Monday, April 22, 2013
By Sam Thielman (Once again, we are happy to have Ad Week's Sam Thielman reviewing for Parabasis, this time he shares his take on "Matilda"): Early on in the April 6 performance of…
Linked From Parabasis at 09:31AMWednesday, April 17, 2013
By Isaac Butler First it was discovered and announced yesterday that austerity economics is based on an excel spredsheeting error and now Brooks Brothers is introducing a Great Gatsby collec…
Linked From Parabasis at 08:45PMTuesday, March 5, 2013
One of the glorious problems that keeps a play from a second life as a book of poetry (or most plays; I’ll give you the Greeks and the odd, rule-proving exception like Ntozake Shange) is t…
Linked From Parabasis at 12:42PMSunday, March 3, 2013
By Isaac Butler Up at the Finanical Times (and not behind their paywall) Matt Trueman has a piece discussing the cultural exchange of plays between the United States and Great Britain, with …
Linked From Parabasis at 03:38PMMonday, February 11, 2013
by Isaac Butler Making the rounds of the internet today is this report that less than 25% of roles on New York City stages were played by actors of color from 2011-2012. 99 and I have been s…
Linked From Parabasis at 07:47PMFriday, December 28, 2012
by Isaac Butler I'd like to posit here at the outset something that the rest of this post rests on: Attention in theatre is important. Theatre, in fact, requires a different kind of attentio…
Linked From Parabasis at 09:19PMThursday, December 27, 2012
Over the holiday, Carol Piersol, the co-founder and long-time artistic director of The Firehouse Theatre Project, abruptly resigned in protest of the even-more-abrupt forced retirement hande…
Linked From Parabasis at 03:16PMSaturday, November 17, 2012
By Isaac Butler Something's been nagging at me about that LA Times piece I linked to earlier this week. I have to say, once again, before I delve in here, that I actually think it's a great …
Linked From Parabasis at 06:21PMBy Mac Rogers (EDITOR'S NOTE: Shortly after I wrote my little bit about whether or not Angels In America could be produced today, playwright and ole china plate Mac Rogers mentioned that he …
Linked From Parabasis at 12:02PMMike Boehm asks in the LA Times whether it would be possible to create Angels in America today: Can such great voyages still exist? Could five years, more than $2 million in today's currency…
Linked From Parabasis at 12:02PMSaturday, September 22, 2012
Earlier today, I wrote a blog post in which I talked about a Village Voice hosted roundtable with playwrights David Henry Hwang, Amy Herzog and Thomas Bradshaw with writer Alexis Soloski. In…
Linked From Parabasis at 09:49PMWednesday, July 18, 2012
It turns out that, even with all sorts of moves taken to deflect such a possibility, David Adjmi is now forbidden from allowing subsequent productions of or publishing his play "3C" due to a…
Linked From Parabasis at 05:57AMSaturday, June 30, 2012
Frequent commenter Jack Worthing has left a humdinger over on a post last week about Stagegrade. Responding to the idea floated by a friend fo mine that, by aggregating reviews, Stagegrade h…
Linked From Parabasis at 11:07PMTuesday, June 19, 2012
Via the always handy You've Cott Mail comes a point/counterpoint that really highlights why conversations about art, commerce and the generation gap really don't go too far. Emily White, a 2…
Linked From Parabasis at 03:21PMAs longtime readers of this blog know, over three and a half years ago, 99Seats (then writing at his old blog) floated the notion that someone should make a metacritic for New York theater r…
Linked From Parabasis at 03:21PMSaturday, June 16, 2012
George beat me to the punch by writing about the latest gambit for a heretofore unknown to me company called Strut & Fret and in particular a producer named David Watson who sent around an e…
Linked From Parabasis at 07:33AMThursday, June 7, 2012
A recent New York Times video conversation between film critic A.O. Scott and the garrolous David Carr has sparked a lot of conversation on the internets about the value and necessity of (es…
Linked From Parabasis at 05:27PMTuesday, June 5, 2012
I'll admit: on my first read, I was about as miffed by this Carey Perloff article as Lauren Gunderson was. I thought, Really? We're back here again? Didn't we all do this dance, like, two ye…
Linked From Parabasis at 04:35PMMonday, May 28, 2012
In the wake of the last Broadway season, New York Magainze's Vulture is doing a big ole roundtable on the future of the musical and what can be done to save it that includes two pieces by...
Linked From Parabasis at 04:21PMTuesday, May 22, 2012
It's good of the Guthrie to add more women and people of color into their season in the wake of the earlier outcry. That was the right thing to do. Details on the new announcement here. Hope…
Linked From Parabasis at 04:15PMWednesday, May 16, 2012
Over at the Hooded Utilitarian, a theatermaker in Florida talks about his experience making the (totally illegal and beloved) "Anne Frank Superstar." You can find his discussion of that show…
Linked From Parabasis at 05:56PMSaturday, May 12, 2012
By Isaac Butler Beautiful, passionate, compelling:
Linked From Parabasis at 04:53PMThursday, May 10, 2012
Perhaps you've heard of this whole Naomi Schaefer Riley kerfuffle, perhaps you haven't, but basically what happened was this: In a blog run by the Chronicle of Higher Education (the closest …
Linked From Parabasis at 07:13PMWednesday, April 25, 2012
Polly Carl says everything, ever, right here: Art rises from the unknown and the undiscovered. Sometimes different is better if only because it makes us stop and consider languages and cultu…
Linked From Parabasis at 04:40PMTuesday, April 24, 2012
Well. So far, the Guthrie hasn't released an official response to the flap about their 2012-13 season, but, as Ben in the comments to my A.D. Excuse Bingo post below pointed out, we did get …
Linked From Parabasis at 03:53PMMonday, April 23, 2012
One of my favorite finds over the couple of years I've been doing Stagegrade has been the work of critic David Barbour at Lighting & Sound America. He's been in the game a long time, long en…
Linked From Parabasis at 03:50PMFriday, April 20, 2012
By Isaac Butler "As for Dowling, he's working with Louise Erdrich to adapt some of her novels for the stage. He says that he expects the Guthrie to be able to stage more women's work if…
Linked From Parabasis at 04:27PMSeats With the flap around the Guthrie's season gathering some steam and generating a bit of press, apparently there will be a statement coming from Joe Dowling and the Guthrie next week. Wh…
Linked From Parabasis at 04:27PMTuesday, April 17, 2012
Congratulations are due to the Guthrie for taking an early lead in the Worst Season In America prize, after winning it hands down last year. Here it is, folks, read 'em and weep.
Linked From Parabasis at 08:05PMMonday, April 16, 2012
By Isaac Butler On twitter the other day dynamic pricing raised its ugly, seductive head again, this time via the feed of the (new to me) Pitchcentral out of England. Oddly, they seemed to b…
Linked From Parabasis at 04:01PMWednesday, April 11, 2012
I apologize in advance for how angry this blog post is. I normally try to be somewhat restrained (while still spunky!) with my rhetoric but sometimes you just gotta unload. Richard Dare, CEO…
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