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The Authorship Question Revisited: Who Wrote Jason Sebacher’s Play?

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12 Q 4 Christine Jones: Creating “Theater for One,” Designing “American Idiot”

Posted 5 months, 1 week ago

 American Idiot and Theater for One make Christine Jones the designer of one of the biggest–and one of the smallest–shows on the Rialto.

It takes an original mind to think so far inside a box that the whole concept of theater gets turned on its head until it finds itself right side up. And it takes an unusual designer to create a stage space that doesn’t allow room for many design elements.

Scenic designer Christine Jones’s Theatre for One goes way beyond usual definitions of intimate theater, allowing a single spectator to experience the work of one performer in a tiny space. On…

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American Idiot, From Berkeley to Broadway: 6Q4 Susan Medak

Posted 3 months ago

“There are parallels between the band’s success and our success….Telling Green Day’s story helped tell Berkeley Rep’s story.”—Susan Medak, Managing Director, Berkeley Rep

 

Some of the hottest shows on Broadway began in Your Hometown, USA. Come Fly Away originated at the Alliance Theater in Atlanta, for instance. Memphis may not have developed in Tennessee, but it did do a test run at the La Jolla Playhouse, the California theater that also gave New York Jersey Boys, The Who’s Tommy, Big River, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and over a dozen other shows.

Now, American…

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At the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s Critics Institute: 5Q4 Dan Sullivan

Posted 1 month, 3 weeks ago

It was summer, 1977, and it was a summer of firsts.  I was a new mom with a six-week-old son, and for the first and maybe the only time, the National Critics Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center had recruited critic fellows instead of evaluating applicants.

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Some months earlier, before I was showing, probably before I knew I was pregnant, the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities had given the Institute grants that allowed it to…

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