This Week in Performance: Week of May 29, 2014
José Amador rounds up the stage happenings for the week.
The Rule of Thumb: Why Liking Theater Isn’t Enough
Omar Willey returns to polemics.
In the Book of: Politics as Psychodrama
Taproot Theatre’s latest production inspires a discussion about why American drama cannot handle politics.
Burying the British: Uncle Vanya
Chekhov has been trying to shake off a century of British colonialism. Akropolis Performance Lab’s production of Uncle Vanya shows one alternative to the dullness.
Purely Artificial: The Suit
Thoughts on The Suit.
Blame It on the Farce: An Interview with the Producers of Girl, You Know It’s True
José Amador talks with Rebecca M Davis and Ed Hawkins, producers of the Milli Vanilli parody, Girl You Know It’s True.
Love in the Time of Zombies
Omar Willey talks with D’Arcy Harrison of Vagabond Alley about her upcoming crowdfunded zom-com, Love in the Time of Zombies.
Venus in Fur: Confused and Happy
Marija Vice is on the scene to review the latest from Seattle Repertory Theatre.
The Finest Worksongs: C.Rosalind Bell and “Miles of Words That Matter”
Rosalind Bell on directing: “What is on the stage now at Broadway Center For The Performing Arts is the gift of collaboration [that] Claude Purdy gave to me from the very first time I entered his rehearsal room (“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” by August Wilson) at The American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, 1986, straight past 20 years and countless miles of working on words that matter.”
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