The first, mounted in the round at the Royal Shakespeare Company's snug Swan Theater in the late 1990's, struck British audiences and critics as a revelation.
(Eric Grode) 'Children of Killers' (opens on Friday) The snug Castillo Theater is a surprising site for the latest work by Katori Hall, a recent veteran of Broadway ("The Mountaintop") and Off Broadway ("Hurt Village").
It was a steamy afternoon, and stuffy in the Dock Street Theater, a snug, historic auditorium with the feel of a legislative chamber and one of several idiosyncratic sites used by the annual Spoleto Festival USA here.
The play, which opened last night in the snug quarters of Playwrights Horizons Studio Theater, is forcefully directed by Marion McClinton and performed by an ensemble that provides several sharp character turns.
There are no movie theaters or public beaches on this snug spit of land that sits in Long Island Sound off the coast of the Bronx, like the last bean left in a bowl of white bean soup.
Its theater -- the Neighborhood Playhouse -- is snug and a little musty.
And under the appropriate title "Stars and Treasures: 75 Years of Collecting Theater," it is presented with auction-house elegance in the snug space of the library's ground-floor Donald and Mary Oenslager Gallery.
The apartment will be used as a pied-à-terre, a term that usually conjures up an image of a snug, cozy space where the owner can regroup after a night at the theater or spend a weekend taking in some of the pleasures of the city.
But no matter your age, watching The Blob, with its humble effects, its comic-book colors, and its dangerously infectious Bacharach & David theme song, will make you wish you were snug in a '58 Caddy, preferably with a non-petting-averse date, at a moonlit drive-in theater in Spook City, U.S.A. What's for dinner?
