Check out IRON CURTAIN’s review in the NYTimes!
Interview with Curt Columbus…
“…As a Chekhov translator you could spend your whole life waiting for a person to have that kind of visceral response to Chekhov and never see it happen. I felt really blessed to be in the room to watch a young person hear Chekhov in a way that made her leap to her feet.”
-Curt Columbus, I AM THEATRE
Breast in Show…
The first musical about breast cancer, Breast In Show, written by Lisa Hayes, directed by Kathryn Chase Bryer with music and lyrics by Joan Cushing, began two ‘preview’ performances on Friday, October 14, 2011, and has one remaining performance tonight, October 15th at 8 PM at The Jewish Community Center in Rockville, MD.
Breast in Show explores the lives of five patients who build strength and create lasting friendships even though, beyond their diagnoses, they have nothing else in common.
LATW’s Completeness to Star Jason Ritter and Mandy Siegfried
Playbill.com
By Adam Hetrick
05 Oct 2011
Jason Ritter and Mandy Siegfried will co-star in the L.A. Theatre Works production of Itamar Moses’ science-filled love story Completeness, which will get its theatrical software up and running Oct. 20.
The play recently enjoyed its New York premiere at Primary Stages, which concluded Sept. 25 Off-Broadway. Completeness had its world premiere at the South Coast Repertory earlier this year.
Stephen Sachs will direct the six-performance run, which will continue through Oct. 23 at UCLA’s James Bridges Theater. Ritter (“Parenthood”) and Mandy Siegfried (“Gray’s Anatomy”) are the first cast members announced. Susan A. Loewenberg produces the run.
‘Breakup Notebook’: Musical resonates with the lonesome of all
Published: Wednesday, September 14, 2011
By Peter Filichia/For The Star-Ledger
Everyone who’s ever been dumped — and doesn’t that include all of us? — is going to adore “The Breakup Notebook.”
The new musical at ReVision Theatre in Asbury Park is a complete triumph. Librettist Patricia Cotter and songwriter Lori Scarlett admit in their opening number that their story is all “what you’ve heard before.” Nevertheless, they have dealt with the subject of shattered relationships in a fresh, exciting way.
