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Photo: Joan Marcus Note: Sam Gold’s production of Annie Baker’s play The Flick, produced at Playwrights Horizons in 2013 and subsequently awarded the Pulitzer Prize, returns tonight at the Barrow Street Theater with the same cast. We’re reposting Jesse Green’s review of that production. Here are some things that do not happen in Annie Baker’s new play The Flick. A confessed love is not reciprocated. An unconfessed love is not reciprocated. (I think; much is mysterious.) A friend does not, in a pinch, help a friend. A sad person does not learn a happy lesson. The audience does not get a moral, or even a subject. Also missing in action: action. No one does anything generally regarded as theatrical. So what does happen in The Flick? A lot of sweeping and mopping of the floor of a grotty old movie house near Worcester, Massachusetts. Also the tenderest drama — funny, heartbreaking, sly, and unblinking — now playing at a theater near you. Hard to say how this happens, but it begins with negation. As if to banish expectations of traditional storytelling, Baker specifies a crazy two-minute blast of bombast — Bernard Herrmann’s opening for The Naked and the Dead — as a kind of overture, while an indecipherable flicker of images is projected from the set’s back wall onto us in the audience. (We are the screen.) The music is so overwrought in its late Romantic writhing that when the first scene finally starts we are grateful for its extreme banality. A 35-year-old guy who works for the cinema simply shows a 20-year-old newbie how to clean the auditorium between shows. The protocol for spilled soda is revealed. As the “action” continues in this manner, we learn more about Avery (the newbie) and Sam (the old hand) — as well as about Rose, the 24-year-old, green-haired projectionist — than would seem possible in a play with no “here’s who I am” speeches or “here … [Read more...] about Theater Review: The Return of Annie Baker’s

Photo: YouTube A new era of pantsuits — sorry, power suits — began in this country yesterday, no better exemplified than in Demi Lovato’s performance on Celebrating America last night, when she sang a cover of Bill Withers’s “Lovely Day.” The televised post-inauguration event also featured performances by Bruce Springsteen, Katy Perry, and Justin Timberlake. Lovato belted the chorus to perfection, including the unceasing “lovely day” at the bridge, all done in an empty room with a moving background and no audience. Remember, she’s not only a fabulous singer, she’s a performer, and she did her best to groove along while heralding a new day for America to a synth-pop arrangement. The green-screened background started out innocuously enough, just the sun setting over some unidentified city. It remained plenty wholesome, with clips of health-care workers and regular ol’ Americans in regular ol’ places joining in to pull this country together with off-beat lip-syncing. Then, a moment of surprise: Lin-Manuel Miranda staring dead into the camera, slyly grinning as he sang, “Then I look at you.” He didn’t stay onscreen long, and the background went back to joyous images of people singing along across the States, with shots of Joe and Jill Biden holding their grandson Beau and bopping along to the undoubtedly insatiable beat. Maybe if we all write a letter to our new president, he’ll limit Lin-Manual Miranda cameos in his first 100 days. That man is everywhere. … [Read more...] about Demi Lovato Heralds a ‘Lovely Day’ on