Posts by: smrish

Blast into the Future

http://newyork.timeout.com/arts-culture/theater/1192255/review-sleep-no-more Sleep No More, as any of us can tell you who saw it in Boston, is an exciting experience which blasts open the possibilities for turning theater into a unique and active medium. In one positive review, it was described as “purgatorial maze that blends images from the Scottish play with ones derived from Hitchcock […]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/23/arts/23iht-LON23.html?_r=1&ref=theater So this post is kind of a tease….. I was lucky enough to see the 2006 production of Brian Friel’s “Faith Healer” with Ralph Fiennes, Cherry Jones and Ian McDiarmid, and it was one of the most amazing performances I have ever seen. I’m sure this revival will be incredible, so if you happen […]

Just do it.

http://newyork.timeout.com/arts-culture/theater/719341/a-girl-wrote-it I really like the lack of affectedness that this minifestival has. A bunch of playwrights (in this case, female) got together to put up a night of theater, and present what they’d been working on. This seems like a very realistic model to use for making our own work, as well as not needing […]

http://newyork.timeout.com/arts-culture/theater/891605/review-apple-cove This production interested me because the world of the play reminds me of “The Last Confession of the Virgin Maria” by Phil. It has that same sort of Stepford-ville-ity, as well as some cartoonish characters. The play is described as striving to be a sort of “children’s theater” for adults, which reminded me a […]

http://newyork.timeout.com/arts-culture/theater/719687/lysistrata LaMaMa is one of my favorite theater companies in New York to follow; they have works with high production quality and amazing artists, as well as really avant-garde theater and artists who are just starting out … I thought it would be interesting to post about this performance; first, Lizzie Stranton was just done […]