SPRING 2006 progams
publication for the theatre
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SPRING 2006 progams publication for the theatre |
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Celebrating 25 Years of SEEP Slavic and East European Performance Published by the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, SEEP brings readers lively, authoritative accounts of drama, theatre, and film in Eastern Europe and Russia. Started in 1981, in collaboration with George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, as the outgrowth of a National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar held at The Graduate Center, CUNY, the journal includes features on important new plays in performance, archival documents, innovative productions, significant revivals, emerging artists, the latest in film, and outstanding interviews and overviews. The celebration will offer past and present contributors, editors and staff members, and subscribers and friends of SEEP an opportunity to meet and discuss their shared interests and works in progress. An informal colloquium will present a discussion of aspects of the current state of theatre and film in Russia and Eastern Europe. The evening has been coordinated with the help of Susan Tenneriello, Brooklyn College, Department of Theatre. With contributors, staff, and editor Daniel Gerould, Lucille Lortel Distinguished Professor of Theatre and Comparative Literature at The Graduate Center. 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 4, 2006, Martin E. Segal Theatre Res. Code 6797. Free |
Celebrating the Latest MESTC Publication on Comedy Join us to celebrate the publication of Comedy: A Bibliography of Critical Studies in English on the Theory and Practice of Comedy in Drama, Theatre and Performance. The celebration will feature readings of selections by theorists of comedy who appear in the bibliography, such as Suzanne Langer, Eric Bentley, Henri Bergson, Mikhail Bakhtin, August Schlegel, George Santayana, and Bernard Shaw. The passages chosen, to be read by two actors, explore the nature, purposes, techniques, and pleasures of comedy in a lively and eloquent manner. After the readings, there will be a (modest) feast and festivity, as is customary at the end of comedies. With CUNY Ph.D. candiate Meghan Duffy, who edited the bibliography, and senior editor Daniel Gerould, Lucille Lortel Distinguished Professor of Theatre and Comparative Literature. Readings with Zoe Caldwell and Marian Seldes. 6:30 p.m., Thursday, April 20, 2006, Martin E. Segal Theatre Res. Code 6798. Free |
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The New York Theatre Review: A Celebration of Theatre on the Edge Since its Greenwich Village inception in the late 1950s and 60s, leading-edge New York theatre, labeled collectively as "off-off Broadway," has been defined by what it isn't and where it's not. In its debut issue, the New York Theater Review strives to give a focused
overview of an often disparate and disconnected community of theatre and
performance artists with a collection of reviews, essays, and new plays that
capture the eclectic spirit and vision of today's New York alternative theatre
scene. Join us for what will certainly be a lively and informative evening of discussion
and performance as NYTR-affiliated writers and artists explore what"downtown" theatre really means and what makes it such a driving—if not
always recognized and often under-appreciated—force in shaping the contemporary The evening will include readings from new NYTR plays by August Schulenburg (Riding the Bull), Ken Urban (The Female Terrorist Project), and Sheila Callaghan's Dead City, which is set for a world premiere staging in May at Tribeca's 3-Legged Dog, produced by New Georges. Speakers and guests include Lisa Timmel, literary manager of Playwrights Horizons; Jason Grote, 2005-2006 P73 playwriting fellow and co-theatre editor of the Brooklyn Rail; and Zachary Mannheimer, producing artistic director of the Subjective Theatre Company and founder of the Community Dish, a consortium of NYC independent theatre companies. Presented by alt-theater webzine theater2k.com in partnership with the Brooklyn Rail. Moderated by NYTR editor Brook Stowe. 6:30 p.m., Monday, March 20, 2006, Martin E. Segal Theatre Res. Code 6799. Free |
Celebrating Fifty Years of The Drama Review TDR, the journal of performance studies, is a forum for writing about performances in their aesthetic, historical, social, economic, political, and theoretical contexts. Edited by Richard Schechner and associate editor Mariellen R. Sandford, TDR covers international performance of all kinds including aesthetic theatre and dance, ritual, media, performance art, popular entertainments, and sports. The journal provides the most highly prized arena for explorations in the fields of performance studies and interdisciplinary performance theory. Founded as The Tulane Drama Review at Tulane University, TDR became The Drama Review when Richard Schechner brought the journal with him to New York University in 1967. As the journal devoted to theatre and performance with the longest run, TDR has been and continues to be the best source for reading about the tremendous changes in performance and performance scholarship over the past 50 years. With Carol Martin, Richard Schechner and others. 6:30 p.m., Monday, May 22, 2006, Martin E. Segal Theatre Res. Code 6800. Free |
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