Interview: PRT Artistic Director Marilyn Fox on Directing ALBEE/PINTER
Tony Award winning playwrights Edward Albee and Harold Pinter, who have left indelible marks in world theatre, both give voice to the outlandish and amusing behavior of humans in many of their dark comedies. Pacific Resident Theatre is offering a retrospective of two of their early one acts in tandem, both first produced in 1960. Albee's Fam and Yam, set in an upper Eastside penthouse, examines an encounter between two unnamed playwrights, one famous, one not, offering Albee's biting wit and incisive satire at its best. In Pinter's The Dumb Waiter, two working-class hitmen wait in a basement for their next assignment. I decided to speak with Pacific Resident Theatre's Artistic Director, Marilyn Fox, about the production.
50th Anniversary Concert Production of Al Carmines' CHRISTMAS RAPPINGS is Coming to Judson Memorial Church
Christmas Rappings is back in a very special 50th Anniversary concert production of this beloved Greenwich Village tradition-a Christmas oratorio unlike any other. When Al Carmines introduced audiences to Rappings on December 14, 1969, they had come to expect the surprising range and inventiveness of this multiple Obie-award winner, but perhaps not an evening that faithfully tells the Christmas story through such a high-spirited, often funny, collision of musical genres, from country to classical to blues to gospel, and even with a rousing tango.
Sir Kenneth Branagh Announced as Olivier Awards' Special Award Winner
Acclaimed actor and director Kenneth Branagh will be presented with the Special Award at the Olivier Awards 2017 with Mastercard ceremony on Sunday 9 April at London's Royal Albert Hall. The award will be presented in recognition of his outstanding contribution to British theatre.
PJ Bloom, Carolyn Miller, & Ben Akers Set as Keynote Speakers for Emergence Creative Festival
Emergence Creative Festival, Western Australia's premier creative festival, has announced that top Hollywood Musical Supervisor PJ Bloom (Glee, Game of Thrones, Nip/Tuck, American Horror Story), communications expert Carolyn Miller from ABC's Gruen Planet, award-winning Creative Director Ben Akers from The Republic of Everyone and Jonathon Kneebone, writer/director from The Glue Society will be amongst the headline keynote speakers at the second annual Festival in Margaret River from 19 to 21 February 2014.
FACT Puts New Twist on HANSEL & GRETEL, Beg. Today
FACT (Friends Always Creating Theatre) in their 5th New York season are presenting a new twist to an old fairy tale by updating the famous brother & sister, Hansel & Gretel and putting the action of this world-famous story in the heart of Manhattan.
FACT to Put New Twist on HANSEL & GRETEL, Beg. 11/2
FACT (Friends Always Creating Theatre) in their 5th New York season are presenting a new twist to an old fairy tale by updating the famous brother & sister, Hansel & Gretel and putting the action of this world-famous story in the heart of Manhattan.