how are the wooster group these days? thinking about seeing their production of la didone at REDCAT later this month, wondering if i should bother?
― shouting BLOGGER BLOGGER BLOGGER BLOGGER (donna rouge), Wednesday, 3 June 2009 17:42 (fourteen years ago) link
totally stoked for Stoppard's Rock and Roll this weekend ... anyone have an opinion?
― BlackIronPrison, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 17:58 (fourteen years ago) link
wonderful play, though your cast won't be like the Broadway one
― Reggiano Jackson (gabbneb), Wednesday, 3 June 2009 18:03 (fourteen years ago) link
think i might've told this story before on ILX, but oh well...four or five years ago i was working in a massive fuck off rec shop on oxford st when who shld walk in but tom stoppard. he proceeded to ask me a series of fairly oblique questions abt this and that...i can't really remember the convo at all, but i do vividly recall that he suddenly got v v interested when i told him there was a group called tortoise!
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 18:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Right, so if Stoppard plays a Tortoise track on Desert Island Discs we'll know the source ;-)
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 21:10 (fourteen years ago) link
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/06/08/theater/theaterspecial/08tony.xlarge10.jpg
^^Broadway demographic circa 2009^^
― Eazy, Monday, 8 June 2009 05:33 (fourteen years ago) link
LOLOLOLOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8Kcj0FSP7g
― makeitstop (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 17:42 (fourteen years ago) link
Joe Turner's Come and Gone, which closes Sunday, is very good. Worst audience ever, though.
― Reggiano Jackson (gabbneb), Wednesday, 10 June 2009 22:25 (fourteen years ago) link
somnambulant? vocal? or did you see the Obamas necking?
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 11 June 2009 01:10 (fourteen years ago) link
people talking, cell phones ringing, people TALKING ON THEIR CELL PHONES, numerous late arrivals (before and after intermission), one person walks over a half dozen people to get out of their row then walks back a few minutes later then in the second act walks back out and EXITS THE THEATER VIA THE STREET DOOR BEHIND THE AUDIENCE, old lady returns from the bathroom 10 minutes into second act and slowly proceeds across the rear and side orchestra aisles talking (complaining/apologizing to the usher) IN FULL VOICE THE ENTIRE WAY DESPITE NUMEROUS SSH'S (and one "oh shut the hell up" lol)
― Reggiano Jackson (gabbneb), Thursday, 11 June 2009 01:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Inside baseball, but an interesting study about gender and producing new plays in NY Mag and today's Times -- not the result you might think:
Sands also sent out four previously unseen scripts by prominent female playwrights — Lynn Nottage, Julia Jordan, Tanya Barfield, and Deb Laufer — to artistic directors and literary managers nationwide. Each script was assigned two pen names, like Mary Walker and Michael Walker. The results were surprising: Female readers rated scripts with female pen names 15 percent lower than those with male pen names, while male readers rated the scripts equally. Sands attributes this to women thinking that women's plays "will be less well received."
― Eazy, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/06/25/theater/Night600.jpg
Anyone seeing this?
― Eazy, Friday, 26 June 2009 05:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Director-friend posted on Facebook that she "forsees a production of no exit with ed, farah, and mj."
― Eazy, Friday, 26 June 2009 05:54 (fourteen years ago) link
who's ed?
― jed_, Friday, 26 June 2009 09:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Ed McMahon.
― Eazy, Friday, 26 June 2009 13:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Purcarete's production of Faust: how amazing does this look? seeing it at the edinburgh international next month:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXU78K6XSwg
― jed_, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 23:47 (fourteen years ago) link
100 performers!
― jed_, Wednesday, 15 July 2009 23:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Caffe Cino posters, programs from the mid-1960s.
― Eazy, Friday, 31 July 2009 15:06 (fourteen years ago) link
wrong link i hope...
― jed_, Friday, 31 July 2009 15:26 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm thinking of going to see "The Rivals" in the Abbey Theatre. I am hoping for plenty of "Sirs!" action.
― The Real Dirty Vicar, Friday, 31 July 2009 15:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Oops, here's the Caffe Cino posters link.
― Eazy, Friday, 31 July 2009 16:03 (fourteen years ago) link
would like to see:
http://caffecino.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/useusecceyencinoeyen1.jpg
― jed_, Friday, 31 July 2009 16:06 (fourteen years ago) link
http://juliaa.etsy.com/
― Squash weather (Eazy), Friday, 4 September 2009 15:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Damn, wrong link, though I would recommend JuliaA's earrings, too.
Meant to post:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7INfm99741E&NR=1
i saw this in edinburgh two years ago and it was TERRIBLE.
any suggestions for london these days?
