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Aug 23, 2007
Lyle the Future King of the Great Expanding Universe
Aug 22, 2007
from Patrick
of his play "about well meaning white people."
http://writinglife3.blogspot.com/2007/08/white-guy-writing-about-race-part-i.html
SCR
Aug 21, 2007
coming nov 5
at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
http://www.nypl.org/research/calendar/prog/lpa/pseries.cfm?id=263
Aug 20, 2007
a review
from James
Aug 19, 2007
else it will surreptitiously appear in my bio and I will never speak
of it.
SGSP in the fringe is going very well, or at least the first show was
great and I can only assume it will be as good or better so I'm happy
about that. no reviews yet as far as i know. come soon. I promise
if you like to laugh you will have a good time and it's less than an
hour so you can go home early.
Aug 17, 2007
Aug 16, 2007
Starting Sat
Susan Gets Some Play
written by Adam Szymkowicz
directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel
starring: Jorge Cordova, Matthew DeCapua, Danny Deferrai, Kevin R. Free, Scott Ebersold,
Susan Louise O'Connor & Travis York
stage management: Hannah Kass
sound design: Walter Trarbach
composer: Kyle Jarrow
choreography: Katie Workum
Susan and her best friend Jay hold auditions for an imaginary production in hopes of finding Mr. Right...Or at least a date...Or even a freakin kiss. Who will she pick? The Celebrity, The Nice Guy, YOU?
New School for Drama Theater
151 Bank Street, 3rd floor (between West and Washington)
Sat. 8/18 @ Noon
Sun. 8/19 @ 9:15pm
Thurs. 8/23 @ 4:45pm
Fri. 8/24 @ 9pm
Sun. 8/26 @ 1:45pm
Tickets are $15 and available at www.fringenyc.org or 212-279-4488
http://www.fringenyc.org/basic_page.asp?ltr=s
http://www.myspace.com/susangetssomeplay
Pre Press:
NY Sun: http://www.nysun.com/article/59913
"Some people just don't learn -- even after they
succeed in snazzier venues, they keep coming back to
the Fringe. . . . So too returns perennial favorite
Susan Louise O'Connor, laying bare her bad dates in
"Susan Gets Some Play" by oddball Adam Szymkowicz,
whose "Nerve" garnered early hipster buzz."
NY Daily News:
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/culture/2007/08/05/2007-08-05_filling_the_stage.html
http://www.fringenyc.org/basic_page.asp?ltr=s
http://www.myspace.com/susangetssomeplay
Aug 15, 2007
wow Cheney in 1994--take a listen
Jay Leno : It was this week in 1974 that Richard Nixon resigned the presidency after getting caught lying and violating the constitution. Remember when that kind of thing used to get you kicked out of office!
Aug 14, 2007
from Allison
"This process is why I don't believe that any critique - and certainly
none of mine - can ever be the last word on any work of art. It would
be the height of solipsism - and even I am not that solipsistic - to
think that I, alone of 50 or 200 or 800 other people in an auditorium,
can have the only authentic experience in the theatre. It would also
be rather dull. Any response is, rather, the beginning of another
conversation. And it's all these conversations, shimmering skeins of
them, over dinner tables, in newspapers and journals and blogs and
pubs and cafes, that make what I understand to be a living culture.
And I am very proud to be one talkative thread in the whole noisy
tapestry"
I think this sort of open ended conversation on theater is missing in
American reviewing. And I think some of the blogs here are trying to
create something like this and i applaud them. Am I wrong or does it
feel like most reviewers here are trying to be the last word on the
art they are discussing?
previous plays. Don't ask me why. It's amazing how many voices in
our day to day writing life say "no" and "bad" and amazing how many
people want your play to be something other than what it is. If you
listened to these people and let them in and believe everything they
say, you would implode.
Sometimes you just have to be like, fuck you. this is my play. this
is the way i want to write it. Your idea will not help it. I do not
need to know you don't like it. i do not need to know what you need a
play to be.
You can't create anything new if you are worried about pleasing people.
At the same time, there are smart people sometime who know what they
are talking about and can help you and when they speak they are maybe
not saying what you want to hear about your play, but you know they
are right and you know you should work towards the things they are
saying.
Survival in this field is all about navigating these voices. I got a
show coming up and maybe I should go back to not reading reviews
again. I know what this play is. I know its strengths and weaknesses
and I will learn everythign I need to know by sitting in the audience
and feeling their energy. Do I need to read what someone thinks of
the show? Not really. Who said that if you believe the good reviews,
you have to believe the bad reviews? I'm not sure how you can do that
when they contradict but again, i'm taking everything too literally.
if you get a chance
it's pretty great.
Aug 13, 2007
Rudy Guiliani, Urban Legend
h/t jason
http://jasongrote.blogspot.com/
The problem that NY Firefighters have with Guiliani's leadership and
his platform which rests on the ashes of September 11.
"Paid for and authorized by the International Association of
Firefighters Interested in Registration and Education Political Action
Committee (www.iaff.org)
and not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee."