MARK BLANKENSHIP

We’ve got three great new videos in our Theatre Dictionary !

Meet New York Shakespeare Exchange, which changes all your expectations for the Bard. This video features company members Ross Williams, Cristina Lundy, Brendan Averitt, Carey Van Driest, and Vince Gatton.

Lonesome Traveler celebrates a great American genre — “Tom Dooley” encapsulates the spirit of Lonesome Traveler. When the actors portraying the Kingston Trio perform that classic song, everything from their harmonies to their crisp button downs recall the folk music era of the 50s and 60s. But at the same time, we still see these […]

By MARK BLANKENSHIP Welcome to Building Character, our ongoing look at performers and how they create their roles No wonder it took Tracee Chimo a few performances to discover how Molly speaks. She already had her hands full with April, Betsy, and Fran. Chimo portrays all four women in the Broadway revival of The Heidi […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

Welcome toGeek Out/Freak Out, where theatre fans get super enthusiastic about things. This week, Mark Blankenship geeks out (via Google Doc), with Jennifer Ashley Tepper, who is both a musical theatre historian and a producer. Jennifer’s new book, The Untold Stories of Broadway: Volume 2, is an oral history of eight Broadway theatres, as told […]

By MARK BLANKENSHIP It’s no accident that The Groundling takes place in a guy’s garage. Marc Palmieri’s new comedy, now at Axis Theatre, follows Bob Malone, a landscaper who’s so moved by an outdoor performance of Love’s Labour’s Lost that he decides to write his own play about his marriage. He mostly casts his friends and […]