(Seen 11/23/08)
Even the high-powered film director Ken Russell, making his local debut as a stage director, is ill-equipped and unable to transform Anthony Horowitz's venture into mind games -- lower case "m" and "g" -- into a workable stage presentation.
MINDGAME seems to strive for the illusions/delusions/mind games that were so successfully achieved in SLEUTH. But Horowitz has stacked the deck with jokers, and Russell overplays every hand and every character. The result is a silly and sometimes embarassing pursuit for its actors. Keith Carradine, Lee Godart, and Kathleen McKenny deserve better.
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- ACCENT ON YOUTH at MTC's Friedman Theatre
- WAITING FOR GODOT at Roundabout's Studio 54
- THE PHILANTHROPIST at Roundabout's AA Theatre
- MARY STUART at the Broadhurst Theatre
- ROCK OF AGES at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre
- WEST SIDE STORY at the Palace Theatre
- GUYS AND DOLLS at the Nederlander Theatre
- RUINED at MTC's Stage I
- PAL JOEY at Roundabout's Studio 54
- SHREK The Musical at the Broadway Theatre
- MINDGAME at the Soho Playhouse
- BILLY ELLIOT the MUSICAL at the Imperial Theatre
- STREAMERS at Roundabout's Laura Pels Theatre
- ROMANTIC POETRY at MTC's Stage I
- TO BE OR NOT TO BE at MTC's Friedman Theatre
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Observations by Ira J. Bilowit
He has been writing about the theatre in numerous publications for over fifty years, and has been involved in producing and writing for the theatre during same period.
Professionally, he is a member of the DRAMA DESK (former Vice Pres.), the American Theatre Critics Association, the Dramatists Guild, and the International Association of Theatre Critics.
Former Managing Editor/Feature Writer/Reviewer for SHOW BUSINESS; Editor/Publisher of New York Theatre Review; Contributing Editor/Feature Writer for BACK STAGE.