Email Author Kevin Phinney

2012 Stories by Kevin Phinney

• Stage: Entertaining Mr. Sloane

  published May 23, 2012

  Some people are primarily visual in the way they process incoming stimuli. I'm likely more auditory. I can carry a tune (with far-from-perfect... More >>

• Opening Nights: Bed Snake

  published May 16, 2012

  If you liked WET's retrofuturistic '80s MTV tribute Robopop! two years ago, you'll be eager to see this welding of horror movie and... More >>

• Opening Nights: An Evening With Groucho

  published May 16, 2012

  Not many people love Groucho Marx as I do. Yet it's easy to imagine that a dwindling number of comedy fans remember him (1890–1977), his... More >>

• Opening Nights: A Language of Their Own

  published April 25, 2012

  Let it be said one more time that I'm gay. I mention it only so you won't label me a homophobe for not liking ReAct's staging of Chay Yew's... More >>

• Opening Nights: It Shoulda Been You

  published April 18, 2012

  This "new" musical comedy has been around since 2009, and it was most recently staged in New Jersey under the direction of Frasier's... More >>

• Opening Nights: First Date

  published April 4, 2012

  First Date is a gossamer confection of a new musical, easily several notches above last year's co-production by the Fifth and ACT, the... More >>

• Opening Nights: Stuck

  published March 28, 2012

  Ennui's a bitch in Jessica Hatlo's new play. Its central conceit—based on actual events—is a heroine so terrified of real life that... More >>

• Opening Nights: Emerald City

  published March 21, 2012

  Sometimes you can have it both ways. S.P. Miskowski's Emerald City is both a narrow, niche play about Seattle's... More >>

• The Foxconn Con

  published March 21, 2012

  “This is Daisey at the top of his volcanic form—indignant, irate, and harder to ignore than the weather.” Gee, what... More >>

• Opening Nights: Pygmalion

  published February 29, 2012

  The more things change, the more they don't. In a world where an all-male panel can advise a congressional committee on contraception and a... More >>

• Opening Nights: I Am My Own Wife

  published February 15, 2012

  The phrase "a clear choice" becomes a public mantra every election cycle, because politicians understand that America likes its alternatives... More >>

• Stage: Four Sheets to the Wind

  published February 8, 2012

  Set in four different bar scenes, Simon Astor's very retro shoestring extravaganza Cocktails at the Centre of the... More >>

• Opening Nights: The Callers

  published January 25, 2012

  Camp is not just a summer destination, as the talented WET ensemble proves all too painfully in The Callers, the troupe's first... More >>