We really don't care about theatre do we?

Newsnight Review savaged it

OK, this is probably definitely worth seeing then.

has anyone in nyc seen the new richard foreman, um, "theater-machine?" been curious to see something of his for awhile now..
Haven't seen this but I've seen his stuff in the past and it was really good.

The play was really good, although very short. Hard to get over the 'that's Jeff Goldblum and Kevin Spacey' aspect of it though. Seemed to me to be more about sex and power contextualised by the movie business that an actual critique of Hollywood itself, but what the hell do i know?

My ticket for last night was only twelve quid so if ILXors go to gigs they can afford to go to plays.

Patrick Stewart notes possibility of unnamed production that will reunite him with McKellen on stage within next 18 months.

xcited to see macbeth

hear it's good. i wish he would shave that awful mustache off though!

things i will be seeing in next few months:
ghosts @ the pearl
sunday in the park with george @ studio 54
parlour song @ the atlantic
gypsy (preview for the revival w/ patti lupone! lols! awesome!)
some other stuff i'm forgetting.

Patrick Stewart notes possibility of unnamed production that will reunite him with McKellen on stage within next 18 months.

What do you think - True West, American Buffalo, or The Zoo Story?

Did anyone see Metamorphosis at the Lyric?

Did not.

Saw Doctor Atomic at the Lyric last month, or at least the last two hours of it -- took someone's 10th row seat at intermission instead of shelling out $160 for a ticket.

Fantastic show.

Rock 'n' Roll is really great

o damn I saw Starlite Express when I was like eleven. pretty silly.

Starlight

Dennis Letts (father of Tracy Letts and 'til now appearing in August: Osage County) has died of cancer, alas.

parlour song was pretty good. a little heavy-handed at times, but chris bauer was excellent. emily mortimer, a little blah.

gypsy was... uh... i don't even know how to describe it. traumatizing?

wot, you don't like psycho-mama musicals?

except for the fact that surprise! bill raymond aka 'the greek' from the wire was in it (though a v. small part). funny, seeing two wire actors on stage w/in days of each other!

morbs i spent the whole time wishing i was watching bernadette do it. really the production was just very ehhh and not what you would expect for a 'broadway' production (it's a city center transfer). also, arthur laurents must be getting pretty senile...

I've never seen it, i just know a few of the songs... I would wish I'd seen Merman or Lansbury.

Rock 'n' Roll only has a few days left, and it ain't cheap, and attention is required, but you guys won't regret it.

i wanted to see it, but no time before it closes :(

dunno if jaymc is still reading this thread but if he's interested in checking out goat island's final work it opens in chicago on the 27th of March.

http://www.goatislandperformance.org/current.htm

sadly i'll miss it in glasgow because i'm away that weekend.

Cool, thanks for the tip, jed.

ATC curtain-raises South Pacific

i'd like to go to the theatre in the next couple of weeks, and i want to see something hard-going and bleak, for about a tenner (don't care if i get a shitty seat). in london. any suggestions?
-- emsk ( emsk), Saturday, 18 February 2006 12:32

West Ham v Everton?
-- Alba (Alba), Saturday, 18 February 2006 12:41

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Bravo!!

LAT Review

I really dislike musicals on the whole, but my aunt wants to take me to that and I'm tempted to see it because it has so many great songs.

Haha, going to a musical about sailors with my aunt. So gay.

i wish i had been at south pacific tonight instead of mamma mia (with visiting in-law who sprung for the tickets).

sting for nolte!!

Brantley swoons

wtf w/ gypsy getting all those raves????

also i saw sunday in the park last weekend... the george was good, probably like him better than mandy, but i just feel like the play itself is problematic... the pretty music and awesome design were not enough to compensate for the fact that the show takes soooo long to go anywhere.

