Today at 8PM is your last chance to see Founding Member Candice Holdorf in the excellent Never/Cracked. It’s also your last chance to see Flux friend Carissa Cordes in Hamlet. And then next week, Lynn Kenny from Pretty Theft plays Medea (yikes!) in a modern adaptation called Maddy – be sure to check it out….
Recently, my friend (and amazing playwright/actor) Ellen McLaughlin sent me the commencement address she’d written for the students at A.R.T. This address came out of their collaboration on Ajax In Iraq, a harrowing play about the trauma of the Iraq war mirrored through the story of Ajax. The address itself looks at the twin births…
And speaking of discipline, a shout-out to five bloggers who have been on fire lately: Adam Szymkowicz: is on a tear interviewing all sorts of interesting playwrights Sean Williams: the multi-faceted Gideon producer is rocking production posts, reactions to shows, and in-depth thinking on larger issues confronting the field; all with candor and warmth Leonard…
“Not to show off, but to show; not to exhibit but to transmit the tenderness of the human spirit through the disciplined action of a human body.”-Merce Cunningham (h/t Marilyn on Superfluities) “Don’t bear me ill will, speech, that I borrow weighty words,Then labor heavily so that they may seem light.”-Wislawa Szymborska, Under One Small…
Did you love the song Elvis wrote for GL’s Mother in Riding the Bull?Or the rocking Good Day To Die in Angel Eaters? Then you need to check out our collaborator and friend Gary Keenan’s band, American String Conspiracy! Gary was just nominated by the NYITA for Outstanding Original Music for Angel Eaters, and he’s…
A few days ago, David Cote at Time Out New York posted Nine Wishes For NYC Theater. This post generated some thoughtful responses from 99 Seats, Rob at Wicked Stage and Matthew Freeman, with most of the focus on the fifth wish: “5. Bloggers: Engage/enrageThis item will generate noise (and that’s the point): I wish…
Flux is thrilled to be presenting a staged reading of Rob Ackerman’s Volleygirls as the next installment of our potluck play reading series, Food:Soul. We’ve helped develop this play over the past months, and were so thrilled to see it produced at A.C.T. We very much hope you’ll join us Sunday, August 9th at 4:00…
It was great night! We were nominated for 7 awards – 6 for Angel Eaters, and 1 for 8 Little Antichrists: Outstanding Full Length Script: Johnna AdamsOutstanding Actor In A Lead Role: August SchulenburgOutstanding Original Music: Gerard KeenanOutstanding Costume Design: Emily Morgan DeAngelisOutstanding Lighting Design: Jennifer RathboneOutstanding Sound Design: Asa WemberOutstanding Set Design: Caleb Levengood…
In order to move forward this conversation regarding quality, we are putting some of those principles into practice with a new blog series, Exploding Moments. We’ll be exploring how quality productions work through the prism of individual moments. By asking the artists involved how they created a particularly successful moment, and examining how it works…
DRINK ME (Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Nancy Franklin)Have Another was back! And we had a great time – thanks to the audience, and in spite of the basil, it was our best yet. To see what we did and who did it, go here. (Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured Jake Alexander) Jake Alexander, the Have Another…
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