The official blog of the Dramaturgy Department at Baltimore's CENTERSTAGE. For posts related to our current and upcoming shows, click the links to the right. Alternatively, you could begin at the beginning, and explore our posts in chronological order.
“I would never want to live anywhere but Baltimore. You can look far and wide, but you’ll never discover a stranger city with such extreme style. It’s as if every eccentric in the South decided to move north, ran out of gas in Baltimore, and decided to stay.” ― John Waters, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste
(via baltiamore)
Little Red, meet Wolf.
injustice-worth:
That image… Hnn.
O_o, more or less.
(Source: injustice-worth)
Pub Reads on Broadway World…
The writer of Stick Fly shares her thoughts on women of color in theater, now and to come.
A spot of drink with your pub read calls for a few rules, now…
yfrog.com/obp2tndj (via The drinking rules @CENTERSTAGE_MD pub readings)
“I did think you are a beauty queen, and I do think” look at this awesome turn out! CENTERSTAGE inaugural pub reading; we’re doing it again next Sunday with The Lonesome West, so come one come all.
yfrog.com/odpo7idj
With A Skull in Connemara finishing up tech, we’ve invited local actors from Single Carrot and Everyman (and others) to join us at Liam’s 8pm this Sunday and next, Jan 22 & 29, to read the other two plays from the Leenane trilogy. And yes, it’s free - but your bar tab is your business. So show up at 22 E North Ave in Baltimore for some booze and brogues. Follow the link for more or go to www.centerstage.org/skull
~ from Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance”
As theater-makers, we are constantly thinking about, battling, embracing, in some way engaging with the recognizable narratives that Mr. Cowen mentions. They are our sworn enemies and our daily bread. Damn them. God love them. What do you think of them?
Harvard Mag and Robert Brustein wonder if “the play’s still the thing” in a digital age.
Read Olmos’ entire post—prompted by cancellation of his own play—at the link. It’s a widespread conundrum for sure…
“And so there is this disconnect between the people and those that provide for the people; each of them waiting on the other to make some sort of move that will allow them both to get what they want. Specifically in the arts, we have people who enjoy culture waiting on artistic institutions to be bold in their ventures and present something ambitious and never-seen-before. Meanwhile, the artistic institutions are waiting for their audiences to show them that they have a true open’ness and willingness to something off the beaten path. As if some checker game, where it is locked and each player is waiting for the other to make a sacrifice in order to keep the game going.
Audiences will never be able to show theaters how far their tastes run if never given the chance, and theaters will never be able to take a chance if audiences are scared to leave their comfort zone. Producing new work requires work on both ends.”
Disney to adapt Into the Woods into a movie.
Yeah, I said it. So did they. (spoilers abound if you don’t know what happens in Act Two).
We really are very timely over here! (Btw, we’re doing said show in March…FYI)
CENTERSTAGE patrons talk about their relationship with the theater and recall memories of favorite shows.
CENTERSTAGE - MY CENTERSTAGE (by drury bynum)
