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Archive for the ‘Directing’ Category

June 3rd, 2008

Paul Sills, R.I.P.

On my shelf sits a book, a black book with a picture of a curly-haired smiling lady on the back. It’s called “Improvisation for the Theater” and is written by drama pioneer Viola Spolin.
Her son, Paul Sills, died of pneumonia today at age 80, having continued his mother’s work and shaped theatre as we know […]

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May 21st, 2008

Good news all over: Stew, Katie Holmes, and Mamma Mia!

It’s a banner day on Broadway, especially for some of the stories I’ve been tracking on this blog.
Stew Gets an Obie for Passing Strange
I wrote recently how musician and auteur Stew had garnered no fewer than seven Tony nominations - but there’s more out there than Tony. The Village Voice also gives out its own […]

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March 18th, 2008

Indian Sex Workers on Stage

No, this is not some weird new musical, this is exactly what I’m saying it is: sex workers in western Maharashtra, India, have spent over a month taking acting lessons and then putting together a play about their lives.
Entitled  My Mother, the Gharwali, Her Maalak, His Wife, the play has the avowed message that “We […]

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April 19th, 2007

Interview with my Dream Job: Dance Director at Cirque du Soleil:

Dancehunter (huh, just mistyped that Dancehunger, Freudian slip perhaps?) got a fantastic interview with Alison Crawford, the Artistic Director for Cirque’s Corteo. The whole interview is well worth reading, but I especially like this bit, about how Cirque’s philosophy of performance and technology work together:

"Corteo is one of the most technical touring shows that we […]

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