Wednesday, May 1, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: "The Lake Effect" at Silk Road Rising ★★½
THEATER REVIEW: "The Lake Effect" at Silk Road Rising ★★½ ... Rajiv Joseph is best known for "Bengal Tige…
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Lookingglass Theatre Company has a proven flair for effectively incorporating visual effect into scenarios and scripts that don’t outright scream for it. And after “Eastland,” …
Linked From Newcity Stage at 01:24PMWednesday, March 13, 2013
Tony nominee Arian Moayed signed a deal to play a hit woman's right-hand-man in the NBC pilot Believe, according to Deadline.com.
Believe is a new drama series from J.J. Abrams and Al…
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Podcast with Lookingglass Theatre’s BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO Director Heidi Stillman cast members Troy West, JJ Phillips, Anish Jethmalani and Walter Owen Briggs discuss Looking…
Linked From showbizchicago.com at 11:42AMPodcast with Lookingglass Theatre’s BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO
Linked From showbizchicago.com at 11:42AMWednesday, February 13, 2013
Visually and technically, the show is impressive. Yet, like the tiger, we find ourselves asking “Why?” with no satisfactory answer. Rajiv Joseph’s script presents us with a number of i…
Linked From Chicago Theater Beat at 05:30PMThe circle of life gets turned on its metaphorical head in Rajiv Joseph’s 2009′s play Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo which is currently receiving its Chicago premiere at Lookingglas…
Linked From showbizchicago.com at 05:08PMTuesday, February 12, 2013
THEATER REVIEW: 'Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo' at Water Tower Water Works
Can a talking Bengal tiger in the Baghdad zoo serve as both a narrator and a ghost?
Linked From Chicago Tribune at 06:44PMGlancing above and around the stage at Lookingglass Theatre Company on Saturday night, one could spy a handful of animal topiaries of varying size and species—giraffe, rhino, bird—a kind…
Linked From Newcity Stage at 09:59AMTuesday, February 5, 2013
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Who: By Rajiv Joseph, directed by Heidi Stillman.
What: Two United States Marines and an Iraqi translator are thrust into a world of greed, mystery and betra…
Linked From TheaterMania at 06:24PMWednesday, January 30, 2013
The Vineyard Theatre presents the New York premiere production of THE NORTH POOL, a new play by Pulitzer Prize finalist and Vineyard's Paula Vogel Award-winning playwright Rajiv Joseph BENGA…
Linked From BroadwayWorld at 04:00PMRehearsals have begun for the tense new play The North Pool, and we've got a sneak peek at the cast of this story about a Middle Eastern student and his high school principal. Written by…
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:36PMTuesday, January 29, 2013
Rajiv Joseph's Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo put him in the running for a Pulitzer in 2010. Deservedly so. Set during the Iraq war and featuring a talking tiger (played with verve on Broad…
Linked From The Arts Desk at 03:18AMThursday, January 24, 2013
Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Serial Killer starring John Malkovich - Symphony Center, 220 S Michigan Ave. Chicago, is offering a $5 off tickets for both performance on Friday, 2/1 and S…
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Continuing its 25th Anniversary Season, Lookingglass Theatre Company presents the 2010 Pulitzer Prize Finalist Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, written by Rajiv Joseph and directed by Ensemb…
Linked From showbizchicago.com at 09:17AMThursday, December 6, 2012
Continuing its 25th Anniversary Season, Lookingglass Theatre Company presents the 2010 Pulitzer Prize Finalist Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, written by Rajiv Joseph and directed by En…
Linked From showbizchicago.com at 12:41PMMonday, October 29, 2012
All This Intimacy, a play by Rajiv Joseph (The Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo), is about a Columbia professor, Ty (Sean Coe), who is having an affair with three different women. The play f…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:19PMLast year I had a contest asking you about theater-related Halloween costumes. Since I enjoyed reading your answers so much and since it's almost Halloween, I'm bringing it back, only this t…
Linked From Pataphysical Science at 10:15AMWednesday, October 24, 2012
Oscar host Seth MacFarlane will have a fancy, Broadway style stage to sing and dance across when he hosts the awards ceremony next year. Tony Award-winning scenic designer Derek McLane has b…
Linked From Broadway.com at 03:29PMMonday, October 22, 2012
"Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo" is hard to categorize. It is both funny and dead serious, not exactly a black comedy but an idiosyncratic composite of many different dramatic antecedents.
Linked From The Arts Fuse at 06:57PMThursday, October 18, 2012
Tickets are now available for Lincoln Center Theatre's Broadway revival of Clifford Odets' Golden Golden Boy. Directed by Tony winner Bartlett Sher and starring Seth Numrich, Danny B…
Linked From Broadway.com at 12:20PMMonday, September 24, 2012
The Weinstein Company has acquired distribution rights for The Butler, the upcoming ensemble drama from Precious director Lee Daniels. The film stars Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, Ma…
Linked From Broadway.com at 04:31PMSunday, September 16, 2012
For his wholly original black comedy, “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo,” playwright Rajiv Joseph comes up with what seems a fittingly disquieting metaphor for the anguishing entanglement…
Linked From Washington Post at 08:17PMWednesday, September 12, 2012
Join us for a discussion between two exciting and prolific writers—Moisés Kaufman (Gross Indecency, The Laramie Project) and Rajiv Joseph, author of the Pulitzer-finalist Bengal Tiger at …
Linked From HowlRound at 11:51AMRajiv Joseph’s 2010 play, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, is one of the most inventive meditations on war you’re likely to encounter. Set in 2003 in Iraq, the play depicts the ravages o…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 09:34AMThere are no easy answers in Rajiv Joseph’s terrific play Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, but there is a hell of a lot of interesting questions to ponder. Now being given a superlativ…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:01AMThursday, September 6, 2012
A ruined city. A populace scarred by a despot and the ravages of war. American soldiers whose lives are forever touched by violence and its after effects. And the ghost of a majestic Bengal …
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 03:32PMTuesday, August 28, 2012
According to Gwydion Suilebhan, we have an obsession.
“We” is the entire planet. The obsession is with superheroes.
Suilebhan, a D.C.-based playwright, theater blogger and resident pla…
Linked From Washington Post at 06:10PMTuesday, August 21, 2012
Wed, September 5 through Sun, September 30 @ Round House Theatre Bethesda, presented by Round House Theatre Bethesda
Linked From Culture Capital at 11:17AMThursday, August 9, 2012
The Round House Theatre opens their 2012-2013 season with the regional premiere of Rajiv Joseph's Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo from September 5-30. Jeremy Skidmore will direct.
Beng…
Linked From TheaterMania at 03:43PMWednesday, August 8, 2012
Emmy winner Tony Shaloub, Tony nominee Danny Burstein, Seth Numrich and more will star in Lincoln Center Theater’s 75th anniversary production of Clifford Odets’ Golden Boy. The …
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