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ForePlay: An Awesome God

Your final chance for a little ForePlay! ForePlay: DIVINE RECKONINGS goes out with a bang for its fourth and final installment… An Awesome God Monday, May 10th, 7:00pm Access Theater Gallery 380 Broadway @ White St, (2 blocks South of Canal) 4th Floor Plays by: Erin Browne, Fengar Gael, Mac Rogers, & Crystal Skillman Directed…

Divine Reckonings Artists Reveal #13:Christine Evans

What is Jacob’s House?What is ForePlay:Divine Reckonings? Christine EvansPlaywright, ForePlay Previous Flux Experience: none! I am a flux virgin Do you have a favorite Bible character?The Ass Are you blessed?Yes, but not always in uplifting ways. If you were wrestling an angel, what moves would you use?They would reveal themselves at 4 a.m. in a…

Divine Reckonings Artists Reveal #12:Candice Holdorf

What is Jacob’s House?What is ForePlay:Divine Reckonings? Candice HoldorfActor, ForePlay Previous Flux Experience: Founding Member of Flux. Marketing Director 2006-2008. Mainstage Shows: One in The Lesser Seductions of History, Waitress/Ballerina in Pretty Theft, Claudia in 8 Little Antichrists, Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Chuck in Rue. Food:Soul: Lily in This Storm is What We…

Drama Desk Nomination For Elizabeth Rhodes!

Everyone at Flux is thrilled by the announcement that our Jacob’s House sound designer, Elizabeth Rhodes, was nominated for a Drama Desk for her work on John Ball’s In the Heat of the Night. Congratulations, Betsy! You rock!

Jacob’s House Review: Aaron Riccio, That Sounds Cool

(Photo: Justin Hoch @ jhoch.com. Pictured: Matthew Archambault) A mixed but fascinating review of Jacob’s House is up from Aaron Riccio at That Sounds Cool. Readers of this blog know that Aaron is one of my favorite reviewers, so I take his criticisms seriously. Read the whole thing here. First, the good stuff: I’m thrilled…

Jacob’s House Review: Will Kenton, Cultural Capitol

(Photo: Justin hoch @ jhoch.com. Pictured: Tiffany Clementi, Bianca LaVerne Jones, Kelli Dawn Holsopple) Readers of this blog know I love juxtaposition, so you can imagine my excitement reading Will Kenton’s review at Cultural Capitol, which sparks our Jacob’s House not only against a similarly themed play; but a wider frame of culture and religion….

Divine Reckonings Artists Reveal #11:Chandra Thomas

What is Jacob’s House?What is ForePlay:Divine Reckonings?Chandra ThomasActor, ForePlay Previous Flux Experience: i’ve been a part of a table reading with Flux before (Ajax in Iraq) – excited to be a part of this ForePlay. Do you have a favorite Bible character? (perhaps cheesy but the truth!) Jesus. Are you blessed? Absolutely, fully and without…

Audience Response To Jacob’s House

So for The Lesser Seductions of History, we had an audience feedback thread that was one of the highlights of the process. The nearly 20 comments left gave me great insight in how the play was being received, particularly with the fraught character of ONE. I’d love to try this again for Jacob’s House, so…

Jacob’s House Review: Wendy Caster, Show Showdown

(Photo: Justin Hoch @ jhoch.com. Pictured: Matthew Archamabult, Anthony Wills Jr.) Our first review is out! Wendy Caster is first in over at Show Showdown. I’m thrilled the review is a positive one, especially as I have a (hopefully unjustified and kind of silly) sense of foreboding about the reviewers who attended last night. I…

nytheatrecast Interview – Jacob’s House

(Photo by Justin Hoch @ jhoch.com. Pictured: Tiffany Clementi, Bianca LaVerne Jones) I had a blast talking with fellow word-slinger Matthew Freeman as part of nytheatrecast’s playwrights talking to playwrights series. Listen to us gab the light fantastic here. Saturday night’s performance was our most vocally responsive yet, really connecting with the comedy of the…

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