January 2011
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“When the producer makes the final decision, the theater and the art is dead....”
– Dominique Serrand, founder of Theatre de la Jeune Lune
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“WHAT YOU KNOW IS LESS IMPORTANT THAT WHAT YOU DISCOVER ALONG THE WAY TO FINDING...”
– This could be a roadmap to Pinter—or a recipe for artistic creativity. It happens to be a comment by Dominique Serrand, founder of the late, lamented Theatre de la Jeune Lune, on process.
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Ode to Dramatur-joy
From an author’s blog—specifically, Mo Willems, author and now adapter of children’s lit favorite Knuffle Bunny—comes this marvelous paean to dramaturgs (despite the somewhat fraught alternate spelling—dramaturg vs. dramaturge; subject for another debate, another time).
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Show Time!
I’ve been working on a really fun project the last 4 months or...
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“We will all interpret a common experience quite differently, though we prefer to...”
– Harold Pinter
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"Waiting for Godot" for wii →
Utterly hilarious, and apropos of…well, not much. Second City, I suppose, in the vein of satire and spoof.
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Ban On Women In Combat Is Discriminatory,... →
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A little history of The Second City...from one... →
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How the HECK did we/they get here?
One of the program pieces written for The Second City Does Baltimore (click here for the online version, complete with far more delicious graphics and all that). ============================================================
On behalf of our Charming City, CENTERSTAGE—the State Theater of Maryland—welcomes the Windy City’s comedy ambassadors, eminent emissaries of Thalia (1), Chicago’s The...
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"dueling" critics reflect on air about 2nd City →
Tom Hall and J. Wynn Rousuck on Maryland Morning sharing their respective thoughts on The Second City Does Baltimore.
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" 'The Second City Does Baltimore: A Hilarious...
nice local blog about The Second City Does Baltimore:
“Second City” is a comedy troupe in Chicago, probably best known for being a launch pad for some of the nation’s biggest comedians. And they’ve come to do a part-improv/part-scripted show in Baltimore about…Baltimore. Here’s the scoop: The writers of the show spent some time here, going all over the city to absorb the culture, the...
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“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in...”
– Oscar Wilde
(via hardlyworkingactress)
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“Drama that fits comfortably into understood and reassuring categories ‘is...”
– Harold Pinter (author of The Homecoming, currently rehearsing here at CENTERSTAGE); Pinter’s plays leave plenty of blanks, but certainly never fill them in for you.
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A glimpse at the mania that is Raven-mania in...
hzlswrld09:
“Our Flacco who art in Pittsburgh, hallowed be thy name. Thy Bowl will come. It will be won, in Dallas as it is in the Dome. Give us this Saturday, our weekly win, give us Touchdown passes but do not let others pass against us, Lead us not into frustration, but deliver us to the superbowl…. For thine is the MVP, the best of the NFL and the glory of the Purple & Black...
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firsthand view: photostream from an afghan... →
Flickr: mchasesteely aka. oneiclosed’s Photostream
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The Chesapeake restaurant shows signs of life →
Long vacant, this once bustling and glamorous destination spot has been not only a festering eyesore of sort, a needling reminder of vanished glory, but a fraught spot of current contention in development circles. Stymied at every turn, the city itself has tried for years to dislodge the stalemate and foster some progress; all the way down to other businesses adjacent, among them Everyman Theatre...
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“When you come into the theater, you have to be willing to say,...”
– DAVID MAMET, Three Uses of the Knife
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Second City doing Baltimore stirs memories of SCTV →
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