The Thaumaturgy Department
thaumaturg
Main Entry: thau·ma·turg
Pronunciation: \ˈthȯ-mə-ˌtərj\
Function: noun
Etymology: French, from New Latin thaumaturgus, from Greek thaumatourgos working miracles, from thaumat-, thauma miracle + ergon work — more at Theater, Work
Main Entry: thau·ma·turg
Pronunciation: \ˈthȯ-mə-ˌtərj\
Function: noun
Etymology: French, from New Latin thaumaturgus, from Greek thaumatourgos working miracles, from thaumat-, thauma miracle + ergon work — more at Theater, Work
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.
“Poe Pourri” (part 1 of 3) — Beetlejuice takes on a certain prophetic and portentous fowl. And a darkly mordant poet, mourning his lost Lenore. You get the picture.
An O’Neill Offer from Arena Stage
From Arena Stage comes this can’t-miss insider offer: The Neo-Futurists are back in town as part of the Eugene O’Neill Festival! Catch their production of The Complete & Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O’Neill, Volume 1: Early Plays/Lost Plays Thursday, April 19th – Sunday, April 22nd. Arena’s offering a special 2 for 1 deal when you use the promo code NYNFbogo for any of the performances (that’s only $10.00 per ticket!). More information about the show appears below.
The Complete & Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O’Neill,
Volume 1: Early Plays/Lost Plays
April 19-22 in the Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle at the Mead Center (times vary)
To purchase, visit arenastage.org or call 202-488-3300.Approx. 90 min with no intermission
The New York Neo-Futurists release Eugene O’Neill’s stage directions from their dissertation prison and transform them into rip-roaring physical comedy – in under 90 minutes. Now a Broadway mainstay, O’Neill was considered an experimental playwright when he defied the melodramatic conventions of his day. The Neo-Futurists return O’Neill to his roots in this chronicle described by the New York Times as “an impish illustration of how lively entertainment can be created from theatrical spare parts,” which includes selections from two “sea plays,” the one-act A Wife for a Life (O’Neill’s first play) and the satire Now I Ask You.
In honor of Skull in Connemara, Martin McDonagh, and dramaturg Kellie Mecleary’s reflections on their relationship to “Irishness” performed (in her digital dramaturgy), here’s a little Tom Lehrer from the old days….
Charles Village, Baltimore
Though in their show Charmed & Dangerous, Second City notes the creation of the splinter neighborhood association of “Charles Bolton” it has yet to emerge in reality. However, in the real Charles Village, anything is possible. Including hiring a mural artist… 
A short play with some familiar players
Couple of fragment from the bake-off sort of play-thing. Just because.
Because more dramatists should join secret agencies and then desert and then everything just bam, goes to hell.
Again, and again, and again.
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BELASCO. Talk sense, man. We have a serious matter on…
(Source: injusticeworth)
Movies—from the glorious to the gory, and camp to classy—brilliantly and stylishly re-imagined as book covers ala 60s trashy paperback novels. Find your favorite, or request a new one. There’s something about many of these that manages to distill the essence of the movie into that one visual gesture in the best way: story AND tone.
Illustrated — “Highlander: We’re the Princes of the Universe” (by spacesick)
Two Gentlemen of Lebowski: The Bard Abides
“The Most Excellent Comedie and Tragical Romance of Two Gentlemen of Lebowski, otherwise known as an adaptation of the movie’s entire screenplay loaded into Bard-ian vernacular.” Someone had waaaaaay too much time on his hands. NOT us here, where we are in Dostoevskyland these days, but from a NY-based Lebowski buff & aspiring screenwriter.
The menace of Harborplace, the sheriff of the waterfront, the plazafront patrolman, the YouTube sensation, the officer who haunts the dreams of skater dudes everywhere, Baltimore’s very own very special enforcement unit—here mashes up with none other than the original dudes themselves, Bill and Ted. Here’s hoping this public servant gets served up in Second City’s Baltimore piece at CENTERSTAGE.
