June 2010

Liner Notes – That’s All He Wrote (Planet Connections 2010)

by Karen Tortora-Lee June 21, 2010 Festivals

For you youngsters who get all your music electronically: a liner note is as foreign to you as a 45 rpm adapter so let me break it down for you – liner notes were like mini blog entries that came with an album and often were the first thing some people went for when they got [...]

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The Last Supper – Don’t Drink The Wine

by Karen Tortora-Lee June 21, 2010 Manhattan

There’s always a catch when a group of grad-school liberals invites you to their dinner party, or so Dan Rosen’s The Last Supper (currently playing at the Red Room) will have you believing. This play, based on the movie Rosen wrote which was released in 1995, adapts well for the stage and under Akia Squitieri’s [...]

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Oberon Theatre’s “Othello” And “Order” At Theatre Row: Interviews With The Madmen (And Woman) Behind The Curtain – Pt. 3

by Diánna Martin June 20, 2010 Interviews

In the third part of our interview series on Oberon Theatre Ensemble’s Summer Rep 2010, I was delighted to be able to speak with Cara Reichel, Director of Othello, and Producing Artistic Director for Prospect Theatre Company. Coincidently I finally got to see Othello last night (Othello is one of my favorite plays of The [...]

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11 Seconds Of Ecstasy!: 3,600 Seconds Of Agony (Planet Connections 2010)

by Sarah V. Schweig June 20, 2010 Festivals

Art is hard. If an artist wants to articulate something about boredom, he or she cannot simply write and produce a deliberately boring play. Audience members could instead go sit in a Starbucks for an hour and save twenty bucks. Similarly, if an artist wants to articulate something about the absurd, he or she cannot [...]

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Clandestine: It’s A Secret {But Tell Your Friends} . . . (Planet Connections 2010)

by Stephen Tortora-Lee June 20, 2010 Festivals

What kinds of secret do you know? Is it classified? Is it torrid? Do you feel it’s necessary to preserve your identity? Do you have a secret identity? Is it ruining your life? Is it a second life? Is it real or just pretend? Do you need to expose it to be free? Do you [...]

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THM GIVEAWAY – Win Tickets To Modotti!

by The Happiest Medium June 19, 2010 The Happiest Medium Giveaways

MODOTTI is the story of photographer, silent film actress and ultimately activist and communist subversive, Tina Modotti. Sleek and sensuous, yet as dangerous as a tiger, she tore through the male dominated political forums almost as fast as she tore through her lovers. Modotti fled to Mexico lured by the revolution and artistic excitement. Accompanied [...]

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Planet Connections Q&A: 4 1/2 Hours: Across the Stones of Fire / Another Place

by The Happiest Medium June 18, 2010 Festivals

Planet Connections Theatre Festivity is New York City’s premiere eco-friendly theatre festival, connecting artists and audiences with diverse dynamic charitable organizations. The Planet Connections experience entertains, enlightens and informs. The Happiest Medium (proud sponsors of The Planet Connections Festival), will be running Q&A throughout the festival. Today we ask one question each of 4 1/2 [...]

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Oberon Theatre’s “Othello” And “Order” At Theatre Row: Interviews With The Madmen (And Woman) Behind The Curtain – Pt. 2

by Diánna Martin June 18, 2010 Interviews

Next up in our Oberon Theatre Ensemble Rep interview series is Brad Fryman, the Artistic Director of this esteemed theatre company, who produces the shows, and who essentially decides what will be running season after season. Not only is Brad producing two shows simultaneously at Theatre Row, he is also co-starring in Order, as the [...]

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De Profil: A Conversation With German Model And Musician Soraya Garcia

by Anne Jordanova June 17, 2010 Interview

I am fascinated with driven entertainers who do more with their beautiful mug and talent than the average human. In saying this, no one fits this mold better than German sensation Soraya Garcia. Born in Hannover to Spanish parents, Soraya has risen out of an array of fashion models and musicians to stand alone. She [...]

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The Riverside Symphony Strikes The Right Chord (Planet Connections 2010)

by Stephen Tortora-Lee June 16, 2010 Festivals

The Riverside Symphony (written by Michael Niederman and directed by Hondo Weiss-Richmond) is truly a symphony of perspectives. It opens with Cassandra (Arlene Chico-Lugo), a young high school student speaking to us and to her park as she reminisces about the playground with hippopotami set into the cement. She cries out to the world wondering [...]

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What Happens When “His Beauty” Goes Off On Her Own (Planet Connections 2010)

by Karen Tortora-Lee June 16, 2010 Festivals

For the first few minutes of his beauty (written by Ashley Jacobson and directed by Nadine Friedman) it’s almost impossible to understand what’s going on - all that’s obvious is that a couple is fighting. Soon enough, however, you realize that that’s pretty much all you need to know. The fact that they’ve stepped out [...]

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Oberon Theatre’s “Othello” And “Order” At Theatre Row: Interviews With The Madmen (And Woman) Behind The Curtain

by Diánna Martin June 16, 2010 Interviews

One theatre company very near and dear to my heart is Oberon Theatre Ensemble, now celebrating its 13th season bringing invigorating theatre to New York City. Their M.O. is usually a Rep that involves both a play by The Bard and an original piece or revival. The last few years they have been doing their [...]

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It’s Totally Easy Being Green: The Green Knight (Planet Connections 2010)

by Sarah V. Schweig June 16, 2010 Festivals

“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” is a quirky Arthurian romance penned in alliterative Middle English in the 14th-century by the anonymous Pearl Poet. Because it is one of my favorite stories, of all the Planet Connections productions I was slated to see, my hopes were highest for this adaptation of the legend, The Green [...]

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Planet Connections Q&A: I Don’t Want To Hurt Your Feelings / Liner Notes

by The Happiest Medium June 15, 2010 Festivals

Planet Connections Theatre Festivity is New York City’s premiere eco-friendly theatre festival, connecting artists and audiences with diverse dynamic charitable organizations. The Planet Connections experience entertains, enlightens and informs. The Happiest Medium (proud sponsors of The Planet Connections Festival), will be running Q&A throughout the festival. Today we ask one question each of Emma Koenig, [...]

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Winners All Around – The Paper Plane Derby

by Karen Tortora-Lee June 15, 2010 Art

By all accounts the Come Out and Play festival was a huge success. And we’re pleased to say that The Paper Plane Derby (featured earlier on THM) was winner of the Best Family Game! CONGRATULATIONS! Our very own Stephen Tortora-Lee was an eager participant in the derby and wound up bringing home “Most Innovative Design”; his [...]

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Dorian Gray – A Picture’s Worth A Thousand Sins (Planet Connections 2010)

by Karen Tortora-Lee June 14, 2010 Festivals

Oscar Wilde wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray over a hundred years ago and while it wasn’t tremendously well received in its day Wilde’s cautionary tale of a man captivated by vice and enslaved by hedonism is such a timeless one that there have been numerous adaptations of Gray – from movies to musicals and [...]

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The Thyme Of The Season: Even Better The Second Thyme Around (Planet Connections 2010)

by Stephen Tortora-Lee June 13, 2010 Festivals

I’ve always been a fan of A Midsummer Night’s Dream because (like the other plays by this Shakespeare fellow) it is well written, but unlike Hamlet or Macbeth it’s a comedy making fun of all the foibles of humanity . . . rather than a tragedy about the consequences of all the foibles of humanity. [...]

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