Theater and Drama

"Diana Agrest believes architecture is so much more than a marriage of form and function. For more than four decades, she's been trying to get her students to believe that too."

"Gene Wilder sat down with Robert Osborne at 92Y on June 12 for a rare public appearance. He spoke about his disdain for the Willy Wonka remake, working with Richard Pryor and Mel Brooks, Gilda Radner, Young Frankenstein, and more. "

"One of Shakespeare's best-loved comedies, Twelfth Night was 'blissfully reborn' (Telegraph) for the 2012/13 season at London's Globe Theatre, under the direction of Tim Carroll. The hilarious tale of misdirection and deception is performed here by an all-male cast, among whom we find Mark Rylance as Olivia and Roger Lloyd-Pack as Sir Anthony Aguecheek. The production also marks Stephen Fry's triumphant return to the stage as the pompous Malvolio, ridiculous in his yellow stockings."

"During the tour, a blood-making demonstration was given, and the Public has now offered us their special recipe. Save it for Halloween... or your own at-home Lear reenactments. "

"Below is American Theatre magazine's Top 10 Most-Produced Play list, as printed in AT's annual Season Preview issue in October, from 1994 to 2014. These numbers are as reported to TCG at press time by its member theatres nationwide."

" I have a special love for both Into the Woods and hilariously terrifying costumes

"Then there is the flip side, the shitheads who seem to ruin every production they're involved with or ruin theatre all together for others. I can't stand these people and try to avoid working with them as much as possible. So here is a list of the worst people in theatre that I've either worked with or encountered in some fashion. Some of these might sound familiar."

"Ms. Ireland said that she came to feel that instead of doing something about Mr. Shepherd, a company veteran, the Wooster Group was putting the onus on her to stay or quit the play. She remained through the end of the show's run in Britain, a decision that still gnaws at her."

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"'Relaxed' performances, aimed at people with disabilities and their carers, are few and far between - but they have benefits for all of us. The whole point of theatre is that disruption should be possible"

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From 1945 onwards, J Edgar Hoover's FBI spied on Camus and Sartre. The investigation soon turned into a philosophical inquiry.

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" But why does mere revision make so many Shakespeare fans so uncomfortable? Some people don't like any alterations to Shakespeare's text nor even presenting them in anything other than their historical settings. To me, such an ultrapurist approach can lead to what I somewhat derisively call "museum piece Shakespeare"-though, I must say, I do enjoy visiting and spending hours in museums, and among my favorite stagings of Shakespeare are text-centric, historically costumed productions. But even these are cut for length. Furthermore, to varying degrees, each could be called an "adaptation" because any time an actor picks up a Shakespearean role, he or she is adapting it for that production, and sometimes adapting it from performance to performance, depending on the theater and audience."

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"But not all kinds of audience analysis are evil. It's an important but often-overlooked practice for any organization. When I ask an NGO "who are you trying to engage with?", the answer is often simply "everybody" or "you know, the people on our list". There’s an inclination to think “everybody will obviously be interested in our cause!” In reality, the more you refine who you want to talk to, the easier it is to reach them. Consider these two sample audiences:"

"René Magritte must have had mornings like that. Think of the painting he made in 1935. The painting is called "La Clef des songes" (The Interpretation of Dreams). It is a painting of a board with four panels. The board is like an old school primer, used to teach children the names of things. There is a horse, a clock, a pitcher, and a valise. Under the objects are words. The horse is labeled "the door." The clock is labeled "the wind." The pitcher is labeled "the bird." And the valise is labeled "the valise." Why are three objects mislabeled, while one object is correctly labeled? Maybe it is like our confused morning at the market. We felt odd not because the fruits were labeled incorrectly, but because the relationship of signs suddenly struck us as utterly arbitrary even when everything had been labeled correctly. Likewise, when we see the three incorrectly labeled objects in "La Clef des songes," we begin to distrust even the correct labeling of the valise. What does the word "valise" have to do with the picture of the valise, and what does the picture really have to do with the actual thing? When we represent reality in words or pictures, do we come closer to that reality, or push it further away?"

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