Fine performance, okay role, mediocre play.

Today I received this anonymous email from someone obviously upset about my recent cover story on Mitchell Cushman, director of the current site specific show The Agony And The Ecstasy Of Steve Jobs (And The Repudiation And Redemption Of Mike Daisey).

When I ordered my copy of Young Jean Lee’s script The Shipment from Amazon, it arrived a few days later, the black cover as smooth and shiny as patent leather.

Physical and emotional abuse leaves lots of scars, which might not open up until years later. That’s one of the powerful facts that comes across in Pamela Mala Sinha’s solo show Crash, which gets an atmospheric production even if the script itself has problems.

If you think contemporary dance is all navel-gazing irrelevancy, you need to see Compagnie Käfig’s double bill, part of World’s Stage’s season and on at the Fleck only until Saturday.