"Underneath the Lintel," a monologue by Glen Berger that opened at the SoHo Playhouse yesterday, is the kind of piece that works harder to be winning than it does to be heartfelt or original.
Mr. Feldman and other community leaders hope that the playhouse will be a kind of catalyst for development along the avenue, where $5 million has just been spent on improvements such as lighting and paving as well as burying power lines under a completely rebuilt roadway.
Kids can even get super creative and create furniture, alcoves, shelves and more on the inside, making their snow structure a one-of-a-kind winter playhouse.
In this quiet stretch of the Village, a crew of workers was transforming an antiques-filled loft into a kind of video playhouse, wired for round-the-clock surveillance of its occupants.
It's understood now that Playhouse now does have that kind of reputation and respect.
Now the playhouse houses productions of all kinds, as diverse as "The Nutcracker" at Christmastime and "Toypurina," a dramatic collaboration (premiering Oct. 23) with the Gabrieleno-Tongva San Gabriel Band of Mission Indians.
Jackie had a small playhouse in the main house, like a dollhouse/playhouse kind of thing.
It was tiny; we later called it the playhouse, and used it as a base for the kind of cute Tom Sawyescapadesscapades that spoil the ending of Huckleberry Finn.
Certainly the years I spent with The Playhouse Of The Ridiculous laid the foundation for the kind of political rock and roll theatre I do today.
Even in a troubled economy, it seems, some parents of means are willing to spend significant (if not eye-popping) sums on playhouses for their children that also function as a kind of backyard installation art.
…It's a one-of-a-kind, handmade paper-maché replica of Clocky from Pee-wee's Playhouse, and it is a working clock.
