May 21, 2010
Humor and Heart Laid Bare in Naked Boys Singing
Ganymede Arts’ “Naked Boys Singing” What you see is what you get in Naked Boys Singing, a show with a title that’s cheekily literal being staged by Ganymede Arts (making a welcome return to full-scale productions) at 1409 Playbill Cafe. But it’s also a show that eschews Chippendales-style titillation, casting attractive but not unrealistic looking men as its five singers, who belt out tunes that wink and play around with penis puns, for sure,…
Mar 10, 2009
In The Garden With Ganymede
After The Garden is Train Wreck Theater, but very much intentionally so. After all, look at the subject matter. We’ve got a one-man show, which is a recreation of an actual, historic one-woman show, and that woman is a beloved eccentric known for her unabashed lack of modesty, her years of living in squalor, her dysfunctional relationship with her mother. It’s Little Edie Beale, familiar to anyone who’s experienced the Grey Gardens documentary, or…