DOWN FOR THE COUNT Direction to Eugene O’Neill’s Monte Cristo home and childhood by CRISTOFER GROSS etween June 28 and July 12, 2008, some aspiring theater critics gathered in Waterford, Connecticut for the annual National Critics Institute, a ‘boot camp’ for working writers interested in reviewing theater. The two-week program sits in the middle of […]
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WE GATHERED TOGETHER The Pacific Playwrights Festival has a Very Good Year. Over the last weekend in April, many of the American theater’s artistic directors, literary managers, and dramaturgs congregated in Costa Mesa, California for South Coast Repertory’s 17th Annual Pacific Playwrights Festival. Seven new plays – three in the midst of fully produced runs
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SISTERS ARE DOING IT FOR THEMSELVES Stars align for playwright and director of South Coast Repertory’s ‘Trudy and Max in Love’ by CRISTOFER GROSS riday, September 9, 1983 was the first day of my first full season as a theater publicist. The 1983-84 Season at Orange County’s South Coast Repertory began that evening with the
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THE APPLE OF HIS EYE Waiting tables and the eye of the storm by CRISTOFER GROSS
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UNIVERSAL SOLDIER In ‘Montana Tales and Other Badass Business,’ Troy Evans shares powerful stories of wild times in country and on stage. by CRISTOFER GROSS n the battlefield, with proper training, a soldier can defuse any explosive device. But the stress, frustration, and unfocused anger that same soldier carries home could be so powerful and
COUCHED CONDOLENCES ‘Rabbit Hole’ and David Lindsey-Abair’s One Degree of Separation by CRISTOFER GROSS
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