February 23, 2012 at 1:56 pm
I just got a fascinating email from a colleague at The Civilians (where our own Steve Ginsburg is also in residence this spring). Here’s the message, which I think will be of interest to you: I work for The Civilians (The Center for Investigative Theater) in Brooklyn, New York (www.thecivilians.org) and we have a semi-theatrical, […]
February 21, 2012 at 11:54 pm
As a kid I was an avid reader and Roald Dahl was always one of my favorites. His books had a way of keeping me thoroughly entertained by the whimsical plot lines, but I also felt sort of adult reading them. I never felt like Roald Dahl was talking down to me. As a reader […]
February 21, 2012 at 4:45 pm
While browsing through the online San Francisco Chronicle ‘Entertainment’ section (yes I live in Boston now, but a girl can still read, right?…) I came across a review of the documentary ‘It Gets Better’ which is airing tonight (Tuesday the 21st) on MTV and Logo cable channels at 11:00 P.M. Watch it if you can! […]
February 21, 2012 at 10:35 am
This semester, I was lucky enough to be cast in The Vagina Monologues, presented by The Center for Gender, Sexuality and Activism. Participating in this piece has been a theatrical experience unlike any I have had before, because it feels like so much more than a play. It has given me the opportunity to engage […]
February 18, 2012 at 12:26 pm
I found this article that reminded me of the discussion we had in class about the roles available to minorities in contemporary theatre. This article focuses on the lack of roles available for “older women” in British Theatres. In the same way that our stages are not reflecting the world that we live in racially, […]
February 17, 2012 at 3:59 pm
Last night, I had the pleasure of attending Monster, Neal Bell’s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic Gothic novel Frankenstein, presented by the Boston Center for American Performance. I absolutely love Frankenstein, so I went into the evening excited, but also a little bit skeptical. Shelley’s prose is lush and descriptive, and one of my favorite […]
February 17, 2012 at 12:19 am
We’ve all heard the saying “white men can’t jump,” which we know is actually not true. Yet somehow we stand in awe of Jeremy Lin, a Chinese-American guard for the New York Nicks, because who knew that a Chinese man COULD jump? Or actually be 6’3″? Both Jeremy Lin’s incredible height and skill on the […]
February 15, 2012 at 1:01 am
I saw “The King’s Speech” in theaters and absolutely loved it. Not only was it awesome to see vocal techniques we learn in Voice and Speech being done by Geoffrey Rush and Colin Firth on the big screen, the story of a man deeply examining his inner life was also resonant with the experience of […]
February 14, 2012 at 4:27 pm
I was reading this interesting blog by Nina Simon, who specializes in museum experiences. In her post “Come On In and Make Yourself Feel Uncomfortable,” she writes about her experience attending a local gym for the first time. She admits that, “There was nothing threatening about the people at the boxing gym. And yet I felt […]
February 13, 2012 at 11:08 pm
The most recent Cottmail I received included several articles about theater companies providing live broadcasts of shows- some in cinemas and some online. My immediate reaction is skeptical… Isn’t part of the definition of theater that it is live? That there is no removal of a screen? What about the communal experience? The human experience […]
February 12, 2012 at 11:23 am
Recently, for obvious reasons, I have been drawn to articles about the future of theatre. I think that if I were to give my blogs so far a title, they would be called -The future as an artist, what the hell are we going to do? I found this article about the current, and future […]
February 11, 2012 at 9:08 pm
The Huntington Theatre Company recently presented Yasmina Reza’s Tony and Olivier award winning play God of Carnage. This hilarious and often painful piece had a successful run at the Huntington, and I personally enjoyed it immensely. It is grounded enough in reality to allow the often outrageous, almost slapstick elements to feel true. Reza’s text […]
February 11, 2012 at 2:42 pm
I have been fascinated by the recent trend of playwrights turned screen/TV writers. For the longest time I thought of the world of theatre and television as distinctly different, which they are, but to the overlap in intriguing. I first took interest in this trend when I stumbled across an article about playwright Tanya Saracho’s […]
February 10, 2012 at 1:26 am
NOTE: THIS POST IS WRITTEN BY CALLIE AND POSTED BY SONIA BECAUSE CALLIE DOES NOT CURRENTLY HAVE POSTING ACCESS Recently in Theatre Management we were asked to design our own theatre companies. The easiest way to do this is obviously to combine a whole slew of things you’re passionate about, so I tried to compile […]
February 10, 2012 at 12:51 am
A few weeks ago Katy Rubin, a BU CFA alumnus, came and did a ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’ workshop with us. It was both enjoyable and thought provoking. We discussed such things as the famous ‘This is not an Apple’ painting by Rene Magritte, and how our bodies respond to words without our minds even […]
February 10, 2012 at 12:28 am
I remember as George W. Bush was leaving office and Obama was moving in what a wonderful sense of hope developed. Of course it was one of the slogans he ran on, but shared, I would posit, by the majority of the country was an undercurrent of change, as the mess of a status quo […]
February 8, 2012 at 12:24 am
When I was working with Ishmael Houston-Jones, he sent me a copy of one of his full length pieces called THEM. The piece, which was created in 1986, explores the fears of the gay community in response to the beginnings of the AIDS Crisis through improvisational movement. While I was watching, I suddenly saw a […]
February 4, 2012 at 4:27 pm
I found this article comparing the poster art for different productions of “Red,” by John Logan. While the comparison of the poster art is interesting, the article sparked other ideas. Almost 30 theatres across the country, from Arizona, to New Jersey, to Florida produced “Red” by John Logan in their the same show in the […]
February 3, 2012 at 5:47 pm
I had half a draft of a blog post about Red written, but I don’t want to write it anymore. In light of today’s discussion of Oleanna, and an exchange I just had, I need to write about something else. I’m sitting in the GSU right now, and I just got up to get some […]
February 2, 2012 at 11:02 pm
Last week Ilana mentioned (or was it the week before?) a play being performed in Taxis for an audience of one or two people, which I thought was super cool, but I didn’t realize until I heard this story that Intimate Theater was like a “thing”! I stumbled upon this article and adjoining audio story […]
