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Why Is This Couple Dressing Up and Sword Fighting?

By CAROLINE CAO

Friday, October 11, 2019 • Directing • 0 comments Share This

Fri Oct 11, 2019 • Directing • 0 comments Share This

A new romantic comedy puts live-action role-playing center stage --- There are adults who meet for poker; some play chess; others host book clubs. But the protagonists of Liba Vaynberg's new romantic comedy Round Table at 59E59 Theaters indulge in LARPing. That's an acronym for live-action role-playing, with participants masquerading as knights, fairies,...

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How Grief Helped Bring the Daughters of Two Theatre Luminaries Together

By CAREY PURCELL

Wednesday, October 02, 2019 • Directing • 0 comments Share This

Wed Oct 2, 2019 • Directing • 0 comments Share This

Playwright Lily Houghton and director Kylie M. Brown discuss their world-premiere collaboration --- Artists often channel their grief into their work, and that's just what playwright Lily Houghton and director Kylie M. Brown have done with of the woman came the beginning of sin and through her we all die, currently running Off-Broadway. Throughout...

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The Challenges of Staging 'The Height of the Storm'

By NICOLE SERRATORE

Monday, September 23, 2019 • Directing • 1 comment Share This

Mon Sep 23, 2019 • Directing • 1 comment Share This

Jonathan Kent on directing Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins in a slippery new drama about memory --- Jonathan Kent started out as a painter and actor, but everything clicked into place for him once he took up directing in his forties. Now, after nearly 30 years in this vocation, the Tony-nominated Brit is back in New York helming The Height of the...

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Making 'Midsummer' Even More Scrumptious

By RAVEN SNOOK

Thursday, August 01, 2019 • Directing • 0 comments Share This

Thu Aug 1, 2019 • Directing • 0 comments Share This

How Third Rail Projects is reinventing dinner theatre while continuing to expand its horizons --- Fans of Third Rail Project's immersive works may be surprised to find chairs at the company's latest show, Midsummer: A Banquet. The troupe is known for taking audiences on literal journeys through custom-designed environments at productions such as Then...

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How Do You Build a Compelling Repertory Season?

By MICHAEL PALLER

Thursday, July 11, 2019 • Directing • 0 comments Share This

Thu Jul 11, 2019 • Directing • 0 comments Share This

Two veteran theatre companies bring plays by Shakespeare, Stoppard, Václav Havel and more to NYC this summer --- Producing just one show is tough. Rotating multiple shows at once with overlapping cast and crew? That may sound like lunacy, but it's the nature of repertory theatre. While this model is popular at regional theatres, it's not as...

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How a Planned Rom-Com Transformed Into a Serious Exploration of Captivity

By CAREY PURCELL

Tuesday, July 09, 2019 • Directing • 0 comments Share This

Tue Jul 9, 2019 • Directing • 0 comments Share This

Winter Miller on the unexpected trajectory of her world-premiere play No One Is Forgotten --- For years Winter Miller has been telling her playwriting students to "follow your yes," encouraging them to trust their instincts. For her new drama No One Is Forgotten at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, she found herself taking her own advice -- not just...

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Anne Kauffman on the Dream Job She Didn't Know She Wanted

By RAVEN SNOOK

Thursday, June 27, 2019 • Directing • 0 comments Share This

Thu Jun 27, 2019 • Directing • 0 comments Share This

The new artistic director of Encores! Off-Center talks about her inaugural season --- When Michael Friedman, the former artistic director of New York City Center's Encores! Off-Center, invited his longtime collaborator and friend Anne Kauffman to direct Assassins two summers ago, neither one had any idea of the journey being set in motion. After Friedman...

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