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Well, today is Fall Preview Day in the theatre blogs, and I come to it completely unprepared, as it seems I have absolutely no idea of what's going on, being too wrapped up in my own damn work most of the time, without the price of a ticket for even a $10 show, as every spare dime I have goes into whatever show of my own I'm dealing with (though, yes, occasionally Berit and I do spring for a show, usually when it's by one of our friends who, a) we feel obligated to see, and, b) we are pretty damned sure is going to be great -- last night we went and saw Eric Davis' solo performance as Red Bastard in the Clown Festival at The Brick, which fit both (a) and (b), and was indeed terrific).
However, I have now got to see everyone else's Fall Preview posts, and as a result am completely overwhelmed by the sheer volume of shows that I would like to see and won't be able to as I can't afford it (and this isn't even in the most part due to high ticket prices; I just have fallen into a life that allows me to mainly work on my own shows and not have to do much else, the flip side of this is that while I don't have to do very much that I don't want to do, I can't do very much of what I would like to do).
So, for those looking in here who don't get to all the theatre blogs, here's some links to what the other NYC theatre bloggers are looking forward to:
Isaac Butler - Parabasis
Mark Armstrong - Mr. Excitement News
Matt Johnston - Theatre Conversation and Political Frustration
James Comtois - Jamespeak
Adam Szymkowicz - Blog of a Playwright
George Hunka - Superfluities
Joshua James - The Daily Dojo
Matthew Freeman - On Theatre and Politics
and from L.A.:
Kyle Wilson - Frank's Wild Lunch
and from Buffalo:
Tom Loughlin - A Poor Player
The first thing, apart from what I'd like to go see that I'm not connected with in any way, is to note that I won't be seeing much of anything because I have a show of my own, Temptation, opening in The Havel Festival. It plays at The Brick in Williamsburg from November 2 to 26, produced by my company, Gemini CollisionWorks. I'm proud of where the show is going, and the Festival in general looks to be quite good and quite special (I'm on the artistic board of the producing company for the Fest, UTC#61).
So, HAVEL FESTIVAL!
With that promo out of the way, what would I see if I could? Well, since I learned about most of these from other people, who have written about them at the links above, here's a list, with links to companies/spaces.
1) The Tooth of Crime by Sam Shepard
2) Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw
3) The Coast of Utopia by Tom Stoppard
4) In Public by George Hunka
5) Hell House by Les Freres Corbusier
6) Adrift in Macao by Christopher Durang and Peter Melnick
7)Wake Up Mr. Sleepy! Your Unconscious Mind Is Dead! by Richard Foreman
8) Hamlet by The Wooster Group
9) The Death of Griffin Hunter by Kirk Wood Bromley (not written about by anyone else -- coming to The Brick early next year! -- revival/rewriting of a modern verse tragedy originally done in 1999)
Tom Loughlin, linked above, noting how many of us NYC bloggers are in an unfortunate financial state not enabling to see very many shows, has offered to go in on half of a ticket for anything we choose (to a certain point). I'm not comfortable with the idea, but I may get over the discomfort to ask him about it so I can see Tooth of Crime (dear god, I just checked the listings closer, and a good friend of mine from NYU, Jenne Vath, is playing Becky! Neat!).
Okay, I need food and Advil -- splitting headache. Maybe later I'll get to this past week, the great rehearsals for Temptation, the lousy breakdown of my van, the lousy and yet somehow great news about my brother in Iraq, various and sundry other items of miniscule to major note . . .
Well, today is Fall Preview Day in the theatre blogs, and I come to it completely unprepared, as it seems I have absolutely no idea of what's going on, being too wrapped up in my own damn work most of the time, without the price of a ticket for even a $10 show, as every spare dime I have goes into whatever show of my own I'm dealing with (though, yes, occasionally Berit and I do spring for a show, usually when it's by one of our friends who, a) we feel obligated to see, and, b) we are pretty damned sure is going to be great -- last night we went and saw Eric Davis' solo performance as Red Bastard in the Clown Festival at The Brick, which fit both (a) and (b), and was indeed terrific).
However, I have now got to see everyone else's Fall Preview posts, and as a result am completely overwhelmed by the sheer volume of shows that I would like to see and won't be able to as I can't afford it (and this isn't even in the most part due to high ticket prices; I just have fallen into a life that allows me to mainly work on my own shows and not have to do much else, the flip side of this is that while I don't have to do very much that I don't want to do, I can't do very much of what I would like to do).
So, for those looking in here who don't get to all the theatre blogs, here's some links to what the other NYC theatre bloggers are looking forward to:
Isaac Butler - Parabasis
Mark Armstrong - Mr. Excitement News
Matt Johnston - Theatre Conversation and Political Frustration
James Comtois - Jamespeak
Adam Szymkowicz - Blog of a Playwright
George Hunka - Superfluities
Joshua James - The Daily Dojo
Matthew Freeman - On Theatre and Politics
and from L.A.:
Kyle Wilson - Frank's Wild Lunch
and from Buffalo:
Tom Loughlin - A Poor Player
The first thing, apart from what I'd like to go see that I'm not connected with in any way, is to note that I won't be seeing much of anything because I have a show of my own, Temptation, opening in The Havel Festival. It plays at The Brick in Williamsburg from November 2 to 26, produced by my company, Gemini CollisionWorks. I'm proud of where the show is going, and the Festival in general looks to be quite good and quite special (I'm on the artistic board of the producing company for the Fest, UTC#61).
So, HAVEL FESTIVAL!
With that promo out of the way, what would I see if I could? Well, since I learned about most of these from other people, who have written about them at the links above, here's a list, with links to companies/spaces.
1) The Tooth of Crime by Sam Shepard
2) Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw
3) The Coast of Utopia by Tom Stoppard
4) In Public by George Hunka
5) Hell House by Les Freres Corbusier
6) Adrift in Macao by Christopher Durang and Peter Melnick
7)Wake Up Mr. Sleepy! Your Unconscious Mind Is Dead! by Richard Foreman
8) Hamlet by The Wooster Group
9) The Death of Griffin Hunter by Kirk Wood Bromley (not written about by anyone else -- coming to The Brick early next year! -- revival/rewriting of a modern verse tragedy originally done in 1999)
Tom Loughlin, linked above, noting how many of us NYC bloggers are in an unfortunate financial state not enabling to see very many shows, has offered to go in on half of a ticket for anything we choose (to a certain point). I'm not comfortable with the idea, but I may get over the discomfort to ask him about it so I can see Tooth of Crime (dear god, I just checked the listings closer, and a good friend of mine from NYU, Jenne Vath, is playing Becky! Neat!).
Okay, I need food and Advil -- splitting headache. Maybe later I'll get to this past week, the great rehearsals for Temptation, the lousy breakdown of my van, the lousy and yet somehow great news about my brother in Iraq, various and sundry other items of miniscule to major note . . .
