Entrevista

  In she walks wearing one of New York based Dominican fashion designer Peter Hidalgo‘s latest creations for Spring/Summer 2012, a turqouise Mosquito dress that asserts her readiness to conquer the world and create all opportunities. She has a lot to celebrate, a dream come true to most artists and even bigger accomplishment for someone [...]

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AENY-The Bridge is a non-profit organization which was established in the fall of 2010 to promote inter-disciplinary artistic collaborations and build a cultural bridge between Spain and the United States. Last December I was witness to one of their great creations and wanted to introduce this fairly new company to The Happiest Medium readers. Helmed [...]

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The rise and fall of director Julie Taymor and the behind-the-scenes scandals of Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark is the premise behind the 2011 Fringe sensation The Legend of Julie Taymor, or The Musical That Killed Everybody! In the show Julie faces financial problems, actor injuries, technical malfunctions, opening delays, scathing reviews, all while battling [...]

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Entrevista: From Vermont To NYC – Playwright James Lantz And The Bus

by Antonio Miniño July 31, 2011 Entrevista

There is theater outside of NYC, my friends, and I recently discovered Burlington, VT to be a thriving arts community with fresh ideas, innovative expressions and fascinating creators. Karen and The Happiest Medium have always inspired and encouraged us to think outside of the NYC box and bring topics and people located outside of the [...]

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Entrevista: ESPA’s Tessa LaNeve

by Antonio Miniño February 1, 2011 Entrevista

Tessa LaNeve is the Literary Manager and Director of The Primary Stages and Anne Einhorn School of Performing Arts. She was kind enough to answer some questions in the middle of auditions for their next semester and planning DETENTION, a new performance series she will speak more of. What is ESPA? When was it formed [...]

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Entrevista: Aaron Wigdor Levy Writer Of “Monroe, Illinois: Over Here/Townie”

by Antonio Miniño December 9, 2010 Entrevista

Aaron Wigdor Levy is the writer of Monroe, Illinois: Over Here/Townie premiering this week at the  Flea Theater, produced by On The Square Productions. Tell us a bit about your body of work? My work usually is pretty naturalistic. Some people have said my plays are political, but I don’t think they’re overtly political. I [...]

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Entrevista: Peter Zinn Director Of Benefactors

by Antonio Miniño November 19, 2010 Entrevista

Peter Zinn is no stranger to Retro Productions, having helmed their incarnation of Holy Days and Women and War. He was kind enough to answer a couple of questions regarding his past, his upcoming plans and what it’s been like to be directing Michael Frayn’s Benefactors, which you can still catch tonight at the Spoon [...]

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Entrevista: Never Norman Rockwell (Midtown International Theatre Festival 2010)

by Antonio Miniño July 18, 2010 Entrevista

We’ve reached our final installment of our Midtown International Theatre Festival‘s Q&A. Today we chat with Kyle Baxter, writer of Never Norman Rockwell, and co-artistic director of The Collective Objective. Related Posts:Entrevista: The Starship Astrov and Asian Belle (Midtown International Theatre Festival 2010)The Starship Astrov: Best Of Both Worlds (Midtown International Theatre Festival 2010)The Gospel [...]

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Entrevista: Until We Find Each Other (Midtown International Theatre Festival)

by Antonio Miniño July 16, 2010 Entrevista

We continue our Midtown International Theatre Festival Q&A and speak with not only the playwright of Until We Find Each Other (Brooke Berman), but we also asked the show’s director, David Winitsky some questions. Related Posts:Entrevista: From Vermont To NYC – Playwright James Lantz And The BusThe Starship Astrov: Best Of Both Worlds (Midtown International [...]

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Entrevista: The Starship Astrov and Asian Belle (Midtown International Theatre Festival 2010)

by Antonio Miniño July 10, 2010 Entrevista

We continue our Midtown International Theatre Festival Q&A with writers Duncan Pflaster of The Starship Astrov, and Michelle Glick, writer and performer of the solo show Asian Belle. Let us start with Duncan. When did you know you wanted to be a writer? Not until about 15 years ago- I thought for a long time [...]

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Entrevista: The Gospel According To Josh (Midtown International Theatre Festival 2010)

by Antonio Miniño July 9, 2010 Entrevista

In case you haven’t noticed, it’s pretty hot outside… summer, yeah… summertime! What that also means is it’s theatre festival season. If you live on the motto that “life is like a box of chocolates,” you can easily apply the same to the festival circuit. Festivals hold lovely truffles covered with exquisite themes, filled with [...]

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Entrevista: This Is Storybox (@Shetler Studios)

by Antonio Miniño July 6, 2010 Entrevista

When Shea Elmore talks about his upcoming project, This Is Storybox, his face lights up and you can’t help but listen and be intoxicated with his excitement and sincerity.  What he brings us is an interactive approach to performance, where audience members choose to be part of the action or plainly be a viewer. The [...]

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Entrevista: Shakespeare In The Garden (A MidSummer Night’s Dream)

by Antonio Miniño July 1, 2010 Entrevista

A professor once told me –”If you want to be cast in the kind of plays that you really believe in, if you want to do work that is meaningful to you, with actors  trained in the same way as you, and have the same aesthetic… create your own theatre company together, the most important [...]

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Entrevista: Jody Christopherson – Trying

by Antonio Miniño April 7, 2010 Brooklyn

If you don’t believe read-heads have more fun, just ask Jody Christopherson about her experience working on Erin Browne’s new play TRYING, premiering at The Bushwick Starr, on April 15th. Ok, I admit  the “red-head” line is not the most original way to start an interview, but I’m not fishing for a bloggie award and [...]

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Entrevista: Dan Horrigan (MY AiDS)

by Antonio Miniño February 17, 2010 Entrevista

“Bad shit in life makes for good art. Things that challenge us emotionally, politically and socially propel us to create. Having this terrible thing in my life has motivated me in a way. I have sort of resolved to not only not let it get me down but use it as a way to improve [...]

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Entrevista: Heather Cunningham Of Retro Productions

by Antonio Miniño November 3, 2009 Entrevista

If I said to you I was an old time fan of Heather and Retro Productions I would be lying … and why start off with a lie? Who would I be! Despicable me … so lets start with the truth and nothing but! I first became acquainted with their work about a year ago [...]

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