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When I was around ten years old I wrote a play based on the epic, Gone With The Wind. There were just 2 actors in my play, myself and my 8 year old friend. We bypassed a lot of the Civil War story line – and even dismissed the romantic plot. Instead we focused on ... Read The Full Article...
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In two weeks MTWorks will be producing the world premiere of David Stallings’ DARK WATER, directed by one of my favorite directors, Heather Cohn. DARK WATER is about the ramifications of the Gulf oil spill, which began on April 20, 2010 and caused extensive damage to wildlife and marine habitats. Although the accidental marine oil spill was eventually ... Read The Full Article...
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Watching the performers in Playlab‘s production, Professor Ralph’s Loss of Breath, can shortly leave you in ready sympathy with the central character’s unlikely plight. The proceedings move at such a rate, the lines flow at such a pace, you’ll be virtually breathless trying to keep up. You needn’t fret unduly, however, if you miss ... Read The Full Article...
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There’s nothing new about a story where a prostitute gets paid just to talk. It’s a long-standing plot device – putting a well meaning hooker with a heart of gold in a position where she’s expected to be equal parts sex kitten, psychiatrist and mother confessor. However, playwright Ryan Sprague offers up this device to ... Read The Full Article...
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The idea behind Megan O’Leary‘s play Charlotte the Destroyer is at once intellectually brilliant and artistically fecund. An author of a series of successful children’s stories featuring the character of a a young girl, Charlotte, elects to write a novel in which her youthful star will grow up. She chooses to do so, however, at ... Read The Full Article...
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Anaïs Koivisto’s Something Wicked, produced by the Everyday Inferno Theatre Company as part of this year’s Frigid New York Festival, consists almost entirely of original lines from Shakespeare‘s Macbeth, cropped and re-arranged in deconstructed collage form to explore, in a very modern way, the character and motivations of its notorious anti-heroine, Lady Macbeth. Academically of ... Read The Full Article...
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There’s something immediately audacious and comical about compressing a voluminous turn of the century literary oeuvre into a one hour performance piece. When said performance is delivered by just two actors, deploying only a hat and a scarf as props, the ante rises significantly. As does the challenge. Such is the project Carrie Brown and ... Read The Full Article...
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Ten Questions. Ten Answers. And One Big Decision: Rock, Paper, Or Scissors? Confessions of a Redheaded Coffeeshop Girl Production Company: Ginger Galore Productions Rebecca Perry’s award-winning one-woman “show-sical”(“4 STAR Performer”, CBC Canada) for the graduate in all of us. Stuck paying off debt, feisty little Joanie makes the most out her barista job by reporting ... Read The Full Article...
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Ten Questions. Ten Answers. And One Big Decision: Rock, Paper, Or Scissors? I-DJ Dance Club DJ by Night – Shakesqueer actor by Day Production Company: Overtime Theater & The Woodlawn Theatre Show Times: Wed 2/19 @ 5:30PM Sat 22 @ 6:50PM Sun 23 @ 2:05PM Mon 24 @ 10:15PM Tues 25 @ 7:05PM Answers by Gregg ... Read The Full Article...
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Ten Questions. Ten Answers. And One Big Decision: Rock, Paper, Or Scissors? Questions of the Heart: Gay Mormons and the Search for Identity Ben, a straight Mormon guy caught in the middle between his church and his many close gay friends, attempts to understand the intersection of religious faith and sexual identity by interviewing gay ... Read The Full Article...
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Reach the top of the stairs of Quinn’s Bar and Grill and you’ll no longer be in the heart of midtown, elbow to elbow with the crowds maneuvering through the streets; swivel-headed tourists getting in the way of fast walking commuters rushing for the A train. No, somehow, mid-staircase you’ll be transported to a ... Read The Full Article...
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Ten Questions. Ten Answers. And One Big Decision: Rock, Paper, Or Scissors? Almost A Genius Maria Wojciechowski suffers from bipolar disorder and panic attacks, so she did what any other crazy person would do, she wrote a comedy show about it. In ALMOST A GENIUS, Maria invites you into her mind through storytelling, music, dance, ... Read The Full Article...
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