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 7 September 2009 16:44 (fourteen years ago) link
hey chilxors, my grad school colleague's play is being staged in this victory gardens season preview. it's free. you should check it out and tell me how it is!
― tehresa, Saturday, 12 September 2009 01:09 (fourteen years ago) link
also i kept kicking myself for not seeing that wooster production bc everyone said it was amazing. now i don't feel as bad!
― tehresa, Saturday, 12 September 2009 01:21 (fourteen years ago) link
RIP Zakes Mokae.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 14:50 (fourteen years ago) link
saw him in Master Harold on Broadway back around '82.
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 September 2009 05:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I remember seeing that production on PBS.
― Squash weather (Eazy), Wednesday, 16 September 2009 05:05 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, cept they stuck in Matthew Broderick.
― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 September 2009 05:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone else see Laramie Pt. II tonight?
― Squash weather (Eazy), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 04:46 (fourteen years ago) link
whoa what.
― my bach penises and their contrapuntal technique (the table is the table), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 05:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Heard about it on NPR. It addresses the 20/20 thing about meth
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link
My friend's (well, close family friend really) play got a pretty great review in Variety!
― DRUNK SWEDISH CHINTZ (Upt0eleven), Friday, 20 November 2009 16:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Wasn't quite as enthusiastic about it as this reviewer was - it's definitely got a few wholes that I hope will get patched up before it gets, as I'm fairly sure it will, a transfer to a bigger space - but was thoroughly entertained all the same.
Kinda interesting to see H4nna directing something with such a populist, contemporay feel given that her background is more Harold Barker, Pinter, Stoppard and the RSC, but really really impressive how well she pulled it off.
Sry if this seems a bit spammy, just really pleased!
― DRUNK SWEDISH CHINTZ (Upt0eleven), Friday, 20 November 2009 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
aw, my friend's play is a winner!http://chicago.timeout.com/articles/theater/81553/the-ten-best-plays-in-chicago-in-2009
― tehresa, Friday, 18 December 2009 01:28 (fourteen years ago) link
so proud!wish i could have seen it.
my most recent set design, forgive the indulgence!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v369/colinohara/memcell1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v369/colinohara/memcell3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v369/colinohara/memcell5.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v369/colinohara/memcell8.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v369/colinohara/memcell6.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v369/colinohara/memcell7.jpg
― jed_, Friday, 15 January 2010 03:11 (fourteen years ago) link
there were people in it too!
― jed_, Friday, 15 January 2010 03:13 (fourteen years ago) link
what was the show?
― tehresa, Friday, 15 January 2010 03:18 (fourteen years ago) link
"Memory Cells" - a new play by a scottish writer called Louise Welsh. Her starting point was one of Louise Bourgeuis' Cells, hence the heavily LB influenced set.
― jed_, Friday, 15 January 2010 03:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Nice. Last play I saw was Pains of Youth at the National last month, the music was kinda interestingly early 20th century inspired classical-electronic interludes in between the scenes. It had a suicide, but that is no spoiler as you could tell five mins in :-)
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 15 January 2010 08:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Katie Mitchell's thing? i really wanted to see that. there's something - a video - on the guardian website about the sound design for it. it looked really interesting.
― jed_, Friday, 15 January 2010 11:19 (fourteen years ago) link
memory cells was good as ws the set design
I've seen that doors-as-wall in a couple of places now, ur a pioneer jed! unless u stole it from elsewhere
― cozwn, Friday, 15 January 2010 11:22 (fourteen years ago) link
i stole it from louise bourgeois!
― jed_, Friday, 15 January 2010 11:24 (fourteen years ago) link
jed - Yeah, that's it. For anybody else, the link to the page at the Guardian site.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 16 January 2010 11:10 (fourteen years ago) link
i've been working on a theatrical clowning show and it's pretty impossible to convince people to go, but i saw it last night and it was incredibly entertaining and actually quite touching at times! one of the clowns did an entire piece in japanese and was able to convey everything perfectly, which is pretty freaking impressive to me!
― tehresa, Saturday, 16 January 2010 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Non-circus clowns are the best.
Intriguing B'way cast for the new Martin McDonagh play (movie stars, of course): Walken, Sam Rockwell, Anthony Mackie, Zoe Kazan.
― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 17 January 2010 16:47 (fourteen years ago) link
well, even if no one i know personally would go, we sold out last night! also makes me wish i had more $ to go see more shows. i miss theatre/opera/etc.
― tehresa, Sunday, 17 January 2010 21:53 (fourteen years ago) link