tenure went by so fast—ending in January, after he’d spent only six months in the job.
The Iceman Cometh, Goodman Theatre Robert Falls revisited the Eugene O’Neill classic he first staged in 1990—only this time he had Nathan Lane playing Hickey, the hail-fellow salesman with a big thirst and a dark secret. Lane was predictably vivid in the role. But the true glory of this Iceman (well, one of the true glories, another being Falls’s fluent, buoyant way with the material) was the ensemble of 17 astonishing actors behind Lane.
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Hit the Wall, the Inconvenience at Steppenwolf Theatre’s Garage Rep In a big coup for a young playwright, Ike Holter’s look at the Stonewall riots was reviewed, glowingly, by New Yorker critic Hilton Als. It deserved the national recognition. Holter and director Eric Hoff did an exquisite job of weaving together the memories, fantasies, and brutal realities of various characters who may or may not have been at Greenwich Village’s Stonewall Inn during the wee hours of June 28, 1969, when the gay rights movement was born. Later in 2012, Holter offered up an eccentric, Twilight Zone-ish piece called Loom. It was basically a goof, but it helped confirm his talent.
