If you thought you knew everything about The Rocky Horror Show, Hartley’s staging for American Stage proved you wrong: the seemingly all-too-familiar pageant became an opportunity to explode all wisdom about sexuality and leave undifferentiated libidos loose at Demens Landing. Then Hartley pulled off the opposite feat — a play about regimentation and its discontents — for Stageworks’ Biloxi Blues. What doesn’t this artist do well?
This article appears in Sep 20-26, 2012.