Tony Kushner’s new play, entitled, “The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With A Key to the Scriptures” opened tonight at the Public Theatre in New York. The show previously opened at the Guthrie theatre in 2009, and some of the cast members have been involved with the show since then. The play follows […]
April 21, 2011 at 7:58 pm
Oh my Lord. I don’t have the words, really, for this one. So Psittacus Productions’ “Cyclops: A Rock Opera,” is basically a rock musical re-imagining of Euripides’ “The Cyclops” featuring a Silenus, frontman of his rock band known as “The Satyrs” dressed in furry chaps, an Odysseus who looks more like Zac Efron than an […]
April 15, 2011 at 9:20 am
The Impro Theatre in L.A. have decided to take their Improv skills and mash them together with Shakespeare, Williams, and Sondheim– basically, they get a suggestion from the audience, take a short intermission to establish a common theme amongst the group that can be played as an improvised version of a full length play…. sounds…… […]
April 7, 2011 at 11:08 pm
As some of you may already know, the theatre scene in L.A. is, well, not really so much of a “scene” as it is more, “a few big theatres and a lot of low-budget small ones scattered throughout the city”. The successful theatres in L.A. survive off of big budgets and even bigger name actors […]
March 31, 2011 at 11:09 pm
Aside from being a Pulitzer Prize finalist, Rajiv Joseph’s play, “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo” is now making its Broadway debut with Robin Williams as the lead, playing a foul-mouthed tiger locked up in the Baghdad Zoo. The show is also directed by Moises Kaufman, who often directs for the Center Theatre Group in […]
Oh man. Talk about an ongoing disaster. So, we all know (I think) that “Spider-Man: The Musical” has been running into issues left and right as the production gets closer to its opening. Now it looks like Julie Taymor, the creator, director, writer, and mask designer of the show, has been asked to “step aside” […]
“Where Bison Run” by Victor Lesniewski is a new play about hockey– minus the ice rink. Not many contemporary plays deal with the politics of the N.H.L., or even Hockey in general. Lesniewski is a new playwright (he works at the US patent office during the day) and his background is in electronics and engineering, […]
February 23, 2011 at 9:28 pm
Chuck Mee’s play “Heaven on Earth” opened at La MaMa in NYC this week, and while the reviews of the show itself are mixed, its a piece that sounds very Chuck Mee-esque. Classic Greek themes of hope and destruction, and, to quote the article, “[“Heaven on Earth”] isn’t really about ideas. It’s about what can […]
February 18, 2011 at 10:21 am
Click for the article on Ulysses. A lot of it has to do with the different themes in Joyce’s work, a few of which are also in Dead City.
February 17, 2011 at 7:01 pm
(Click Text To Go to Article) Brooklyn-Based Theatre Group “Half Straddle” presents a gender-bending, stereotype-reinforcing play called “In The Pony Palace/Football”, which takes a look at the world of high school football– but a world in which the girls are the football stars. The play runs until February 26 at the Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn.
February 11, 2011 at 8:56 am
A revival of “Antic Meet” will be presented by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company at the Joyce Theatre March 22-27. The Bob Rauschenberg Foundation (he created the original costumes for the 1958 piece) will be donating these for the revival production.
February 9, 2011 at 6:33 pm
(Click the text to go to the article) The new play in rep at London’s National Theatre, “Greenland” received rave reviews from the New York Times yesterday. The piece is an amalgamation of many different ideas, images, and social issues pasted together (in addition to a fictional plotline) to raise awareness for the betterment of […]
February 1, 2011 at 8:23 pm
So the British Council (in association with Digital Theatre and others) came up with this project called “Gulf Stage” which will allow Arab Theatre to be shared around the world via film. It’s wonderful, it’s inspirational, it’s really an incredible competition and project. Finally, these people are getting the chance to share their work freely and openly, allowing it to be viewed around the world; and also, compete against other countries using a limited amount of resources. The six plays chosen were filmed in six days and will be (i’m pretty sure) available to watch online soon (once subtitles/plays are edited). There will also be a documentary on the entire project. Very cool.
