Thursday, March 6, 2025
Anne Imhof’s three-hour spectacle of moody youth at the Armory is sweet sorrow, full of moping and muttering. Still, almost despite itself, it points to true art.
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Friday, March 15, 2024
Gayli, a dance night at a Brooklyn bar, provides a welcoming atmosphere for Irish social dancing, an exacting art form known for high-pressure competition.
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Monday, June 12, 2023
With a clever opening number and repeated support for striking writers, the Tonys celebrated Broadway’s shows, performers and creative teams.
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A new exhibition lets us see the Yorkshire artist’s greatest hits – and overlooked rarities – through new eyes. Photographer Justin Sutcliffe went behind the scenes
“I’ve always be…
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Thursday, August 18, 2022
This year, the Beach Sessions at Rockaway Beach features the Trisha Brown Dance Company in a program of early works.
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With Joaquina Kalukango’s high notes and Billy Crystal’s lowbrow jokes, the Tonys celebrated Broadway’s return after a tumultuous season.
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Saturday, October 13, 2018
How Chicago Is Changing Theater, One Storefront at a Time → Most of the big theaters started as storefronts: Steppenwolf in a Unitarian church in the suburbs, Chicago Shakes on the roof of…
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Sunday, June 10, 2018
The 25 Best American Plays Since ‘Angels in America’ → Here are two fun things to do. First, read just the titles and see if you can name the playwrights. Then, count how many you̵…
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What’s inside a writer’s notebook? → Peek into the notebooks of Paul Theroux, Susie Boyt, and Amit Chaudhuri, complete with photos of the scribblings themselves : The mystique …
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The Bibliomaniac of Ridgewood → Here’s a great article for writers and book lovers, with some fantastic photos by Joe Carrotta of a guy who lives in a building filled with 25,000 boo…
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If Al Pacino had announced in, say, 1980 that he was retiring — deciding that the strenuous demands of Method acting had become too much for him — he’d have already done enough incredi…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00AMTuesday, February 20, 2018
How do comics survive life on the road? They rob their minibars, turn roadies into bird-watchers – and read The Da Vinci CodeI once played in a tiny little school hall in a tiny little vil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:19PMMonday, February 5, 2018
Once named the Little Theater, the playhouse now known as the Helen Hayes is about to be reincarnated again.
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Cate Blanchett has been a star since the very first second we met her. Her first-ever movie role, after just a few years in the theater, was supporting Glenn Close and Frances McDormand — …
SOURCE: Vulture at 09:00AMAnother Halloween, another production of my play Zombie Town: A Documentary Play. From the East Bay Times: Get into the mood for Halloween with a trip to “Zombie Town,” a horror spoof ab…
SOURCE: direct address at 02:33AMThe Marquee Theater Journalists Awards were announced, and Left Edge Theater’s production of my play Zombie Town: A Documentary Play is up for Outstanding Comedy Production. Congratula…
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By his mid-20s he had scooped the Perrier award and landed his own TV show. But Sean Hughes never wanted to be a stadium standup. Mark Steel and Rhona Cameron pay tribute to a troubled talen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PMSunday, October 8, 2017
Fiction and drama hold a mirror to the virtues and vices of an age. Here’s our pick of the bestRead the rest of the Observer’s 100 political books series hereRichard Wright wrote to his …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AMWednesday, September 20, 2017
As his first solo album hits the stage, the You Am I singer asks playwright Aidan Fennessy the all important question: ‘what the hell were you thinking?’There’s something poetic about …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42AMFriday, September 23, 2016
Of all our A-list stars, Denzel Washington’s career may be the most enviable. Although he has a recognizable onscreen persona, it’s mutable enough to allow him to move from R-rated actio…
SOURCE: Vulture at 01:06PMMonday, September 12, 2016
From Footloose to Hairspray
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I suppose I’m mostly known for my play Zombie Town: A Documentary Play, which has had a number of productions around the country. But I’m also really into science and science pla…
SOURCE: direct address at 07:26PMMy colleague Peter Sinn Nachtrieb is interviewed by my colleague Laura Brueckner and mentions a bunch of his colleagues who’ve all had rolling premieres lately. I bring this up only be…
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Three of my one-minute plays will be featured in the latest One Minute Play Festival event at Z Space in San Francisco on Jun 27 and Jun 28. It’s called Moments From The Bubble, Or: Ho…
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Moscow’s ‘smallest but noisiest playhouse’ perseveres with latest documentary project in the face of legal threats and eviction by the authorities Peering at the audience from behind m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:11AMMonday, May 25, 2015
Few playwrights seem to have the guts to get properly political - or satirical. Is Yes, Prime Minister really the best we can do?
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