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Alexis Soloski

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Uganda New York Times entertainment
19 Nov 2019
NEW YORK — When Cuban-American director and playwright María Irene Fornés died last fall, the New York Times obituary referred to her as “an underrecognized genius.” Now, what is perhaps her finest work, “Fefu and Her Friends,” can be seen at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center. Revolutionary in its form and daring in its philosophy, “Fefu,” from 1977, hasn’t played off-Broadway since its debut. Think of it as the masterpiece no one has seen.
'A Long Time Coming' for Masterwork No One Has Seen
Uganda New York Times entertainment
16 Aug 2019
Tania and Syngin were fighting. It was mid-June and sultry, with the afternoon temperature snaking toward 80 degrees. They hadn’t slept much the night before — blame work, blame sex — and now, in the front seats of a lumbering Chevy Suburban, having already missed a couple of turnoffs along a New York highway, they began to argue about the future. Did Syngin have a plan? Could Tania stop yelling?
'90 Day Fiancé': An Anti-Fantasy for Troubled Times
Uganda New York Times entertainment
2 Aug 2019
Yes, Jake Gyllenhaal was crying, but it was a dignified kind of crying. Less sobbing, more welling. “Sorry,” he said, collecting himself. “I hate this. It seems performative in an interview.” But if you open yourself to the problem of existence in what may or may not be a determinate universe — which is what Gyllenhaal was doing on an afternoon two weeks ago — tears happen.
Men Who Aren't Afraid of Tears
Uganda New York Times entertainment
19 Jul 2019
Halley Feiffer was a lonely high school student when she fell hard for a tall, dark and long-dead Russian. Aaron Posner met the same man in college and it was really more of a love/hate situation. “It ended up being kind of the ultimate frustration,” he said. “Almost like a tease.” That special guy: Anton Chekhov, a father of modern drama and one of the most acute chroniclers of the human condition in its brilliant, broken, awkward variety.
From Russia, With Despair, Self-Loathing and Love
Uganda New York Times entertainment
15 May 2019
(Critic's Pick): NEW YORK — Phileas Fogg, the imperturbable hero of “Around the World in 80 Days,” has returned to New York, having taken up residence at the New Victory Theater. Laura Eason, a playwright who usually traffics in more adult fare (“Sex with Strangers,” “House of Cards”) has adapted Jules Verne’s novel into a fleet and often rollicking trek for the squirmier end of the elementary school crowd and their guardians. It travels light.
Review: A rollicking trek 'Around the World in 80 Days'
Uganda New York Times entertainment
6 May 2019
NEW YORK — Once upon a time, a little boy became a literary sensation. A man with a peculiar take on happily ever after, Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, wrote tales that have inspired operas, ballets and a couple of Disney movies. His oversize statue — with oversize top hat and oversize cygnet — permanently hogs a granite bench in Central Park. Now Andersen arrives at the Duke on 42nd Street, with the Ensemble for the Romantic Century’s “Hans Christian Andersen: Tales Real and Imagined...
Review: In 'Hans Christian Andersen: Tales Real and Imagined,' no happily ever after