March 21, 2011 at 10:27 am
Friday night – 9 Circles at the BCA (Calderwood). This is very high quality writing and drama in Boston’s bargain basement. Very fine performance by the young Jimi Stanton, who should be seen by all who will appreciate a killer physique and acting chops to match. A crime that on opening day they were giving […]
March 17, 2011 at 3:06 pm
Check out THIS interview with Sheila Callaghan. She gives some insight into her experience writing her plays, and then revising all the way through production. Also, THIS interview with Paul Willis, about an early (2000) 13p production, Crawl, Fade To White. Again, some interesting tidbits involving the development of this play, the art influences, and […]
March 17, 2011 at 8:21 am
This looks like an interesting new play that speaks to additional element in the discussion of race consciousness: Yellowman, at Trinity Rep in Providence. It explores the issues of skin tone within the African American community. From the review: “…the pernicious reality of prejudice is felt not just from the white community, but from within […]
March 15, 2011 at 11:02 am
Nice look. Almost didn’t recognize the place.
March 10, 2011 at 9:45 am
I would love to know if anyone has watched Another You from OTB.tv. Thoughts, comments? I want to give this show a qualified recommendation, and in particular, I’d like to suggest that all the men in the class watch it. It’ll make you squirm, it’ll make you zip your pants a little tighter. But it […]
March 10, 2011 at 9:40 am
My folks live in Sacramento, and the B Street theater there is a pretty fun little joint. Of course, if my parents like to attend, we should take that into consideration. My step-mother was writing to tell me that they’d just seen Circle Mirror Transformation, and she loved it, which is cool. The B St. […]
March 9, 2011 at 12:02 pm
http://nyr.kr/igfG4z This is a great article all around, check it out. In particular, there is good discussion about Arcadia from his playwright’s perspective.
I meant to post this over the weekend after the great discussion last Friday. I hadn’t seen Children of a Lesser God (1986) since, oh, let’s say a long time ago…I couldn’t help but wonder if the movie was as poignant as I remembered. Handsome, hearing, Will Hurt arrives at small school to teach the […]
http://bo.st/eexFP5 A most bizarre story out of Chicago, involving sex in the classroom. Clearly this is theater, albeit a bit unconventional. Modern? Good question. I hope the tie-in to this week’s reading will be obvious, otherwise I just look like a weirdo. 🙂
February 22, 2011 at 10:01 am
http://bit.ly/e4Wpdq A new one act from Jonathan Kuntz, who is very funny. Has a dark streak as well – did anyone see The Salt Girl last year? This looks like it will be good. A good cast, too.
February 14, 2011 at 9:58 am
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/category/theater/ You really can’t buy this kind of publicity. Who knows, maybe Spiderman gets the last laugh in the end. And for some real news, see the article below this (same web page) on Seattle’s Intiman Theater. Here’s a quote that should make you shudder: “We discovered that basically our finance department appears to have […]
February 14, 2011 at 9:46 am
http://bit.ly/i8NOLh Nothing particularly newsy here, but a very fun read, especially about 2/3 down where he recounts forgetting his lines in Ruined. Enjoy and get back to work.
February 8, 2011 at 3:57 pm
I have a lock on Feb 8 for posting, it seems. I was very interested in the Foreword by Tim Crouch, and his quoting Marcel Duchamp. He does quote correctly, but the greater context is so important and so thorough, I wanted to share it with you all. A short read, but such a great […]
February 8, 2011 at 7:53 am
http://nyti.ms/ez4M3n Let’s all hope we can do better in our future productions than this: The sheer ineptitude of this show, inspired by the Spider-Man comic books, loses its shock value early. After 15 or 20 minutes, the central question you keep asking yourself is likely to change from “How can $65 million look so cheap?” […]
February 8, 2011 at 6:38 am
http://bit.ly/eCHWd4 Please take a few minutes and watch this snippet from the Edinburgh performance (2007) of England. This is the early part of Act 2. I think it will set the tone for the play as you read it.
February 7, 2011 at 3:49 pm
http://bit.ly/h0nplj Ira Glass is the creator and host of a weekly show on National Public Radio called This American Life. I think it is the hardest show in public radio to listen to. It’s not flashy or polished and it takes effort to get it. But it is a weekly slice of life, radio theater […]
February 3, 2011 at 3:14 pm
How timely is this? Arcadia, by Tom Stoppard, featuring Billy Crudup (who I loved as Stillwater’s lead guitarist in Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous), coming to the Ethel Barrymore Theater in late Feb. Sounds like a good reason to go down to NYC for spring break. http://bit.ly/hyS40c
