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For Now
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Keeping Up the Paice
By MARK BLANKENSHIP Jill Paice isn't actually British, but you'd never guess that from her resume. On Broadway, the Ohio native dropped her American accent to play Laura Fairlie, the clever heiress in Andrew Lloyd Webber's veddy English musical The Woman in White , and she's currently tackling all the female roles in the long-running […]
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Shakespeare for Everyone
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Short Stack
By MARK BLANKENSHIP They might seem slight next to four-hour epics or ten-part cycles, but short plays can be exhilarating. Before he wrote Our Town , for instance, Thornton Wilder perfected his experimental style with brief, brilliant pieces like Pullman Car Hiawatha , and for every Waiting for Godot , Samuel Beckett wrote a miniature […]
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Playwrights Take Charge
By Julia Rosenfeld What happens after a playwright finishes a play? In the current climate of new theatre, a play might spend years in readings and workshops, often with no full productions in sight. In 2003, 13 mid-career playwrights (including Sarah Ruhl and Young Jean Lee) took matters into their own hands and formed a […]
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Swinging a Song
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Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me
By MARK BLANKENSHIP Paul Bargetto doesn't want to know about the work he's producing this summer. As the curator of the Undergroundzero Festival , whose third season of experimental shows runs through July 26 at P.S. 122, he prefers to walk into a performance and be just as surprised as the audience. That's an unusual […]
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Acting Like a Director
By MARK BLANKENSHIP Vanities has all the trappings of a major new musical: The story of three Texas cheerleaders who remain friends over three decades, it's based on the popular 1976 play by Jack Heifner (who wrote the musical's book), and it's premiering on July 16 at Second Stage, a company known for long-running hits […]
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New York is a Summer Festival
By Isaac Butler Summer is upon us, bringing with it New York City's surfeit of theatre festivals. There's fringe festivals, Shakespeare festivals, musical festivals, eco-friendly theatre festivals and more. Sitting in the midst of all of this is the Summer Play Festival, AKA SPF. Founded in 2004 by Executive Producer Arielle Tepper Madover to, in […]