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All These Tiny Moments Make a Romance
Playwright Tanya Barfield may live her life from Event A to Event B to Event C, but she says dream logic ruled when she was conjuring up a 45-year romance for Bright Half Life, her two-character play now being presented by The Women’s Project Theater at City Center Stage II. “The play was always nonlinear,” […]
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50 Years of Life in 90 Minutes
When time and music work differently on stage, pay attention. That may be the key to understanding an entire show. At least, that’s how it feels with Long Story Short, a musical that condenses 50 years of a couple’s relationship into 90 minutes. In the opening scene, a young woman named Hope is on a […]
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Can a Nice Guy Finish First (or At Least Third)?
By MARK BLANKENSHIP The first time he read Fashions For Men Davis McCallum wasn’t quite sure what to make of it. “It’s unlike any other play I’ve done, and I’ve been doing plays for 20 years,” he says. “That’s part of why I wanted to direct it.” Written by Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnár in 1917, the […]
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Can We Put a Perfect World On Stage?
What is it about the idea of a perfect community that’s so alluring? And is the attempt to make art all that different from the quest to create a utopia? Members of the theatre ensemble Piehole found themselves wrestling with these questions as they developed Old Paper Houses, directed by Tara Ahmadinejad and running through […]
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How Did His Life Become a Musical?
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A Brief History of Sex
By DIEP TRAN Playwright Chiara Atik does not like watching sex. On stage at least. “I always get uncomfortable and immediately start thinking, ‘Oh I wonder if the actor’s mom is here,’” she says. “It takes me out of the moment.” Knowing that, it’s ironic that her play Five Times in One Night is entirely about the beast […]
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Real Feelings in a Virtual World
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WATCH: Meet Lesser America
Welcome to Meet the Theatre, our film series about interesting theatre companies in New York City! Today we’re featuring Lesser America , which celebrates the USA’s cultural underbelly. This video features Lesser America’s co-founders — Laura Ramadei, Nate Miller, and Daniel Abeles.
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If You’re Only 40, How Do You Play an 80 Year Old?
Actors are often told to make a character “their own.” But what exactly does that mean? And how do actors put themselves into a role when they’re playing someone who’s almost twice their age? For the 40-year-old performer Elizabeth Dement, who stars as an 80-year-old retiree in Christina Masciotti’s Social Security, at the Bushwick Starr […]