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TEN YEARS LATER (AN EPILOGUE)
Blog posted Saturday, October 17, 2009
On October 12, 1998, openly gay university student Matthew Shepard died following a brutal attack near Laramie, Wyoming in which his assailants tied him to a fence, mercilessly bludgeoned him and left him for dead. A few weeks later, Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project traveled to Laramie where they interviewed local residents about the even. These discussions became The Laramie Project, a documentary-style drama which ran for nearly six months Off-Broadway, and has since become one of the most frequently-performed plays in America, with over 2,000 productions to date. On October 12, 2009, eleven years after Shepard’s horrific murder, in an astounding display of solidarity, over 150 theatre companies worldwide simultaneously premiered Kaufman and company’s new play The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later.
Blog posted Friday, October 9, 2009
Now playing through October 31, 2009
New York is experiencing an embarrassment of riches in terms of critically-acclaimed one-person shows. In addition to the currently-running A Boy and His Soul and the previewing The Lady with All the Answers, this week we see the Manhattan premieres of Wishful Drinking, Let Me Down Easy, and the spectacularly funny and phenomenally moving autobiographical play by Charlayne Woodard, The Night Watcher.
KEEP YOUR PANTHEON AND SCHOOL
Now playing through November 1, 2009
Blog posted Sunday, October 4, 2009
New York is the lucky beneficiary of a renaissance of the work of playwright David Mamet. In addition to last season’s uptown revivals of Speed-the-Plow and American Buffalo, no fewer than three major productions of his work are opening within a few weeks of each other this fall. On Broadway we have a currently-in-previews revival of his 1992 Off-Broadway success Oleanna, and the world premiere of Race opens uptown in December. But first, Mamet returns to his Off-Broadway roots at the troupe he co-founded, The Atlantic Theater Company, with a double-bill of one act plays.
LOVE, LOSS, AND WHAT I WORE
Blog posted Saturday, October 3, 2009
The Ephron girls are pulling off a true sister act. Nora (best known as a writer, director, and/or producer of films such as Sleepless in Seattle, When Harry Met Sally and the recent Meryl Streep hit Julie and Julia) has teamed up with her sister Delia (screenplay for Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, author of a number of bestselling books for adults and children, as well as associate producer of Sleepless in Seattle) to create the new play Love, Loss, and What I Wore, a hilarious, heartbreaking Proustian look at women and their affairs of the heart and the wardrobe.
Blog posted Monday, September 28, 2009
Off-Broadway's got a dozen new shows opening this month. You want a one-person show? We've got that. You want a stirring revival of a theatrical classic, or a new play which may be one of tomorrow's classics? We've got those, too. You want a dirty-mouthed musical starring a bunch of puppets from Brooklyn? Yup, we've got that. too.
Festival runs September 28 through October 18, 2009
Blog posted September 26, 2009
The New York Musical Theatre Festival (or NYMF, affectionately pronounced “nimf”) has, over the past five years, launched over 175 new musicals into the world, in addition to hundreds of readings, workshops, concerts, and other special events. A number of these shows have landed Off-Broadway, so in honor of their 6th season kicking off on September 28th, here’s a look back at a few memorable Off-Broadway transfers.
Now playing through October 18, 2009
Blog posted Friday, September 25, 2009
“I’m pinching myself – I can’t believe I’m getting away with this,” the bubbly actress Jaygee Macapugay said on a recent day off from rehearsals. She is thrilled to be making her Off-Broadway debut in Imelda: A New Musical, touted as New York’s very first Filipino musical: not only does it concern the country’s notorious former First Lady, but the creative staff and the entire 12-member cast are descended from the island nation.
Now Playing through November 1, 2009
Blog posted Monday, September 21, 2009
In January 2004, things were not going well for Colman Domingo. He was struggling to support himself as an actor and meanwhile his mother and step-father were both very ill. As his parents’ health deteriorated, he returned to his West Philly neighborhood to clean out the basement of his family’s home and found stacks and stacks of old records –- Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, Gladys Knight, Luther Vandross -- the soundtrack of his formative years. During the slow hours of his late night shift tending a West Village bar, Domingo listened to this music and poured out his soul in a series of writings which, over the past five years, have blossomed into his joyful, nostalgic music-filled autobiographical solo play A Boy and His Soul, opening this week at the Vineyard Theatre.
Blog posted Saturday, September 19, 2009
The cotton-candy-colored non-stop pop musical The Marvelous Wonderettes celebrated its first anniversary in New York on Monday evening, where it continues to play at Off-Broadway's Westside Theatre, upstairs.
Blog posted Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Blues lovers, rejoice and get thee to Blind Lemon Blues, The York Theatre’s new musical celebrating the legacy of legendary musician Blind Lemon Jefferson. The astonishing cast’s talent and charisma threaten to blow the roof off of The Theatre at Saint Peter’s (a particularly heady accomplishment given that the performance space is several stories underground!)