Now director Tina Satter’s feminist-queer-deconstructive troupe Half Straddle is performing Is This A Room at the Lyceum on 45th Street and I must conclude that Times Have Changed. Such a move defied logic, aesthetics, and economics: The work was too bizarre, audiences too dumb, and Broadway producers invested only in tourist trash or naturalistic living-room crap. Back then, prancing around La MaMa or the Ontological with a peacock feather sticking out of my butt, it would have been insane to imagine a Broadway transfer. Impeachment: American Crime Story years ago. I would trod the boards in weird, experimental plays at Off-Off venues below 14th Street many years ago. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cast of ‘Is This A Room’ photographed at Lyceum Theatre in Manhattan.
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