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  • Paradigm Promotes Three Staffers

    Backstage
    15 May 2012 | 11:26 am
    Erin Castellanos, Shawn Scallon, and Bradie Steinlauf are Paradigm's newest agents.

  • The Actor Is What We See, But Only 1/8 Of What Is There

    Theatrical Intelligence
    Ann Sachs
    7 Mar 2012 | 7:00 am
    An earlier version of this post was published in March, 2010. When I work with individuals or groups on ways Theatrical Intelligence can make a difference in their lives, my goal is to stimulate an exploration into their creative core. The term Theatrical Intelligence evokes responses that range from: ”Yes! It’ll help me when I have to give a presentation” to “Not my kind of thing – don’t like being in the spotlight.” There is an assumption that Theatrical Intelligence = Actor. What We See In the theatrical production model, the Actor is what we…

  • Second Stage Season Will Include Pulitzer Prize-Winning Water By the Spoonful

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    Kenneth Jones
    16 May 2012 | 2:19 pm
    Water By the Spoonful, the 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Quiara Alegria Hudes, and Jon Kern's Modern Terrorism, the 2012 winner of the Laurents/Hatcher Foundation, are two of the four plays in the 2012-13 season of Off-Broadway's Second Stage Theatre.

  • New York: Gore Vidal's The Best Man Extends on Broadway Through September 9

    TheaterMania.com
    16 May 2012 | 2:00 pm
    Wednesday, May 16, 2012 2 PM The Broadway revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man, at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, has been extended a second time and will now play through Sunday, September 9. Michael Wilson directs this play, set at the national convention where two candidates are vying for their

  • Theater Review: ‘Are You There, McPhee?’ by John Guare, at Berlind Theater

    NYT > Theater
    By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
    16 May 2012 | 1:29 pm
    “Are You There, McPhee?,” the new John Guare play, is a dizzying comic fantasy about the terrors of childhood, the confusions of adulthood and much more.
 
 
 
 
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  • NY Review: 'A Letter From Omdurman'

    14 May 2012 | 10:21 am
    Jeffrey M. Jones mashes up contemporary and historical events to little avail in "A Letter From Omdurman," an exploration of testosterone-driven violence.

  • NY Review: 'pool (no water)'

    14 May 2012 | 10:03 am
    Mark Ravenhill's "pool (no water)" comes to New York in a disjointed production from One Year Lease.

  • NY Review: 'Miracle on South Division Street'

    14 May 2012 | 9:24 am
    Tom Dudzick's sitcom of a play, originally presented at Penguin Rep Theatre, is as up-to-date as an episode of "All in the Family."

  • NY Review: 'The Peripherals'

    11 May 2012 | 5:41 am
    The Talking Band, one of the NYC’s most established avant-garde theater companies, offers a mildly amusing look at everyday life, at Dixon Place.

  • NY Review: '4.48 Psychosis'

    11 May 2012 | 5:21 am
    James Rutherford's intelligent staging of Sarah Kane's "4.48 Psychosis" takes the audience on a subtle psychological thrill ride.
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  • LA Review: 'The Learned Ladies'

    15 May 2012 | 2:29 am
    Molière skewers pedantry and pomposity in a handsome, rollicking production featuring Richard Wilbur’s clever rhymed translation.

  • LA Review: 'A Chorus Line'

    14 May 2012 | 4:57 am
    3-D Theatricals’ revival of “A Chorus Line” embraces every element that’s vital to the show’s success, including a superb cast and dazzling dancing.

  • LA Review: 'The Children'

    14 May 2012 | 4:49 am
    “The Children,” at Boston Court, is remarkable—from Michael Elyanow’s brilliant poetry to committed performances under director Jessica Kubzansky’s nurture.

  • LA Review: 'Our Lady of 121st Street'

    14 May 2012 | 4:40 am
    Playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis’ funny, touching picture of life and love in NYC’s Spanish Harlem features a gaggle of oddball characters.

  • LA Review: 'Aftershocks'

    14 May 2012 | 4:35 am
    Important issues lie at the epicenter of Doug Haverty’s drama, but they don’t quite register in the updated version at the Lyric Theatre.
 
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  • STAGE TUBE: Liza Minnelli Talks Mariage, Lady Gaga, and More on THE TALK

    16 May 2012 | 2:49 pm
    THE TALK just welcomed the legendary Liza Minnelli for the first time yesterday, May 15. While she was there, Minnelli chatted about her new CD Liza Minnelli Live At The Winter Garden which was recently released by Masterworks Broadway. Check out her full appearance below

  • STAGE TUBE: Mitt Romney Gets SWEENEY TODD Treatment

    16 May 2012 | 2:40 pm
    With the 2012 election coming up in November, political parodies are everywhere, and it's about time that some gave the race a Broadway twist. In the video below, Roy Zimmerman puts a different spin on SWEENEY TODD with 'Romney Mitt, the Demon Barber of Wallstreet.'

  • Photo Flash: First Look at OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES!

    16 May 2012 | 2:33 pm
    The new off-Broadway show OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES will begin performances on Tuesday May 1 and open on May 20 at The Westside Theatre 407 West 43rd Street. BroadwayWorld brings you production shots below

  • THE BEST MAN Extends Again Through September 9!

    16 May 2012 | 2:24 pm
    Producers of the Tony-nominated Broadway revival of Gore Vidals THE BEST MAN have announced that the critically-acclaimed production, which was originally scheduled to play through July 8, 2012, has been extended a second time, now through Sunday, September 9, 2012. Tickets are now on sale and can be purchased at Telecharge.com or by calling 212 239-6200.

  • Photo Flash: Meet the Cast of THE NORMAL HEART National Tour!

    16 May 2012 | 1:55 pm
    Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater produces the 2011 Tony Award-winning production of Larry Kramers The Normal Heart, directed by George C. Wolfe. Wolfe, who directed the shows sold-out Broadway engagement last season, mounts the professional D.C.-area premiere of this production, which features returning Broadway cast members Patrick Breen and Luke MacFarlane, among others. Presented by special arrangement with Daryl Roth, The Normal Heart runs June 8-July 29, 2012 in the Kreeger Theater.
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  • COMINGS AND GOINGS

    Jane
    14 May 2012 | 12:30 pm
    Hope all of the Mothers had a wonderful Day yesterday. I appreciated all of the warm wishes I received on Facebook and Twitter it means a lot. with Sam Waterston After almost 4 months of staying put, things are shifting into high gear. I went to New York to shoot a scene with Sam Waterston for “The Newsroom, Aaron Sorkin’s amazing new TV series for HBO which premiers June 24th. One World Trade Center While in New York, I had to see what I could of the nearly completed One World Trade Center site and snapped this photo. Have any of you been there? What do you think? Still in NYC I went to…

  • PEACE, LOVE & MISUNDERSTANDING

    Jane
    7 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    The above trailer (click on image to play) is from my latest film Peace Love and Misunderstanding which will be released in theaters June 8th! For more release information visit the IFC Films website here: http://www.ifcfilms.com/films/peace-love-misunderstanding I love this movie. I co-starred with Catherine Keener, Elizabeth Olsen, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chace Crawford and Nat Wolff. It’s directed by the wonderful Bruce Beresford (“Driving Miss Daisy”. “Tender Mercies,” etc) and was shot in and around Woodstock, New York, a beautiful, bucolic farming country several hours north of…

  • The Newsroom Season 1 Trailer #2

    Jane
    2 May 2012 | 2:04 pm
    HBO has released a second trailer for Newsroom! Newsroom premiers June 24th on HBO. Click on the image to enjoy! Hope you will be watching.

  • 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF MY FIRST WORKOUT VIDEO

    Jane
    24 Apr 2012 | 9:19 pm
    Today is the 30th anniversary of the release of first Jane Fonda Workout Video. It feels like yesterday and 100 years ago. I’m sure you’ve had that same feeling. Still fresh yet so much water under the bridge. I am so different. The world of Fitness is so different. Let me begin: It was 1980 or ‘81, I think. Stuart Karl came to me to ask me to make a video of the exercise routine that appeared in my first Jane Fonda Workout book. His smart wife, Debbie Karl, had read the book and suggested the idea to him. Stuart was the only person back then who made home videos. They were home…

  • LEVON HELM, THE FABLED DRUMMER WITH THE BAND

    Jane
    18 Apr 2012 | 1:16 am
    with Catherine Keener and Levon Helm I just received this email: “Dear Friends, Levon is in the final stages of his battle with cancer. Please send your prayers and love to him as he makes his way through this part of his journey. Thank you fans and music lovers who have made his life so filled with joy and celebration… he has loved nothing more than to play, to fill the room up with music, lay down the back beat, and make the people dance! He did it every time he took the stage… We appreciate all the love and support and concern. From his daughter Amy, and wife Sandy”…
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  • Is My Hair Holding Me Back?

    Dominique Toney
    16 May 2012 | 7:04 am
    A friend of mine - an actress - once told me "Working in commercials can be your waitressing job." I was sort of taken aback when she said this. What??? She booked one or two commercials a year, and it helped her stay afloat as she pursued tv shows and indie films. It was her "day job" essentially. No one had put that idea in my head.  So I've been fervently pursuing commercial representation. First a manager, then an agent. When I met with the manager, she had two words to say about my headshots: "Too old." Those were her thoughts on my makeup. …

  • Scamtastic

    Gabriel Voss
    15 May 2012 | 7:01 am
    I can't even write about this subject without seeing red. Predators in the entertainment industry have devised so many ways to bilk money out of the poorest people in the business - new and struggling actors. Everywhere I turn, there are people selling snake oil to actors promising them stardom or at least a leg up for a mere $49, $99, or $249. It makes me sick. One popular scam is for self-styled "agents" to offer to represent new talent. Most new actors are only too happy to get their first agent and will sign on any dotted line they are told to. The agent then tells the actor…

  • Rockette Inspiration

    Jacqueline Chambers
    8 May 2012 | 12:12 pm
    After a vacation, it can be so difficult to get back into the groove of ‘real life,’ even though my real life doesn’t always feel that real, between auditions, rehearsals, memorizing of monologues, and the taking on and off of tights.  But even so, after getting back from a European family vacation for two weeks, I found it extremely difficult to motivate myself for the onslaught of auditions that were to come. I’ve always wanted to be a Rockette, and was thrilled that as opposed to the end of April, the auditions this year would be on May 3rd, right after I got back from my…

  • Celebrate Your Goals

    Brittany Baratz
    7 May 2012 | 7:06 am
     Living in NYC has taught me to that no one is going to motivate you except for yourself.  Moving to New York was pretty overwhelming. Instead of being a big fish in a small pond, I was thrown into an ocean of hometown superstars.  That is why it is so important to set tangible, realistic goals for yourself. I've talked about goals before, but no one is a better cheerleader for your team than --- you! Seeking performance work is a full-time job with no paycheck, and the only incentive is what you give yourself. When I don't give myself a direction, I fall into…

  • Going Through The Motions

    Gabriel Voss
    4 May 2012 | 1:00 pm
    Every now and then when the cameras are rolling, I find I lose track of my character, disconnect from the scene, and start "acting." It happened last weekend on a short film when the director had us hopping and skipping around the script with little time to get our heads around where we were in the story. The film covered some pretty intense emotions (survival, first love, soldier contemplating deployment, and relationship uncertainty) in a short span of time. We were up against a strict time constraint at the location and the director was having us hopscotch around the…
 
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  • THE INVERSE OPERA PRESENTS LOCAL COMPOSERS CONCERT AT SECOND STORY REPERTORY THEATRE!

