We really don't care about theatre do we?

Yes. Like how the blurb there starts off with press quotes and then goes to: Meta-melodrama with Forbidden Love! Humor! Feelings! Live Music! Wigs! Sensation Scenes! Slave Auctions! Exploding Steamboats! Photography! And More!

Down here in DC am catching up on August Wilson plays, thankfully they keep getting revived. Gonna see his 80s era one King Hedley II

x-post --yes I noticed "slave auctions" just thrown in there in the middle

k, bought side balcony for next Tues -- there goes theatre budget for first half of year (cept maybe Ghosts at BAM). The NYT Mag profile of the playwright worried me a little, but it won the Obie last year, and Brantley says it's better now.

i love how Hamilton was hailed as the greatest thing 2 weeks ago, and now the creator says "we have to fix it" for Broadway.

Theatre is so expensive generally.

Looks like just a slight delay though for Miranda's Hamilton, but enough to push it until the following year's Tony eligibility

at least at BAM you can get in for $35.

Have you ever seen Memphis the musical? Have wanted to see that and In the Heights for years, but never have (musicals with music I like)

A touring version of Memphis is gonna be in DC for 2 nights at the Warner

From the underground dance clubs of 1950s Memphis, Tennessee, comes a hot new Broadway musical that bursts off the stage with explosive dancing, irresistible songs and a thrilling tale of fame and forbidden love. Inspired by actual events, MEMPHIS is about a radio DJ who wants to change the world and a club singer who is ready for her big break. Come along on their incredible journey to the ends of the airwaves -- filled with laughter, soaring emotion and roof-raising rock 'n' roll. Winner of four 2010 Tony Awards® including Best Musical,

so the Pulitzer-winning The Flick is back, off-Broadway. Did anyone see it?

Nope. Curious about it. I see some folks thought it was too long

Haven't seen/read it either or any of Annie Baker's plays. Same way with Will Eno, it's either very much my kind of thing or it's wearing the cloak of being my kind of thing (embracing and then transcending stillness, tedium, static action).

it's a masterpiece & i am mad at you if you don't go, morbs

Running February-May 2016 at Steppenwolf, with a terrific director directing - Dexter Bullard, who did Bug and Mistakes Were Made and others.

http://www.steppenwolf.org/Plays-Events/productions/index.aspx?id=641

ok, going to Sunday matinee next week

(last day you can get in for $45)

Has anyone seen The Trial as a play? What was it like?

Saw a very Robert Wilson-y version long ago. Here are some design photos:

http://www.arnonedesigns.com/portfolio/k-impressions-of-kafkas-the-trial/

ok, going to Sunday matinee next week

(last day you can get in for $45)

― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Sunday, May 17, 2015 12:56 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

missed this but super pleased, please report back. new play at signature opening in a couple months, also.

Did anyone stateside see Let The Right One In in NYC? I was the assistant designer in that and did a fair fuck of work on it but I guess I didn't get any credit?

I mean I got paid yeah.

Has anyone seen The Trial as a play? What was it like?

going in july /thanksfornothing

saw this one http://www.retz.co.uk/ in hackney a couple of years ago it was kind of fun but v loose and ~conceptual~ e.g. promenade/immersive/etc.

going to young vic one in june

Another cheerful evening of Germanic culture! xp

seldom seen a bad play at the young vic

we have Juliette Binoche coming up at BAM in Antigone

(directed by Ivo van Hove)

it was ok

thought Binoche was terrible tbh. the rest of the cast mostly good & great translation.

really. ugh. hate when that happens.

The Flick is well acted, funny, cleverly structured; I liked it. Really though, Pulitzer? What was in the pool that year? (Don't feel compelled to research.)

morbs u go out a lot, i feel like

yep! in NYC i feel like staying home alone is... why? unless someone else is there or baseball is on.

THANK YOU

heading to a flick discovered through morbius later - the royal road - & belatedly remembered i'd played a part in inflicting the flick, was potentially liable for a part-refund, &c. really glad you liked it. you know more about pulitzer credentials than i do but i feel like the sharpness and focus and at least noteworthy freshness of form make it pretty eligible. i just thought it was so strong, though. mapping the various heartbreaking dynamics of the three of them, & hanging this on generally sparse or ostensibly benign dialogue, it just felt like such a masterful balancing act to me.

