What: Harvardwood Presents Marge Champion (and a few surprise guests) When: Wednesday February 6, 2013, 7pm Where: LRN, 745 Fifth Avenue, 8th Floor, New York, NY event web site The evening begins with chatting and seat selection and settling into an open brightly lit common area of the midtown offices of the corporate management consulting … Continue reading
So when I say almost every day that I’m off to the theatre, some may doubt me. I present here events, listed by date, that required me to enter through a door into a theatre for a live performance or discussion on stage or a performance captured on film or an exhibit gallery. A simple attempt … Continue reading
The Sound of Music (1965) Film Society of Lincoln Center: See it in 70mm! December 25, 2012 Walter Reade Theater, 165 West 65th Street event web site “I always try to keep faith in my doubts.” (Mother Abbess) “Oh dear, I like rich people. I like the way they live. I like the way I … Continue reading
Katharine Hepburn: Dressed for Stage and Screen October 18, 2012 — January 12, 2013 NYPL for the Performing Arts Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center exhibit coverage abounds, e.g. here and here She tempts. She smiles. She is just herself purely, simply, delightfully. Katharine Hepburn. I have admired her for decades from afar in movies and … Continue reading
Welcome to Kutsher’s: The Last Catskills Resort Caroline Laskow, Ian Rosenberg Tuesday, September 4, 2012 at 7:30pm JCC in Manhattan, 334 Amsterdam Avenue “With us it was never absentee ownership, it was always hands on.” Helen Kutsher, 2nd generation owner. “They were a tough audience, but if they like you, they love you.” Freddie Roman, … Continue reading
Horton Foote + Kim Stanley = Endless Delights Harrison, TX: Three Plays by Horton Foote @ 59E59 (attended August 14, 2012) Studio One: The Traveling Lady @ The Paley Center (August 19, 2012) I dreamed myself into the world of Horton Foote‘s sensibility from my Midwestern childhood imagination long before I knew his name. Foote’s … Continue reading
The Astonished Heart (1949) Film Events at the Walter Reade Theatre Coward on Film — part of Noël Coward in New York May 11, 2012 165 West 65th Street On the first day of three days of Coward film screenings, faithful fans and the merely curious assemble to view one of Coward’s rarely shown and lesser … Continue reading
May 2012 StoryCode Forum Guidestones and PunchDrunk Jay Ferguson, Colin Nightingale, Peter Higgin Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at 7pm Film Society of Lincoln Center, Film Center Amphitheatre, 144 West 65th Street series page This particular evening I join a community “transmedia” folks to hear about telling stories in nontraditional ways. In particular, I’ve been drawn in to … Continue reading
2012 Tony Awards Film Series: The Standbys Stephanie Riggs, Merwin Foard, Ben Crawford, Aléna Watters Saturday, May 12, 2012 at 2pm The Paley Center for Media, 25 West 52nd Street “We get paid for the groan.” (Aléna Watters on the typical understudy theatre greeting.) “You insinuate yourself as seamlessly as possible.” (Merwin Foard) “Did you … Continue reading
The Legacy Project: Pioneering Women Producers Presented by the League of Professional Theatre Women & CUNY Grad Center Monday, May 14, 2012 Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, The CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue event site The women who precede us mark the lives we lead in ways we sometimes never discern. In politics and … Continue reading
