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Waiting for Godot and Existentialism
Tree: attachment / society Godot: meaning / God Day: lifetime / generation Vladimir: ego / leader Vladimir’s hat: (vlasti: leader) identity Estragon: (tarragon: vegetative) id / follower Estragon’s boots: habits Estragon’s wound: depression / crisis Estragon’s carrot: di... Read more ...
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National Endowment for the Arts Issues Research...
National Endowment for the Arts Issues Research Note on Women Artists: 1990 to 2005 Gender pay gap persists among full-time working artists For immediate release : December 2, 2008 Contact: Sally Gifford (NEA) 202-682-5606 giffords@arts.gov ... Read more ...
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English Theatre
THE FLYING PIG THEATRE This is a theatre company in Lyon which not only presents theatre productions in English but also runs theatre classes for children (in English). For more information : mobile: 06 78 67 86 49 or flyingpigtheatre@hotmail.com The Flying Pig The... Read more ...
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Another disembodied post
I am waiting on line . Please keep your fingers crossed that I can get through five hours without needing to make use of restroom facilities. You know you've got issues when you're willing to sacrifice your bladder for Hamlet . Read more ...
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More Yiddish theater fun
This came up on the Yugntruf email list the other day: "The Essence" was created and is performed by Allen Lewis Rickman, Yelena Shmulenson, and Steve Sterner, three of the younger veterans of Yiddish theater. "We tell the entire history of the Yiddish theater, kinda-sorta, in eighty minutes," ... Read more ...
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Shakespeare for a New Generation
According to its own press releases, the NEA's Shakespeare for a New Generation program, part of the Shakespeare in American Communities initiative, serves to "introduce more students to the magic of live theater." Certainly (in my very humble opinion) more students should be introduced to th... Read more ...
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A Message of ”Tolerance”
Next month, a stage musical based on Anne Frank's diary opens in Madrid. The Guardian reports: "The Anne Frank Foundation, which jealously guards the rights to the diary - it once turned down Steven Spielberg when he wanted to make a film - has given its support. Jan Erik Dubbelman said: "This ... Read more ...
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”Swansong” in Seattle
"Swansong," a play centered on a possible Shakespeare/Jonson rivalry and friendship, is currently on stage at the Seattle Shakespeare Company . The play was a part of the Summer Play Festival in New York City in July '06, and I'm hoping it comes back here soon. You certainly can't beat this (c... Read more ...
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Shakespeare in NY 2008
A few ways for New Yorkers to get their Shakespeare in early 2008: 1/9 - 1/20 : Othello at the Bank Street Theatre . 2/12 - 3/22 : Macbeth at the Brooklyn Academy of Music . 3/22 - 5/2 : Antony and Cleopatra at Theatre for a New Audience . 4/11 and 4/12 : The Tempest at Queens Theatre... Read more ...
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Review Forthcoming
Tonight I am going -- with two of my favorite people in the world -- to see Cymbeline at the Vivian Beaumont Theater in Lincoln Center. I haven't been to that theater in almost a decade; the last play I saw there was The Little Foxes , with Stockard Channing, who was not Bette Davis, in the ... Read more ...