Adam Szymkowicz

May 15, 2008

How Theatre Failed America Roundtables

These look exciting:

http://www.mikedaisey.com/2008/05/as-part-of-reopening-of-how-theater.sht

DOWNTOWN, MIDTOWN, EVERYTOWN
Sun May 18th:
Robert Brustein (founder of Yale Repertory Theatre and American
Repertory Theatre)
Jonathan West (Milwaukee-based actor and blogger)
Emily Ackerman (actor and ensemble member of The Civilians)
Leonard Jacobs (national editor for Back Stage)
Sheila Callaghan (playwright, Dead City)

DO-IT-YOURSELF OR BUST
Sat May 24th:
Greg Kotis (playwright, Urinetown)
Jason Eagan (Artistic Director, Ars Nova)
Erez Ziv (Managing Director, Horse Trade Theater)
John Clancy (founder of the New York International Fringe Festival)
Scott Shepherd (The Wooster Group)
Lisa Kron (actor, solo performer and playwright, Well)

YOU ARE WHAT YOU WATCH
Sun June 1st:
Jim Nicola (Artistic Director for New York Theatre Workshop)
Mark Russell (founder of PS122 and the Under The Radar Festival)
Steve Bodow (head writer of the Daily Show and Elevator Repair Service member)
Morgan Jenness (literary agent, former literary manager of the Public Theater)
David Cote (theatre editor for Time Out New York)
Isaac Butler (Freelance director and theatre blogger)

FOR PROFIT, NON-PROFIT, NO PROFIT
Sun June 8th:
James Bundy (dean, Yale School of Drama; Artistic Director, Yale
Repertory Theatre)
Dan Fields (Disney Imagineer and freelance director)
Stephanie Weisman (founder and director of The Marsh in San Francisco)
Dave Greenham (executive director, The Theatre at Monmouth)
Tommy Thompson (veteran Broadway production stage manager)
Diane Ragsdale (Mellon Foundation)

ASSEMBLING ENSEMBLES
Sun June 15th:
John Collins (Artistic Director of Elevator Repair Service, The Sound
and the Fury)
Tanya Selvararnam (collaborator with Jay Scheib and The Builder's Association)
Colleen Werthmann (actor and Elevator Repair Service ensemble member)
Heidi Schreck (collaborator with 2-Headed Calf, Seattle's Printer's Devil)
Scott Walters (former Artistic Director of Illinois Shakespeare
Festival and blogger)
Hal Brooks (freelance director, Thom Paine and No Child…)

THEATER IN 2033
Sun June 22nd:
Rocco Landesman (Tony-award winning producer, Angels in America, The Producers)
Gregory Mosher (Tony-award winning director, former head of Lincoln Center)
Oskar Eustis (Artistic Director of the Public Theater)
Richard Nelson (playwright, Conversations in Tusculum)
Paige Evans (director, Lincoln Center's new LCT3 program)
Garrett Eisler (Village Voice theater critic and blogger)

It's not much, but

Anyone want my job?

jobs.columbia.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=110795

May 13, 2008

what is causing my rash that i've had since November

Check out this handy chart

update on Handey flag

someone creates it here:

http://zehnkatzen.blogspot.com/2008/05/tehfunnay-jack-handeys-flag.html

RRT Best of Show this weekend

http://parabasis.typepad.com/blog/2008/05/rapid-responses.html

BEST OF SHOW
Friday at 7PM
Bowery Poetry Club (Bowery and 1st)
$10 at the door.

Innocent beware--DNA collections

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/05/feds-to-collect.html

h/t daisey

http://www.mikedaisey.com/

symbols

Jack Handey's flag

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2008/05/19/080519sh_shouts_handey

So K's mother got us these forks and knives and things because we're getting married and in our new married life, we will have beautiful utensils. We just started using them and let me tell you I feel more like an adult than ever before. We are fancy now. We have class. We have shiny silverware. People could come over and have multi course dinners and eat with this silverware. Of course they would still have to drink out of a Porky Pig glass but that's another story.

May 12, 2008

Miss any of the Rapid Response Shows?

They're all right here:

http://rapidresponseteam.org/archives.html

Listen to them now

or later.

Collect them all.

Trade them with friends.

Random 10 for Monday

Kahlua Killers--Join the League Egg--Not for Duncan Sicily--Open Ham Sandwich on Rye Josh Hill--Don't Rain (On My Saturday) Formica Dogs--My Kitchen (And Your Bathroom) String for Pepe--Ball of Wax Sally's Underwater Goggles--Foam Sad Fingers--Long Dark Hallway Chimney Vibrations--Runk Fell Over--Druids

I'm going to see this

Are you?

http://www.theatermania.com/content/show.cfm/show/142889

May 9, 2008

Why is it

so much fun to read about Hal Brooks in rehearsal?

http://halbrooks.blogspot.com/2008/05/pooped.html

May 8, 2008

what's going on with me

I'm allergic to dust mites apparently.

Had a couple TV meetings yesterday.

I'm still overworked and poor.

May 6, 2008

war on greed

http://warongreed.org/?utm_source=rgemail

Clinton behind calls to discourage black voters?

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2008/04/clinton_nixon_nixon_clinton.cfm

h/t daisey

http://www.mikedaisey.com/

Random 10 for Tuesday

Cough Syrup Collage--Rainbow City Netflix Surprise--Bear Trap Mitzy in the Shower--I've Been Lost Cotton Candy Full of Worms--Sold Ruination--All in the Wrist Sad Fingers--Clowns Undercover Misplaced Hammer--Untitled #337 Runk--Baby Cakes Evisceration--Dust in the Attic Dancing Pants--Dancing Pants

May 5, 2008

Joshua Kors article

Have you seen this? "Town is not alone. A six-month investigation has uncovered multiple cases in which soldiers wounded in Iraq are suspiciously diagnosed as having a personality disorder, then prevented from collecting benefits. The conditions of their discharge have infuriated many in the military community, including the injured soldiers and their families, veterans' rights groups, even military officials required to process these dismissals." "They say the military is purposely misdiagnosing soldiers like Town and that it's doing so for one reason: to cheat them out of a lifetime of disability and medical benefits, thereby saving billions in expenses."

what happened to congestion pricing

http://noimpactman.typepad.com/blog/2008/04/weve-changed-yo.html

Great Post by Grote

I saw him last night

http://jasongrote.blogspot.com/2008/05/what-will-probably-be-my-last-post-on.html

the Bush McCain challenge

http://www.bush-mccainchallenge.com/index.html?id=

How Theater . . .

I saw Daisey's How Theater Failed America last night. It's pretty great. I had seen it at under the radar originally and Daisey and Gregory sharpened it a bunch, trimmed the fat, added some arguments. It's playing at Joe's Pub for another week and then extending for a 6 week run at the barrow street theater. Get your tickets now. They are also setting up a weekly discussion after the show with panelists from all segments of theater. ADs and Stage managers and Actors, etc. Should be pretty great. I wish them luck.