    Suzy Conn
    1 May 2012 | 7:17 pm
    Have you heard? The Inverse Opera is presenting a local composers concert Friday May 11 and Saturday May 12 at 9:00pm at the Second Story Repertory Theatre in Redmond. The Inverse Opera is a Seattle based group that creates and presents musical performances exploring the unique storytelling aspects of the classically trained voice. From the website: Without writers, singers would have nothing to sing. Thus, The Inverse Opera celebrates the diverse and spectacular composers in our region! Our composers' music has been featured up and down this country, from Seattle to New York City, and many…

  • THE INVERSE OPERA PRESENTS LOCAL COMPOSERS CONCERT AT SECOND STORY REPERTORY THEATRE

    Suzy Conn
    1 May 2012 | 4:12 pm

  • BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE RISE AND FALL OF LITTLE VOICE AT ARTSWEST

    Suzy Conn
    15 Mar 2012 | 4:21 pm
    This clip from the dress rehearsal is just one example of the amazing work Myrna Conn does in THE RISE AND FALL OF LITTLE VOICE at ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery in West Seattle, now until March 31. In fact, during the course of the show Myrna, as Little Voice, does ten diva impersonations - Dusty Springfield, Marilyn Monroe, Petula Clark, Marianne Faithful, Julie Andrews, Shirley Bassey, Edith Piaf, Nancy Sinatra, Lulu and Judy Garland. Get your tickets now to see this fantastic show!

  • THE RISE AND FALL OF LITTLE VOICE AT ARTSWEST IS ALMOST HERE!

    Suzy Conn
    27 Feb 2012 | 7:11 pm
    Here is more about THE RISE AND FALL OF LITTLE VOICE at ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery in Seattle. These are interviews with director Christopher ZInovitch, Peggy Gannon, who plays Mari Hoff, and Myrna Conn, who plays Little Voice. THE RISE AND FALL OF LITTLE VOICE opens next Wednesday March 7 and runs until March 31. Get your tickets now!

  • HOW TO WRITE A NEW BOOK FOR THE BIBLE AT SEATTLE REP

    Suzy Conn
    6 Feb 2012 | 1:46 pm
    Despite the Super Bowl and beautiful sunny weather yesterday afternoon, the Bagley Wright Theatre at Seattle Repertory Theatre was packed. Not surprising, because the closing performance of Bill Cain's HOW TO WRITE A NEW BOOK FOR THE BIBLE was playing. I was excited to get a rush seat, since the last Bill Cain play I saw at the Seattle Rep was EQUIVOCATION, which is one of my favorite plays of all time. This production HOW TO WRITE A NEW BOOK FOR THE BIBLE, beautifully directed by Kent Nicholson, was a world premiere co-production with Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Everything about this…
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  • The House That George Built

    Rob Weinert-Kendt
    15 May 2012 | 12:32 pm
    photo by T. Charles EricksonNot long after I moved to New York, I was on a bill with other singer/songwriters at a now-defunct Park Slope eatery called Night & Day, and among the standouts was a ginger-haired imp named Gabriel Kahane who played excerpts from something he called "Craigslistlieder"—verbatim personal and roommate-seeking ads from the site, turned into nervy and often touching art songs (here's a signature example).In the years since, I haven't seen Gabriel perform again but I've followed his precipitous ascent—and not just in the concert hall, where he's become a kind of…

  • On the Nichols Over There

    Rob Weinert-Kendt
    15 May 2012 | 7:00 am
    Photo by Brigitte LacombeThough my good friend Jim Martin is no longer the culture editor there, I'm still contributing the occasional theater review to the Jesuit weekly America (and since you're asking, no, I'm not Catholic, but I owe a lot to the S.J.).This week they've got my review of Broadway's best revival, whose greatness didn't strike immediately but crept up on me:It is not his age that makes the new Hoffman a bold choice for the role but his introverted, almost pigeon-toed awkwardness, his crabbed averageness. This is Willy Loman not as a fallen, tragic hero but as a sad schlub…

  • A Three-Dimensional Craft

    Rob Weinert-Kendt
    11 May 2012 | 9:34 am
    In the current May/June issue of American Theatre, I sit down with Sarah Ruhl and Tracy Letts to talk about playwriting, with the pretext being that they've both recently done "versions" of Chekhov's Three Sisters (Tracy's goes up at Steppenwolf soon). They both had lots of pithy and quotable things to say, but one of my favorite exchanges was left on the cutting room floor.Tracy referred at one point to sitting at a typewriter, and I later asked if he meant that literally:Q: You said “typewriter.” You don’t actually write on a typewriter, do you?Tracy: I do.Q: An electric?Tracy: No, a…

  • Out of the Cul-de-Sac

    Rob Weinert-Kendt
    10 May 2012 | 10:05 am
    photo by Ozier Muhammad for the TimesDon't have time to really tee this up, but it was my great pleasure to sit down with Clybourne Park director Pam MacKinnon this week for the paper of record.

  • Angel of Brooklyn

    Rob Weinert-Kendt
    8 May 2012 | 11:13 am
    One of the pleasures of having a child is introducing him to my own childhood favorites; just a few days ago, Oliver discovered Spike Jones, and is now requesting songs by name. To hear him laugh out loud at every carhorn, gunshot, or sneeze is a true delight.This pleasure extends, of course, to the work of the late, great Maurice Sendak, as odd and inimitable a mixture of open-hearted and cantankerous as I can think of. I still read to him from my childhood copy of Where the Wild Things Are, but I also enjoy taking him through the bleakly beautiful, shape-shifting We Are All in the Dumps…
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    Jersey Boys Blog

  • JBB EXCLUSIVE: Interview with Dominic Scaglione, Jr. and Quinn VanAntwerp!

    Administrator
    14 May 2012 | 11:35 am
    Dominic Scaglione, Jr. and Quinn VanAntwerp during their JBB Exclusive Interview Nicky was right, “Sometimes it just clicks with people.” During our JBB Exclusive Interview last month with castmates Dominic Scaglione, Jr. and Quinn VanAntwerp, we had the awesome experience to chat with the guys not just about their amazing journeys that they’ve had playing pop [...]

  • Please Help Jeff Leibow Raise Funds for NF–Check Out the Original Jersey Boys Las Vegas Doodle!

    Administrator
    13 May 2012 | 6:19 pm
    Hey Everybody, It’s Jeff Leibow, Nick Massi in JERSEY BOYS Las Vegas. I thought you guys who read JB Blog would like an opportunity to bid on an original doodle that is currently up for auction on eBay for NF Awareness Month. Here is the link to the auction: http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Jersey-Boys-Las-Vegas-Original-Doodle-/251056936537?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a7428d659#ht_1284wt_1141 For other celebrity doodles, click HERE. Let’s start [...]

  • In Honor of Mother’s Day–My Mother’s Eyes by Frankie Valley!

    Administrator
    13 May 2012 | 8:31 am
    Happy Mother’s Day to all of the marvelous moms out there! To salute you, here’s Frankie Valley’s (yes, that’s what the record says) fabulous rendition of “My Mother’s Eyes”!

  • Friday Flashback: ‘Don’t Think Twice’–By Bob Dylan and The Wonder Who!

    Administrator
    11 May 2012 | 6:07 pm
    “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1962, and released on the 1963 album The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. The Four Seasons released a cover of the song as a single in 1965 (with the title “Don’t Think Twice”) under the pseudonym The Wonder Who? Their rendition peaked at the [...]

  • Jersey Boys Broadway: An Experience Like No Other!

    Administrator
    11 May 2012 | 5:07 pm
    Saturday Matinee, April 14, 2012: Jersey Boys Blog Returns to Jersey Boys Broadway! A Saturday “kind of love” is an understatement…that’s probably the best description of our return to seeing the magnificent JERSEY BOYS Broadway performance last month! Posters on the JBB Forum weren’t exaggerating when they said that Andy Karl “put new details” into the “Tommy [...]
 
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    Parabasis

  • Off Topic: More Theatre and Copyright

    Parabasis
    16 May 2012 | 11:49 am
    By Isaac Butler Over at the Hooded Utilitarian, a theatermaker in Florida talks about his experience making the (totally illegal and  beloved) "Anne Frank Superstar."  You can find his discussion of that show and others that are using collage to create innovative new works here. 

