Wednesday, April 15, 2015

According to Charles Isherwood, you don't want to go to 'Iowa'




Review: ‘Iowa’ Is a State of Absurdity at Playwrights Horizons.  (The New York Times, 4/13/2015)

From the start, Isherwood tells us what he really thinks.
Aiming for the endearingly zany, the new musical “Iowa” overshoots the runway, landing somewhere in the vicinity of complete inanity. This oppressively antic show, about the uneasy relationship between an introverted teenage girl and her excessively — make that lunatically — outgoing mother, plays like a series of songs, scenes and sketches with little connecting tissue.

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