By ArtsFuse on Mar 20, 2010 in Featured, Theater | 4 Comments
Why this is hell, nor am I out of it.— Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
Adding Machine: A Musical. Based on the play The Adding Machine by Elmer Rice. Original Music by Joshua Schmidt. Libretto by Schmidt and Jason Loewith. Directed by Paul Melone. Steve Bergman, Music Director. David Connolly, Choreographer. Susan Zeeman Rogers, Set Design. Gail [...]
By ArtsFuse on Mar 13, 2010 in Featured, Literature, Theater | 0 Comments
Artists should “no longer huddle in the confines of a painted box set” but instead join together to “find visible and audible expression for the tempo and psychology of our time” and dramatize “the search of the average American today for knowledge about his country and his world.” – Hallie Flanagan, Federal Theatre Project
Stick Fly [...]
By ArtsFuse on Feb 7, 2010 in Featured, Persona Non Grata, Theater | 5 Comments
More than any other art, theater asks for relevance. A play that convinces us that “this is the way it is now” can be excused many shortcomings. At any one moment there is a particular quality of feeling which dominates in human intercourse, a tonality which marks the present from the past, and when this [...]