  • The Fandom Issue: Marvelous

    Parabasis
    16 May 2012 | 11:40 am
    By Freddie deBoer (Editor's Note: A few years ago, I remarked to a novelist friend that our particular geeky obsessions no longer seemed special. Everyone knew about them.  "Yeah," he replied, "now that HEROES is on TV, the idea that there's any particular cache to obscure geek knowledge has been totally obliterated."  It was a funny moment, a recognition that as financial capital accrued to the things we were interested in, the social and cultural capital of those interests was being dilluted into meaninglessness. After all, for something to make…

  • The Fandom Issue: Fans on Film

    Parabasis
    15 May 2012 | 2:45 pm
    By Danny Bowes (EDITOR'S NOTE: Yesterday, Anne Moore discussed figurative depictions of fans within Battlestar Galactica and what that tells us about fandom, queerness and shame.  But what about literal fan depictions?  Below, the always-badass film critic Danny Bowes tackles three different filmic visions of The Fan-- two fictional, one not-- and tells us what they might have to tell us about loving something out of all proportion. Bowes likes to keep things simple so his very short bio.. "Danny Bowes is a New York City-based film critic and blogger."…

  • The Fandom Issue: Fandom Is So Gay

    Parabasis
    14 May 2012 | 4:47 pm
    By Anne Moore (Editor's Note: One of the reasons why I was very, very excited to do an issue centered around fandom is that the topic intersects nicely with the research and work of erstwhile Parabasis contributor Anne Moore.  In the post below, Anne tackles fandom, queerness, shame and the fan-creator relationship. I should also warn you that there are Battlestar Galactica spoilers in this post but, honestly, you should read it anyway. Anne Moore holds a newly minted PhD from Tufts University in English lit, and writes about television and Victorian literature whenever she…

  • The Fandom Issue: Introduction

    Parabasis
    14 May 2012 | 2:46 pm
    By Isaac Butler Of all my enthusiasms over the years, the one I am the most mortified about is my (it turns out not) undying love for Phish from Freshman year of High School until roughly Senior year of college.  And here I want to already insert qualifications. How starting in Sophomore year at Vassar I had stopped liking them, or anyway had my suspicions that they weren’t actually worth the love I had poured into (over?) them and was largely forcing myself to like them.  How you probably have some other band or artist (for most of my friends, its Ani Difranco) in your past who…
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  • Review: The Seizure, 100% Melbourne

    Alison Croggon
    14 May 2012 | 11:28 pm
    Today the Minister for the Arts, Simon Crean, is announcing the long-awaited review of the Australia Council. Early reports indicate that one of its major recommendations is the abolition of the boards that overlook dance, music, literature and so on in favour of a single board responsible for all artforms, to reflect contemporary fluidities of practice. Another recommendation, which is likely to

  • My Week, By Alison: and a Recommendation

    Alison Croggon
    8 May 2012 | 6:14 pm
    I'm going to be very bloggish today, gentle reader, and tell you all about my week. As always, I've had a problem with hats. My misfortunes began when I accidentally finished a novel. I say "accidentally" because I am working on something else, and around Monday I realised that I couldn't continue it until I had dealt with an earlier idea which I had abandoned, at last count, three times, but

  • Olive as tragic hero: Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

    Alison Croggon
    30 Apr 2012 | 4:30 pm
    Below is the text of a talk I gave at the Wheeler Centre last month as part of the series Australian Literature 101. I was asked to discuss Ray Lawler's Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, which allowed me to expand some of my earlier responses. Most of all, I'm struck by how Olive has most often been seen as a secondary and ultimately childish character, when I've always thought the principal

  • Moonlighting: poetry reviews

    Alison Croggon
    26 Apr 2012 | 1:11 am
    I may have mentioned that I am now reviewing poetry for Overland Literary Journal's swish new blog. My most recent review, of Ian Hamilton Finlay: Selections,  is now online. Finlay's a significant poet and a fascinating figure - Concrete poet, "avant gardener", visual artist and sometime playwright. And in case you missed the earlier review, of Sean Bonney's Happiness: After Rimbaud, it's up

  • Review: The Plague Dances, Boy Girl Wall

    Alison Croggon
    23 Apr 2012 | 2:32 am
    From outer-edge indie theatre to main stage is an crucial and delicate transition for any company. One of the best things that has happened in recent years is the opening of both the Malthouse and - more recently, with the Lawler Studio programming - the Melbourne Theatre Company to productions by independent companies. One of the highlights of last year's MTC program was in fact an indie import
 
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    The SF Bay Area Theatre Blog

  • A Different Kind of Mother's Day Outing

    ElisaC
    11 May 2012 | 5:37 pm
    Honor your mom by honoring the fight for women's rights. This Sunday one of my buddies is the producer behind a unique experience:Mosaic: Voices of Women's SuffrageThere's tea, a light lunch and a performance of this work honoring the women who fought for our basic rights last century.Learn more, and buy tickets, here.

  • Review: Cirque du Soleil's Latest Touring Show, TOTEM

    ElisaC
    26 Mar 2012 | 3:33 pm
    I saw TOTEM under the big top in San Jose a couple of weeks ago, and reviewed it here.Spoiler Alert: OMFG, I LOVED IT.Seriously, best one since 1990's Nouvelle Experience. Let's face it, you can never outshine your first!)Read the review, or just head online to get your tickets with a 25% discount! Here's the info from the horse's mouth:Cirque du Soleil’s latest touring production TOTEM has hit San Jose, and friends of The SF Bay Area Theatre Blog can now receive 25% off select performances in seating categories 1-3!Cirque du Soleil is pleased to announce that it has returned to San Jose…

  • Cirque du Soleil San Jose discount...expires tomorrow night

    ElisaC
    3 Feb 2012 | 7:42 pm
    I love Cirque du Soleil, so here's a special Valentine's Day offer from them that apparently expires tomorrow.Buy one you ticket for TOTEM in San Jose and get another ticket for free*!TOTEM opens on March 2 at the Taylor Street Bridge in San Jose. I am going to a preview on the 1st and am very excited about it!Claim this offer, which ends at 11:59PM tomorrow, at the following link (no additional promo codes needed):http://tinyurl.com/BATheatBlogVday*Some restrictions apply. Must become a Cirque Club member, with free subscription, to take advantage of offer. Service and delivery fees apply to…

  • The Jerry Herman Salon at 42nd Street Moon, starring Faith Prince!

    ElisaC
    22 Jan 2012 | 10:16 am
    This coming week may I suggest a little entertainment for your calendar?42nd Street Moon is the theatre on whose board I serve, and they are doing one of their composer salons this Thursday night. Jerry Herman is the man behind Mame, Hello Dolly, and Mack and Mabel among others.Faith Prince is a Tony-winning actress who burst on the Broadway scene with her Adelaide in Guys & Dolls, opposite Nathan Lane.These salons are both full of lovely singing from talented performers, but also come with a bit of history and story-telling around the featured composer. Herman is still alive and both…

  • Woodminster Theatre announces their season

    ElisaC
    20 Jan 2012 | 8:29 pm
    And here it is, their 46th season at the outdoor amphitheater in Oakland's Joaquin Miller Park:Fiddler on the Roof, July 13-22, 2012What else is there to say? This is a perennial favorite for most musical theatre companies.A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, August 10-10, 2012Sondheim's first Broadway show as lyricist *and* composerCats, September 7-16, 2012The first time they've gotten the rights to perform this one.Season ticket sales are open now, with individual ticket sales starting on March 1st.And by the way: They haven't held auditions yet, so if you're interest they're…
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  • Dramatis Personae Catalogue No. 110

    Trish Short Lewis
    26 Apr 2012 | 8:45 pm
    The new Dramatis Personae catalogue is out.As usual, I highly recommend you give it a perusal - many toy theatre-related ephemera for sale, prices ranging from the humble to the expensive...

  • Victoria 4 Albert

    Trish Short Lewis
    18 Apr 2012 | 12:57 pm
    A true love story, told in Victoria's own words...A series of  films incorporating stop motion, toy theatre, etc. have recently released, entitled Victoria 4 Albert.  The films were commissioned to accompany an exhibition currently ongoing at Kensington Palace.  The narration on the films are Queen Victoria's own words, taken from her diaries.  Charming!

  • Boxcar Fair

    Trish Short Lewis
    27 Mar 2012 | 6:33 am
    A sweet, short story told with puppets and music, featuring automata and puppet maker, Tom Haney.

  • Top Hat Toy Theater Presents...

    Trish Short Lewis
    13 Feb 2012 | 10:10 pm
    David Worobec, a Boston Conservatory student and creator/owner of Top Hat Toy Theater, is the man behind a recent series of adaptions of musicals for the small stage.  In the videos shared here, David performs Rogers & Hammerstein's South Pacific.  David does all the voices and sings all the parts in his production, quite a feat!  As one person recently put it, "David has a terrific operatic voice, and his one man show is definitely unique."He has had a long love affair with toy theatre; David was a featured performer in Great Small Works' toy theatre festival back in…

  • The Devil and Mr. Punch

    Trish Short Lewis
    5 Feb 2012 | 2:21 pm
    This is NOT your Grandfather's Punch!A collaboration between UK and US individuals and groups, performances are happening now at the Barbican;  US productions were performed in two locations last year -  Minneapolis in May, and Philadelphia in September; the production evolved as it went along.Read more about the wonderful people behind the show, including a lovely interview with the director where he talks about the history of Punch.  Also, the Barbican's 'behind the scene' article, "That's the Way to Do it!"While Punch is normally not performed as a toy theatre…
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    The Playgoer

  • Tony Noms 2012

    1 May 2012 | 9:14 am
    They're out there. Random thoughts: First I recklessly tweet that Once would not even make it to opening night on Broadway, now it leads the pack with 11 Tony nominations. Go figure. (And have I seen it? Of course not.)  And given the competition, I now (equally recklessly) say it's the odd on favorite to win Best Musical. Of the four Best Musical nominees, three are based on movies and one is a "revisal" of an old Gershwin musical (old songs, new script). I actually am not among those lamenting movies-into-musicals-- before that it was plays-into-musicals, no? (And even books.) But, as…

  • Review: The Morini Strad

    4 Apr 2012 | 10:10 am
    My latest for Time Out: Willy Holtzman's The Morini Strad at Primary Stages. The takeaway: "Tuesdays with Morrie for the WQXR crowd." By the way, forgot to mention in the review that this is "based on a true story."  But I must say I found myself wondering: where's the "story" here???

  • Rush Tickets for All!

