Last year Jon Stewart suggested that Twitter is too wordy and he prefers the new social media app “Grunter.” Meanwhile, in real life, newspapers have given way to blogs; the long-form has given way to punchy pith. The age of fast-food journalism is upon us.
Miranda July won’t divulge details about live secret show Miranda July is a film director, screenwriter, novelist, actor, performance artist, digital innovator, app inventor and full-time hipster. Her newest project is “secret” interactive audience participation performance art project in which the element of surprise is crucial.
Any play with the word vibrator in the title and Victorian ladies dropping their knickers and leaping onto the orgasm table — is certain to stimulate audiences. Sarah Ruhl’s In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) , an examination of women’s sexuality in the Victorian
Premiering in San Francisco before its January New York opening, Beautiful, The Carole King Musical, is yet another Juke box musical. But unlike other recent musical biographies about musical careers, the Carole King story is really about music making. Source: Beautiful, the Carole King Musical
Novelist Gregory Maguire discusses the political inspiration for the hit musical and how he expects it to fare in an Obama nation. Source: A Wicked Writer – TheaterMania.com
With less gritty realism and attention to societal ills than West Side Story, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s contemporary immigrant story, In the Heights, gets by on its wits and rhythms. Source: There IS a Place for Us — In the Heights is an “Up Side Story”
In Berkeley Rep’s An Iliad, the antiquated story of the Trojan War is dusted off and the ancient tradition of the storyteller is reanimated. Source: The Trojan War: This Time It’s Personal
Staged as as a grotesque carnival, the production trots out a murderous lineup of sad sacks and misguided misfits who fired on Presidents Lincoln through Reagan. The play asks the question: “Why’da do it?” Source: Shotgun Players’ ‘Assassins’ Is a Macabre Revival of Stephen
A Broadway pop musical about Electroconvulsive Therapy and suicidal ideation, Next to Normal uses sardonic wit and dark humor to lighten this heartbreaking story of a family devastated by mental illness. Source: Psychotic Mother Belts It Out, Wins Tony. It’s Next to Normal. | KQED