New Yorker
WaPo
Seattle P-I

i saw crooked at the women's project tonight. it was goooood!

saw one of the greatest shows of my life last night at the tramway in glasgow - Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's "Myth". he's one of the main people in the company Ballet C de la B. 20 performers acted out an incredibly intense dance piece based around manga and character based multi level computer games. it really was a stunning and profound experience.

http://www.resmusica.com/images/paris_myth_cherkaoui.jpg

http://files.fluctuat.net/images/m/y/myth-600.jpg

i'm going to see Ann Liv Young's sexually explicit take on "Snow White" tonight. pray i get out in one piece.

http://www.cassero.it/files/gb07/ann_liv_young.jpg

incredible interview with her here:

http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/dance/2108/pure-as-the-driven-snow

In her streamlined new show, Snow White, Young dances, has sex with a dildo, screams her head off and sings along to music by Styx, Beyoncé, Mary J. Blige and Pat Benatar.
...
In Paris, Emily hit me in the face with a sword, really hard, by accident. I played with that; I said something like, “You just hit me in the face. You fucking bitch.” It hurt, but it was also no big deal and she was just mortified and some of the people in the audience really felt for her. In Amsterdam, the dildo fell off during the middle of the show and it’s a vital part of the show—it has to be on her—so I said, “Michael get your ass over there and tape it!” The audience lost it. It’s funny to see what people think is funny. They like it when people are humiliated.

Oh how I hope that show goes on tour.

the Ann Liv Young show? where are you, Eazy?

I'm in Chicago.

New thread idea: 'We don't really care about a nude woman playing Snow White, dancing, having sex with a dildo, screaming her head off and singing along to music by Styx, Beyoncé, Mary J. Blige and Pat Benatar, do we?'

I am very excited to be going to see Myth tonight, on jed's exhortation!!

Eazy, make the thread.

czn, you will love it. there were only about 80-100 audience members for the show last night & i'm making it my personal mission to get the numbers up for the rest of the run, including going to see it for a second time on saturday.

: D

for Myth:

we really don't care about new york drag queens, 10 foot tall ladies in crinolines, haunted libraries, lovers with downs syndrome, and Japanese stick fighting, do we?

immense

like a psychodrama by tati

damien jalet is hawt:
http://www.aomori-museum.jp/event/dance/japanese/competition/photo_05.jpg

‘In Foi I worked on the theme of angels and people. Now I am looking at the reverse
side: not devils, but shadows. I am interested by the notion of light and shadow. The way I can
manipulate shadows with dancers, so that the shadow ‘does something back’ to reality.
Normally it is the object that creates the shadow, not the other way round. But it is precisely
this reverse thinking that interests me. I want to see whether I can work back to front: what
would happen if the shadow drove me forwards, instead of me creating it? What if that were the
reality? If our reality were actually the mirror-image of the shadow, which in its turn is the real
‘I’? It is an interesting way of thinking, because you change your perspective. You no longer
approach reality on the basis of the limits of what you consider to be reality, but actually take
up an unconventional position. You view things at a different level. You turn the picture over.
The sense of shadow led me to ‘gothic’ people, and to the source of them – Gothic – as well as
to the links between Gothic and depression and melancholy, then ending up at ‘trauma’ again.’

- http://www.fransbrood.com/picts/resource/DOS_Larbi2007_EN.pdf

Tony nominations out -- August: Osage County and STEW! did really well as expected; meant to see Passing Strange by now...

http://www.transworldnews.com/NewsStory.aspx?id=46495&cat=2

yeah, i meant to get stew tix before the announcement

Good noms for A:OC -- those were probably the strongest performances in the cast.

is it out of the question for R'n'R or Rufus to win?

Stoppard has about as good a shot for Play as Hillary for prez

who was Rondi Reed in A:OC?

She's a Steppenwolf company member, was one of the sisters married to the guy in Florida, or divorced, or something like that - I don't remember.

If any of you-all happen to be in Chicago between this weekend and June 15, a short play I wrote and directed is running as part of Sketchbook at the Steppenwolf Garage. Also has premieres of new plays by some good playwrights (Itmar Moses, Jose Rivera, Sean Graney, etc.), and some really good actors and directors involved in this thing.