    27 Mar 2012 | 9:41 am
    Kudos to producer Jordan Roth for simplifying the rush ticket policy for at least one Broadway show: A limited number of lower-price general rush tickets will be available for every performance of the Broadway run of Bruce Norris' Pulitzer Prize-winning Clybourne Park, the comedy-drama about the personalities behind racial shifts in a neighborhood, producer Jordan Roth announced on March 26, the day of the play's first preview. "We hope to give as many people as possible the opportunity to share this astonishing theatrical experience," Roth said in a statement. Rush tickets (at $30 each) will…

  • Correction of the Day

    23 Mar 2012 | 12:57 pm
    Time we had a little humor in the Mike Daisey affair... A writer named Jason Mick, at the Daily Tech site, criticizes, as I have, the things that Daisey got wrong or made up. Then he adds: Mr. Daisey is married to Deborah Fallows, a Chinese native who wrote the book Dreaming in Chinese.It is true that Deborah Fallows . . . wrote the book Dreaming in Chinese. It is true that friends have told her that she might as well have been born a native Chinese person, since her spirit matches that of Chinese women in so many ways. But she is a native of Chicago, not any place in China, and of Czech…

  • Orson at 24

    19 Mar 2012 | 2:04 pm
    Orson Welles in 1939, when he was still a stage and radio star, pre-Citizen Kane. From a new exhibit of Golden Age Hollywood color photos at the National Portrait Gallery in DC. Kinda looks like "the tall guy" in any twenty-something theatre company today, doesn't he?
 
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    nytheatre.com

  • Review: A MODEST SUGGESTION by Martin Denton

    13 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Apple Core Theatre Company makes a significant contribution to the current season with their presentation of Ken Kaissar's absurdist satire A Modest Suggestion. Kaissar, born in Israel, educated at Carnegie-Mellon and Columbia and currently making his home here in New York, has written a play that is both clever and smart: it's sharp, witty, and enormously provocative, in the tradition of Ionesco and (early) Woody Allen.

  • Review: SOUTHERN BAPTIST SISSIES by Ed Malin

    13 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Self-hatred has greatly influenced the four male lead characters in Del Shores' play Southern Baptists Sissies. They may very well have remained where they grew up, in Dallas ("the buckle of the Bible belt"), were it not for their sexuality. In later life, they sometimes miss the church that offered them so much hope when they were young.

  • Review: THE PERIPHERALS by Martin Denton

    13 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    The Peripherals, The Talking Band's new musical/rock concert/performance art work, written and composed by company co-founder Ellen Maddow, is a celebration of the impulse to make art on your own terms, an exploration of an eclectic mix of forms and ideas, and a dizzyingly satisfying showcase of the astoundingly varied talents of its seven onstage performers. It is a delightful good time, more rewarding and nourishing than pretty much any mainstream music theatre event I've seen in quite some time--proof, if it's needed, that the work being done on the periphery of NYC's theatre world is…

  • Review: TAKE WHAT IS YOURS by Ed Malin

    9 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    It is 1917. Alice Paul has been arrested for leading her group of women in picketing the White House. Two generations after Susan B. Anthony's efforts, they still want the vote. They carry signs with quotes from President Woodrow Wilson about the need to spread democracy around the world. They question why he does not spread democracy at home. Meanwhile, Alice is on a hunger strike and is politely harassed by a psychiatrist ("The Man") for making such demands on the government during wartime. After all, if the suffragettes are given special status as political prisoners, it would…

  • Review: THE RUNNER STUMBLES by Paul Hufker

    9 May 2012 | 11:00 pm
    The Runner Stumbles is at its essence a story of forbidden love encased in a murder mystery. Loosely based on real events (the details of which sound fascinating), a priest is accused of killing a nun in his parish and we follow him through a sequence of trial scenes, present-day jailhouse visits, and flashbacks. The idea is of course to piece the story together for us, bit-by-bit. And while I've been informed that Milan Stitt's drama appeared successfully on Broadway in 1976 (running for about six months), I'm not certain the play has aged very well.
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    On Stage Lighting

  • Ilumo Zoom LED Spot and Colour Mix Control

    Rob Sayer
    3 May 2012 | 2:00 pm
    While looking at the new ilumo ZOOM LED Spot, On Stage Lighting considers the future of colour in stage lighting control and revisits an old problem with a possible solution that leads to further questions.   The Colour Mixing Problem In a past article, we looked at a specific problem concerning the crossfading of colour mixing lighting units and the possible visual hideousness that can be the stopping off point between one colour and another. Briefly, the principle of channel value controlled colour mixing and state based lighting create an problem. When channel levels create a mixed…

  • Resolume 4 Arena Review – Media Server Software

    Rob Sayer
    20 Dec 2011 | 3:11 pm
    In a world where both traditional lighting and digital visual media are the domain of the modern lampie, On Stage Lighting considers the forthcoming release of media software Resolume 4 Arena which looks like it has potential in the small to mid scale show visual market. Here at OSL, we don’t really do product reviews and the following piece continues that tradition. In order to give you a look around the software, we finish up with a video poke about under the hood. This article simply looks at Resolume 4, which is in Beta 2 at the time of writing, from the point of view of a Lighting…

  • PLASA 2011 – Show Report

    Rob Sayer
    15 Sep 2011 | 2:00 pm
    Armed with nothing but a well worn pair of shoes and four days supply of anti-migraine pills, On Stage Lighting hits Earl’s Court in London for the 2011 assault on the senses that is the PLASA show. If previous PLASA shows were an indicator of the direction of travel in style, visitors to the PLASA (Promotion of LEDs And Screens Ad nauseum) show 2011 were going to have to steel themselves. At past shows, in order to keep the nausea at bay, you simply had to pace yourself, avoid protracted stints on any stands serving beer and decline the strange coloured cocktails that Avolites might offer.

  • Event Safety and Temporary Stage Design

    Rob Sayer
    24 Aug 2011 | 2:58 pm
    Following the recent news of several stage and event structure collapses, On Stage Lighting looks at where we have come from as a fledgling industry and where we might look for a path in the future. This last month or so, it’s been a regular event: The reporting of a temporary structure failure at a show, leading to serious injury and loss of life. In recent years this kind of news is no longer unheard of, either during a build or a show, something in a roof support or rigging system fails and sets off a chain of events that is putting people in danger. There has been, and will be, a lot of…

  • LEDs, Colour Mixing and Crossfades

    Rob Sayer
    1 Aug 2011 | 6:49 am
    A question from On Stage Lighting reader Michael prompts an article looking at a common consideration in modern stage lighting – successful transitions with colour mixing lighting fixtures. ***Note: Interesting product update at the bottom of this article. Colour mixing facilities is rapidly becoming the norm on many types of show across a range of budgets. Lighting fixtures in all markets are now sporting technology that allows for a range of mixed colours, either in the form of CMY subtractive mixing or additive LED based mixing using RGB, RGB+W and more. At the cheap end of the…
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    'kül

  • THEATER: pool (no water)

    13 May 2012 | 9:00 pm
    Photo/Scott J. FettermanHere's poetic justice for you: a successful artist invites the embittered, distant friends of her old Bohemian collective to visit her mansion, to reminisce about their happier pasts, "when it all seemed to mean so much when everything was so full of meaning yes it was all drenched in meaning and we all cared we all cared so passionately." This artist, who made her reputation by repackaging and selling the "blood and bandages and catheter and condoms" of their friend Ray, after he lost the battle with AIDS, soon finds herself in the hospital, shattered by an…

  • THEATER: A Streetcar Named Desire

    8 May 2012 | 11:10 pm
    It's the strength of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire that is reflected in the relative success of this all-black revival, not Emily Mann's directorial decisions. Well, and perhaps a little of Eugene Lee's taut set design, which brings an oubliette-like feel to the home of Stanley (Blair Underwood) and Stella (Daphne Rubin-Vega) that fits the melodrama of Blanche (Nicole Ari Parker), who announces that "Only Mr. Edgar Allen Poe could do it justice." As we'll learn, after all, this two-room apartment is a sort of prison, even if Stella is…

  • THEATER: 4000 Miles

    8 May 2012 | 10:40 pm
    Four thousand miles: that's a whole lot of distance. Almost as much, perhaps, as the distance between any two people, not just across generations -- Leo (Gabriel Ebert) shows up at his grandmother Vera's (Mary Louise Wilson's) door after going AWOL on a bike trip across America -- but across a gamut of emotional feelings, refracted through Leo's slightly unnatural feelings for his unseen adopted sister (voiced, I believe, by Greta Lee, who appears in the play as an immature, art-freak of a one-night-stand) and his almost unbearable love for his girlfriend Bec (Zoe Winters). Unlike Amy…

  • THEATER: You Are In An Open Field

    4 May 2012 | 9:30 am
    "Play the game," yells the actor (Steven French), dressed in his finest cryptic-old-man robes. "We are playing the game," replies Kevin (Kevin R. Free), taking a moment on the sofa-fort of Chris Dippel and Lauren Parrish's grungy basement set alongside his good buddies and fellow New York Neo-Futurists, Adam Smith and Marta Rainer. "Play the game right," insists the actor, looking to his ally, a faceless dancer in a white-body suit (Cherylynn Tsushima). It's an odd thing to insist on, of course, for You Are In An Open Field, a self-proclaimed "nerd-core" musical, takes its cues from adventure…

  • THEATER: Deinde

    30 Apr 2012 | 4:57 pm
    Not every brain-boosting scientific experiment has to go awry (Rise of the Planet of the Apes, The Lawnmower Man), but where's the drama in smooth sailing? August Schulenburg's a smart playwright, so he more or less opens his new science-fiction play, Deinde, with Professor Daniel Nemerov (Matthew Trumbull, charmingly awkward) establishing the four rules for proper use of "Deinde," an experimental neural interface designed to exponentially increase the brain's processing power, rules that are literally designed to be broken. In doing so, Schulenburg removes the pressure of having to…
 
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    Photoplayer Hater

  • When Criticism Derails Your Solo Acting Web Project

    8 May 2012 | 8:22 am
    The standard line from an acting instructor on how to get gigs is usually: go on lots of auditions. It is good advice to go the simple route - go where they are giving out roles. There is no telling how long till you land a role and who knows how frequent you will have one. That is part of the traditional acting game but with the internet there is a twist: you can make your own films pretty cheap. You can make your own role and it might turn into exposure which gets you something you really want. Image by wynner3 Once you convince yourself it's worth the effort in between auditions to learn…

  • Actor Personal Traits That Make Better Acting

    4 Oct 2011 | 3:24 pm
    Image by buildscharacter We all play a character day to day. Ourselves. So everybody has the basic ability to do what an actor does but for a single role only. What is it that makes an actor special? What is it they can do that normal people cannot? Playing a character other than the one you have been working on your whole life (yourself) is more difficult than just doubling efforts. It takes a set of techniques that most people do not develop. These characteristics, in total, are what separate actors from your everyday person. You may have some of each of them but if you do not have all of…

