121 stories by "Guy Yedwab"
It's been a week now since the MTA shut down the subway system in preparation for Hurricane Sandy, and the events of the last week have led me to wonder the wisdom and ethics of the phrase, …
My company, Organs of State, has announced the make-up schedule for Américana Passover. Only two nights still have availability: Tuesday the 6th and Thursday the 8th.
Just in time for…
The suit was filed on Thursday in Federal District Court in Oxford, Miss., against Sony Pictures Classics, which released "Midnight in Paris," and reported by Variety (registration required)…
Prerequisite reading:
Jason Robert Brown, on how Sondheim told him never to tell an artist what you really think of their work. At least, not immediately.
99Seats, very validly hoping…
NYTheatre.com put out some questionnaires to artists working on my show, Américana Passover.
If you're interested, here are my thoughts.
I'll make this quick and to the point.
For two years I've been working on a piece with my performance company, Organs of State, called Américana Passover.
We started with the election…
I've decided that any time I write a protracted post about politics or aesthetics, I will give you all a Nicolas Cage chaser (or other ridiculous actors, if I run low on the Cage well... if …
First, you'll want to read Conor Friedersdorf's Why I Refuse to Vote for Barack Obama, and/or George Hunka's Throwing away my vote, or L'Hôte's you're either with us or you're against us,…
This ad season has been brutal. Ever since the primaries wrapped up, I feel like I've been watching a whole shit-ton of mass-produced, grave-voices-over-shocking-press-clips, formulaic ads. …
As a producer, you want to stay culturally relevant with the work you're producing. But maybe there's such a thing as being too culturally relevant? At least when it comes to marketing.
Abo…
It's definitely a bad sign when you have to answer questions like "What is this food?" and "Why is this food square?" and "Is your meat real or fake?"
Those are all screengrabs …
There's a lot going on, and I'll fill you in soon, but mostly, I blame the internet. How am I expected to blog when people have put all the cut-scenes from the game Civilization II online?
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Our friends over at Fractured Atlas have a post up about finding non-traditional performance space. I am not linking to it just because I'm quoted! I am linking to it because it's something …
Geithner needs to resign. Unless he can trot out some incredible self-defense, he needs to resign.
In the same vein as Charles Isherwood wanting to get rid of direct address because it often doesn't work, now we can add to that genre John M Morrison wanting to banish set designers to an i…
A while back, my company created a month-long transmedia performance called In Memoriam. (Entire archive available here). After a conversation with a colleague about our experience, I decide…
I DON'T WANT TO KILL MYSELF
Northside Film Festival's DIY Competition
June 20th, 5:40 PM
(IMDB)
I didn't write the review I was intending a while back, but I spotted that the movie i…
From 99 Seats at Parabasis:
So the question that comes to me is: what if this is it? A lot of us invest a lot of time in being semi-professionally upset about things. We want change! We wa…
I recently reviewed The Window, a performance piece at the Romanian Institute. I recently received word that it's been extended for the following dates:
June 5 through 7, 8.30 …
THE COLLECTED RULES OF GIFTED CAMP
The Brick Theater
(download the script here)
May 16th - 26th
The first time I went to pre-college camp, it was UCI, and I studied Forensics. M…
THE WINDOW
Romanian Cultural Institute
May 23rd - 29th
8PM-10PM
(on 20 minute cycles -- see below)
FREE
Firstly, you have almost no reason not to see this show. It is free, so …
Village Voice asks the question, and actually gets creative answers from creative people. My favorite:
Susan Bernfield, artistic director of New Georges:
We gotta get with the food thing.…
... high ticket prices edition:
And when it opens Antony and Cleopatra on October 22, tickets won't come cheap: $42 for the best seats, a new high that this season will match Goodman, Stepp…
I'm not a member of Actor's Equity, nor does my company work with Actor's Equity actors, but for those of you who are involved, you will be interested in this note that the League sent to it…
Unlike a stand-up comedian or a comic literary stylist such as James Thurber, who engaged in obviously implausible situations, Sedaris's stories fall into a gray area.
Sorry, Washingto…
