By August Schulenburg “You must enter the theatre through the world.” -Joe Papp This quote, shared by Todd London at the 2011 TCG Conference (and tweeted by me), has continued to stick with me, touching on a feeling I tried to put into words nearly a year ago in The Wider Frame. As I wrote…
By August Schulenburg(What is Flux Sunday?) We’re back! After an Ajax in Iraq sized hiatus, we returned to the friendly confines of Judson Memorial Church for some Flux Sunday action. It was a full day – we went over our 7PM limit – and everyone was really bringing it. Playwrights: Fengar Gael (The Cat Vandal),…
(Photo: Anna Lamadrid. Pictured: Jelena Stupljanin, Jason Howard) New World Iliads was an interesting ForePlay series for Flux. On the one hand, our benefit that kicked off the series was well-attended, and represented a high water mark for quality in the series. The two that followed were both strong artistically, but due to the overwhelming…
(Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Tiffany Clementi, Lori E. Parquet) Yikes! The show’s been closed for half a week and I still haven’t posted responses to most of the reviews. Rather than getting stuck in yesterday, I’m going to round up all those I missed here and now. It doesn’t quite do justice to the thoughtful…
(Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Joshua Koopman) Starting to catch up! Our next review is by Haytham Elhawary from Theatre is Easy, and it’s lovely. He begins with a quote from Plato I was unfamiliar with that fits the play painfully well: “Only the dead have seen the end of war.” I also appreciate that he…
(Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Sol Crespo, Chinaza Uche, Anna Rahn) This is, I think, Flavorpill’s 4th review with us, and looking them over, I notice that I’ve made the same “short but sweet” comment every time. I’m so original! They do, however, manage to pack a punch in a few words, as in: How sad…
(Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Mike Mihm, Raushanah Simmons) Argh, I am so far behind in my responses to reviews! There is now Flavorpill, Theatre is Easy, Time Out New York, the New York Times and BroadwayWorld.com to respond to (am I missing any of them?) Excuse: I have been in L.A. for the TCG National…
(Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Stephen Conrad Moore) I’m falling a wee bit behind on these! For those who don’t want to wait, go on and read That Sounds Cool, Flavorpill, and Theatre is Easy. I hope to respond to all three before the end of the week. Michael Bettencourt from OffOffOnline is our fifth review,…
(Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Mike Mihm) Back in the day, Backstage was our first major reviewer, positively reviewing both Life is a Dream and A Midsummer Night’s Dream when not many other critics were coming our way. Then, there was a long, dry, spell after the Angel Eaters Trilogy, and though they interviewed us for…
(Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured:Stephen Conrad Moore, Christina Shipp) Jon Sobel of Blogcritics has reviewed everything since Pretty Theft (except for Jacob’s House, I believe), and so it was great to have him return for his mixed but fair-minded review of Ajax in Iraq. His review touches on some of the exciting challenges of the play,…
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