Fuerzabruta: Too Brutish for Times's Taste

Published: October 25, 2007, 3:38 pm

The New York theater world's obsession with the almighty Times, which was once astutely likened to kremlinology, has often erupted in strong words about reviewer Charles Isherwood, whose opinion was recently derided as antique snobbery by TONY critic David Cote. So it was amusing to discover today that not only had the Times assigned the more mainstreamish Ish to review Fuerzabruta, the latest wet and wild spectacle from the people behind De La Guarda, but that he'd been forced to dance a little jig as well: I am fiercely averse to audience participation, and discovered that my habitual routine for repelling the attentions of frisky cast members tightly crossed arms, forbidding stare was useless here. I was set upon by a small, feisty fellow who mocked (rather well) my glowering stiffness, grabbed me by the shoulders, and insisted I join the jumping throngs. I compromised with a hop or two, and he left me in blessed peace. Unhand me, rapscallion, lest my

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