Third time still charms with Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s game-changing, blood-drumming 2015 musical about Alexander Hamilton, whom he describes in his syncopated, ear-worm lyrics as a “$10 bill Founding Father without a father.” Having had the privilege of seeing the original Broadway cast of Hamilton twice, there was some curiosity about how the touring company would […]
Archives for June 27, 2019
A fascination of 1850’s Europe, An Evening with Lola Montez snatches this woman from obscurity.
In 1937, the German playwright, activist Ernst Toller lived in Hollywood. He was public enemy number one of the Nazi regime, from which he was an exile. He was also one of the first German refugee writers to sign a contract to write for the movies. He worked at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Toller worked on two screenplays […]
H. P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu. Directing with the monster in the room
Our work in DC and Baltimore started with Edgar Allan Poe. We partnered up with the Poe Society in Baltimore and we’re sort of living in this space of the darker side of human motivation and obsession. H. P. Lovecraft is widely considered to be an inheritor of a tradition that Poe started and so […]