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The Flea Theater
The Flea Theater, founded in 1996, is a theater in the TriBeCa section of New York City. It presents primarily new American theater and provides a venue for film stars to act on a very small (74-seat) stage, as well as a smaller black box theater for experimental and new works. The theater was founded by Jim Simpson, Mac Wellman, and Kyle Chepulis. The Flea earned early acclaim for original productions of post-9-11 play ''The Guys'' and political works by A. R. Gurney. According to the New York Times, “Since its inception in 1996, The Flea has presented over 100 plays and numerous dance and live music performances. Under Artistic Director Jim Simpson and Producing Director Carol Ostrow, The Flea is one of New York’s leading off-off-Broadway companies." History Founded in 1996, the award-winning Flea Theater was originally formed to create, according to the theatre's website, “a joyful hell in a small space”. The Flea receives over 17,000 visitors each year. In Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Flea Theater (51522250709)
The Flea Theater, founded in 1996, is a Theater (structure), theater in the TriBeCa section of New York City. It presents primarily new Theater in the United States, American theater and provides a venue for film stars to act on a very small (74-seat) stage, as well as a smaller black box theater for experimental and new works. The theater was founded by Jim Simpson (director), Jim Simpson, Mac Wellman, and Kyle Chepulis. The Flea earned early acclaim for original productions of post-September 11, 2001 attacks, 9-11 play ''The Guys'' and political works by A. R. Gurney. According to the New York Times, “Since its inception in 1996, The Flea has presented over 100 plays and numerous dance and live music performances. Under Artistic Director Jim Simpson and Producing Director Carol Ostrow, The Flea is one of New York’s leading off-off-Broadway companies." History Founded in 1996, the award-winning Flea Theater was originally formed to create, according to the theatre's websi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheila Callaghan
Sheila Callaghan (born 1973) is a playwright and screenwriter who emerged from the RAT ( Regional Alternative Theatre) movement of the 1990s. She has been profiled by ''American Theater Magazine'', "The Brooklyn Rail", ''Theatermania'', and ''The Village Voice''. Her work has been published in ''American Theatre'' magazine. In 2010, Callaghan was profiled by '' Marie Claire'' as one of "18 successful women who are changing the world." She was also named one of ''Variety'' magazine's "10 Screenwriters to Watch" of 2010. She was nominated for a 2016 Golden Globe Award for her work on the Hulu comedy series '' Casual'', and a 2017 WGA nomination for her episode "I Am A Storm" from Season 7 of the comedy/drama series '' Shameless''. Style Callaghan's writing has been described as "comically engaging, subversively penetrating", "whimsically eloquent", "unique and completely contemporary", and "downright weird". ''The New York Times'' has said Callaghan "writes with a world-weary t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Foreman
Richard Foreman (born June 10, 1937 in New York City) is an American avant-garde playwright and the founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater. Achievements and awards Foreman has written, directed and designed over fifty of his own plays, both in New York City and abroad. He has received three Obie Awards for Best Play of the Year, and received four other Obies for directing and for sustained achievement. Foreman has received the annual Literature Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, a "Lifetime Achievement in the Theater" award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the PEN American Center Master American Dramatist Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and in 2004 was elected an officer of the Order of Arts and Letters of France. Archive Foreman's archives and work materials have been acquired by the Fales Library at New York University (NYU). Early life and education Richard Foreman was born in New York City, but spent many of his formative yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ontological-Hysteric Theater
Richard Foreman (born June 10, 1937 in New York City) is an American avant-garde playwright and the founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater. Achievements and awards Foreman has written, directed and designed over fifty of his own plays, both in New York City and abroad. He has received three Obie Awards for Best Play of the Year, and received four other Obies for directing and for sustained achievement. Foreman has received the annual Literature Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, a "Lifetime Achievement in the Theater" award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the PEN American Center Master American Dramatist Award, a MacArthur Fellowship, and in 2004 was elected an officer of the Order of Arts and Letters of France. Archive Foreman's archives and work materials have been acquired by the Fales Library at New York University (NYU). Early life and education Richard Foreman was born in New York City, but spent many of his formative yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wooster Group
The Wooster Group is a New York City-based experimental theater company known for creating numerous original dramatic works. It gradually emerged from Richard Schechner's The Performance Group (1967–1980) during the period from 1975 to 1980, and took its name in 1980; the independent productions of 1975–1980 are retroactively attributed to the Group.Wooster Group"Production History since 1975" The ensemble is directed by Elizabeth LeCompte and has launched the careers of many actors, including founding member Willem Dafoe. The Group's home is the Performing Garage at 33 Wooster Street between Grand and Broome Streets in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan. As of 2014, the company consists of 16 members. In addition, there are 29 "Associates". The Wooster Group is a not-for-profit theater company that relies on grants and donations from supporters. It has received multiple grants from the Carnegie Corporation. The Wooster Group are characterized by their extremely experiment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth LeCompte
