Hello Gorgeous! A Salute to the Streisand Songbook hosted by Scott Nevins music direction by Brad Gardner Friday, October 12, 2012 at 8pm Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College, 68th between Park and Lexington event site A wide range of performers convened on October 12, 2012 Caruso Cast Party style (in fact many regulars including Cast … Continue reading
David Brenner The Metropolitan Room, 34 West 22nd Street August 22, 23, 25, 2012 event web site performer web site Reviewed by Martha Wade Steketee August 23, 2012 Over the past few years I’ve had the opportunity to visit some of the stalwarts of 1970s and 1980s television on various New York stages. “Madame” (and Rick … 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
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
Photo Shoot: Chance and Layers of Play Sunday June 24, 2012 Alder Manor, Yonkers, NY A series of meetings inspired by music, enhanced by fellowship, fueled by a love for theatre and respect for the preservation of its ephemeral record lead me to a photo shoot in an empty mansion in Yonkers on a beautiful summer … Continue reading
American Theatre Critics Association Annual Conference Playwrights, Presenters, and Panels Friday June 15, 2012 and Saturday June 16, 2012 Chicago, IL event site The multi-day American Theatre Critics Association annual conference feeds my arts gluttony in several ways — many theatrical presentations of course (and these are to be covered in a separate blog post), … Continue reading
American Theatre Critics Association Annual Conference City Images Wednesday June 13, 2012 through Sunday June 17, 2012 Chicago, IL event site Over the past few years I have explored writing about the theatre I have been consuming, creating, observing as dramaturg and as audience member. Since 2006 or so I have been learning by doing, … Continue reading
The Group Theatre & How it Transformed American Culture Co-curated by Ronald Rand & Mel Gordon Featuring Ellen Adler, Laila Robins, Wendy Smith, John Strasberg, Fritz Weaver (and others) Monday, June 4, 2012 Martin E. Segal Theatre Center in Elebash Hall, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue event site We assemble in the lovely … Continue reading
