Monday, February 28th, 2011
This past Friday evening, I attended the Waterbury CT Arts Magnet High School’s production of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, a production that had been debated, then delayed, and about which I had been fairly vocal in my advocacy. The students acquitted themselves quite admirably, but the real discovery came during the post-performance [...]
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Thursday, February 24th, 2011
Rob Ashford and Michael Grandage On December 18, 2010, SDCF hosted their second One-on-One Conversation of the 2010-2011 season in the Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row with Donmar Warehouse Artistic Director Michael Grandage (Red, Hamlet) and Broadway Director/Choreographer Rob Ashford (How To Succeed In Business…, Promises, Promises) and moderated by SDCF Executive Director Laura Penn. [...]
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
Through Their Eyes: Actors 2011 Actors Colman Domingo, Elizabeth Marvel, Michele Pawk, Daphne Rubin-Vega and David Zayas discuss the influence of their early training; how they challenge themselves for each role; their feelings about participating in readings and workshops; collaborating with directors; their relationship with the audience and how it affects their performance; and roles [...]
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
Stephen Schwartz Composer of Wicked. Interviewed at the keyboard, composer Stephen Schwartz chronicles his career from college to Wicked and beyond. He explains how Pippin began as a college musical based on one paragraph in a history book and a deep love of The Lion in Winter, and how the show that ended up as [...]
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011
You had to know that this was inevitable. After my Thanksgiving catalogue of 37 Flicks Theatre Lovers Should Know and 13 Docs That Theatre Lovers Should Know, and my New Year’s disgorgement of An Awful Lot of Plays and Musicals About Theatre, it was inevitable that I would close the circle with this blog, enumerating [...]
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