Who’s Your Daddy? Matt Smith’s <em>All My Children</em> (Review)

Who’s Your Daddy? Matt Smith’s All My Children (Review)

In the engaging and hilarious 90-minute solo piece, Smith tells his story as Max Poth, a classic Seattle guy right who’s about Smith’s age—that age when we start thinking about legacy. Like many of us, (come on, you know you’ve done it) Max starts looking up his old flames on the Web. Turns out that each of them got married relatively soon after dumping him, and each of them had only one child. With apparently nothing better to do, Max tracks down these kids, who range in age from 13 to 30, with a singular, twisted purpose: to tell them he is their real father. Continue reading Who’s Your Daddy? Matt Smith’s All My Children (Review)

Catherine Cabeen on the Yves of Creation (Review)

Catherine Cabeen on the Yves of Creation (Review)

Catherine Cabeen’s Into the Void (at On the Boards through Saturday) doesn’t resurrect conceptual painter Yves Klein, who would have been 83 this year: It says “Thank you for your life’s work”–and “Bet you wish you’d thought of this.” It is sometimes joyful, sometimes embattled, frequently gorgeous, and always in pursuit of the elevating moment, the one you suspect might flash across your mind’s eye in a dark time. Continue reading Catherine Cabeen on the Yves of Creation (Review)