MARK BLANKENSHIP

Geek Out/Freak Out, where theatre fans get super enthusiastic about things. This week, Stages editor Mark Blankenship geeks out (via Gchat) with Sarah D. Bunting, East Coast Editor at Previously.TV . Today’s Topic: Why do we want to see certain shows more than once? — Mark Blankenship: So Sarah… a few days ago, you made […]

This film features playwrights Michael Mitnick, Clare Barron, Cori Thomas, and Max Posner, as well as company leaders Liz Jones and Asher Richelli.

But Atomic —a new rock musical by Danny Ginges, Gregory Bonsignore, and Philip Foxman that began performances yesterday at Theatre Row—wants to revive those frantic feelings. With a cracked sense of reality that includes gyrating lab technicians, rocking government officials, and even Robert Oppenheimer belting a vampy number to the commission putting him on trial, the show drops the creators

Now at Atlantic Stage 2, Romagnoli’s staging of Howard Barker’s play seethes with sexuality and menace. Cribbing wildly from Shakespeare’s classic tragedy, the script begins with Gertrude convincing Claudius to poison her husband (Hamlet’s father), and from there it follows her sexual and intellectual rampage through her kingdom. Will she continue sleeping with Claudius even after she beds Albert,

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Considering all the gunfights and sex and dirty jokes in their show, you wouldn’t think anyone in Clown Bar would base their performance on It’s a Wonderful Life . But that’s one reason this raucous play has become such a downtown hit. It never met a vintage reference it couldn’t use.

This video was directed by Mark Blankenship and shot and edited by Nicholas Guldner.

Welcome to Geek Out/Freak Out , where theatre fans get super enthusiastic about things.

Welcome to Geek Out/Freak Out , where theatre fans get super enthusiastic about things.