January 2012

As part of the Board of Directors of MTWorks I’m really proud to be involved with the National Newborn Festival. Part of my job was to help choose the Excellence in Playwriting Award (see below for the winner!) and this year I’ll be introducing one of the plays — but I won’t tell you which [...]

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The Morningside Opera company offered up a quite singular interpretation of Pergolesi‘s Stabat Mater in their Fabulosa rendition on January 26th at Dixon Place, which proved, at once, a scholarly as well as a quite literal undressing of the original. Composed in 1736 – the year of Pergolesi’s death at the august age of 26 [...]

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Five Questions. Five Answers. And One Big Decision: Rock, Paper, Or Scissors?   I Married A Nun! A one-woman show that dramatically depicts D’yan’s search for love and meaning in life, finding the answers—at age 77—in the smoldering cabarets and demimonde of Paris. With humor, art and her ukulele, she reveals the truth that’s valid [...]

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Love In The Time Of Chlamydia: 5 Things To Know About The Show Before You Go (2012 FRIGID NEW YORK FESTIVAL)

by The Happiest Medium January 31, 2012 Festivals

Five Questions.  Five Answers.  And one big decision: Rock, Paper, or Scissors?   Love In The Time Of Chlamydia Company: Hard Sparks Love In The Time Of Chlamydia is one woman’s search for love in a world full of absent dads, dirtbag boyfriends, and premature ejaculators. Your first time wasn’t weirder – and your best [...]

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BREATHE LOVE REPEAT: a near-life experience – 5 Things To Know About The Show Before You Go (2012 FRIGID NEW YORK FESTIVAL)

by The Happiest Medium January 30, 2012 Festivals

Five Questions.  Five Answers.  And one big decision: Rock, Paper, or Scissors?     BREATHE LOVE REPEAT:a near-life experience Produced by: The Mustique Projects A samurai super daughter struggles with her mother at the crossroads between east and west to affirm life between this world and the next. Show Times: Wed. 2/22 @ 10:30pm Fri. [...]

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Extended! – Samuel & Alasdair: A Personal History Of The Robot War

by Karen Tortora-Lee January 30, 2012 Theatre

    We’re always excited to hear that a great show is sticking around for a while.  And if you had a chance to read Geoffrey Paddy Johnson’s review of Samuel & Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War you know that it was a great show.  (If you DIDN’T get a chance to read [...]

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Menders: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors – Good Menders Make Great Theatre

by Karen Tortora-Lee January 29, 2012 Manhattan

Flux Theatre Ensemble’s production of Menders (written by Erin Browne and directed by Heather Cohn) currently playing at The Gym at Judson will catch you by surprise – but not all at once.  It will do so in subtle ways, often, and always differently than it did moments before. First you will be drawn in [...]

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Stay Left At The Fork: An Interview With Eddie Antar About His Play “The Navigator”

by Karen Tortora-Lee January 27, 2012 Interviews

These days, when taking a road trip of any kind — even if it’s just over the state line to New Jersey — it’s almost impossible to think about arriving safely at your destination without the use of a GPS.  The technology is so ubiquitous it’s now even an easily downloadable app for your phone.   [...]

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Review – Horripilation! By John Sowle, Kaliyuga Arts (Times Square International Theater Festival 2012)

by Geoffrey Paddy Johnson January 26, 2012 Festivals

John Sowle in Horripilation!
 / Photo by Steven Patterson The writer and performer of Horripilation!, John Sowle, is unquestionably a shining light in the fields of research and preservation of obscure global theatrical traditions, as well as being an imposing performative figure in the relating and embodiment of these same traditions. In 1973, with a [...]

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My Left Hand Man: Antonia Bogdanovich Explains What It Means To Be A Family

by Karen Tortora-Lee January 24, 2012 Film

  I was lucky enough to get a sneak peek at the new short film by Antonia Bogdanovich — MY LEFT HAND MAN —  starring Thomas Brodie-Sangster (Nanny McPhee, Love Actually), Andrew Howard (Limitless, upcoming “Hatfields and McCoys”), Kevin Bigley (“The Chicago Code,” “CSI: Miami”) and Erich Wildpret, who is a Latin American star. The [...]

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Review – Superman 2050 By Theater Un-Speak-Able (Times Square International Theater Festival 2012)

by Geoffrey Paddy Johnson January 23, 2012 Festivals

Deploying a short and narrow raised, wooden platform, with a total area surface of 21 square feet, seven actors in blue spandex outfits (that’s 3 square feet each they have to work with; you do the math!), no scenery or lighting effects, and just 35 minutes, Theater Un-Speak-Able set out to tell that well-worn saga [...]

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Review- SEASONS (Times Square International Theater Festival 2012)

by Karen Tortora-Lee January 23, 2012 Festivals

It isn’t easy to tell an entire story without one word of spoken dialogue, let alone give proper attention to two concurrent plots that run simultaneously but never intertwine, except emotionally.  Yet SEASONS does just that, and with such deep resonance that sold-out houses were sobbing as they watched the four central characters of Elaine [...]

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Review- Legacy Of The Tiger Mother (Times Square International Theater Festival 2012)

by Karen Tortora-Lee January 21, 2012 Festivals

“There is failure and there is success.  What better way to measure this than the piano?” If you were the child who spent your afternoons inside practicing the piano (or another musical instrument) while you could hear other children running around in the sunshine you no doubt have an ache in your heart when now, [...]

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1,934 Days: 4 Things To Know About The Show Before You Go (Times Square International Theater Festival 2012)

by The Happiest Medium January 20, 2012 Festivals

1,934 Days a play about longing and hope. Isramerica Production Conceived and Created: Sivan Hadari Directed and Co-created: Charlotte Cohn While sharing their own personal experiences and real life stories, ten actors haling from diverse cultural backgrounds (American, Asian, African, Israeli, Palestinian, Latin) explore the deep rooted connection they all have with “longing”. Show Times: [...]

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SUPERMAN 2050: 4 Things To Know About The Show Before You Go (Times Square International Theater Festival 2012)

by The Happiest Medium January 19, 2012 Festivals

Superman 2050 Theater Un-Speak-Able Writer and designer: The Ensemble, Theater-Un-Speak-Able Director: Marc Frost Superman 2050 is featuring seven actors performing on a single 3’ by 7’ platform. It is an original Superman story, taking place in a fictional Metropolis in the year 2050. At no time do any actors exit the platform, instead existing as [...]

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Alita The Show: 4 Things To Know About The Show Before You Go (Times Square International Theater Festival 2012)

by The Happiest Medium January 19, 2012 Children's Theatre

Alita the Show Writer and Director: Freia Canals and Denise Kornitz A bilingual show (Spanish/ English) for the entire family. Princess Alita lives in a world of luxury amidst the walls of her palace. She is oblivious to all that surrounds her and knows little outside of her own environment. One day she is sent [...]

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The Knocking Within: 4 Things To Know About The Show Before You Go (Times Square International Theater Festival 2012)

by The Happiest Medium January 19, 2012 Dance

The Knocking Within ANIKAI Dance Theater Texts from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, MacBeth, Titus Andronicus and Othello Selected and compiled by Wendy Jehlen Direction, concept: Wendy Jehlen Choreographer: Wendy Jehlen with Pradhuman Nayak ANIKAI Dance Theater premieres “The Knocking Within,” a new text-based work looking at insanity and a dysfunctional relationship through texts from three of [...]

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