Photo Shoot: Chance and Here Lies Love Friday May 17, 2013 The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street Chance Magazine, discussed by our core staff in excited shouts and earnest whispers over the past year, inspiring articles on shoots in a Yonkers Mansion and the burlesque venue The Box, is now a real thing. Boxes of the first … Continue reading
A season year of theatre going — over 250 shows for Drama Desk consideration as well as a substantial additional number of concerts and readings and other events addressing other interests and work obligations — has been marked by several events over the past few weeks. One involves a group of people working through a … Continue reading
Lunch Hour NYC June 22, 2012 — February 17, 2013 NYPL Stephen A. Schartzman Building 5th Avenue and 42nd Street D. Samuel and Jeane H. Gottesman Exhibit Hall online exhibit On a wintry midday in Midtown in January, after a meeting and before evening theatre adventures, I sidled into a long running exhibit that is … 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 Art of Feedback Friday, October 26, 2012 2:30-5pm HERE Arts Center, 145 6th Avenue at Spring Street event site “I like to think of myself as the play’s, not the playwright’s, best friend.” (Morgan Jenness) “I’m not a noun, I’m not a dramaturg, I’m a human being giving dramaturgical feedback.” (Morgan Jenness) “Always get a … Continue reading
Photo Shoot: Chance and The Box Wednesday August 1, 2012 The Box, 189 Chrystie Street Work continues on the initial issues of Chance, a new art magazine intended to explore the visual possibilities of theatre in its many forms, as well as the artists and craftspeople who make it happen. I wrote in June about a Yonkers photo … 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
Summer of Steves As You Like It @ The Delacorte Theater (attended June 30, 2012) Into The Woods @ The Delacorte Theatre (attended August 8, 2012) As will be true for thousands of New Yorkers and city visitors during the summer of 2012, I have spent some delightful hours with the works of artists named Steve at … Continue reading
A few years in a new city have already inspired for me repeat viewings of newly discovered events and productions and places and people. We return when we feel inspired, we return when we feel welcomed, we return when we feel that we’re of service. And after two years in New York City, inspired by … Continue reading
Writing about theatre comes from passionate engagement for me. For years I wrote and spoke about the theatre I read and saw and consumed in personal handwritten journals, in academic papers, in quiet conversations with friends and colleagues. Over the past six years this passionate and personal engagement has become something else, something more public … Continue reading
