Gray Palmer

Too Many Hitlers or: The Decoy Decameron

gray palmer · June 13, 2017 certified reviewer
Recommended At last year’s Hollywood Fringe, in Tony Danza's Letterz 2 2pac, the writer/comedian Steven Benaquist brilliantly impersonated a clueless Tony Danza sharing Tupac Shakur’s letters from prison. In that TV-earnest “conversation for the ages,” Benaquist gave a deadpan performance of Danza’s revelations about — and appropriations of — blackness that was hilarious and jaw-dropping. This year Benaquist returns with another satisfying hall-of-mirrors comedy, Too Many Hitlers. Here, at... full review

SKIN OF HONEY/PIEL DE MIEL

gray palmer · June 18, 2016 certified reviewer
see body of review.... full review

Tony Danza's Letterz 2 2Pac: an Evening with Tony Danza

gray palmer · June 10, 2016 certified reviewer
I indicated this in the lede of my review published in "Stage Raw" and again in the closing paragraph. Benaquist's humor is savvy culture-jamming collision of pop-perspectives, and especially of the inept lumpen-liberal view of racial inequities.... full review