Romeo and Juliet through the eyes of the Fools
January 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A man walks on to the stage, accompanied by friends. It is night, and he is a decade older than he was that morning. He has buried his young daughter today – dead, suddenly and inexplicably, less than a fortnight before she was to marry. He is inconsolable. She was his hope for the future, and now he has no future. He will never be free from sadness again. [Read more...]
Listen in on Mike Daisey’s New Years Eve monologue
January 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
“Let’s face it”, he says, “we are all living in a play that isn’t working.” - Mike Daisey
Monologist Mike Daisey, considered one of the finest storytellers in America, has a ready home on Woolly Mammoth’s stage and when he comes to town with pieces such as The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, Last Cargo Cult, and How Theater Failed America, tickets sell fast. New Years Eve 2011 Mike performed When the Clock Strikes for Boston’s First Night before a sold out audience, and has given us permission to share the live recording with you. [Read more...]
Joe Brack is the last elf standing
December 30, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Performers in holiday shows have lots to be merry about this season as box office sales have earned extensions for their shows. Synetic’s Romeo and Juliet added a week, closing today, STC’s Much Ado About Nothing carries over to 2012, closing January 7th, and at Olney, the cast of The Sound of Music will be in their 9th week when they close January 22nd. [Read more...]
Spooky Action given $1.6 million bequest
November 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Spooky Action Theater, a small company which has faced misfortune in the past, has become the recipient of a bequest valued at $1.6 million, Spooky Action’s Artistic Director Richard Henrich announced yesterday. [Read more...]
Behind the scene with Stay’s creators
November 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A son’s bedtime wish was the creative spark for Stay
A bottle of wine can lead to many things, but for playwright Heather McDonald and choreographer Susan Shields, it led to an artistic collaboration. [Read more...]
Is Shakespeare Shakespeare?
November 4, 2011 By 2 Comments
“Anonymous” says ‘no’. Freud agrees. Who are we to believe?
Court is in session and Tim Treanor argues his case.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, let’s review the evidence. Can anyone reasonably believe that this man is responsible for some of the greatest literature in the English language? He was a rustic, indifferently educated, who held a succession of low-level jobs, generally unsuccessfully. His father was a rural merchant. And then, somehow, he supposedly blossomed into a great writer – one who wrote brilliantly perceptive stories about kings and princes. [Read more...]
Derek Goldman’s new play re-imagines ‘Night of the Hunter’
November 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Few films occupy as strange a corner of the cinematic landscape as Charles Laughton’s 1955 classic “The Night Of The Hunter.” A nightmarish mix of American folklore and German expressionism, the movie — concerning two young children on the run from a homicidal preacher who seeks to murder them and pocket their father’s money — was all but ignored upon its initial release, only to be reclaimed as an ahead-of-its-time surrealist touchstone decades later. [Read more...]
Zelda Fichandler galvinizes artistic directors at the Zelda Fichandler Awards
October 31, 2011 By 2 Comments
Blanca Ziska, Artistic Director of Philadelphia’s Wilma Theatre is this year’s recipient of the Zelda Fichandlert Award, presented by the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC)
Sometimes you sup with the gods.
That’s what it felt like on the stage at the Mead Center for American Theater Monday night, October 26, 2011, when the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC) celebrated its third annual presentation of the Zelda Fichandler Award. Directors and choreographers gathered to honor one artistic director, picked this year from the eastern region’s several finalists, whose vision and consistent programming has made an indelible impact on the community she served and who followed undeterred her own specific, laudatory artistic vision. [Read more...]
A Farewell to Emery Battis
October 4, 2011 By 1 Comment
Actor Emery Battis passed away September 20th at the age of 96. Like many theatergoers, I grew up watching him onstage and came to think of him as a production’s good luck charm. Emery’s in the house, all’s well in the world. [Read more...]
Backstage with Shakespeare Theatre’s youngest star
September 27, 2011 By 1 Comment
The “star” of one of the most popular plays this season only appears on the stage for a few minutes, has no lines of dialogue, and doesn’t take questions from the press. Worse still, this is almost certain to be her only show; so when her run is finished, you will never get another chance to see her perform on stage. [Read more...]
