Annie-B Parson News

Today's Broadway Blogs on BroadwayWorld.com from Friday, April 3, 2009.

'Men like women with character,' is the sisterly advice a muddied, snarling, grief-stricken and murderously-crazed Elektra gives to pretty little Chrysothemis in Ann Carson's wildly clever adaptation of the ancient Greek story of bloody family doings titled An Oresteia. Growled in all seriousness by the fabulously bitter Annika Boras, the line got a huge laugh the afternoon I caught Classic Stage Company's crackling good premiere production; the swiftest five hours of theatre I've enjoyed in a long, long time.

Ellen Stewart and La MaMa Umbria International will present the 8th Annual International Symposium for Directors, July 15 - August 5, 2007 in Spoleto, Italy.