re: Colorado Supreme Court upholds ban of smoking onstage Dec 19
2009, 11:34:05 AM
This is BS. I've always loved when REAL cigarettes (or clove, or herbal, whatever- but lit) are used in theatrical performances. Not for the visual, but for the smell. The actual smell. The feeling of an audience (I'm talking tiny theatres with small crowds in intimate spaces) perking up when the smoke starts to hit the audience is palpable. It reminds everyone that you are NOT at home, you are in a room with other people. And sometimes other people do things that you don't like, or aren't comfo
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re: The Public Theater's Brothers Size/ Marcus, or the Secret of Sweet Nov 19
2009, 08:50:10 PM
I saw The Brothers Size when it was staged by O'hara with (I think) the same cast at City Theatre in Pittsburgh and LOVED it. I thought it was beautiful. Does anyone know if/how its been changed? It was staged alone and didn't feel like a one-act to me...
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re: OLEANNA'S 'take a side' YouTube videos Oct 12
2009, 06:50:58 PM
Wow. What a brilliant idea. A notable focus on her in the couple that I watched.
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Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre to stream live performance Aug 7
2009, 02:23:07 PM
Okay, I'm bumping this. Apparently this is a first for a professional regional theatre in America.
Somebody's gotta have something to say!
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Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre to stream performance of History Boy Aug 6
2009, 01:30:47 AM
August 15th at 8pm
Here's the press release:
http://www.picttheatre.org/docs/PICTLIPLO.pdf
Is this being done around the country or is this pretty remarkable?
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re: 15 Golden Rules of Theatre Etiquette Jul 27
2009, 07:45:45 AM
Mamasdoin,
That article was very interesting. I had a similar experience watching August: Osage County. There are many funny moments but it bothered me very much to have people howling at the end of Act 2. It was tragic, not hysterical. It was kind of disturbing, but laughings a release of energy, so maybe at some point in a play like that it becomes to much and you have to release it some how.
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re: 15 Golden Rules of Theatre Etiquette Jul 26
2009, 08:55:07 PM
I agree with all of it. There's absolutely no reason to give entrance applause, imho. All it does is further remove people from a show (actor included, I don't know how I'd respond to entrance applause, and I hope I never have to deal with it). And I'm extremely stingy about standing ovations, I wish they were worth what they once were.
The coughing's a hard one, but I have noticed that it is a mark of how involved people are in a show. There's no coughing when an audience is wholly
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re: Why Aren't Plays More Represented At The Tonys? Jun 10
2009, 09:40:35 PM
It was Wendy Wasserstein and August Wilson, with James Earl Jones doing the Wilson monologue that you're talking about MTVMANN.
And I became so disinterested due to the lack of straight play representation that I stopped watching this year. Its a fvckin snooze.
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re: Most forgotten Best Musical Winner? May 22
2009, 08:39:08 PM
I think Two Gentlemen of Verona is up there. And of the more recent years I'd say Big River
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4/30 - 5/1: FINALS: McDonald vs. Ripley Apr 29
2009, 10:22:17 PM
Audra - 14
Alice - 2
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re: Unpopular Opinions You Hold Apr 3
2009, 09:45:36 PM
The musical will never be as effective or moving a medium as the straight play.
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re: Man Smoking Bong on JERSEY BOYS Balcony Jan 29
2009, 09:38:47 PM
So this is allowed in broadway theaters?
tight.
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re: What Broadway stuff did you get for Christmas 2008? Dec 25
2008, 01:02:29 PM
My father is taking me up to New York at some point this year as his gift to me.
My Mom is paying for my greyhound or train ticket the next time I go up.
That's about all the gifts I'm getting this year...
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re: Plays that have impacted your lives Dec 25
2008, 12:16:26 PM
Blasted by Sarah Kane seriously impacted my thoughts about theatre and what its purpose is and how that best can be achieved. I've never looked at a play the same way after having seen that.
Mamet's Oleanna was in the front of my mind for about a week after I read it. That play seriously challenged me.
August: Osage County
The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?
Death of a Salesman
Tarell Alvin McCraney's The Brothers Size
How I Learned to Drive- Paula Vogel
When
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re: ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY'S ten best shows (and five worst) of the year Dec 19
2008, 07:00:07 PM
BLASTED? Worst?
What the fck?
Blasted was absolutely incredible. I'm not saying it was the kind of show that everyone has to love, but anyone who would put that on a Worst Of list is a complete and total moron. And that's no hyperbole.
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re: Andrea McArdle back to broadway? Nov 30
2008, 10:31:37 PM
She's one of my favorite Broadway voices. Absolutely incredible.
She's divine in Jerry's Girls. I'm obsessed.
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re: Underrated Sondheim Songs Nov 12
2008, 08:18:32 PM
"I Remember" from Evening Primrose. I absolutely *adore* that song.
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re: Non-Realistic Plays (Not Musicals) Nov 10
2008, 07:41:27 AM
Durang Durang Durang Durang Durang.
Absurd and hysterical.
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re: BLASTED, SHREK, or BILLY ELLIOT? Nov 1
2008, 09:27:29 PM
Blasted is sold-out for the entire run, so there's general rush every night. It's 20 if you're a student, 30 if you're not. I'd suggest getting in line early, and go in a group smaller than three, because I doubt they'd ever have more than two or three seats available.
It was the most fantastic and intensely powerful production I've ever seen. I'd recommend it in a heartbeat.
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re: Seagull Student Rush Oct 27
2008, 07:39:47 AM
Last Sunday I rushed around 1:30 for a 2:00. I was on the very far left, had a little trouble seeing, but it wasn't bad.
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