Although Idina Menzel looks fabulous in “Skintight,” the new play by Joshua Harmon (Bad Jews,” “Significant Other”), her character, Jodi Isaac, is a total wreck when she flies into New York for her father’s 70th birthday. Jodi’s middle-aged husband has left her for a 24-year-old, and all her […]
Age is just a number, right? And beauty, as we all know, is only skin-deep. The truth of these consoling clichés is severely tested in “Skintight,” Joshua Harmon’s comedy of acute chronological consciousness, which opened on Thursday in a sharply directed production by Daniel Aukin at the Geffen […]
Skintight, now making its West Coast premiere at Los Angeles’ Geffen Playhouse, is an acerbic, neurotic, heart-achingly funny meditation on family, love, and beauty – and how we quantify, catalog, and value each of those things. Idina Menzel, straight from the off-Broadway production, headlines as Jodi Isaac, a […]
“There is a relief in not waking up every day and having to test whether I can hit a high note,” Idina Menzel says with a laugh, one of the many changes the award-winning, 47-year-old actress/singer is currently experiencing in her life. Last year, the Syosset, New York-born […]
The most memorable performances in any medium are being given by a remarkable group of industry veterans — Judith Light, Allison Janney and Audra McDonald, among them. For a long time, you could open a movie with a close-up on a woman’s face, as long as she presented […]
Education Dramaturge Ted Sod sits down with actress Idina Menzel to discuss her character in “Skintight” and what inspires her as an artist. Ted Sod: Where were you born and educated? When did you decide you wanted to be a performer, and did you have any teachers who […]