NOVEMBER 2015 Click title to jump to review ABUNDANCE by Beth Henley | South Coast Repertory OUTSIDE MULLINGAR by John Patrick Shanley | Geffen Playhouse UNCLE VANYA by Anton Chekhov adapted by Annie Baker | Antaeus Theatre Company Westbound
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JUNE 2015 Click title to jump to review THE GOSPEL AT COLONUS by Lee Breuer and Bob Telson | Ebony Repertory Theatre Finding sanctuary In 1983, playwright Lee Breuer and composer Bob Telson merged Greek myth and Gospel music to create The Gospel at Colonus. By 1985, when it opened at L.A.’s Doolittle (now Ricardo
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INTERMISSION | 15 MINUTES WITH: The Oregon trial Cornerstone Theater founder and sought-after guest director Bill Rauch sets down high stakes in Ashland.
VIDEO • Amy’s Vlog VITALS Amy Brenneman was born on June 22, 1964, in New London, Connecticut. A versatile performer, she is perhaps best known for her portrayal of a juvenile court judge and divorced mother on the hit drama Judging Amy. The show was based in part on her own mother’s experiences as a
INTERMISSION | 15 minutes with … Aaron Posner The dazzle: The writer-director is having a big year with adaptations of Chekhov and Shakespeare aron Posner’s work was terra incognita for me until last spring, when Arye Gross told me his next stage role would be Dr. Sorn, blending brother Sorin and Dr. Dorn from Chekhov’s
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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STAYIN’ ALIVE Shakespeare OC goes from Polynesia to Polyester in ‘Midsummer’ by CRISTOFER GROSS To launch his first summer season as Artistic Director of Garden Grove-based Shakespeare Orange County, John Walcutt offered two musical variations on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The first was a homegrown Polynesian affair produced by SOC in association with Garden
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HOW HISTORY PLAYS All the Way puts a Broadway spin on OSF’s ‘American Revolutions.’ by CRISTOFER GROSS t wasn’t part of his plan to direct on Broadway, but after six seasons as Artistic Director of the oldest and one of the largest regional theaters in America, Bill Rauch was the acclaimed director of a Tony
JULY 2014 Click title to jump to review BUYER & CELLAR by Jonathan Tolins | Mark Taper Forum IN THE HEIGHTS by Lin-Manuel Miranda | Chance Theater PENELOPE by Enda Walsh | Rogue Machine Theatre Casabarbra In 1993, while meeting with playwright Jonathan Tolins to discuss the film rights to Twilight of the Golds, Barbra
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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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