Elizabeth LeCompte (born April 28, 1944) is an American director of experimental theater, dance, and media. A founding member of The Wooster Group, she has directed that ensemble since its emergence in the late 1970s.Mitter, Shomit, and Maria Shevtsova, ed. (2004) ''Fifty Key Theatre Directors''. London: Routledge. Life and career LeCompte was born and grew up in New Jersey. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Fine Arts from Skidmore College. She met director and actor Willem Dafoe at The Performance Group and began a professional and personal relationship. Their son, Jack, was born in 1982. With The Wooster Group, she has composed, designed, and directed over forty works for theater, dance, film and video, starting with ''Sakonnet Point'' in 1975. These works characteristically interweave performance with multimedia technologies and are strongly influenced by historical and contemporary visual arts and architecture. She is known both for taking apart and reworking class ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Performing Garage
The Performing Garage is an Off-Off-Broadway theater in SoHo, New York City. Established in 1968, it is the permanent home of the experimental theater company originally named The Performance Group (under Richard Schechner) that morphed in 1980 into The Wooster Group (under Elizabeth LeCompte), and their primary performance venue. Since 1978, it also hosts their annual "Visiting Artist Series" or "Emerging Artist Series". Located at 33 Wooster Street, it seats approximately 60. Actors such as Willem Dafoe debuted in earnest here and regularly come back.For instance, Dafoe played at the Garage in ''LSD'', ''Just the High Points'', ''The Road to Immortality'', ''North Atlantic' up to 2001 in ''To You, the Birdie!! (Phèdre) History The location was originally not a garage but a metal stamping/flatware factory,Wooster Group, "The Performing Garage". back when SoHo was an empty warehouse district being colonized by artists. It was acquired in 1968 by its first artistic and theater di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Performance Art
Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants. It may be witnessed live or through documentation, spontaneously developed or written, and is traditionally presented to a public in a fine art context in an interdisciplinary mode. Also known as ''artistic action'', it has been developed through the years as a genre of its own in which art is presented live. It had an important and fundamental role in 20th century avant-garde art. It involves four basic elements: time, space, body, and presence of the artist, and the relation between the creator and the public. The actions, generally developed in art galleries and museums, can take place in the street, any kind of setting or space and during any time period. Its goal is to generate a reaction, sometimes with the support of improvisation and a sense of aesthetics. The themes are commonly linked to life experiences of the artist themselves, or the need of denunci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Speculations: An Essay On The Theater
"Speculations: An Essay on the Theater" is a treatise by experimental playwright Mac Wellman. It was published with the collection of plays entitled ''The Difficulty of Crossing a Field'' (University of Minnesota Press, 2008). It is also available, with additional material not included in the book, on Wellman's website (see link below). The treatise is written in an eccentric style which, at times, reads like a series of aphorisms. Nevertheless, in its totality it presents a vision for contemporary theater which is both cohesive and profound, and which constitutes a radical departure from the Aristotelian paradigm that dominates mainstream theater today, where plot and character are central to the drama. As such, ''Speculations'' constitutes a critique of mainstream theater, but it also offers alternatives. It looks at the nature of time and space; the transfer of energy between people, places, and things; the unlimited potential inherent in the present moment; the subjective natur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Theatre Wing
The American Theatre Wing (the Wing for short) is a New York City–based non-profit organization "dedicated to supporting excellence and education in theatre", according to its mission statement. Originally known as the Stage Women's War Relief during World War I, it later became a part of the World War II Allied Relief Fund under its current name. The ATW created and sponsors the Tony Awards in theatrical arts. Background Stage Women's War Relief Stage Women's War Relief was founded in 1917 to organize charitable giving in support of the war effort. Its founders, led by playwright and director Rachel Crothers, included the actress and playwright Louise Closser Hale and actresses Dorothy Donnelly, Josephine Hull, Minnie Dupree, Elizabeth Tyree and Louise Drew. The organization established workrooms for sewing uniforms and other garments (with total output totaling 1,863,645 articles), set up clothing and food collection centers, sold Liberty Bonds, and opened a canteen on Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bathsheba Doran
Bathsheba "Bash" Doran is a British-born playwright and TV scriptwriter living in New York City. Life Bathsheba Doran, nicknamed "Bash", grew up in London and studied at Cambridge University. Her mother is the Elizabethan historian, Susan Doran.She became interested in comedy and writing early on. Doran says she fell in love with theatre when she found Peter Pan's shadow in the backstage at a theatre when she was a little girl and realised that it was made of pantyhose. Doran was a contemporary of Robert Webb and David Mitchell. Her first job as a professional writer was comedy sketch writing for their BBC2 show '' Bruiser''. She worked for several years in London as a comedy writer, writing for shows such as ''Smack the Pony'' and ''TV to Go''. In 2000, Doran moved to the United States on a Fulbright Scholarship. She studied and received a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University in 2003, and was selected as a playwriting fellow at Juilliard School. Doran's work has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Reynolds (writer)
Jonathan Reynolds (February 13, 1942October 27, 2021) was an American writer. He practiced as an actor for a short period before becoming a writer. He wrote for David Frost and Dick Cavett before a breakthrough with two comedy plays (''Rubbers'' and ''Yanks 3, Detroit 0, Top of the Seventh'') which ran off-Broadway in 1975. His most successful play was ''Geniuses'' at Playwrights Horizons in 1982, which was inspired by his time on the set of the war movie ''Apocalypse Now''. Reynolds wrote several screenplays, receiving praise for his writing on the 1984 romantic comedy ''Micki & Maude''. His other film work was less well received and he was awarded the 1988 Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screenplay for 1987's ''Leonard Part 6''. Reynolds returned to writing plays in the late 1990s and received a Pulitzer Prize for Drama nomination for his work on the 1997 play ''Stonewall Jackson’s House''. He wrote a food column for ''The New York Times Magazine'' between 2000 and 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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