  • Actor Lifestyle Side Effects

    31 Oct 2010 | 6:23 pm
    Serious acting is not like a weekend seminar. Actors make commitments to their characters and they bleed into real life. Once you take on a role your life will be changed. Image by Alison Oddy Fighting the change will water down your performance and make you a less attractive actor to work with. The key is to prepare for the side effects of acting and learn to cope. Hairstyles There are some lucky actors that get to wear a wig instead of actually cutting or growing their hair a certain way. You will not be that actor. You are the scrappy upstart that will probably be in low budget…

  • Actors Have Important Stories To Tell

    16 Sep 2010 | 1:24 pm
    [Guest Post by Kirsten Tretbar who loves to travel and is a filmmaker, acting coach, and blogger.] This post is about ways you can create your own opportunities as an actor; mainly, about creating your own projects or films that you yourself can star in, projects that get you noticed in the professional community. Image by Eid Mubarak The reality of acting is that only a tiny percentage of those pursuing this as a profession actually make a living doing so. Men and women of all ages and talents arrive in LA or New York with talent and a dream then think it will all happen quickly. Several…

  • Los Angeles Actor Distractions To Avoid

    5 Aug 2010 | 7:34 pm
    As if it were not enough that actors that come to Hollywood face rejection on a frequent basis, the city itself often conspires to thwart acting success. You might think making your rent payment on time and feeding yourself is the extent of the trials you need master along with auditioning, but there is so much more in the Los Angeles area you must deal with. Image by Jon Bradley Photography Partying There are a lot of bars and restaurants in LA and on every night there is something happening somewhere that some of your friends will consider requisite to attend. You will have friends who wait…
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    The Theatrefolk Weblog

  • Interpretation.

    Lindsay Price
    15 May 2012 | 1:27 pm
    As I’ve mentioned before Chicken. Road. is my latest play. It was presented by Listowel District Secondary School in the Sears Drama Festival.  The performance won Outstanding Production at the District level and went on to perform at the West Regional Showcase. What was amazing about the production was the interpretation of the show. This is a play about student reaction to the suicide of a class mate and uses the old joke “Why did the chicken cross the road” as a jumping off point. The main stage direction in the script states that the cast stands across the stage in a…

  • On Closing Night

    Craig Mason
    13 May 2012 | 11:02 am
    Look I made a hat, Where there never was a hat. ~Sondheim Closing night of Brighton Beach Memoirs approaches. The show will be closed by the time you read this. It will be a happy time for me as I can’t wait to get back home after a six week absence. But it will also be sad because I love the show and the people with whom I’m working. Here are a few thoughts on how I like to approach closing night of a show. Celebrate the Impermanence It’s sad to leave a show behind. What separates theatre from most other art forms is the absolute impermanence of it all. What we share…

  • Das Projekt Schwangerschaft

    Lindsay Price
    12 May 2012 | 11:00 am
    In the fall I received a production of The Pregnancy Project from this school in Germany. I was intrigued - we get quite a few productions in International Schools, where there is a base of English speaking students. But this was most definitely a German school learning English as a second language. Given my rudimentary french from high school I can’t even imagine putting up a play in another language! I contacted the teacher and asked if I could ask the students a few questions.  Stephan, Philipp and Robin were kind enough to answer, again with amazing English. Here’s what…

  • Rehearsal vs Performance – Anything Goes

    Craig Mason
    11 May 2012 | 1:00 pm
    Here are two videos that I’ve probably watched a couple dozen times each. They’re both of the title song from the current Broadway production of Anything Goes. Here’s the number as seen in rehearsal: There is a wee bit of rehearsal looseness, a couple of small flubs, and Joel Grey doesn’t seem to have a clue what’s going on most of the time. But for the most part you’re seeing an all-out performance quality effort. These people are very talented, but their effort and commitment elevate them to an even higher level. It’s rare to see such all-out…

  • Always Be Learning

    Lindsay Price
    10 May 2012 | 4:00 pm
    One of my favourite movie moments is Alec Baldwin in Glengary Glen Ross (“First prize is a Cadillac Eldorado. Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you’re fired.” ) He also has a moment where he clearly states that sales men should “A- Always, B- Be, C- Closing.” It’s something I say often, changing it around to fit what I’m doing. Always Be Writing ends up in a number of my workshops, and I smile privately to myself at the connection. I know no one knows what I’m referencing. And yet, I smile. Which may freak people out.
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    Greenroom

  • Review: Eve – Metro Arts Independents

    David Burton
    12 May 2012 | 12:39 am
    I knew very little about Eve Langley before I saw this production. Eve was an enigmatic, deeply troubled Australian poet, seen as mad in her time. She’s often compared to Virginia Woolf. Eve’s poems frequently reflected a struggle between the domestic life that was expected of her and the call to divine artistry that she was no doubt destined for. She was funny, eccentric, and desperate to be acknowledged as a serious artist. At times she took on other names, including ‘Oscar Wilde’, as a way of surviving through the disappointment she had in herself. Margi Brown Ash…

  • Review: A Hoax – La Boite and Griffin Theatre Companies

    David Burton
    11 May 2012 | 2:52 am
    It’s not often that Brisbane sees a ‘world premiere, but the recent partnership of La Boite and Griffin means that Brisbane audiences ar e the first in the world to see Rick Viede’s new play A Hoax. It’s a privilege for which I think audiences will be extremely grateful. It’s the premise of the play that steals the show for me. Anthony Dooley (Glenn Hazeldine) is a middle-aged white man, and a struggling writer. Anthony pens a beautiful and brutal memoir titled Nobody’s Girl. The only issue is that it’s not his. It’s the memoir of a fictional…

  • Review: Vikram and the Vampire – Zen Zen Zo at the Old Museum Building

    David Burton
    5 May 2012 | 11:03 pm
    I need to start this off with the confession of a cardinal sin of Brisbane theatre. I haven’t seen a Zen Zen Zo show in a very, very long time. My omission hasn’t been deliberate. Nevertheless, the years have slipped by without visiting this Queensland cultural institution. In truth, it was my assumptions about a ‘physical theatre company’ that kept me away. These were fairly predictable. While displaying admirable and impressive physical skills, these productions too often leave narrative far behind, creating works that are inaccessible. I’m very pleased to say…
 
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    Cambiare Productions

  • Delivering

    Travis Bedard
    2 May 2012 | 2:14 am
    I have a lot of ideas. A lot. A lot a lot. Friends and loved ones learn to listen, or sort of surf the never-ending flow, for things I truly invest in… or spend a second thought on. In return I use them to see if any of the ideas bust through the eye glaze and fire a neuron in a brain not mine…. This is a pretty good system for a flawed brain. As long as idea broadcaster and vetters are in the same communication plane… or awake. Because sometimes? Sometimes you have an idea in the middle of the night and share it with the broader world before you vet those ideas with the folks you…

  • Missing the magic, Missing the moment.

    Travis Bedard
    26 Apr 2012 | 11:33 am
    - That girl thinks she’s the queen of the neighborhood - Joe Dowling, the AD of the Guthrie is getting crushed by what he considers small fish in the dripdripdrip of social media over creating a very traditional season. He has been largely deaf to the criticism about the Guthrie’s continued lack of support for gender or racial diversity and tin-eared in his responses to it. - I got news for you, she is! - It is a pristine example of the fundamental disconnect longterm non-profit organizations run into. Being a community cultural asset with a large budget doesn’t release you from the…

  • While we wait…

    Travis Bedard
    13 Mar 2012 | 1:08 am
    We’re in a holding pattern on a few things before I write out  the final post-mortem on Messenger No. 4 (and get myself a tattoo) so I’d like to get a jump on our next little thing. It’s going to be a minute or two until we get back to a full production… though nothing like the break between Orestes and Messenger No. 4. While we’re saving our pennies for whatever the next Major Node in our progression and Will does rewrites on M4, we want to stay active in smaller ways and work with even more folks we’ve never met before. For those of you who came along at some point later…

  • LIBATIONS!

    Travis Bedard
    12 Mar 2012 | 12:54 am
    No good evening out is complete without a quality beverage and the rep productions of Messenger No. 4 and the 21 Would-Be Lives of Phineas Hamm featured a partnership with Austin’s own Deep Eddy Vodka to ensure we wouldn’t be lacking. Those who braved a full night at the Blue Theatre (for both shows) received a complimentary cocktail (or soft drink) and you could also purchase them at the bar. We had drinks concocted for us (one per show) by long time friends of Cambiare Productions Simon Ogden (The Next Stage, and Veneto in Victoria, BC) and Tony Adams (AD of Halcyon Theatre in Chicago).

  • After the Curtain

    Travis Bedard
    7 Mar 2012 | 11:58 pm
      So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. Forgive a proper New Hampshire boy for default to Robert Frost? Messenger No. 4 (v 1.0) has been stripped out of the Blue Theatre, rolling chairs have been dispersed, it’s all over but the accounting and I am… surprisingly emotional. I mentioned to Andy Rodgers just after opening that this show was as unfulfilling as any I’d ever done because I was so divorced from the process. I worked with Will on the script until Draft 3, which he took into rehearsal and then… left. I wanted this show to be his. I wanted the writer to have his…
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    HOLLYWOOD ACTOR PREP by Dana Kaminski- By Authentic Professional Actor: Acting Advice, News, Interviews

  • Steve Carrell’s Audition For Anchorman , Video Shows Why…

    Dana Kaminski
    23 Apr 2012 | 5:23 am
    I am putting this on my auditions page. Here’s a link to where all the videos of auditions are, by actors you may recognize: Hollywood Actor Prep : Actors Audition. I wanted to mention that I am adding this one, because it is so great an audition, in it’s auditioning. Yeah, in it Steve... [[...Just a partial post. If interested in seeing the entire post, & media...CLICK on the TITLE.]]

  • James Dean + Ronald Reagan Acting Together : Video Of Live TV Performance

    Dana Kaminski
    23 Apr 2012 | 4:52 am
    Video:--'50s show called 'A Dark, Dark Hour' with James Dean and Ronald Reagan starring together (as James Dean dances to jazz as 'Hep Cat Killer'.) Text about Reagan and how this show prepped him for Presidency. Also about why so many great actors got their start on these 'Golden Age' Anthology... [[...Just a partial post. If interested in seeing the entire post, & media...CLICK on the TITLE.]]

