Bolshoi Theatre

green room of a theater in Buffalo, about Charlotte and George Hay, their daughter Rosalind, her fiance, Howard, ex-fiance, Paul, George’s supporting actress and one-night-stand, Eileen, Rosalind’s nearly deaf grandmother Ethel, and Richard, the theatre company’s lovesick lawyer who is courting Charlotte. The script follows the cast through many twists and turns in show business, that lead up to frantic chaos, but ultimately results in a happy ending that is funny, and enjoyable. I believe that this

Vsevolod Meyerhold is a broadly known Russian theatre practitioner, who created and taught Theatrical Biomechanics, which is both “an acting technique and a production style” (Baldwin, 1995: p. 181). Mostly because of Meyerhold’s unique position as the leading Soviet avant-garde director, his Biomechanics received wide attention in the beginning of the XXI century (Law, 1995: p. 1). However, if Meyerhold was influenced by Commedia dell’arte at first and after the Revolution by Taylor’s scientific

The theater was largely attended by children and toddlers. To my surprise, I noticed that there were a decent number of adults attending the show too. I was not sure if they were dragged into the show by their own children or that they came to watch the performance willingly. Unfortunately, I was dragged into the theater to watch Aladdin the Musical with my younger siblings during a family outing in Disneyland. I tried my best to spot other adolescents in the theater. However, it felt like I was

In Pat Cook’s Barbecuing Hamlet, a director from Buffalo, New York – Margo Daley – goes to a small town and ends up directing Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The place she happens to be directing this play at is the Peaceful Glen Memorial, a former funeral home. At first, there were only a few people who auditioned for the play, but then the council from Peaceful Glen Memorial stepped in Act 1 scene 5. Margo wanted to quit directing the play multiple times, but the actors seemed to get her to stay every

Sophocles wrote and produced Oedipus the King at the Festival Dionysia as Athens experienced decline. Recounting Oedipus’s self-destructive search for the truth, a truth that leads him to discover his heinous crimes done in simple ignorance, Sophocles demonstrates the coldness of fate, the distance of the gods, and the reality of changing luck. This indifferent fate, that maintains the order of the world even it is beyond human understanding, told in this story could serve the audience over 400 years

“One day in 1896, six theatre businessmen met for lunch at the Holland House Hotel.” The gentlemen gathered that day where in a consensus about a few things, but the greatest of which being the state of the American theatre and its institutional need for centralization. (Mroczka) The aim of the following discussion is to contextualize this organization within American theatre history while illustrating the positive and negative impacts of The Theatrical Syndicate on the theatre community. For much

Tennessee WIlliams is a very well known playwright and his work shows for it, awarded with the Pulitzer Prize for Drama multiple times, The Kennedy Center Honors award, and many others he has claimed. Williams extensive background involving personal drama directly correlates why his plays are able to reach audiences deeper emotions. A wide variety of elements are evident in his play Cat on A Hot Tin Roof that must be understood before a proper critique can be documented. For contextual reasons, Brick

In A Wrinkle in Time Meg, her younger brother Charles Wallace, and her friend Calvin travel through time and space in order to rescue her father. Meg’s father is a scientist who was captured by IT, and was imprisoned in Camazotz. This entire play described the journey that the three teenagers faced, and their struggles throughout the journey. With the help of Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which the three teenagers are able to travel through space, arrive at Camazotz and rescue their father safety

In the Cornell Schwartz Center for Performing Arts production of Hamlet Wakes Up Late, Director Rebekah Maggor made various innovations in the stage design, music, costume, and the actors’ lines and motions to make the play more effective and more understandable to a Cornell audience. Hamlet Wakes Up Late included Elizabethan, Arabic, and modern music in one play. As mentioned by Professor Maggor, the production featured original music composed by a Syrian-American composer, and played by a violinist

from the goals of realism. Naturalism is defined as “a style of art or literature that shows people and things as they actually are” (Naturalism). “The mid-nineteenth century witnessed the state of a new kind of awareness and self-reflection among theatre artists” (Schumacher 1). This awareness meant that putting on a play just to put on a play was no longer enough. “The creation of imaginary worlds had to be justified on ethical, sociological, political and aesthetic grounds” (Schumacher 1). This