Thursday, June 21, 2012
New Dramatists Class of 2019 Announced Hooray for my old friend Clarence, and for Christina Anderson (who I met through the Magic this year)! And congrats to the others I haven’t met: …
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An Honest Theatrical Playbill: McSweeney’s Internet Tendency Hilarious! Today’s McSweeney’s feature (by Daniel Falk) is an “honest” theatrical playbill from …
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Lewis Black’s new play, ‘One Slight Hitch’ Lewis Black’s new play is being staged after thirty years in development: Nowadays, at sixty-two, Black is the guy with the…
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Hell isn’t other people. It’s an evening at the theatre. On a lighter note, here’s Dom Joly in The Independent on the horrible experience of going to the theater. For the s…
SOURCE: direct address at 06:01PMEarlier, I posted about Carey Perloff’s article in the Huffington Post and some responses to it on Theatre Bay Area’s Chatterbox. Once again, the final word goes to the brilliant…
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The heartening resurgence of the American play By Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times Theater Critic: Playwrights and the producers who love them have been putting up a sneaky defense against…
SOURCE: direct address at 03:45PMThe Amazon Effect An exhaustive and fascinating article by Steve Wasserman in The Nation about the history and the future of Amazon. Any book fan should have a read: Jeff Bezos got what he w…
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Not Lost: Under the Influence The latest response to Carey Perloff’s Huntington Post article is by Rob Melrose: Here is our dirty little secret: here in the US, Cutting Ball is an expe…
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MFA vs. NYC: America now has two distinct literary cultures. Which one will last? As long as we’re on the subject of “the Steady State” of theater, how about a look at the …
SOURCE: direct address at 07:02PMSteady State One of the best theater bloggers out there, 99Seats, is back! And he raises a provocative question: What if the new movement in theatre is here, it’s now established and t…
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The Split End Lily Janiak, a theater critic for SF Weekly, has a wonderfully transparent blog post about the struggle to cover all the many plays in the Bay Area: I guess what I’m writ…
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‘I Was There’: On Kurt Vonnegut William Deresiewicz, in the Nation, re-reads and re-evaluates Vonnegut’s novels: “The cruelest thing you can do to Kerouac,” Han…
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Carey Perloff, the Artistic Director of A.C.T., recently posted on Huffington Post suggesting that training programs emphasize new works at the expense of classical work: We have all but aba…
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As legendary performer Des O’Connor joins the cast this week, we’re offering the chance to win the ultimate Wizard of Oz experience. This fabulous prize includes: 2 stall tickets to …
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When I write about an upcoming event, I try to keep it focused on things that somehow involve me, in order to maintain the proper amount of narcissism for this thing to legally be called a b…
SOURCE: direct address at 06:59PMTheatre Requires Hope Beyond Logic Paul Mullin: Nobody in the last fifty years has gone to live theatre to kill time like they would slip into a cineplex. Nobody has sat and blankly watched …
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Cabaret is one of the most popular musicals of the 20th century. Set against the rise of the Nazi party in the late 1930’s, it follows American writer Cliff Bradshaw who has recently come …
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Interview with Lisa Steindler by Jamie Gahlon An interview on HowlRound with the A.D. of Z Space.
SOURCE: direct address at 01:25PMMy newest play is going to be part of San Francisco Theater Pub’s awesome festival-in-a-bar. As artistic director Julia Heitner said: We have 10 new plays by 10 fantastic local playwri…
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If Theatre Isn’t Dead, Let Me Kill It Not quite sure what Sabotage Times is, but the pull quote is certainly intriguing: I have come to the conclusion after a lifetime of acting and writin…
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The most successful jukebox musical of all time, Mamma Mia! owes much of its success to the tunes of ABBA. With more than a dozen of their singles reaching the top of the charts around the…
SOURCE: Cheap Theatre Tickets at 06:00AMLots of Guys, Not Enough Dolls While Tonys are equally bestowed on male and female stars of the stage, there’s a colossal gender gap in the honors given to the men and women who create…
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Make friends with other playwrights. They are, after all, the best sort of people, as they like to be alone, and they also like to be with other people, so they understand one’s predilecti…
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An illustration by Grant Snider, a fabulous cartoonist:
SOURCE: direct address at 05:32PMStage Directions and the 17% Andie Arthur on 2AMt: As a female playwright, the odds are already against me getting produced. They’re even worse in Miami, which has a hyper-masculine theatr…
SOURCE: direct address at 05:13PMIt was over five years ago that Wicked took up residency at the Apollo Victoria Theatre, and it has been a West End fixture ever since. We thought we’d check in to see what the original We…
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New Play Festivals: The Blog Salon Laura Brueckner is curating a salon series on the Theatre Bay Area blog. First up, Jessica Holt from the Bay One Acts Festival: We talk about value a lot i…
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I spent most of April traveling around. First was Oregon, where I saw a play in Ashland, saw Meiko in Portland, drove down the Oregon Coast, slept in a lighthouse, saw a lot of trees and wat…
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Three to See at the Bay One Acts Festival BOA gets some love in the SF Weekly.
SOURCE: direct address at 08:45PMWe Will Rock You is something of an anomaly in the West End. Derided by critics upon its premiere in 2002, the Queen musical has defied the odds and will celebrate 10 years in May. Whilst ot…
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On Receiving “Notes” Nicholas Kazan on the horrible script notes that almost led to us not having “Death of a Salesman”: This harrowing story is the most instructive one I’…
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