  • $500,000 Per Episode : Mariska Hargitay’s New Contract : Law & Order SVU

    Dana Kaminski
    23 Apr 2012 | 1:53 am
    Actors Never Know W-H-A-T Is Going On Inside Their Producer's Head (Offices)Even actors and actresses who are series regulars, who get star-billing-single-card... [[...Just a partial post. If interested in seeing the entire post, & media...CLICK on the TITLE.]]

  • Writing Here At Hollywood Actor Prep 1x Weekly : New Deal!

    Dana Kaminski
    9 Apr 2012 | 6:07 pm
    Just somewhat…I’m paring down the time I put into Hollywood Actor Prep… Now, I will be additionally working on: My own creative projects A different project (beside Hollywood Actor Prep) that is also for the benefit of actors, but with a more direct effect, with specific results.... [[...Just a partial post. If interested in seeing the entire post, & media...CLICK on the TITLE.]]

  • SAG-AFTRA Merged :: Results From Professional Actors Union Vote Announced Today

    Dana Kaminski
    30 Mar 2012 | 6:27 pm
    Results of today's Screen Actors Guild announcement, the SAG-AFTRA merger vote. Also, 2 reactive commentaries by Dana Kaminski. [[...Just a partial post. If interested in seeing the entire post, & media...CLICK on the TITLE.]]
 
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    The Bad Boy of Musical Theatre

  • Nothing Can Touch This

    Scott Miller
    15 May 2012 | 3:12 pm
    This is one of my favorite moments in our creative process. Everything up to now has been hard work. First off, I hate teaching music, but somebody's gotta do it, right? And we really don't have the budget to hire someone else to do it just because I don't want to. And then once that's done, blocking the show is the hardest part of my job as director, the most intensely creative. With some shows, a lot of the blocking is really obvious, but other shows take decoding and deconstructing to figure out how they should look and move. It's by far the hardest mental work in the process. And during…

  • I Could Make the Chicks Dance

    Scott Miller
    9 May 2012 | 1:03 pm
    I often rave about our choreographer Robin Berger's work – and so do the critics – but I rarely get the chance to talk about why she's so great and why her work fits New Line so perfectly. Robin has been choreographing for us since The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas in 2003. She's also choreographed New Line's productions of Reefer Madness, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Jesus Christ Superstar, Grease, Urinetown, High Fidelity, Return to the Forbidden Planet, Spelling Bee, The Wild Party, Evita, Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Cry-Baby. What makes her work special, and distinct…

  • louder, faster, funnier, deadlier, more, more, choices upon choices...

    Scott Miller
    4 May 2012 | 2:09 pm
    People often ask me why we repeat shows. We've done it several times in our twenty-one seasons -- Assassins (1994, 1998, 2008); Hair (2000, 2001, 2008); Bat Boy (2003, 2006); and now High Fidelity (2008, 2012). When I get that question, I always respond, "Would you ask the Symphony why they repeat Beethoven's Ninth? Would you ask a classical theatre company why they repeat A Midsummer Night's Dream?" We repeat shows because we think there's more to discover there. And High Fidelity is proving my point for me yet again. Initially my plan was to recreate my staging from…

  • It's No Problem

    Scott Miller
    27 Apr 2012 | 2:17 pm
    High Fidelity was treated really badly in New York. It was given a clueless, money-centric production and greeted with (mostly) shallow, condescending reviews. I'll grudgingly stipulate that the fault for those shallow reviews might not lie entirely with the reviewers -- after all, it must have been tough to tell there was such a great show beneath that tricked-out, fast-and-furious mess of a production on Broadway. But Broadway critics are supposed to be the best at what they do, right? Shouldn't they be able to recognize strong material poorly executed? I think the critics' real…

  • Number Five with a Bullet

    Scott Miller
    23 Apr 2012 | 3:01 pm
    I wrote in an earlier blog post about discovering High Fidelity. My love affair started with the songs of course. But as I've said before, a great score is necessary but not sufficient. What's even more important is a great script. When I finally got to read the High Fidelity script, it instantly spoke to me. I could immediately see it in my head. I really understood how it worked. The same was true with Love Kills and Cry-Baby, but that doesn't happen all the time. Sometimes it happens later, as it did for me with both Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita. Sometimes I just have to stay…
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    ACTORSandCREW

  • Casting for a Shoot Jun 19th in LA

    11 May 2012 | 10:49 am
        A very interesting project is slated to shoot on June 19th in Los Angeles. This is a film of a children’s book by Alethea Allen, and should be quite the cool project.  The production is looking to fill the following roles: The Emperor:  Featured / Male / Asian / 50 – 80 years Description: Looking for a very important role to fill in a children’s book, the role of the Emperor. I need someone who is Asian, heavyset, has a wide range of emotions, preferably with a black Fu Manchu mustache and beard, but not required. Age 50′s- 70′s. There is pay, as well as a…

  • The Emerging Skills Needed by #Film Publicists

    6 May 2012 | 3:21 pm
    Now that there is some form of distribution available to every project made, whether it is working with a service company to theatrically release or uploading the project online for free and enabling perpetual viewing, it is time to acknowledge that new mindsets and skills are needed not just for filmmakers, but also for film promotion. Traditionally, a publicist’s role  was to leverage the relationships she had formed with editors and journalists (the media) to ensure story placement in publications and she strived to convey a cohesive message about a film. She endeavored to control the…

  • New Film About Hollywood Legend Mary Pickford To Begin Production in Early 2013

    6 May 2012 | 3:18 pm
    Pic to be directed by Jennifer DeLia, written by Josh Fagin and produced by Julie Pacino Poverty Row Entertainment, a production company headed by Julie Pacino and Jennifer DeLia, has recently acquired the rights, along with producer Said Zahraoui, to silent screen legend Mary Pickford’s biography “Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood,” written by Eileen Whitfield.  This definitive biography establishes the star as a groundbreaking genius, casting new light on one of the most influential – and least understood – artists in the history of popular culture. THE UNTITLED PICKFORD…

  • Things We Say Today Which We Owe to Shakespeare

    12 Apr 2012 | 11:54 am

  • Bana and Hall Begin Shooting on an Untitled John Crowley Suspense Thriller

    12 Apr 2012 | 10:33 am
    Production begins next week in the U.K. on Focus Features and Working Title Films’ untitled international suspense thriller starring Eric Bana (of Focus’ Hanna) and Golden Globe Award nominee Rebecca Hall (Vicky Cristina Barcelona, The Town) for director John Crowley (Boy A) The original screenplay is by Steven Knight, Academy Award nominee for Dirty Pretty Things and BIFA Award nominee for Focus’ Eastern Promises. Rounding out the cast are British Independent Film Award nominee Riz Ahmed (Four Lions); Academy Award winner Jim Broadbent (Iris); Olivier Award nominee Kenneth Cranham (An…
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  • Delivering

    Travis Bedard
    2 May 2012 | 2:14 am
    I have a lot of ideas. A lot. A lot a lot. Friends and loved ones learn to listen, or sort of surf the never-ending flow, for things I truly invest in… or spend a second thought on. In return I use them to see if any of the ideas bust through the eye glaze and fire a neuron in a brain not mine…. This is a pretty good system for a flawed brain. As long as idea broadcaster and vetters are in the same communication plane… or awake. Because sometimes? Sometimes you have an idea in the middle of the night and share it with the broader world before you vet those ideas with the folks you…

  • Missing the magic, Missing the moment.

    Travis Bedard
    26 Apr 2012 | 11:33 am
    - That girl thinks she’s the queen of the neighborhood - Joe Dowling, the AD of the Guthrie is getting crushed by what he considers small fish in the dripdripdrip of social media over creating a very traditional season. He has been largely deaf to the criticism about the Guthrie’s continued lack of support for gender or racial diversity and tin-eared in his responses to it. - I got news for you, she is! - It is a pristine example of the fundamental disconnect longterm non-profit organizations run into. Being a community cultural asset with a large budget doesn’t release you from the…

  • While we wait…

    Travis Bedard
    13 Mar 2012 | 1:08 am
    We’re in a holding pattern on a few things before I write out  the final post-mortem on Messenger No. 4 (and get myself a tattoo) so I’d like to get a jump on our next little thing. It’s going to be a minute or two until we get back to a full production… though nothing like the break between Orestes and Messenger No. 4. While we’re saving our pennies for whatever the next Major Node in our progression and Will does rewrites on M4, we want to stay active in smaller ways and work with even more folks we’ve never met before. For those of you who came along at some point later…

  • LIBATIONS!

    Travis Bedard
    12 Mar 2012 | 12:54 am
    No good evening out is complete without a quality beverage and the rep productions of Messenger No. 4 and the 21 Would-Be Lives of Phineas Hamm featured a partnership with Austin’s own Deep Eddy Vodka to ensure we wouldn’t be lacking. Those who braved a full night at the Blue Theatre (for both shows) received a complimentary cocktail (or soft drink) and you could also purchase them at the bar. We had drinks concocted for us (one per show) by long time friends of Cambiare Productions Simon Ogden (The Next Stage, and Veneto in Victoria, BC) and Tony Adams (AD of Halcyon Theatre in Chicago).

  • After the Curtain

    Travis Bedard
    7 Mar 2012 | 11:58 pm
      So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. Forgive a proper New Hampshire boy for default to Robert Frost? Messenger No. 4 (v 1.0) has been stripped out of the Blue Theatre, rolling chairs have been dispersed, it’s all over but the accounting and I am… surprisingly emotional. I mentioned to Andy Rodgers just after opening that this show was as unfulfilling as any I’d ever done because I was so divorced from the process. I worked with Will on the script until Draft 3, which he took into rehearsal and then… left. I wanted this show to be his. I wanted the writer to have his…
 
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    TDF STAGES: A THEATRE MAGAZINE

  • “Cock’s” Imaginary Sex and Violence

    Mark Blankenship
    16 May 2012 | 10:58 am
    How the play finds power in suggestion There are so many things missing: Props, costumes, lighting, sets. Even the seating banks are just unfinished plywood with a few cushions strewn around, leaving us no distractions from the actors in the middle of the room, ripping out their hearts in the name of love. Sparseness is [...]

