Join Flux on February 20th as we participate in Partial Comfort Productions’ 4th Annual Battle of the Bards. The one-night-only competition pits New York theatre companies against one another to write, rehearse and stage a world premiere one-act play that incorporates the use of a prop that will be selected by current Speed-the-Plow star, William…
A dark comedy about what beauty steals… An epic journey through the seductions of history… A classic tragedy of what remains when all is taken… Flux’s 2009-10 Season of Give and Take Pretty TheftBy Adam SzymkowiczDirected by Angela AstleApril 23rd – May 17th, 2009 The Lesser Seductions of HistoryBy August SchulenburgDirected by Heather CohnOctober-November, 2009…
ALL CYLINDERS CLICKING Every once in a while, Flux Sundays will have a lightening strike day. All the scripts are tight, the actors connect with the roles, and each scene passes some essential undroppable thing to the next. It doesn’t happen often, but boy did it happen on January 11th, and with all of us…
EAGLES RETURN And so do we, to our weekly workshop Flux Sundays. And the first FS of the new year featured the return of playwrights Erin Browne and David Ian Lee, both of whom had been too long absent. These returns were all more welcome than the eagle’s hungry return to Prometheus haunting Aaron Michael…
If you’ve already checked out Patrick Lee’s Best of 2008 list at Just Shows To Go You, go and check out Aaron Riccio’s list at That Sounds Cool, James Comtois’ at Jamespeak, Zack Calhoon’s at Visible Soul, and Elizabeth Vincentelli’s at The Determined Dilettante. Whatever the challenges of making theatre in this difficult city during…
Patrick Lee at Just Shows To Go You named Vince Nappo’s performance in our Other Bodies as one of the Twelve Freshest Faces on 2008! It is very exciting to see Vince’s excellent work in that extremely demanding role being recognized. You can read the whole thing here. And while you’re at it, why not…
BLACK AND WHITE AND BLUEOur last Flux Sunday of 2008 was the most intimate we’d had in a while, and that combined with Michael’s delicious cookies gave the day a relaxed holiday air. We read a bunch of pages from Rob Ackerman’s Volleygirls and my 60’s play, and three delicious pages from Johnna Adam’s Lickspittles,…
ETUDES AND ATTITUDES Our post trilogy return to Flux Sunday was marked by stabs at virtuosity, some made, some missed. The first attempt was my own hope of staging the EIGHT scenes on our list all in three hours, an attempt that fell utterly short. But many others succeeded in honoring the patron saint of…
Looking for some post-Christmas literary fun? Flux Sunday regular playwright Katherine Burger (Texas Toast, Legends of Batvia, Way Deep) is a contributor to Stray Stories, a night of readings. Check it out here!
You may have already seen this on our website or read this in our December newsletter, but the good people at nytheatre.com have selected Flux Theatre Ensemble as one of their People of the Year for 2008. This is an honor for several reasons, first and foremost because it comes from nytheatre.com. Their generosity of…
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