September 2009
Will ScarJo Leave Her Mark on Broadway? -... →
Ok, I was excited for Promises, Promises (my favorite 60s bad musical) to be on Broadway - now, not so much.
Artistic Director Joy Zinoman to Retire From... →
Theater Review - 'Aftermath' - Iraqi Exiles’ Tales... →
Seriously? How did this play get a good review? Not one person in my class, teacher included, liked it.
“Whatever boils up, the ingredients look promising: a pair of resourceful young...”
– Fall Arts Preview - Theater: Peter Marks on Forum’s ‘Angels in America’ - washingtonpost.com
“Good acoustics mean that the actors can hear the audience, not only laughter and...”
– David Wiles, A Short History of Western Performance Space
“Any non-optical impression - a tactile one, for example, or a muscular...”
– Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space
“Perhaps freedom is only the freedom not to exist? ‘Oh how nice not to exist,’...”
– Wood on Chekhov (Rehearsals for Three Sisters start tonight!)
“A painting, like the stage, is inherently confrontational and oppositional; the...”
– Arnold Aronson, Looking Into the Abyss
This Season's Playwrights →
A list of all the shows in New York this season arranged by playwright. There is something that feels so democratic and bizarre about this.
“When you walk in through a gap in one side, you see your own face reflected,...”
– Art Review: Blake Gopnik on the Dan Graham Retrospective at N.Y.’s Whitney - washingtonpost.com
a must read
Friends united in the making/viewing/supporting of theater. Have you read this letter from the Collective Arts Think Tank yet?
First Letter to the Field: What’s working, what’s not working, recommendations
No? You should.
Collaboraction in Chicago Lures Wary Theatergoers... →
Interesting approach to getting audiences to take chances.
“Good writing on the theatre needs to be as bold and experimental as great...”
– Where are today’s public intellectuals? | Steve Waters | Stage | guardian.co.uk Amen. 