  • Video: Behind the Scenes of the Autism-Friendly “Mary Poppins”

    Mark Blankenship
    15 May 2012 | 10:05 am
    How does the theatre look when TDF presents an autism-friendly performance of a Broadway show? What’s added to the lobby? What’s different on stage? To find out, watch this behind-the-scenes video from an autism-friendly performance of Mary Poppins, sponsored by TDF’s Autism Theatre Initiative. Share this with a friend:

  • Cedar Lake Finally Dances in New York

    Emeri Fetzer
    14 May 2012 | 11:30 am
    Inside the company’s ambitious spring season For a year and a half, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet has performed almost everywhere but New York City. But from May 15-27 they are back at the Joyce Theater with two programs. They’ll feature six pieces by six different choreographers, five NYC premieres, and one world premiere. Ana-Maria Lucaciu, [...]

  • Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Theatre

    Doug Strassler
    11 May 2012 | 10:17 am
    “Die” Relies on Fate to Tell a Story — The thrill of live theatre is that anything can happen on a given night, and that concept is pushed to the extreme by Die: Roll to Proceed, a comedy running on Friday nights at the East Village’s Red Room. Written by Joe Kurtz and developed and [...]

  • David Rabe Opens Up

    Randy Gener
    9 May 2012 | 2:39 pm
    How He Changed the Soul of “An Early History of Fire” The play swerved. It veered into a different path. Once the New Group greenlit David Rabe’s script for production, seven years of slow, dedicated work went out the window. In fact, if you consider the stop-and-go motion by which Rabe typically crafts his plays, [...]
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  • My Mother’s Gift To Me… Via Frank McCourt

    Ann Sachs
    13 May 2012 | 5:11 am
    Jeanne O’Sullivan Sachs  (15 October 1920 – 19 July 2009) Francis “Frank” McCourt   (19 August 1930 – 19 July 2009) My mother was always a mystery to me. The oldest child in a large, Irish Catholic family, she was a brilliant beauty whose musical gifts inspired everyone around her. I was the polar opposite: scrappy, frizzy-haired, crossed eyes, born to fearlessly question and bluntly challenge the world. Convinced throughout my childhood that I was adopted (I mean NO ONE could tell what Mom was really thinking) I wondered how I could possibly be related to such a…

  • Woman Of Wisdom: A Ritual

    Ann Sachs
    30 Apr 2012 | 8:42 pm
    In January my husband and I prepared to move for the first time in 37 years. We had to reduce the size of our library to fit into a smaller space, and deciding which books to keep became a crazy-making endeavor for me. There were hundreds of books I couldn’t bear to let go. Day after day I thumbed through pages that once introduced me to worlds unknown. My gushing tears seemed disproportionate to the activity, as did my frantic scribbles of words I somehow had to hold close to me. Just as I thought I might actually be losing my mind, it struck me that I was simply doing something…

  • The Actor Is What We See, But Only 1/8 Of What Is There

    Ann Sachs
    7 Mar 2012 | 7:00 am
    An earlier version of this post was published in March, 2010. When I work with individuals or groups on ways Theatrical Intelligence can make a difference in their lives, my goal is to stimulate an exploration into their creative core. The term Theatrical Intelligence evokes responses that range from: ”Yes! It’ll help me when I have to give a presentation” to “Not my kind of thing – don’t like being in the spotlight.” There is an assumption that Theatrical Intelligence = Actor. What We See In the theatrical production model, the Actor is what we…

  • When You’re Feeling Stuck…

    Ann Sachs
    14 Jan 2012 | 1:20 pm
    An earlier version of this post was published as “What Role Were You Born to Play?” in June 2009. When you’re feeling creatively stuck, it’s time to rediscover your Theatrical Intelligence. Identify those inborn talents of your youth – the ones that went into hiding as you morphed into an adult – and presto change-o - you’ll get unstuck! Behind the stage door, great wisdom lives… Try this: Think back to your childhood. Remember the neighborhood where you grew up?  Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and inhale the smell of that long ago…

  • Occupational Hazard: REJECTION!

    Ann Sachs
    24 Sep 2011 | 12:34 am
    Rejection = A Fact of Life. Rejection in the Theatre = The Daily Reality. Assuming a high level of talent and skill, the way a theatre professional handles rejection can determine the rate of success or failure in his or her career. It took me too long to learn that I had a choice as to whether or not I responded personally to rejection. As a young actress in New York in the early 70’s, my fear of being rejected could be paralyzing; on occasion I would actually not show up for an audition. Knowing I didn’t want to sabotage my lifelong dream, and not wanting to piss of my agent any…
 
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  • Play it again, Sam

    Kathy Janich
    16 May 2012 | 9:50 am
    The hills will be alive with the sound of your music in June — if you visit the Fox Theatre for its Sing-Along Sound of Music, arguably the most exciting (and participatory) event in this year's Coca-Cola Summer Film Festival.

  • A ‘tree’ grows in Atlanta

    Kathy Janich
    14 May 2012 | 4:53 pm
    It’s springtime, and Atlanta’s streets, parks and gardens are blooming. So is Atlanta Symphony Hall, where the hauntingly beautiful A Flowering Tree will be performed by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, and the opera's original soloists.

  • Dream’s McCoughtry will play ball in Summer Games

    Kathy Janich
    11 May 2012 | 5:06 pm
    Atlanta Dream player Angel McCoughtry is among the 12 American women who will compete for basketball gold at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

  • Uncensored in the South!

    Kathy Janich
    10 May 2012 | 11:00 am
    The inaugural Atlanta Fringe Fest spotlights grass-roots theater throughout the city on May 9-13. That's an opening performance and 132 performances in four days, people.

  • A few words from ‘über-geek’ director

    Kathy Janich
    9 May 2012 | 3:00 pm
    "I can’t think of a way to say this without sounding like an über-geek, but the only thing I love more than atomic physics is a beautifully written play," says Maggie McEnerny, director of "Copenhagen" at the Academy Theatre.
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  • UPDATED May 10: Hacked!

    Lois
    10 May 2012 | 11:22 am
    May 10, 2012 The bad links are back again!  Sorry everyone. I’m working with my hosting providers to figure out how/why this is happening and to prevent it from happening again.  I don’t want to re-install my software every three months due to hackers. Hopefully everything will be resolved soon.  In the meantime, please don’t click any of the links in the footer of the post pages.   Feb 3, 2012 HUGE Thank yous to Ian Garrett!  In the middle of the night he helped me re-install the core software that runs the website and overwrite whatever code had gotten into it.

  • 10 Tips for Stage Managing a New Play

    Lois
    10 May 2012 | 10:01 am
    The hardest thing about stage managing a new play is that it is like trying to hit a moving target. Paperwork tracking characters and scenes becomes outdated as soon as it can be created and weekly schedules go out the window when the script is undergoing serious revisions. All of this movement is exactly why the role of the stage manager is important: you have to be prepared to guide everyone else so they can hit the new target with all their energy. It always requires you to be a step ahead. It’s a challenge, but here are a few tips to make it easier Monday night was the first public…

  • Productivity, Busyness & Staying Afloat

    Lois
    5 May 2012 | 10:04 pm
    People always say that work in the arts is either feast or famine. I often smiled and nodded when they said that, thinking to myself, “Yeah, you either have work or you don’t.” In the first five months of 2012, I’ve lived that saying.  From January through mid-March I didn’t have any work. I was contacting companies and asking for opportunities to volunteer, but no one needed help. Those three months of famine were kind of like torture.  I thrive on busyness. multi-tasking, and six hours of sleep. Fast forward to the present. I have 10 projects on the go. And I…

  • Judas Opens Tonight at The Cultch

    Lois
    11 Apr 2012 | 11:36 am
    Photo by Itai Erdal Working on Judas has been such a blessing. If you’ve talked to me in the past two weeks I’ve no doubt exclaimed something about how smoothly things were going. The process of getting this show up has been an absolutely joy to be a part of. And last night we had our preview and got to hear an audience respond to what they were seeing with laughter, audible gasps and a standing ovation before the actors were back on stage for their curtain call. I don’t think it gets better than this: doing what I absolutely love with amazing people on a powerfully…

  • The Last Days of Judas Iscariot – First Rehearsal

    Lois
    6 Apr 2012 | 10:41 am
    We open on Wednesday, but check out this great video from our first rehearsal last Monday!
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  • The Game is Afoot at Academy Theatre

    admin
    14 May 2012 | 8:06 pm
    Mystery! Robots! Puppets! These are all words that describe The Game is  Afoot: A Sherlock Holmes Puppet Parody. Follow the adventures of Grippon Meyer and his sidekick Dr. Basil Parsley Sage Rosemary Thyme as they fight evil, gravity, and those who would do in the modern Victorian Steampunk England! This puppet based parody of Sherlock [...] Related articles: The Academy Theatre presents Masters of Magic with Evan Reynolds and David Howell Alex Bruno Returns to the Academy Theatre Boris Karloff comes to the Academy Theatre

  • Feature Q & A – Robert Egizio Directs Lend Me a Tenor

    admin
    14 May 2012 | 8:02 pm
    As part of its 2011-2012 season, Stage Door Players is presenting Ken Ludwig’s farce Lend Me a Tenor. Atlanta Theater Fans had the chance to ask Robert Egizio, Artistic Director of Stage Door Players and director of Lend Me a Tenor, some questions about the show. Read below to find out more about the play and why [...] Related articles: Stage Door Players Presents Lend Me A Tenor Aurora Theatre Stages The Fox on the Fairway Stage Door Players Presents My Way: A Tribute to Frank Sinatra

  • Center for Puppetry Arts Showcases Emerging Artists in Xperimental Puppetry Theater, May 17-20

    admin
    14 May 2012 | 7:56 pm
    WHAT: Xperimental Puppetry Theater by Various Artists Artists of all disciplines join forces to create bold, original performances in Xperimental Puppetry Theater (XPT). From May 17-20, puppetry patrons can view ten short performances and films that cover a variety of topics including the myth of Medusa, an inside look at a lion taming act and a [...] Related articles: Center for Puppetry Arts Presents Teatro SEA in La Cucarachita Martina All Hands Productions Presents The New Adventures of the Gingerbread Man at Center for Puppetry Arts Paul Zaloom Presents White Like Me: A Honky-Dory…

