JUST AS YOU’D LIKE IT
JUST AS YOU’D LIKE IT The forest of Arden comes alive at Shakespeare’s Globe in London
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MARK RUCKER’S CURTAIN CALL | 4
MARK RUCKER’S CURTAIN CALL I | II | III | IV ‘It means so much to me that this is my first show as Associate Artistic Director. One of the first things Carey asked me to do when I came here was to build bridges in the community, and I couldn’t have imagined anything like
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MARK RUCKER’S CURTAIN CALL | MISCELLANY
MARK RUCKER’S CURTAIN CALL | MISCELLANY I | II | III | IV ‘You found yourself utterly disarmed – open, unfettered, and believing you could: you can go there, you can be that, you can wear that (or not wear it), you can sing that, you can dance that. And not only can you dance
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MARK RUCKER’S CURTAIN CALL | 3
MARK RUCKER’S CURTAIN CALL I | II | III | IV ‘It felt like magic. It really felt like all these great things coming together.’ –Cindy Katz, Kate, The Taming of the Shrew, South Coast Repertory (1996) Act II, Sc 2: All’s Well in the West ark Rucker hated being told to do Shakespeare the
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MARK RUCKER’S CURTAIN CALL | 2
MARK RUCKER’S CURTAIN CALL I | II | III | IV ‘Shakespeare contains us; he always gets there before us, and always waits for us, somewhere up ahead.’ – Harold BloomShakespeare: The Invention of the Human ACT I, SC 3: North by Northeast Rising late on a Monday in the middle of that month, Rucker
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GOING ROGUE
GOING ROGUE The feisty new-play nurturing Rogue Machine Theatre lands on its feet in time for a ninth season in a new space. January 12, 2016 | Cristofer Gross – The element of surprise is useful in plotting plays. Not so much in producing them. In 2014, two small Los Angeles theater companies were sharing
ANSEL ADAMS STUDENT PHOTO CALL
ANSEL ADAMS’ STUDENT PHOTO CALL A surprising photo credit for a college rehearsal shot sparks inquiry. Walking into UC Irvine’s main library in 2008, I stopped before a poster bearing a remarkable photograph. The rich-toned black-and-white image showed a group of ‘60s vintage actors in an ethereal outdoor rehearsal under the watchful eye of a
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AARON POSNER’S BALANCING ACTS
BALANCING ACTS Aaron Posner’s adaptations are a wonder by CRISTOFER GROSS In the way Prospero’s magic attracts new life to Miranda’s parched world in The Tempest, Aaron Posner and Teller are using it for an inviting, big-tent concept of the play. In Shakespeare’s The Tempest, the Duke of Milan, deposed and cast off with his
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DOWN FOR THE COUNT
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
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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