Coitus Interruptus

The potential cockfight between the New York and Boston musical productions of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata will not take place this summer after all.

In early March, The Transom reported that A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum screenwriter Larry Gelbart’s adaptation of Lysistrata for Boston’s American Repertory Theatre had been dumped after the Read More

Cherry Vs. Larry: Dual Lysistrata s Prick Stage War

A funny thing happened on the way to the Manhattan Theater Club.

Larry Gelbart, the author of Tootsie and the TV version of M*A*S*H , and co-author of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, wrote a racy adaptation of Lysistrata -the Aristophanes play about Grecian sexual politics-with songs by Alan Menken Read More