December 17, 2011 at 10:01 pm
New York Theatre Workshop, which is the theatre I chose for my Antigone project and is still proving to catch my interest as a company, has a playwrighting and theatre-making series called Mind the Gap that was created in 2009. The way it works: for 10 weeks a group of teenagers converse and share stories […]
December 17, 2011 at 9:01 pm
Found this really important article that we should all read. The piece, found on the Harvard magazine website, is about the direction theatre may or may not be heading. You should read the whole thing but I’m just going to pull out some things that struck me as important or surprising… Andre Gregory (actor, director, […]
December 6, 2011 at 12:16 am
As December has crept up on us (seriously though, what is this weather?) and 2011 is in its last month, I want to briefly discuss this article I found floating around on Facebook. With a title like “The 45 Most Powerful Images of 2011,” you can imagine you’re going to be looking at some pretty […]
November 28, 2011 at 11:28 pm
While at home sitting on my lovely couch watching mindless television and movies, my dad interrupted my veg-out to tell me to read an article in the Boston Globe. Usually when my dad pulls out an article for me to read it means its definitely something I will connect to or need to know. I […]
November 22, 2011 at 12:28 am
I stumbled upon (yeah yeah, who cares – its a great website) this really cool site that showcases a bunch of theatre spaces that were once majestic and perfect and are now decayed and abandoned. THe title paage says “Before being darkened forever, they were sites of entertainment, pleasure, and contemplation- sometimes for audiences who […]
November 13, 2011 at 5:58 pm
After reading through “The Process of Dramaturgy” over the last couple weeks, I’ve been thinking about the important component of marketing. In everything we’ve learned about what it takes to be a dramaturg, this is an area that I find really exciting. I’m pursuing a concentration in Communications and Media, tailoring my liberal arts credits […]
November 6, 2011 at 11:55 pm
Have a firm handshake. Look people in the eye. Sing in the shower. Own a great stereo system. If in a fight, hit first and hit hard. Keep secrets. Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen everyday. Always accept an outstretched hand. Be brave. Even if you’re not, pretend to be. No one can tell […]
October 24, 2011 at 11:03 pm
As I was doing research on adaptations of the greeks, I found a very interesting production which mounted Ted Hughes’ adaptation of Seneca’s version of Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex (yikes). The production was done in 2005 in New York at the Mint Theatre. What grabbed my immediate attention and praise was that the show was done […]
October 19, 2011 at 4:43 pm
Everyone should take a few minutes to watch this video. I found this video a few weeks ago and I haven’t stopped thinking about it in the back of my head. The artist is Theo Jansen who lives in Holland. He calls himself a kinetic sculptor. Basically, he creates, out of readily available plastic tubing, […]
October 10, 2011 at 5:53 pm
I took a trip to NYC this weekend and was fortunate enough to get tickets to see War Horse at the Lincoln Center. (The theatre just recently started a new discount program called LincTix in May and it allows 21-35 year olds to get $30 tickets to any of their shows –membership is free!). If you […]
October 3, 2011 at 11:09 pm
So I saw Candide at the Huntington this weekend and I really really enjoyed it and I think everyone should try and see it. But I’m not going to blog about the show itself (although I could go on about how much I loved the music, the set , the story, the message and especially […]
September 26, 2011 at 7:07 pm
Hey everyone, So I was telling my mom about our dramaturgy class last week and was explaining the vastness of the position. She, like many of us at the beginning of the course, thought that dramaturgy was solely about researching the time period surrounding the piece. I attempted to explain the many facets and limitless […]
September 19, 2011 at 9:54 pm
On Sunday afternoon I saw a new production of a play called “Mortal Terror” at Suffolk University in collaboration with our own Boston Playwrights Theatre (also starring new faculty member Michael Hammond!). Written by Robert Brustein (who founded the A.R.T), “Mortal Terror” is the second in a trilogy of newly conceived plays about the life […]
