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The Atmosphere of Memory: Eternal Sunshine of the Plotless Mind

Reviewing the ill-fated Woody Allen-Elaine May-Ethan Coen disaster Relatively Speaking, I thought I had seen the worst evening the New York theater season could possibly endure. I was wrong. I had not yet seen a pile of filthy, moronic drivel called The Atmosphere of Memory by a delusional, no-talent writer called David Bar Katz. Spending two and a half hours down on Bank Street at the Labyrinth Theater Co., in the most uncomfortable, makeshift, black shoebox in town (with the worst sight lines), is a new kind of hell. The play is nothing to write home about either. Read More

The Year of Magical Theater? Didion, Darwinism And a Ditz

Philip Seymour Hoffman, everybody’s favorite Very Serious Actor, will star in his own theater company’s production of Jack Goes Boating. Written by actor turned playwright Bob Glaudini (The Princess Diaries, Mississippi Burning), the play is a demonstration of Manhattan courtship mayhem, with subway attacks, cocaine and mental meltdowns—all on the first date. Mr. Hoffman and Read More