Laura Collins-Hughes Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Laura Collins-Hughes

Psychologically acute, Shakespeare-steeped tale ... Berlinski has an intricate understanding of the dynamics of predation, the psyches of performers and the culture of theater, particularly the grittier, convention-trampling downtown variety.

Laura Collins-Hughes

Costumes I’ll miss when they go away on Sunday: Every single thing LaChanze wears in “Trouble in Mind” (by Emilio Sosa) Arica Jackson’s Washing Machine bubbles; Nasia Thomas, Nya, and Harper Miles’s Radio glam; and N’Kenge’s Moon radiance in “Caroline, or Change” (by Fly Davis)

Laura Collins-Hughes

Still in the midst of Hannah Gadsby’s “Ten Steps to Nanette,” but: She takes such care to write with both clarity and compassion about the people she loves, her mother in particular. So many memoirists strafe at will. Gadsby models a more thoughtful way.

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Laura Collins-Hughes

Costumes I’ll miss when they go away on Sunday: Every single thing LaChanze wears in “Trouble in Mind” (by Emilio Sosa) Arica Jackson’s Washing Machine bubbles; Nasia Thomas, Nya, and Harper Miles’s Radio glam; and N’Kenge’s Moon radiance in “Caroline, or Change” (by Fly Davis)

Laura Collins-Hughes

So, so puzzled that Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, which is doing Taylor Mac’s “Gary,” isn’t screaming Mac’s name from its “Gary” sign on Route 6, in front of all those cars en route to P-town, full of people who love Mac but don’t recognize the title of that play.

Laura Collins-Hughes

Curtis Sittenfeld’s new novel “Romantic Comedy” is delicious. Like, make-me-stay-up-crazy-late-reading-two-nights-in-a-row delicious.

Laura Collins-Hughes

Very glad to see Tracy Thorne’s “Jack Was Kind,” which was so unsettling online, getting its stage premiere next month at Irish Rep.

Laura Collins-Hughes

Intriguing take on “Hamnet” from Susannah Clapp. “Not since ‘Matilda’ has there been such a female-centred production at the RSC. Rarely has there been a drama that looked so firmly into the 21st century without losing the S in RSC.” https://t.co/0KUFWw6VKV

Laura Collins-Hughes

Reading Jen Silverman’s “We Play Ourselves,” I keep having to stop, shut the book and sit just looking at it because it is so good. So wise about theater, women, artists, intimacy, failure, infamy. And rage.

Laura Collins-Hughes

On a new stage adaptation of Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.”https://t.co/2kpfrKWN3b