Hustlers, barrio bums and underage cyberpunks

An unexceptional week of theatergoing recorded in this week's TONY: Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball's intermittently sharp but schematic portrait of cultural anomie; a bouncy but saccharine tuner about a Latino-dominated block in northern Manhattan; and an Off-Off Broadway teen cyberthriller about IM  crime. The latter work, 6969, is by the group CollaborationTown, a collective whose The Catharsis of Pathos: The Deepest Play Ever (not, surprisingly, penned by a certain elder blogger) was the funniest-sounding Fringe show I ever missed, to my continuing regret. C-Town goes down in my book as a troupe worth following: talented actors with a taste for pulp and plenty of humor and theatrical flair.

Comments

[isaac]

I was actually going to write about this at Parabasis:

All of the reviews in this week's TONY theatre section had 3 stars with the exception of 2, one that has four stars and one that has 2. Which means that clearly it was a fair-to-middlin' week in theatre land...

[David Cote]

Yeah we noticed that too. And much as I liked elements of 6969, I felt it needed a further draft to really be effective, thus the highly scientific 3 stars I gave it.