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"Sam
Cooke: Where You Been Baby?"
"All
Singin' All Dancin'"
"Manhattan
Transfer"
"Searching
for Soula"
Diverse
City Theater Company's Pearl Project Theater Festival
"FUHGEddABOUDIT"
"The
Adventures of Alvin Sputnik, Deep Sea Explorer"
"The
National Diet of Japan" and "L.A. Party"
"Batman
& Robin In The Boogie Down"
"Everyday
Rapture"
"Fences"
in 2010
"Nunsense"
"Red"
"Bloody
Bloody Andrew Jackson"
Peculiar
Works Project in "Can You Hear Their Voices?"
"Sondheim
on Sondheim"
"Magus"
with Carey Harrison at Byrdcliffe Theater in Woodstock
"A
Little Night Music"
"Peter
Pan" at Paper Mill Playhouse
Gordon
Edelstein's "Glass Menagerie" at the Roundabout
"Restoration"
with Claudia Shear
"The
Forest"
"Gabriel"
"Mark
Twain's Last Stand"
"Dr.
Knock, or The Triumph of Medicine"
"Decades
Apart: Reflections of Three Gay Men"
"Sondheim
on Sondheim"
"A
Behanding in Spokane"
"The
Spring and Fall of Eve Adams"
"Ovo"
"Uncle
Vanya" at BAM
"The
Addams Family"
"Million
Dollar Quartet"
"Love
is my sin."
"Looped"
The
Miracle Worker
Ching
Chong Chinamen
The
Orphans' Home Cycle
T.S.
Eliot's "The Cocktail Party" by Actors Company
Three
views of "The Scottsboro Boys"
Bette Bourne
is back in "A Life In Three Acts"
"Equivocation"
"Clybourne
Park" by Alexander Harrington
"A
View From the Bridge"
"Time
Stands Still"
"Clybourne
Park" by Lucy Komisar
"West
Side Story"
"Hair"
"Finian's
Rainbow"
"Billy
Elliot the Musical"
MORE
THEATER REVIEWS |
John
Jasperse Company
"Dusan
Tynek Dance Theatre"
"Lady
of the Camellias" at ABT
"Necessary
Weather"
"A
Palo Seco" with Rebeca Tomás
"Gaff
Aff"
Joys
of Repertory: Thoughts on Two Companies
Petronio's
Progress
Bathing
by Moonlight
"Come
Fly Away," Twyla Tharp meets Frank Sinatra
Larry
Keigwin: City Choreographer
"Xenakis
and Japan"
"Armory
Show"
Richard
Alston Dance Company
"A
Light Convesation"
"Burn
the Floor"
"Sundowning"
"Songs
of Ascension"
Sidi
Larbi Cherkaoui: "Orbo Novo"
The
Lucidities of Lucinda Childs
New
Russian Choreography at the Storefront
Discovering
Tulsa Ballet
Gabrielle
Lansner's Human Scenery
MORE
DANCE REVIEWS
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Elvis
and Madona
Berlin
36
Harry
Potter Needs a Shave
"Irangeles":
Will Romeo Get Circumcized for Love?
"Pray
the Devil Back to Hell" An Interview with Director Virginia
Reticker
"The
Caller" You Don't Necessarily Have to Hang Up
Roman
de gare by Claude Lelouch Films
of Jacob Burckhardt
MORE FILM REVIEWS |
Denver,
the Mile High Culture City!
Under
the Sun of Sarasota
Roundup
in the Washington, DC and Arlington Area
"L'Orestie"
d'Eschyle in Paris
"Low:Meditations
Trilogy Part 1"
at
the Adrienne Arsht Center Studio Theatre in Miami
Glenn
Loney in Jordan
Twyla
Tharp in Miami
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Bring
A Weasel And A Pint Of Your Own Blood
Mac Wellman's groundbreaking Brooklyn College MFA Playwrights
adapt stories from The Apocrypha. Written and produced by playwrights
from Mac Wellman's groundbreaking Brooklyn College MFA program,
the Weasel festival is fast becoming an exciting platform for
America's rising playwrights to create experimental, irreverent
and explosive new work. Each playwright will riff off the stories
of The Apocrypha – the infamous religious texts that didn't
make the Bible's cut. Not decreed to be divinely inspired, the
Apocrypha books are ancient Greek texts that were ripped and
pasted back into the Bible throughout history. Filled with luminous
stories of prophets, angels, intrigue and heresy, the off-the-record
Apocrypha is the perfect inspiration for a festival of peculiar
plays by playwrights working outside the canon. We talk to playwright
Corina Copp about her play "Waltz". By Georgia Clark.
