Underneath the Skin NYC Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (12)
See it if intelligent experimental performance art storytelling appeals.
Don't see it if [no reason not to see it] Read more
See it if A journey through 20th century gay history. Trysts with Rudolph Valentino and Lord Alfred Douglas. We see the ghosts of Wilde and Whitman.
Don't see it if There is some dance, but it's really a narrated, stylized play. Great acting and projections. What a life Samuel Steward led!
See it if Interested in queer history.
Don't see it if Nudity is not your thing.
See it if you like performance art that includes video, dance, acting, music in portraying the multi-faceted life of a gay, 20th Century chronicler.
Don't see it if you do not like presentations in short vignettes, sexually explicit video and art, nudity or the portrayal of sexual acts.
See it if Performance artist Kelly's elegiac, informative homage to Samuel Steward a gay pioneer of the 1950's Infused with poetic raunchy reveries
Don't see it if The episodic structure of the piece while extremely interesting & often elegant is difficult to follow & rambles, frustrating the narrative
See it if into a multi-style presentation of a gay pioneer's life, bridging the closeted literary icons and the gay sexual revolutions.
Don't see it if well... lust is openly celebrated. Read more
See it if you’re interested in the life of a protean gay pioneer presented through screen, dialogue, dance, song, and lots of real & simulated f*cking
Don't see it if you’re under 18, not interested in gay history, prefer comedies or musicals, are prudish, or don’t want to see naked men and gay sex Read more
See it if you are interested in looking back at a small slice of gay history.
Don't see it if you are offended by gay content, nudity, porn, or tattooing.
Critic Reviews (2)
“Any way you look at it, it's quite a story and Kelly does a fine job of placing Steward's life against the rapidly transforming landscape of twentieth-century gay history. Even if you've read Justin Spring's biography of Steward, he remains fascinating; for the uninitiated, particularly young audience members with little or no personal experience of the closet, it should be a real eye-opener. Underneath the Skin is the compelling account of a life lived on its own terms, no matter how the outside world chose to define it.”
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"John Kelly’s 'Underneath the Skin' is bold and entrancing."
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