'Glee', Berlin, & Assassins: Haiku Reviews (PHOTOS)

HuffPost Arts' Haiku Reviews is a weekly feature where invited critics review exhibitions and performances in short form. Some will be in the traditional Haiku form of 5x7x5 syllables, others might be a sonnet or a string of words together. This week Peter Frank and George Heymont give quick takes on theatre and visual art from Beverly Hills to Berlin. Is there a show or performance that you think people should know about? Write a Haiku with a link and shine a light on something you think is noteworthy too.

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WHAT: Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City American Conservatory Theatre American Conservatory Theatre, 415 Geary Street, San Francisco, California Through July 24 HAIKU REVIEW: From the very first beats of disco music, a parade of fond memories whisks across the stage in the form of first-time bong hits, roller-skating nuns, the steam room in a gay bathhouse, and the jockey shorts contest at The EndUp. However, members of the audience who do not arrive pre-invested in Armistead Maupin's characters might find it difficult to gain any emotional traction with them or develop a sense of empathy as so many plot points go whizzing by onstage. The residents of San Francisco in the 1970s -- who were brought to life so beautifully on the printed page and in the television miniseries -- don't exert the same magnetic grip on their audience in this new musical comedy adaptation of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City. -George Heymont

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WHAT:
Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City
American Conservatory Theatre
American Conservatory Theatre, 415 Geary Street, San Francisco, California
Through July 24

HAIKU REVIEW: From the very first beats of disco music, a parade of fond memories whisks across the stage in the form of first-time bong hits, roller-skating nuns, the steam room in a gay bathhouse, and the jockey shorts contest at The EndUp. However, members of the audience who do not arrive pre-invested in Armistead Maupin's characters might find it difficult to gain any emotional traction with them or develop a sense of empathy as so many plot points go whizzing by onstage. The residents of San Francisco in the 1970s -- who were brought to life so beautifully on the printed page and in the television miniseries -- don't exert the same magnetic grip on their audience in this new musical comedy adaptation of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City.
-George Heymont

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[Nanci Yuronis]

02:02 PM on 06/24/2011

Since when does visual trickery and plastic cylinders glowing with different colors constiture art? As the highest form of human communication, there needs be something human, elemental, archetypical in a creation. Do I understand better? Have I new insight? Is there a new and poignant perspective on life and living in this art?