"The
Starship Astrov"
The year is 3047. A diplomatic mission brings a professor, his
lovely alien wife and his faithful doctor aboard "The Starship
Astrov"… Asking the question, will humanity stay
the same, or will the future change us, award-winning playwright
Duncan Pflaster ("Prince Trevor Amongst The Elephants")
returns to the Midtown International Theatre Festival with another
classic-bender fantasy: a mashup of Chekhovian comedy and science
fiction! We spoke to the playwright about this mixed genre madness
he's bringing to the famed MITF. By Georgia Clark.
Clubbed
Thumb's Summerwork series
The Obie-award winning Clubbed Thumb is gearing up to launch
their quirky off-Broadway summer series in Soho. It's their
15th annual Summerworks festival, a selection of new work that's
known for being, well, a little odd. This year sees "Dot"
by Kate E. Ryan, "Five Genocides" by Samuel D. Hunter
and "The Small" by Anne Washburn find their feet at
the Ohio Theater. We spoke to Artistic Director Maria Striar
about this year's plays, imagination as theme, and why the pipeline
between the underground and the mainstream is "kind of
broken." By Georgia Clark.
"Red
Mother"
"Red Mother," featuring the co-founder of Obie-award-winning
Spiderwoman Theater collective, Muriel Miguel, is the tale of
Belle, an old Native woman who, with her horse Blue Fred, travels
across what was once the people's land. Inspired by "Mother
Courage," this one-woman show weaves Brechtian themes with
Kuna demon tales and traditional stories with a contemporary
soundscape. Featuring multimedia projections, fabric hangings,
and music, "Red Mother" is a unique expression of
the Native American community, told from a woman's perspective.
We spoke to the Off-Broadway veteran about what led her to create
this bold new work. By Georgia Clark.
"The
Irish Curse"
Size matters to the Irish-American guys who meet every Wednesday
night in a support group... for men with very small penises.
Martin Casella's new comedy "The Irish Curse" at The
Soho Playhouse examines the fundamental question on the minds
of men since the beginning of time: "How do I measure up
to the next guy?" By Georgia Clark.
"Synesthesia
2010"
I have an idea. I show you this idea. That gives you an idea.
You show someone your idea, they show someone, they show someone,
and so on. Thus forms the basis of Electric Pear Productions
unique new show, "Synesthesia 2010." In October 2009,
a composer/lyricist team was asked to select a fortune cookie.
They created a musical theatre piece based on the fortune. Two
weeks later, they presented their work to another artist. This
artist then had two weeks to create a piece based on the work
shown to him (never having seen the fortune), and then presented
his art to the next artist in the series. She then created a
piece…and then another artist, and then another artist…
eventually, eleven in all. We spoke to a handful of the multi-disciplinary
artists involved in this year's production. By Georgia Clark.
"Up
in the Air"
For the past year, four experimental artists have been exploring
and crafting innovative new work as Artists-in-Residence at
BAX/ Brooklyn Arts Exchange. Each resident is awarded 200 hours
of prioritised rehearsal space, a $1,000 stipend, and ongoing
meetings and open rehearsals with BAX staff. As a result, the
four perfromers had the luxury of both time and space to take
risks, explore intuitive ideas, and work outside their comfort
zones, all within a structured year of ongoing support. Now,
over April and May, they present their work to the public in
the Air Festival 2010. We spoke to the four artists about this
highly supportive program and the new work they ended up creating.
By Georgia Clark.
"Bass
for Picasso"
In Kate Moira Ryan's new play, a food writer for the NY Times
is recreating the recipes of Alice B Toklas for story, and invites
over some of her friends for dinner. Comedy ensues. We spoke
to Kate about writing for differently abled people, and what
it's like working with actresses who threaten to "take
their leg off and chase the other characters around the room
with it."
"Sojourn
at Ararat"
It's been called 'timely and timeless': "Sojourn at Ararat"
is the unheard voice of an unknown people and the telling of
their unknown story through poetry. Based on the English translations
of Armenian poetry spanning 2000 years, the message it conveys
is universal: love, human tragedy, the futility of war and violence,
but ultimately, hope. "Sojourn at Ararat" finally
comes to New York after first coming to life in the late 1980s,
so we spoke to co-creator performer Nora Armani about this moving
and much acclaimed piece of theater. By Georgia Clark.
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Denver,
the Mile High Culture City!
