Legendary Broadway director/producer Harold “Hal” Prince will receive the fourth annual Sondheim Award from the Arlington, VA-based Signature Theatre, the company announced yesterday. [Read more...]
Signature Theatre honors Broadway’s Hal Prince with Sondheim Award
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Mia Chung on writing You For Me For You
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Mia Chung’s new play You For Me For You, opening this week, kicks off Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company’s “Free The Beast” campaign: a ten-year commitment to producing 25 world-premiere plays. Chung’s new play is a poignant look at the unique and insular life of contemporary North Koreans. A graduate of Brown University with an MFA in Playwriting, she has had her plays workshopped and produced all around America over the last few years. [Read more...]
The New York theatre scene after Sandy’s exit
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Hurricane Sandy caused a rare 2 day shutdown for Broadway theatres starting Monday, Oct 29. Despite a massive blackout, and the closure of mass transit and tunnels, actors, stagehands and house staff managed to open the theatres on Wed, Oct 31st. DCTS writer Susan Galbraith’s meeting in New York was canceled due to the power outage. Stranded in the city over the weekend, she reports: [Read more...]
The Rest of the Story: A Life Completed
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The late Arthur Laurents was a truth teller. The plays he wrote portrayed his honest view of life. The productions he directed sought to find the truth in the plays they performed. His book “Mainly On Directing” focused on the importance of truth in the theater. His autobiography, “Original Story By,” was filled to overflowing with the truth as he saw it about many famous people who were bound not to like what he said about them. His personal style fit the term he probably hated as inelegant – “Tell it like it is.” [Read more...]