  • See Photos of Jersey Boys

    admin
    13 May 2012 | 9:32 pm
    See photos from the touring production of Jersey Boys, which plays at the Fox Theatre from May 22 to June 10, 2012. The cast of Jersey Boys will be led by Brandon Andrus (Nick Massi), Colby Foytik (Tommy DeVito), Jason Kappus (Bob Gaudio) and Brad Weinstock (Frankie Valli) as The Four Seasons, with Barry Anderson [...] Related articles: Jersey Boys Returning to Atlanta’s Fox Theatre May 22-June 10 Casting Announced for Jersey Boys Atlanta Return Engagement Celebrate Frankie Valli’s Birthday with $53 Jersey Boys Tickets

  • The New American Shakespeare Tavern Presents The Canterbury Tales

    admin
    10 May 2012 | 9:12 pm
    The Atlanta Shakespeare Company at The New American Shakespeare Tavern presents Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales Adapted and Directed by John Stephens $12 General Admission Preview Thursday, May 3 Runs May 4-27, 2012 Join us for a medieval romp through boisterous and bawdy oldeEngland. Drawing on the Celtic British influences [...] Related articles: The Atlanta Shakespeare Company at The New American Shakespeare Tavern Presents Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol The Atlanta Shakespeare Company at The New American Shakespeare Tavern…
 
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  • Ethics in the theatre

    dave@theatregeeks.com (Dave Dufour, John Shoup, Marcia Fulmer)
    15 May 2012 | 12:47 pm
    Theatre Workers' Code of Ethics from 1945 still applies today. Last month, Dave reported on a code of ethics for theatre workers that was found among the effects of the late actress Kathleen Freeman.... More info at the Theatre Geeks website

  • Theatre Geeks interviews Accidental Pervert star Andrew Goffman

    dave@theatregeeks.com (Dave Dufour, John Shoup, Marcia Fulmer)
    24 Apr 2012 | 9:19 pm
    Andrew Goffman is the author and star of the one-man show The Accidental Pervert, now playing at the 13th Street Repertory Company in New York City. . . . → Read More: Theatre Geeks interviews... More info at the Theatre Geeks website

  • Theatre Geeks News for April 1, 2012

    dave@theatregeeks.com (Dave Dufour, John Shoup, Marcia Fulmer)
    1 Apr 2012 | 10:41 pm
    More Shakespeare, good-bye to Davy Jones and your theatre ethics Theatre Workers’ Code of Ethics from 1945 — LA Stage Times Michael Billington on actors — The UK Guardian Canadian... More info at the Theatre Geeks website

  • Brush up your Shakespeare and Shaw at two great Canadian theatre fests.

    dave@theatregeeks.com (Dave Dufour, John Shoup, Marcia Fulmer)
    25 Mar 2012 | 8:35 pm
    Our preview of the Stratford and Shaw festivals in Canada! The Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford Ontario and the Shaw Festival in Niagara On the Lake, Ontario are two great theatre events... More info at the Theatre Geeks website

  • Theatre Geeks News for March 19, 2012

    dave@theatregeeks.com (Dave Dufour, John Shoup, Marcia Fulmer)
    20 Mar 2012 | 12:31 am
    Tennessee Williams revived, brush up your Shakespeare accent and More! Booboo the Wonder Cat who helps Dave with the News Theatre News Notes Watch the video version of this episode here. Chris... More info at the Theatre Geeks website
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  • If Theatre Isn’t Dead, Let Me Kill It | Life | Sabotage Times

    Tim
    15 May 2012 | 1:08 am
    If Theatre Isn’t Dead, Let Me Kill It Not quite sure what Sabotage Times is, but the pull quote is certainly intriguing: I have come to the conclusion after a lifetime of acting and writing for the theatre, that the theatrical experience largely sucks and there is absolutely no redemption for it. The pay off is categorically not worth the discomfort endured.

  • Culture City: Lots of Guys, Not Enough Dolls

    Tim
    14 May 2012 | 1:06 am
    Lots of Guys, Not Enough Dolls While Tonys are equally bestowed on male and female stars of the stage, there’s a colossal gender gap in the honors given to the men and women who create the shows.

  • Sarah Ruhl Quote « The Days of Yore

    Tim
    13 May 2012 | 4:55 pm
    Make friends with other playwrights. They are, after all, the best sort of people, as they like to be alone, and they also like to be with other people, so they understand one’s predilection for eating lunch alone and panicking if there’s no living soul around at dinner. - Sarah Ruhl

  • Behind Every Great Novelist

    Tim
    11 May 2012 | 4:32 pm
    An illustration by Grant Snider, a fabulous cartoonist:

  • Directions and the 17%

    Tim
    11 May 2012 | 4:13 pm
    Stage Directions and the 17% Andie Arthur on 2AMt: As a female playwright, the odds are already against me getting produced. They’re even worse in Miami, which has a hyper-masculine theatre culture and artistically prefers what I’ve called “plays where people throw chairs.”
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  • Knock-Knock! The Definitive List of Shakespeare Knock-Knock Jokes (Guest Post)

    16 May 2012 | 10:54 am
    From time to time, Bardfilm and Shakespeare Geek have tried putting a Shakespearean spin on some of the classic genres of humor. In the past, they’ve tackled light bulb jokes and dealt with why the chicken crossed the road. Finally, the great challenge of the Knock-knock joke proved irresistible. Here are some Shakespearean knock-knock jokes that you can use to entertain or torment your friends, colleagues, and children.  No, you don't need advanced Shakespeare knowledge to get all of them - but it certainly helps sometimes! Knock, Knock. Who’s there? Oberon. Oberon who? Oberon the…

  • My Brownie Adventure

    16 May 2012 | 9:18 am
    So yesterday, I'm happy to say, was my first official "Stand up in front of a group of children not my own, and talk about Shakespeare."  Long time readers will know that I've had a number of false starts along this path, ranging from the time I read The Tempest to a bunch of first graders, to the time that the school principal shot down my plans to stage Dream among the second graders. This time we went informal - my 7yr old daughter's Brownie (small Girl Scout) troop, which in this instance numbered just 4 girls.  5, if you count my older daughter who hangs out and keeps herself…

  • Brownie Shakespeare (The Plan)

    14 May 2012 | 1:22 pm
    So this story broke on Twitter a couple weeks ago.  My wife runs a troop of Brownies (think "small Girl Scouts" if the term is unfamiliar) for my 7yr old daughter.  Last week her plans were scrapped due to rain, and she spontaneously said "Want to do some Shakespeare with them?" Yes. Cue mad scramble for teaching materials that I could use with a small (5 kids) group of 7yr old girls.  I literally had like less than half a day to whip something up. End result of that little rush was that she came up with a backup backup plan and I was off the hook for such short notice - with…

  • What Have You Seen?

    11 May 2012 | 8:32 am
    Once again this week I got into the "See it, don't read it!" debate with someone, and my faithful readers know that I weigh in on the "read it" side of this argument for the following very simple reason: "Hey, I don't know anything about Richard III, I think I'll read it." "Don't read it, go see it!""Oh, ok.  Is it playing?" "...well, no." And then people immediately jump into the defense of going to rent a DVD, even though you all know perfectly well that if there was a choice between seeing it live on stage and seeing a movie version, you wouldn't even have to think about it.

  • Character I'd Most Like To _______ With

    8 May 2012 | 6:21 pm
    I saw a "Favorite Shakespearean Character?" thread on another board, and it reminded me how completely unanswerable that question is - it's like asking who your favorite family member is.  Different pros and cons in different contexts. I think I once asked "Which Shakespeare character would you want to go drinking with?" but didn't get any answers other than Falstaff. ;) So, a more wide open game.  First fill in the blank, then give a character.  Who would you like to ... ... start a business with? ... go out on a date with? ... get into a mixed martial arts ring with? ... pick…
 
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  • Chuck Childs is Awarded Mallory Gilbert Leadership Award

    14 May 2012 | 9:29 am
    On May 10th, as part of the PACT annual conference and AGM in Grand Bend Ontario, Chuck Childs was awarded the Mallor Gilbert Leadership Award. This award consists of $5000 to the recipient, and an additional $1000 awarded to a protege of the recipients choice. Last year's recipient was Philip Akin, Artistic Director of Obsidian Theatre. To learn more about the award, and this year's winner Chuck Childs, read on after the break for the full press release from PACT. Congratulations Mr. Childs!Toronto, May 10, 2012 – The Professional Association of Canadian Theatres is proud to…

  • Business vs. Culture: The Regional Theatre Dilema

    6 May 2012 | 7:22 am
    The regional theatres of Canada were largely founded in the 60's & 70's, funded with help from the government with the purpose of bringing theatre and culture to the vast tracts of Canada. This funding allowed the construction of new, larger, dedicated venues for companies to produce professional, polished productions in. This was a boon to the industry. From Vancouver to Halifax, newly minted, not-for-profit companies were created and started producing professional theatre shows the caliber of which many Canadians had never had access to before. Now, in the new millennium,…

  • Frugal Friday: AutoCAD WS

    4 May 2012 | 7:48 pm
     AutoCAD is a great tool. It also happens to be a very expensive tool. The creators of AutoCAD, AutoDesk, do offer a free app though. It can be used to edit, view and store DWG files in the cloud. You can check it out by following this link.The most recent version, which is available on Android, Windows, Mac, iOS and on the Web even includes 3D support. Take a look at this trailer video for a taste of the new 3D functionality.    Is this app as easy to work with, or as powerful as the full desktop client... no. But it's free! And it can do quite a lot. Check it out... I…

  • Arts Funding Spared in Tight Federal Budget

    31 Mar 2012 | 6:52 am
    It was widely expected that there would be cuts to Arts funding in this iteration of the Conservative Government's budget. However, it was mostly good news for the Arts industry, and it even includes one special surprise that not-for-profits can take advantage of!Yesterday, the Government of Canada released the details of it's 2012 budget. During the months leading up to the budget, it was made known that the Finance Minister had asked all branches to submit budget scenarios for %5 and %10 cuts. Given Harper's perceived lack of support (and past comments) regarding the arts, many feared there…

  • We Need a Hero

    21 Mar 2012 | 7:36 pm
    Arts organizations cannot live on earned revenue alone, this is common knowledge. They depend a great deal on donations and government funding. To obtain theses monies, a lot of effort, marketing and lobbying takes place, and still organizations struggle to survive, and occasionally don't.We need a hero! What i mean is that the industry needs a spokesperson who is capable of swaying opinion. Take a look at this video:   That is Neil degrasse Tyson speaking on The Daily Show. NASA spending has a lot on common with arts spending in my opinion. You might hear statements like the…
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