Two World-Premieres for Colorado New Play Summit!, Show Tickets
Start at $18, Amazing Versatile Ensemble at Denver Theatre Center,
Artistic-Director Kent Thompson Innovates, Young American Playwrights
in the Spotlight, Laika & Yuri Gargarin adrift in Outer-Space!,
Will Prayer Save a Marriage & a Family When Dad Is a NASA
Astronaut?, Can Tang Make a Difference even in a Pie?, Why Did
Those Two Old Bachelor Rancher-Brothers Never Marry?, Should
Small-Children Be Taken-Away from Dim-Witted Parents?, Do Incompetents
Deserve Food-Stamps: Won’t they Squander the Tax-Payers’
Subsidies?, Free-Rides on 16th Street Mall Buses, Denver’s
Post-Post-Modernist Art-Museum: the Daniel Libeskind Addition,
Allen True’s Art-Deco Murals, Frank Ghery’s Stunning
Denver Public-Library, Get High a Mile High: Denver Medical
Marijuana!
February
Show Notes
David Mamet's Simplistic Race: Oleanna Recycled?, Laura Linney
Is Wounded War Zone Photographer in Time Stands Still, Hot Audition
for Ives' Venus in Fur, Audience Enters Martin Luther King jr's
Motel Room #306 at 59E59, "Minor" Blow Job & Fan
with a Mind of Its Own: Sam Shepard's Two Hander from Dublin's
Abbey Theatre, Rough Sketch Needs Firmer Hand, Orphan Boy Marries
in Horton Foote's Tri Partite Texas Saga, Sweet Marcus at the
Public: Brother, Sister Plays, Very Likable As You Like It at
BAM, Fabulous Art Deco Apartment for Dynamic Cast in Present
Laughter, Offstage Plane Crash in City Center Basement Pearl:
Shaw's Misalliance, Chicago's Maureen Watkins' Other Play Mint
Fresh, Liev Schreiber IS Eddie Carbone: Miller on the Bridge,
Not Much Nutcracker or Klezmer in Klezmer Nutcracker, Twenty
Two Years of Phantom of the Opera at the Majestic!, Replaying
A Little Night Music Graced by Angela Lansbury, Oscar Wilde
Sings! Ernest in Love at Irish Rep, Charming Finian's Rainbow:
Sudden Crock of Death on Broadway, Flahooley aka Jollyanna Rains
Dolls at Theatre for the New City, Look Where It Comes Again!
NY G&S Players Repeat Mikado Pinafore & Ruddigore, Grand
Opera & Grand Spectacle at the Met: Boccanegra Stifellio
& Turandot, Odysseus Ulysses Returns to Ithaca & Pénélope
at Manhattan School, Rossini's Barber in Bleecker Basement with
Amato Survivors, "Porn Flakes" for Accidental Pervert
Goffman, Belgian Teens Go Wild at Duke, Gayest Christmas Pageant
Ever Set in West Hollywood not in Greenwich Village!, Webmaster
of NYTheatre Wire.com Shows Acting Skills in Dual Role at New
City!
Belasco's
Stuyvesant Theatre: From Tiffany treasures to Roman Catholic
Confessionals.
The irrepressible Glenn Loney, still recovering from a dangerous
fall, scales perilous hights to report on the renovation of
Belasco's Stuyvesant Theatre history and the dangers of restoring
it.
Back
to work in October
James Bond & Wolverine Together on Broadway!/Carrie Fisher
Tells All & More!/Jude Is a Law Unto Himself!/Iraqui Aftermath:
Damaged People & Ruined Lives!/Impressive Irish Drama Revivals:
John Millington Synge's Playboy & Lennox Robinson's Is Life
Worth Living?/Broadway's Contemporary Aristocrats Multi Star
in The Royal Family/Murder the Protestants! Mexico City Troupe
Musically Recreates Religious Horrors in Anjou/Robert Lepage's
Ex Machina Marathon: Not Liposuction but Lipsynch.
Brain
Hemorrhages and Performing Arts Reportage
Photographing Golden-Gate-Bridge w/Trick-Lens/Disastrous-Fall
on Historic-Gun-Emplacement/Subdural-Hematomas: Can you have
a History of Brain-Hemorrhages: How many of them before you
Definitively-Die?/Wonderful Anne Hathaway in Central-Park Twelfth-Night!/Sir
James Galway & Hundreds of Flautists Break Guinness-Book-of-Records
Mass-Concert-Record!/Music-Critics of North-America: Last-Conference
at the OK-Corral: From Print-Reviews to Internet-Blogs?
"San
Francisco, Open Your GoldenGates!,"or: "I lost my
Balance in San Francisco!"
A Regretful-Report on the Perils of Photographing The Golden-Gate-Bridge
From a Cliff on Land’s-End, When One Is Over Eighty-Years-Old,
But Still Feels Seventeen Inside…
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Letters to the Editor
A Dramaturgical Response to the
Public Theater's "Twelfth Night"
John Hudson presents a dramaturgical analysis on the allegories
of religious foolishness within Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night,"
explaining how this should influence the acting, costumes, and staging
of the performance, and asserting that Public Theater's production
in Central Park this summer missed the point.
Theater
Management
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