Anyone in NYC want to check out a one-woman play written by and starring one of my college classmates and then tell me if it's any good?

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/15/theater/review-in-this-is-mary-brown-mom-has-troubles-but-is-quite-a-character.html?_r=0

looks cool. been curious to check out La MaMa.

Earlier this year, in May, I saw three theater productions in three days. But I guess I didn't care enough to mention it on this thread.

what'd you see?

These three productions were part of the repertory season of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, OR, which has a pretty good rep as regional theater goes. My wife and I saw:

Fingersmith, an adaptation of the novel of the same name, very much a plot-twist driven play. We saw it the first night and it was a middling production and a somewhat flawed play. It was performed in bad cockney accents and never wholly committed to being either melodrama or naturalistic drama, and wound up neither fish nor fowl. It had its moments, and the audience lapped it up, but I never got into it.

Pericles, a seldom performed Shakespeare play that we read aloud to one another just prior to seeing it. The first three acts of the text were probably not written by WS, or if they were, he wrote them when he was still a cack-handed apprentice. The fourth act improved to a level of fair competence and the final act was fully mature Shakespeare. This production made a lot of judicious cuts to original, abridged it to two acts, added several songs not in the original, and astonishingly made a pretty good play out of it. Quite enjoyable work. Would recommend.

Secret Love in Peach Blossom Time, a play first produced in Taiwan a couple of decades ago, that became a hit. The playwright directed this production in Ashland. It's a mashup of a tear-jerking drama and farce, on balance favoring the farce over the drama by about two-to-one. This one was delightful. The pacing was a thing of beauty.

wow that sounds good

Did anyone see the stage version of let the right one in in nyc? I was the assistant designer on that. I just want to know if I got a credit hah

ha no but that sounds amazing!

lol, this fucken moran
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/exclusive-meet-the-guy-who-tried-to-charge-his-phone-on-stage-at-hand-to-god-353020

Silvestri returned to his seat with his smart phone, but the drama wasn't over yet. "The head guy came down and started yelling at me in front of my family and the whole place. My mother kept saying, 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry,' and they finally let us us stay and watch the play."

And what did he think of Hand to God? "We enjoyed the show. I'm not much of a play guy, but it wasn't bad."

Did he ever get to charge his phone?
"No."

In retrospect, what would he say to the cast? "Hey, I'm sorry if I delayed your show five minutes. But you got a lot of attention from this, so maybe I made your show a little better [better known]."

i was in the middle of a monologue on stage on monday and someone's phone rang - it actually took them ages to find it and end it too. it's a v small space and it felt too intimate for me to just ignore it, so i kind of just held character and stared at her until it stopped.

phone charger old news, eclipsed by LuPone

"I am so defeated by this issue that I seriously question whether I want to work on stage anymore. Now I'm putting battle gear on over my costume to marshall the audience as well as perform."

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/09/entertainment/feat-patti-lupone-cell-phone/index.html

The Flick is well acted, funny, cleverly structured; I liked it. Really though, Pulitzer? What was in the pool that year? (Don't feel compelled to research.)

Fun Home lost out to The Flick in 2014 (haven't seen either).

at the monthly gay club i run with my friend we don't allow anyone to use their phones on the dancefloor. you get asked to leave the dancefloor and permanently barred if you refuse.

i find it astonishing that someone would actually look at their phone during a show, rather than say forgetting to turn it off.

it's routine at movies in NYC. doing it on Broadway takes balls esp at those prices.

yeah, but tourists
concerts are now officially the worst; people arrive with their fucking arms extended and phones on

^lifelong idiot NYers fully capable of this behavior.

My pal's son Will is in this, alas sold out already, w/ other recent LaGuardia grads:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joanne-rendell/theater-on-their-own-terms_b_7785570.html

my aunt wants to take me to something called JOHN at Signature NYC on Aug 8 but it's about young struggling love blegh

trying to figure out something else