There’s plenty of promising raw material in Jill Campbell’s documentary about former basketball great Kenny Anderson. A young prodigy who achieved fame while still playing in a Queens, NYC, high school, Anderson was the No. 2 draft pick in 1991 and went on to a heralded fourteen-year career in the NBA. He earned millions but lost it all and eventually filed for bankruptcy. He’s fathered eight children by five different women, has been married three times, and admitted that he was physically abused as a child. And more recently, he accompanied Dennis Rodman on a controversial 2014 trip to play...
- 5/5/2017
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Chemistry of Love La Mama Through May 19, 2013
With New York theater currently awash with revivals, often with movie-star cast members and big, big budgets, it can appear that new original, innovative, and inspirational non-musical works will not be taking center stage in the theater district anytime soon. So we give thanks to Off-Off Broadway's La Mama, and playwright Jill Campbell's spectacular Chemistry of Love, for waking me up to the fact that new and engaging permutations of stagecraft are still a possibility.
While Chemistry of Love certainly has a coherent plot, a simple synopsis of this resoundingly compelling play by Ms. Campbell could not do it justice. Like the creative works and lives of the conceptual multimedia artists (which this play explores), there is a complex multi-leveled richness to the play's action.
The story of this four-character play centers on conceptual artist Lara (Kim Merrill), who has been short-listed for a $500,000 grant,...
With New York theater currently awash with revivals, often with movie-star cast members and big, big budgets, it can appear that new original, innovative, and inspirational non-musical works will not be taking center stage in the theater district anytime soon. So we give thanks to Off-Off Broadway's La Mama, and playwright Jill Campbell's spectacular Chemistry of Love, for waking me up to the fact that new and engaging permutations of stagecraft are still a possibility.
While Chemistry of Love certainly has a coherent plot, a simple synopsis of this resoundingly compelling play by Ms. Campbell could not do it justice. Like the creative works and lives of the conceptual multimedia artists (which this play explores), there is a complex multi-leveled richness to the play's action.
The story of this four-character play centers on conceptual artist Lara (Kim Merrill), who has been short-listed for a $500,000 grant,...
- 5/11/2013
- by Jay Reisberg
- www.culturecatch.com
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