EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH An Opera in Four Acts by Philip Glass & Robert Wilson Choreography by Lucinda Childs For the First Time in Two Decades, Full Production of the Rarely Performed Work Will Tour Internationally in 2012-2013 The Philip Glass/Robert Wilson collaboration Einstein on the Beach, An Opera...
The Wooster Groups' Version of Tennessee Williams' VIEUX CARRÉ (U.S. premiere) Directed by Elizabeth LeCompte Performed by Ari Fliakos, Daniel Pettrow, Kaneza Schaal, Andrew Schneider, Scott Shepherd, Kate Valk [caption id="attachment_2907" align="aligncenter" width="590" caption="Photo by Franck Beloncle"][/caption] REDCAT (Los Angeles) Wednesday, December 1 through Sunday, December 12, 2010 Baryshnikov Arts Center...
[amazonify]0415173833[/amazonify]Certain Fragments is an extraordinary exploration of what lies at the heart of contemporary theatre. Written by the artistic director of Forced Entertainment, acknowledged to be 'Britain's most brilliant experimental theatre company'( Guardian), Certain Fragments investigates the processes of devising performance, the role of writing...
[amazonify]0415585651[/amazonify]What does it mean to "fail" in performance? How might staging failure reveal theatre’s potential to expand our understanding of social, political and everyday reality? What can we learn from performances that expose and then celebrate their ability to fail? In Performance Theatre and the Poetics...
BODIES ON THE LINE New York City October 30 - November 7, 2010 Anna Deavere Smith - Director Gideon Lester - Curator Funded with a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Bodies on the Line is a 10-day colloquium at New York University, bringing together 9 artists and writers...
The Grotowski Sourcebook Edited by Richard Schechner and Lisa Wolford Wylam The influence of Jerzy Grotowski's work on twentieth century theatre is undeniable. A key player in making his work known wasThe Drama Review, and now, for the first time, 30 years' worth of articles by and...
[amazonify]0816647313[/amazonify]At a time when most serious drama being written and produced for the American stage aspires only to mainstream acceptance and high-toned mediocrity, an innovative new generation of playwrights based in New York City has emerged, crafting works that challenge and undermine the conventional structure,...
The Quiet Volume is a whispered, self-generated and 'automatic' performance for two at a time (in line with Hampton's other Autoteatro work), exploiting the particular tension common to any library worldwide; a combination of silence and concentration within which different peoples' experiences of reading unfold. Two audience...
Dear Members, I hope you are doing well and your work is coming along. I just wanted to thank you again for being a part of the Contemporary Performance Network. Its very exciting to see the many artists from all over the world sharing their work...
Bio: Richard Maxwell is a playwright and director living in New York. Maxwell studied acting at Illinois State University. In Chicago, he was a founder of the Cook County Theater Department. He is now the artistic director of New York City Players and a resident writer...
Goat Island is a Chicago-based collaborative performance group. In summer 2005 the company restructured itself where there are now two distinct layers of membership, which is defined by Core and Associate. Core members are Karen Christopher, Matthew Goulish, Lin Hixson (director), Mark Jeffery, Bryan Saner,...
Three media-plays by MacArthur Award-winning playwright-director-designer John Jesurun. DEEP SLEEP, WHITE WATER and BLACK MARIA chart the "loss of the real" in a landscape of adrenaline-charged freefall poetry, mediated images and vestiges of Pop culture. With an introduction by dramatist-poet Fiona Templeton, this collection gathers...