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#NEA365 and Flux

At TCG (my goodly employer) yesterday, we posted this call to action on the proposed cuts/zeroing of the NEA in the FY11 budget. The post inspired the goodly David J. Loehr to propose #NEA365, an online compendium of at least 365 projects that would not have been possible without support from the NEA. Flux receives…

Dog Act Review: Will Kenton, Cultural Capitol

(Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Lori E. Parquet, Chris Wight) Will Kenton’s review is up at Cultural Capitol! As you may recall, I appreciated the wider angle he brought to his Jacob’s House review, and he brings the same insights to the this review, perhaps best exemplified by this great quote: The play is a riff…

Dog Act Review: Karen Tortora-Lee, The Happiest Medium

(Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Liz Douglas, Becky Byers) Karen Tortora-Lee’s review is out at The Happiest Medium! Karen is another one of our long time reviewers, so we always look forward to her take on our work. I lover her comparison of Zetta to Quixote (and the stories within stories structure of both make the…

Dog Act Review: Aaron Grunfeld, Metromix

(Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Chris Wight, Lori E. Parquet) Aaron Grunfeld returns to Flux for his Metromix review: the last (and only) time he reviewed us was for Pretty Theft, and I was especially interested his structural questions regarding the middle of the play (after many months, I think the decisive factor was our inability…

Dog Act Review: Will Fulton, nytheatre.com

(Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Lori E. Parquet, Becky Byers, Liz Douglas) Will Fulton’s review for nytheatre.com is out. As a reviewer who is new to me, I checked out his bio and discovered he has both worked with 500 Clown and has a B.A. in Comparative Literature, which may be an ideal combination for a…

Dog Act Review: Aaron Riccio, That Sounds Cool

(Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Lori E. Parquet, Chris Wight) Aaron Riccio’s review over at That Sounds Cool is out! Aaron’s review are always helpfully specific – he’s willing to take the time to lift the hood and prowl around in the engine of the play. He has some interesting thoughts about the structure of the…

Dog Act Review: Claudia La Rocco, New York Times

(Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured:Zack Robidas, Becky Byers, Julian Stetkevych) In a way, I completely understand where Claudia La Rocco is coming from (oh, her review in The New York Times is out). The first time I encountered the play, way back at the 2002 Bay Area Playwrights Festival, I loved it, but harbored reservations about…

Dog Act Review: Wendy Caster, Show Showdown

(Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Lori E. Parquet, Becky Byers) Wendy Caster’s review is up at Show Showdown, and it is a moving one, especially as I read it next to the image of Patrick Lee. Choosing my favorite quote is hard – I’m particularly touched by the last paragraph – but her description of the…

Dog Act Review: Scott Brown, New York Magazine

(Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Julian Stetkevych, Zack Robidas) Our third review is out, as part of an anti-Spiderman round up from New York Magazine’s Scott Brown. My favorite quote this time is easy to pull: “playwright Liz Duffy Adams has a few tricks that put her a notch above your average Brechtswept wasteland: A genuinely…

Dog Act Review: Jon Sobel, Blogcritics

(Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Liz Douglas, Lori E. Parquet, Becky Byers, Chris Wight) Review #2 is out! Job Sobel from Blogcritics has a lot of good things to say, and choosing my favorite quote here is tricky, but this shout-out to our amazing design team seems worth singling out: Baleful lighting (by Kia Rogers) and…

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