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Monday, Nov 30, 2009 — Troublesome Gap, a first-of-its-kind interactive online audio series makes its Web debut Monday, November 30th at 8pm at www.troublesomegap.org. The man behind the audio drama is sound designer and multiple Helen Hayes Award winner Matthew Nielson, who also co-wrote and co-directed the series [Read more...]
Theatre lovers have reason to rejoice. Brad Hathaway, the founder of Potomac Stages, has put together a collection of books and CDs that will lighten the hearts of theatre fans. [Read more...]
Stories that live on the Great Plains tend to cast their players in iconic silhouette. Chalk it up to the flat land in every direction.
Now, at the end of a very long journey into night, the shadow of Violet Weston trudges through her house in hunched, weary profile. [Read more...]
When Joe Calarco told me earlier this year that he was directing one of my favorite musicals – The Light in the Piazza – at Philadelphia Theatre Company’s Suzanne Roberts Theatre, I immediately reserved November 22nd on my calendar to see it. [Read more...]
It’s that old familiar story: boy becomes king, king gets queen, king loses queen. Do it today, and it’s a reality show, followed by recriminations and appearances on talk shows. But in the day of Lerner and Loewe, [Read more...]
When Jim Brochu was here with his solo show about the great Zero Mostel, he and his director Piper Laurie talked with Joel about creating Zero Hour. [Read more...]
Of the dozen or so truly great Shakespeare plays – that is to say, those plays considered among the best things ever written on the planet, in any language – As You Like It is probably the least coherent. But until now, we’ve never known why. [Read more...]
In The Eggshell (La Cascara del Huevo), a comic-satire conceived by the wonderfully inventive Killbob Theater Company from Cordoba, Argentina, [Read more...]
Paul Robeson. The name conjures up scholar, athlete, the civil rights advocate who was blacklisted for supposed “Un-American activities,” and of course, the man with an amazing baritone voice like something the Lord made. [Read more...]
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