Just a few fun pictures from our Jacob’s House rehearsals – don’t forget to take advantage of the $11 tickets for opening weekend with the discount code MANIFEST! (All photos by Isaiah Tanenbaum except where noted). Dinah (Jane Lincoln Taylor) faces off against Tamar (Jessica Angleskhan) as Joe (Zack Calhoon) tries to play peace maker.Scheck…
(Photo: Ben Vandenboom) Remember plays? How they’re playful? How they’re about people playing? I may have forgotten that a little amidst all the work of plays, only to be happily reminded by Piper McKenzie’s Craven Monkey and the Mountain of Fury. The sheer joyful invention of this dance/fight/play had me foolishly grinning from start to…
What is Jacob’s House?What is ForePlay:Divine Reckonings?Bill GeorgePlaywright, ForePlay Previous Flux Experience: I have no history with these guys other than the fact I’ve known a handful for a decade and a half, have been a teacher to a few and I am inspired by their passion, beauty, artistic purity, and sheer vulnerable humanity. (Ed….
What is Jacob’s House? What is ForePlay:Divine Reckonings? Lynn Kenny Actor, ForePlay Previous Flux Experience: Flux Sundays, Ballerina/Psychiatrist in Pretty Theft, and Popular Former Starbucks Barista on Steinway. Do you have a favorite Bible Character? Probably Esther because she was so unlikely to be who she was and then she was the bitch. Are you…
David Cote’s recently raised the excellent question of why playwrights don’t review playwrights in a post for the Guardian. Then my colleague Rob Weinert-Kendt expanded the conversation over on the TCG blog, and J. Holtham added some quality cents at 99 Seats. At around the same time, I was finishing a biography on my constant…
What is Jacob’s House?What is ForePlay: Divine Reckonings?Kia RogersLighting Design, Jacob’s House Previous Flux Experience: First timer! Do you have a favorite Bible character? I would have to say Jesus because he was a great teacher. Are you blessed? Yes, I am blessed. I know what I want out of this life, I see my…
Thanks for everyone who made part two such fun! Our ForePlay series Divine Reckonings continues this Monday the 19th at the Irondale Center, 85 South Oxford St in Brooklyn, at 7:30PM. Will you be there? (And have you nabbed your $11 discount tix for opening weekend of Jacob’s House with the code MANIFEST?) Please note,…
“Here is a definition of the word beauty I like: the quality present in a thing that gives intense pleasure and deep satisfaction to the mind through the manifestation of a meaningful pattern or design.” – Her, Other Bodies Why do we need to dream? In Jonah Lehrer’s beautiful essay of the same name, dreams…
Our Facebook invite for Jacob’s House was created this weekend – should you care to kindly signal your attendance there, do so by clicking here. But as with our post last week on the ROI of postcards, I’m interested in looking at the costs and benefits of each aspect of our marketing/audience engagement. While a…
(Postcard: Isaiah Tanenbaum) The postcard for Jacob’s House is out, and it’s a beauty. Designed by resident graphic wizard Isaiah Tanenbaum, with brainstorming led by the Core Members, I’m very happy with how this slightly-more-rushed-than-usual postcard turned out. Why? Because Isaiah’s design: Tweaks one of the greatest representations of man touching the divine Is both…
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