tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-337990242024-02-28T09:48:01.122-08:00Theatertimes BlogNews and views on theater and jazz from Theatertimes writers. Reviews and interviews at theatertmes.orgTheatertimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377903065856283534noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33799024.post-33946478859961688502014-10-22T09:23:00.000-07:002015-10-26T07:22:34.428-07:00Treasure foundYou are being redirected to this post within Theatertimes.org
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Pianist Billy Childs, three vocalists, and a ten-piece
chamber-jazz orchestra bring Laura Nyro's music back to glory.
Pianist-composer-arranger Billy Childs brought two "Map to the Treasure" tours to the Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall on October 17.
TheTheatertimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377903065856283534noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33799024.post-59249527468281114452014-09-05T15:13:00.001-07:002015-10-26T07:24:21.738-07:00Balancing actsYou are being redirected to this post within Theatertimes.org
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Aaron Posner's adaptations of Chekhov and Shakespeare seek to
provide new audiences with access to the true magic of theater.
PROSPERO SUSPENDS FERDINAND'S ADVANCES
A scene from The Tempest at South Coast Repertory: Nate Dendy, Joby Earle, Tom Nelis, and CharlotteTheatertimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377903065856283534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33799024.post-65518872018903891682014-08-01T13:52:00.002-07:002015-10-26T07:20:48.129-07:00Stayin’ Alive You are being redirected to this post within Theatertimes.org
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Shakespeare OC goes from Polynesia to Polyester in 'Midsummer'
To launch his first summer season as Artistic Director of Garden Grove-based Shakespeare Orange County, John Walcutt offered two musical variations on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
The first Theatertimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377903065856283534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33799024.post-80311699424148161352014-07-23T08:34:00.002-07:002015-10-26T07:25:22.176-07:00How history playsYou are being redirected to this post within Theatertimes.org
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All the Way puts a Broadway spin on OSF's 'American Revolutions'
It wasn't part of his plan to direct on Broadway, but after six seasons as Artistic Director of the oldest and one of the largest regional theaters in America, Bill Rauch was the acclaimed director Theatertimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377903065856283534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33799024.post-10869151029518854332014-07-22T11:58:00.002-07:002015-10-26T07:26:26.016-07:00Turning the hood aroundYou are being redirected to this post within Theatertimes.org
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Six new plays mark anniversary of verdict in George Zimmerman trial
On the anniversary of the jury verdict that found George Zimmerman not guilty in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, New York's Public Theater and L.A.'s Center Theatre Group presented a Theatertimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377903065856283534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33799024.post-73658988201936448512014-07-13T09:35:00.000-07:002014-07-22T09:47:56.209-07:00Down for the CountDirections to Eugene O'Neill's Monte Cristo home and childhood.
Between June 28 and July 12, some aspiring theater critics gathered in Waterford, Connecticut for the annual National Critics Institute, a ‘boot camp’ for working writers interested in reviewing theater. The two-week program sits in the middle of the O’Neill’s six-week musical and play development festival at the Eugene O’Neill Theatertimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377903065856283534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33799024.post-38078214012601083052014-05-07T14:55:00.001-07:002015-12-21T08:50:26.731-08:00We gathered together . . . You are being redirected to this post within Theatertimes.org
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Over the last weekend in April, many of the American theater's artistic directors, literary managers, and dramaturgs congregated in Costa Mesa, California for South Coast Repertory's 17th Annual Pacific Playwrights Festival.
Seven new plays – three in the midstTheatertimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377903065856283534noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33799024.post-26243961897818796762014-04-11T07:52:00.001-07:002016-02-26T06:24:24.716-08:00On the thresholdsYou are being redirected to this post within Theatertimes.org
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Because commencement, which means beginning, is also the ceremony at the end of college, the word has a curious duality that puts a yin-yang spin on this symbolic threshold between adolescence and adulthood.
