Benjamin Walker in American Psycho. If you work at it, Sunday can be a two-show day, for me capped by the malevolent musical American Psycho, based on Bret Easton Ellis's icy novel of a 1980s Wall Street account executive and serial killer. Yes, Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd came first in making multiple murders an apt topic for the musical stage, but unlike Psycho's Patrick … [Read more...]
Sundays: On the cutting-room floor
By Myles Ludwig Imagine this: a sea of screens with waves of 70-inch flat TVs breaking on the shore; riptides of wall-mounted Vizios trailing their HDMI cables like the sperm we used to see projected on the roll-up screen in our high school hygiene classes, before the storm surrounding sex education; a beach of upturned satellite TV dishes curling in on themselves in the … [Read more...]