To the earliest humans, everything was magic, from the rising and setting of the Sun to the way that flint could change a pile of dry sticks and leaves into a fire. That is to say, the everyday processes by which they lived were incomprehensible to them, and they called upon their invisible gods (usually […]
Archives for January 9, 2011
The Great Game: Afghanistan returns for 2 private performances
The Great Game: Afghanistan – a seven-hour, three-play set of nineteen distinct stories covering nearly two centuries of superpower adventures in Afghanistan which played at Shakespeare Theatre’s Sidney Harman Hall last September – is coming back for a two-day engagement before an exclusive audience next month. Who is the exclusive audience? Pentagon staff, policymakers, humanitarian […]
Theatre Lab to train, cast novices for big musical
The The Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts is offering a musical theater training program for novices with a twist – at the end of the program, you’re in a show. The musical will be Rags, which tracks the experiences of immigrants to America during the early twentieth century. It was a collaboration between […]