https://smokeandmirrors.cityofsmoke.com Essays on Theater and the Arts Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:44:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.33 https://smokeandmirrors.cityofsmoke.com/archives/2031 Tue, 12 Mar 1991 03:08:38 +0000 http://smokeandmirrors.cityofsmoke.com/?p=2031 Neil Simon's "Lost in Yonkers"; Shakespeare's "Henry IV" at the Public The New Yorker, December 3, 1990 When Ms. Akalaitis directs Shakespeare, bad acting is meant to be avant-garde: she wants to make the material look silly, lest the audience thing it too challenging. Continue reading]]>