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Stage Notes: The Little One
Can we have too many vampires? Nosedive Productions doesn't think so. The Little One is their 10th anniversary production, written by James Comtois (give it a French pronunciation, like "calm-twa") and directed by Pete Boisvert,…
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Stage Notes: Little Doc
Brooklyn native Dan Klores is a well-respected documentary filmmaker. He's made six films in the last eight years and four of them have previewed at Sundance. Two of them won major awards: Crazy Love (2008…
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Stage Notes: Hamish Linklater Talks Shakespeare in the Park
It's outdoors, it's free, it's a grand New York tradition. Every summer the Public Theater presents a pair of the bard's plays under the stars. The difference this year is that they will be in…
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Kenneth Anger, Sonic Youth and Grouchy Schnabel at Anthology Film Archives Benefit
Jonas Mekas, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Cynthia Rowley, Bill Powers and co-organizers Benn Northover and Lola Schnabel were among attendees at Anthology Film Archives' benefit Return to the Pleasure Dome last night honoring the work of…
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Stage Notes: Vaginal Davis Is Speaking From the Diaphragm
Vaginal Davis is an outrageous, outspoken, international underground star. She is a performance artist, writer, film curator and cultural raconteur. Born in L.A., presently living in Berlin, she is here to do a show at…
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Stage Notes: The Kid
The Kid is a new musical based on the book by the popular sex advice columnist, Dan Savage, entitled The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend And I Decided To Go Get Pregnant. Produced by…
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Stage Notes: Bass for Picasso
Kate Moira Ryan is a fine playwright with a good sense of humor. Her stage version of the Beebo Brinker Chronicles was a pure delight, and she is a two-time GLAAD Media Award winner. Breaking…
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Fashionably Conscious: Bright Lights, Big Heart
The fashion set flocked to Milk Studios Friday night for the second annual Art of Elysium fundraiser. The event, underwritten by Versus and hosted by a bevy of New York's bright, young and socially conscious PYTs -- including Allegra Beck, Chloe…
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Stage Notes: A Thousand Thousand Slimy Things: An Aquatic Spectacular of Conservation and Change
Producer Polybe + Seats brings us a timely, site-specific piece at the Showboat Barge in Red Hook, which opened the day after Earth Day. Set in the Weeki Wachee Springs Park in Florida, a famous…
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Stage Notes: Post Modern Living
Playwright/performer Richard Sheinmel appeared for 10 years as an actor in the legendary Jeff Weiss/Ricardo Martinez serial, Hot Keys. He's also worked with Penny Arcade, Reza Abdoh, the Ridge Theater Company and the Ridiculous Theatrical…
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Stage Notes: ENRON
29-year old playwright Lucy Prebble has already taken London by storm, winning multiple awards for her play about the Dallas, Texas energy company that imploded into a 2001 financial scandal. Now it's coming to Broadway,…
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Stage Notes: The Aliens
Playwright Annie Baker wrote the surprising off-off-Broadway big hit of fall 2009, Circle Mirror Transformation, about a group of acting students and the theater games they played. This is her next-produced play, a three-hander, directed…
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Stage Notes: Enjoy
ENJOY is a new play by Toshiki Okada, a popular contemporary Japanese playwright/novelist. It's being staged by a smart, innovative, chance-taking director, Dan Rothenberg, an Obie Award winner for his fine work with Pig…
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Stage Notes: April 2010
FENCESThis is the first of August Wilson's 10-play cycle, The Pittsburgh Cycle, which focused on the 20th Century African American experience. It won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize and four Tony Awards. The action takes place…
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Stage Notes: Looking for Billy Haines
Looking for Billy Haines is a new romantic comedy written by New York Times best-selling author Suzanne Brockman and Edgar Award finalist Will Mcabe. Brockman, who also directs, has written over 50 novels, including the…
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Stage Notes: The Cocktail Party
This is a revival of the most successful play written by T.S. Eliot, the brilliant poet, playwright and literary critic. First done on Broadway 60 years ago, it ran for 400 performances and won the…
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Stage Notes - The Diary of a Teenage Girl: The Play
The Diary of a Teenage Girl is a play by Marielle Heller (pictured above), adapted from the graphic novel by Phoebe Gloeckner, co-directed by Rachel Eckerling and Sarah Cameron Sunde. Playwright Heller is also an…
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Stage Notes: Hangman School for Girls
Lucy Gillespie is a 24-year old writer/performer who was born in Chicago, to an American mom and an English dad. She moved to London when she was five, and then returned at 18 to go…
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Stage Notes: Clybourne Park
Playwright Bruce Norris has had five previous plays premiered at Chicago's legendary Steppenwolf Theater. His latest, Clybourne Park, directed by the excellent Pam MacKinnon, was loosely inspired by Lorraine Hansberry's American classic, A Raisin in…
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Stage Notes: Dog and Wolf
Dog and Wolf is a new play by Catherine Filloux, and the fifth collaboration with her director, Jean Randich. Filloux is a person who has been concerned with human rights and social justice for the…
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