January 29, 2012 at 11:38 am
Over my Winter Break, I spent a full week in Philadelphia studying Movement Improvisation in Performance. Included in this work was Contact Improvisation and Authentic Movement. As a performer, it was one of the most liberating experiences I’ve had in a while. I don’t want to talk about CI too much, but just to give […]
January 28, 2012 at 11:59 am
One of my New Year’s Resolutions this year, besides eating a salad every day and going to FitRec twice a week (spoiler: I haven’t been yet), is to see more theatre in Boston outside of BU. I decided to start early with Company One’s production of Tennessee Williams’ Green Eyes. The concept was exciting to […]
January 27, 2012 at 10:54 pm
Part 1: Red Tails market campaigns– “Sh*t White Execs said to George Lucas.” In the social media world there has been a recent trend of viral videos that address social issues under the theme, “Sh*t ____ say to ______.” My favorite one being, “Sh*t White Girls Say…to Black Girls.” Marketers for the new movie Red Tails […]
January 27, 2012 at 2:33 pm
Opera Boston recently announced that due to a $500,000 budget deficit, they will be closing. This is not only sad news for opera lovers, but it could also have a significant impact on students choosing to study opera in Boston. Students graduating from opera programs at Boston Conservatory, Berkley, and Boston University will have fewer […]
January 26, 2012 at 11:44 pm
The Prospero Project So I initially looked into this story because of it’s subtitle on ArtsJournalDaily: “Can theatre save Europe?” Disclaimer, the piece does not really explore that idea it’s just the clever button on the end of it, I think it is a part of a larger conversation regarding the role of culture in […]
January 26, 2012 at 1:55 pm
As most of you probably know, this quarter Elaine Vaan Hogue is directing a play by Emily Mann called Execution of Justice. Most of the script is comprised of the trial of the People vs. Dan White. White assassinated San Francisco mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk in November 1978. I’m […]
January 24, 2012 at 8:43 am
Students often ask me what shows I’d recommend out in the wilds of Boston, beyond the inertia of the university. Here’s my list for Spring 2012. It’s not exhaustive, and focuses on contemporary & new work rather than classics. ArtsEmerson – Sugar by Robbie McCauley: Jan 20-29 – 69 South (The Shakelton Project) by Phantom […]
December 28, 2011 at 3:19 pm
The fall semester is over, and that means that the blog authors of the last few months are moving on as well. The majority of them are even now winging their ways to various semester-abroad programs. (We hope they don’t forget us.) However, before making this blog’s between-semester hiatus official, I wanted to share links […]
December 21, 2011 at 12:10 am
Has anyone, besides me, heard of the wonderful filmmaker and poet Marlon Riggs? I hadn’t until today, when I came upon his film, Tongues Untied, on ubuweb (which is an unbelievable source for films, sounds, essays and information on artists and the arts). In this film, Marlon Riggs and his friends investigate their feelings surrounding […]
December 20, 2011 at 2:14 pm
In January, New York plays host to multiple theatre festivals as well as international theatre festivals. This year, it seems that the month of January will get even busier with the introduction of the Times Square International Theatre Festival. This festival, which will be located on West 43rd Street will run from January 16th-22nd. Roy […]
December 20, 2011 at 1:56 pm
I read an article today entitled “Without Hype, Playwriting Thrives” in the New York Times’ Arts Beat Blog. This article resonated with me very deeply. Written by Charles Isherwood, this critic takes a look back at theatre during 2011, and discovers many surprises as he reminisces… After making a list of his favorite works over […]
December 20, 2011 at 12:08 am
I found an article on the NY Times ArtBeat section that starts out with a bold statement that really encompasses the theatre world from this season: “This was a year for celebrating both the enduring power of traditional theater and the creative stealth bombs that can be planted within it, for putting new and explosive […]
December 18, 2011 at 4:45 pm
Okokokokok!!! What an interesting controversy this is! Apparently, a man in Russia is suing the Academy Drama Theatre for their production of “Hamlet,” claiming that no one warned him it would be such a deviation from the original “Hamlet that he was expecting to see. The man was particularly shocked and angered by the raping […]
December 18, 2011 at 2:46 am
When Chloe and I were in New York last month, we waited in line for a few hours to try and get student rush tickets to Venus in Fur at the Manhattan Theatre Club. We were shunned. The show (which closes tomorrow) has had an incredibly popular and successful run on Broadway for the past […]
December 18, 2011 at 2:15 am
Though the process of creating a dramaturgical guide for our final project was both grueling and time consuming, it was probably one of the things I’m most proud of in my time here at BU. I learned so much about the world from my research, and I learned so much about myself as an artist […]
December 18, 2011 at 12:03 am
I understand that because of today’s media and entertainment, children are exposed to more violence than ever before. I also understand that little can be done to rectify it now because it is such an enormous trend. To be honest, it doesn’t bother me all too much, having been raised in the culture of Power […]
December 17, 2011 at 11:51 pm
Hugh Jackman’s one man show, Hugh Jackman: Back On Broadway, is filling up the Booth Theatre. Jackman is certainly a triple threat so it comes as no surprise to me that not only is he in the spotlight on Broadway, but also that the reviews are so positive. However, one reviewer wrote an article on […]
December 17, 2011 at 11:27 pm
Earlier when I was looking through articles I found one that made me sort of uncomfortable and I wasn’t going to deal with it at all. But, I’ve decided to against myself to try to work through this one. Ok. So Wolverhampton’s Grand Theatre was doing a production of Snow White, and they had to […]
December 17, 2011 at 11:26 pm
In Lydia’s adaptation class last year, I remember her giving us advice on what to pick to adapt into a play. If we were to adapt a real life story, she urged us to pick the story of someone who had died. Writing a play about someone no longer living would reduce the chance of […]
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 […]