Amelia Rose Blaire
In writer-director Steve Albrezzi'sTheatertimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377903065856283534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33799024.post-13320796713729138212014-01-19T16:57:00.000-08:002016-06-04T12:21:36.606-07:00Sisters are doing it for themselvesYou are being redirected to this post within Theatertimes.org
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by Cristofer Gross | Friday, September 9, 1983 was the first day of my first full season as a theater publicist. The 1983-84 Season at Orange County's South Coast Repertory began that evening with the first preview of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus, with RonTheatertimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377903065856283534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33799024.post-91162514503988708132013-12-17T11:05:00.000-08:002013-12-17T11:44:18.164-08:00Progressing with McCoy Tyner
The power surge music provides was on display last Friday in the Segerstrom Center for the Arts' Samueli Theater.
Pianist McCoy Tyner, in for four weekend concerts with his trio (bassist Gerald Cannon and drummer Francisco Mela) and guest saxophonist Joe Lovano, carefully followed his band mates up the bandstand steps. In classic fashion he faced the audience, left hand on piano, and Theatertimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377903065856283534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33799024.post-40007884066555128552013-05-28T06:50:00.003-07:002015-12-10T14:50:42.923-08:00Love at first fightYou are being redirected to this post within Theatertimes.org
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Can Jenn Lyon and Douglas Sills give John Guare and the La Jolla Playhouse
A 'His Girl Friday' to remember? by Cristofer Gross
In 2003, Britain's National Theatre asked playwright John Guare to create a new stage comedy by 'marrying' the 1940 film His Girl Theatertimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377903065856283534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33799024.post-77159828635492216372013-03-14T07:04:00.000-07:002015-12-10T14:53:43.899-08:00No small partsYou are being redirected to this post within Theatertimes.org
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The Brothers Arkin get swallowed by 'whales' • by Cristofer Gross
Larger-than-life characters, from Achilles and Lysistrata to FDR and Harriett Tubman, are literature's meat-and-potatoes. How the everyman reaches greatness, or how the mighty fall, fuels both Theatertimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377903065856283534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33799024.post-64403217951917674682013-01-28T18:50:00.001-08:002013-03-24T02:26:32.806-07:00Birds-Eye ViewTwo veteran flight attendants and boosters of San Diego's Old Globe
Recall the 'high-flying days that inspired the comedy 'Boeing Boeing'
by Cristofer Gross
Wikipedia has a list of 36 occurrences of “Flight Attendants in Pop-Culture.” The first is Marc Camoletti’s Boeing-Boeing.
In the 1960s, when a stewardess appeared in a play or film, it was shorthand for a single, attractive woman with Theatertimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377903065856283534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33799024.post-59171783619659501502012-12-14T21:23:00.000-08:002015-12-10T14:54:47.850-08:00The apple of his eyeYou are being redirected to this post within Theatertimes.org
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The boy, legs dangling, made his wooden restaurant chair seem an impossibly large throne, while beside him, in a rumbling sleep, the very large man made his seat appear small and fragile.
There was a half-empty cup of coffee in front of the slumbering adult, Theatertimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377903065856283534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33799024.post-10511440357661775002012-11-27T11:11:00.000-08:002012-11-27T13:47:17.614-08:00
THE BELLS ARE RINGING
'Tis the single ticket season
The willful suspensions of both our beliefs and our budgeting concerns are what make the holidays a time of wonder – and mystery!
Theaters from Burbank to Balboa Park are doing their part to add magic to the season with special single-ticket productions. Actors and playwrights are telling stories about the transformative powers of love, Theatertimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377903065856283534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33799024.post-1719358055079101922012-08-12T12:31:00.000-07:002012-08-12T12:31:16.669-07:00Don't hand me that line.The following story was submitted to the Write On! January 2011 contest to write a 200-400 word story about excuses writers come up with to put off doing their work. While it was a fun distraction, and earned second place, it nevertheless became a wonderful excuse for putting off more urgent writing demands.I speed-walked around the corner with my briefcase in one hand, my coffee and donut Theatertimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377903065856283534noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33799024.post-62096354689239830292012-08-03T12:23:00.001-07:002016-03-25T08:12:41.105-07:00Universal soldierYou are being redirected to this post within Theatertimes.org
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On the battlefield, with proper training, a soldier can defuse any explosive device. But the stress, frustration, and unfocused anger that same soldier carries home could be so powerful and well hidden that it goes undetected until it detonates without warning.
Theatertimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377903065856283534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33799024.post-826545434071006192010-06-26T09:14:00.000-07:002010-06-26T09:17:34.621-07:00News spill: All that we can do?Though not yet making its way to the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, or the Washington Post . .. a refitted Taiwanese tanker is waiting for approval to test skimming potential of, according to owner Nobu Su, 500,000 barrels of oil a day. The owner believes the tanker, “ten stories tall and three football-fields long,” will ingest the oil-water mixture, put it into its bays, where it will Theatertimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377903065856283534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33799024.post-40348260882412203232009-09-22T09:23:00.000-07:002009-09-22T10:31:01.027-07:00Art, Artists and Outtakes.<!--[endif]--> In Tracy Letts’ ‘August: Osage County,’ the writer has inserted many sly references to things outside the mechanics of the action. Nevertheless, they are a big part of what makes the play exciting to a critic. Unfortunately, doing justice to this invisible dimension would throw the review out of balance and deprive readers of the rewards of their own discovery.Fortunately, Theatertimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377903065856283534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33799024.post-63978193515905051672009-07-13T07:06:00.000-07:002009-07-26T06:14:07.273-07:00Brimming with PrideCrownsby Regina Taylor, directed by Israel HicksPasadena Playhouse • July 10-August 16, 2009 (Opened, rev'd 7/12)Regina Taylor’s 2002 play ‘Crowns,’ a loving tribute to African-American women based on the Michael Cunningham-Craig Marberry book of the same name, is now rattling the Pasadena Playhouse rafters in a spirited staging by Israel Hicks, artistic director of L.A.’s new Ebony Repertory Theatertimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377903065856283534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33799024.post-3393789305537680732009-06-27T14:10:00.000-07:002009-06-28T20:13:54.599-07:00Let’s Play Hardball ‘Farragut North' by Beau Willimon, directed by Doug HughesGeffen Playhouse • June 16–July 26 (Opened 6/24, rev’d 6/25)Among the intrigues in Beau Willimon’s Farragut North, a winning backroom drama about high-stakes political campaigns and the operatives who play them, is whether an upbeat “love of the game” or a weary cynicism will ultimately own the play’s tone.Giving buoyancy to the more Theatertimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377903065856283534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33799024.post-17162474422951147682009-06-07T10:43:00.000-07:002009-06-23T09:23:27.147-07:00'Touch the Water' (Cornerstone Theater Company)For the fourth play in its four-year, six-production cycle of original work exploring how laws impact contemporary American life, Cornerstone Theater Company is premiering Julie Hébert’s Touch the Water, a river play (through June 21). After plays on immigration, reproductive rights and penal retribution, the “Justice Cycle” turns to law and the environment.Touch the Water delivers its Theatertimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377903065856283534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33799024.post-14620799495706002542009-06-06T07:17:00.000-07:002009-06-07T10:43:52.918-07:00Hunger Signs?The kind of serial coincidences that are recalled in this column's head may not connect or be meaningful, but the experience of stumbling upon them is always fun. So, in that spirit, her's the most recent.This week, within a 24-hour period, a synchronistic triptych occurred. On Thursday morning, I was watching a Layers Magazine video podcast about the Adobe website design product, Dreamweaver.Theatertimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377903065856283534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33799024.post-90886643633378424582009-05-17T12:07:00.000-07:002009-05-22T06:05:35.532-07:00Anybody listening?The old stumper about whether or not a tree makes noise when it falls unheard by people gained new applications for me while watching Robert Redford’s ‘Lions for Lambs.’ Commercially, this Socratic-method look at personal responsibility in the era of Bush’s War on Terror, had fallen on deaf ears. Despite above-the-title stars Meryl Streep, Tom Cruise and Redford (acting and directing) – Theatertimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377903065856283534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33799024.post-74922457339738299492009-04-15T11:37:00.000-07:002012-08-04T06:59:41.924-07:00Entertaining Notions on the BordersMy preparation for a March interview with playwright Theresa Rebeck came the morning after a dramatic prime time news show about Narco violence. Something about the CNN Special Report, which covered the murder of a Texas lawman by Mexican drug traffickers, resonated as I learned of Rebeck’s ‘Our House,' opening at Playwrights Horizons on June 9.The subject at hand was ‘Mauritius,’ her most Theatertimeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12377903065856283534noreply@blogger.com0