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Facing the Real Monsters in 'King Kong'

By DIEP TRAN

Thursday, December 06, 2018 • Directing • 0 comments Share This

Thu Dec 6, 2018 • Directing • 0 comments Share This

A new satire wrestles with the controversial 1933 classic --- While writing The Making of King Kong, Lisa Clair almost abandoned the project. "It is too big, it is too scary," the recent graduate of Brooklyn College's playwriting program recalls thinking. She wasn't frightened of the oversize title ape; she was wary of the piece's giant themes: racism...

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Still Making Provocative Theatre After Seven Decades

By FRANK RIZZO

Monday, November 26, 2018 • Directing • 0 comments Share This

Mon Nov 26, 2018 • Directing • 0 comments Share This

Writer-director Peter Brook brings his latest play to Brooklyn --- After more than 70 years in the theatre, writer-director Peter Brook continues to create new productions that challenge and mystify. His latest is The Prisoner, which is making its New York debut at Theatre for a New Audience in Brooklyn. Co-written and co-directed by Brook's longtime...

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Why Jack O'Brien Always Looks for the Emotional Core in Tom Stoppard

By GERARD RAYMOND

Friday, November 16, 2018 • Directing • 0 comments Share This

Fri Nov 16, 2018 • Directing • 0 comments Share This

The three-time Tony winner on directing the New York premiere of The Hard Problem --- Parsing the nature of consciousness sounds like a subject for a research think tank, not an Off-Broadway show. But Tom Stoppard has spent his 50-year career crafting dazzling intellectual plays (Travesties, Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia) that distill a wide range...

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Why a Tony-Winning Funnyman Is Letting Others Get the Laughs

By MICHAEL MUSTO

Monday, October 29, 2018 • Directing • 0 comments Share This

Mon Oct 29, 2018 • Directing • 0 comments Share This

Christian Borle makes his New York directorial debut with the comedy Popcorn Falls --- Christian Borle's comic invention and crackerjack timing have enlivened many a Broadway show over the past two decades. He took home his first Tony Award for his swaggeringly funny turn as Black Stache in Peter and the Starcatcher and his second as a preening, rock...

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Two Provocative Off-Broadway Plays, One Insightful Director

By BRIAN SCOTT LIPTON

Tuesday, October 23, 2018 • Directing • 0 comments Share This

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Why Kimberly Senior enjoys helming shows that raise tough questions about our multicultural society --- At first glance, Aasif Mandvi's Sakina's Restaurant at Audible's Minetta Lane Theatre and Eleanor Burgess' The Niceties at Manhattan Theatre Club don't seem to have much in common. The former is a revival of a 20-year-old solo show in which the...

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There's a Reason Two Kurt Vonnegut Tales Are Onstage Right Now

By MICHAEL MARTIN

Tuesday, October 16, 2018 • Directing • 0 comments Share This

Tue Oct 16, 2018 • Directing • 0 comments Share This

How the master satirist's work speaks to today --- Kurt Vonnegut, best known for his acidic novels Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five, only wrote a handful of works for the theatre, mostly playlets that are rarely done. So when two shows with his byline are running Off-Broadway simultaneously, it practically qualifies as a festival. San Francisco's...

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Why You Need to Hear Anna Politkovskaya's Story Right Now

By JONATHAN MANDELL

Monday, September 24, 2018 • Directing • 0 comments Share This

Mon Sep 24, 2018 • Directing • 0 comments Share This

The legacy of the late Russian journalist speaks directly to the turmoil of today --- More than a thousand people attended the funeral of Anna Politkovskaya, a respected Russian journalist who was found murdered in the elevator of her Moscow apartment building in 2006. She was well known for investigating atrocities committed during her homeland's...

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