fragments inspired by stage and screen
research for productions, reports on productions, reviews of written work, distinct from critical reviews on productions.
The Legacy Project: Pioneering Women Producers Presented by the League of Professional Theatre Women & CUNY Grad Center Monday, May 14, 2012 Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, The CUNY Graduate […]
Daisey, Jobs, Translations and Truth Ruminations inspired by the final Public Theater performance of The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs Sunday, March 18, 2012 at 2pm Public Theater, […]
Dramatists Guild Academy presents: Solo Actor / Writer Roundtable Moderated by Gary Garrison Monday, January 2, 2012 at 5:30pm Playwrights Horizons, 416 West 42nd Street “Theatre is a vocation. It […]
This is my first full calendar year as a resident of New York City and as a member of the Independent Theater Bloggers Association. I continue to blather on about […]
Cecil Beaton: The New York Years Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue October 25, 2011 — February 20, 2012 exhibit site “I only photograph those I […]
New Avenues for New Play Development: Arena Stage’s Polly Carl + David Dower On the American Voices New Play Institute Monday, December 5, 2011 at 6:30pm Martin E. Segal Theatre […]
TCG Playwrights in Conversation New Voices in the American Theatre Monday, October 24, at 7pm Jerome L. Greene Performance Space, 44 Charlton Street event web site The program proceeds as […]
LMDA NYC visits with Suzy Fay Associate Program Director Lark Play Development Center Monday, September 12, 2011 at 1pm The Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA) New York City chapter continues to meet regularly with area theatre makers. This day we convene in a conference room at the Lark Play Development Center‘s spiffy new (industrial, spare, functional, lovely) quarters on […]
LMDA NYC visits with Ken Cerniglia Disney Theatrical Productions Dramaturg and Literary Manager Friday, March 25, at 1pm The Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA) New York City chapter continues […]
LMDA NYC visits with Anne Cattaneo Lincoln Center Theater Dramaturg Monday, February 7, at 3pm The Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA) offers member dramaturgs and theatre writers […]
(L to R) Linus Roache, Annie Parisse, Sam Waterston, Gina Gionfriddo. Image: Martha Steketee. Vineyard Voices Fall 2010 Series: Law & Order And The Stage Sunday, October 24, 2010 at 6:30pm […]
[This is a repository of items accumulated over a several year period. With a bit of edge to my collection — I claim no dispassion. Husband says: “you have to […]
One storyteller on stage, evoking a time, a story, a history – perhaps a call off stage, or a silent second character serves to prompt further story telling. Yes, the […]
[reposted from the Rivendell Theatre Ensemble’s production blog for These Shining Lives, 23 December 2008 http://rtegreenroom.blogspot.com/2008/12/pondering-this-play-by-martha-wade.html%5D “I never dreamed I’d have a now of my own that looked this good.” […]
[Repost of a blog entry I posted on the Association for Women Journalists web site at the end of the initial year (2007-2008) of the Young Critics Circle project (also called the Cindy Bandle Young Critics program) co-administered by AWJ and the Education Department of the Goodman Theatre to train high school age women in the art and wonders of […]
[originally published Aisle Say Chicago August 6, 2006] Spare Change by Mia McCullough Directed by Lisa Portes First Look Repertory of New Work Steppenwolf Garage Theatre 1624 North Halsted / (312) 335-1650 / http://www.steppenwolf.org Through August 13, 2006 In the third of the three First Look new plays viewed in a marathon weekend, “Spare Change” features Brad (Paul Noble) and […]
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