April 28, 2011 at 3:26 pm
This morning, the Huntington Theatre Company announced that it has been given a $10 million gift from the Calderwood Charitable Foundation! Read more here.
April 26, 2011 at 3:21 pm
“Black Watch” first premiered in 2007 and has toured, but I managed avoid hearing about the play–about a group of Scottish soldiers in Iraq–until today. The play, which was originally performed at the National Theatre of Scotland runs at St. Anne’s Warehouse in Brooklyn until May 8th. Here is the New York Times article about […]
April 20, 2011 at 12:31 pm
Belarus Free Theatre premieres a new piece at La MaMa in New York City. The title of the article says it all: “Political Theatre, Brought to you by the Politically Powerless.” The piece focuses on “tracing the relationship between power and violence” in the works of Harold Pinter. Read more here: http://theater.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/theater/reviews/07pinter.html?ref=theater
April 15, 2011 at 1:17 pm
Check out this interactive image of the gradual dissolution of Yugoslavia.
April 13, 2011 at 1:29 pm
Tonight, the Huntington Theatre Company will have a World Premiere of a new play at the Calderwood Pavilion in Boston’s South End. The play is “Sons of the Prophet” by Stephen Karam, writer of “Speech & Debate,” recently produced by Lyric Stage, and also co-writer of “columbinus” a controversial play that was banned at […]
April 5, 2011 at 11:03 pm
Here is a fun, ironic little article about a group of law (of all things) students at Duke University who wrote a musical about former president Richard Nixon, an alum of Duke’s Law School, who apparently was disowned after the Watergate Scandal. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/04/us/04nixon.html?_r=2&ref=theater
March 30, 2011 at 11:28 am
Here is a review of “Bengal Tiger in the Baghdad Zoo” on Broadway starring Robin Williams. This article drew me in for several reasons, the first being working on Fallujah by Evan Sanderson has increased my awareness of and understanding of the need for plays about war. Also, the article compares this new […]
March 20, 2011 at 7:41 pm
A new production of Conor McPherson’s “The Weir” is happening at South Coast Repertory! I found it very interesting to read about how this show lives on its feet versus on the page (and the images are great, too). Thought this was a good preemptive post for our class discussion on Friday! Read the review […]
February 24, 2011 at 10:21 am
The Spidey Project, from the Peoples Improv Theatre, challenges whether putting $65 million into a Broadway musical is the best course of action to make it good. Their goal: write, compose, cast and stage a musical about Spiderman with $0 and mount it March 14–the day before Turn Off the Dark is scheduled to (finally) […]
February 10, 2011 at 1:08 am
A piece by the prolific choreographer of Spring Awakening and Fela and recipient of a Kennedy Center Honor, Bill T. Jones, which starts performances this weekend at the ICA in Boston. This production is a revitalization of a collection of duets choreographed by Jones and his partner, before his partner’s death from AIDS in 1988. […]
February 3, 2011 at 10:34 am
An interesting new piece of environmental theatre at London International Mime Festival: http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/theatreblog/2011/feb/03/disasters-theatre-climate-change-threats
