Masterworks Broadway series

A group of people exists who love show music like I love show music – and the theatre gods have finally given them the wherewithal to share their love. They work at Masterworks Broadway and they are in the process of filling in blanks in the collections of us fanatics. [Read more...]

Writing and performing Bucky’s song and dance

A conversation with playwright/director D. W. Jacobs and performer Rick Foucheux

If you haven’t read the work of Buckminster Fuller or seen it explained in R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the Universe, you might doubt whether watching one solo performance could totally transform how you see this “Spaceship Earth”  [Read more...]

David Ives on Spinoza and New Jerusalem

“I’D RATHER SLING HASH THAN WRITE THE SAME KIND OF PLAY TWICE”

All right. So you saw Constellation do David Ives’ witty adaptation of George Feydeau’s farce A Flea in Her Ear last October. And in April, you went to the Shakespeare to see how Ives reinvented the 1643 Pierre Corneille’s comedy The Liar. And now you’ve noticed that Theater J will be staging Ives’ The New Jerusalem, [Read more...]