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The Tenant was named one of the ten best things on stage in 2011 by our old swimming buddies at the The L Magazine. They called us ‘shoestring, site-specific, geniuses,’ which made us blush.
In addition we were mentioned as part of one of the top theater stories of the year at Playbill, and they reminded everyone to watch this again, because it’s awesome.
Contributing artist Robert Askins has received ecstatic reviews for his new play, Hand to God. Also, big congrats to Kaitlin Binnie who has been working tirelessly behind the scenes. New York Magazine reports:
Capering impishly between campy B-horror and a deadly serious revisionist Sunday-school lesson, Robert Askins’s daffily devout black comedy is just the sort of juicy little morsel the hard-bitten theatervore hopes to find, and seldom does, Off Broadway.
Read more at New York Magazine, The New York Times, & TheaterMania.
Woodshed’s Stephen Squibb represented Occupy Boston on Countdown With Keith Olbermann. See the excellent interview here.
Woodshed’s Jocelyn Kuritsky recently starred in Mac Wellman’s 3 2′s; or Afar. The production received rave reviews.
The New York Times boasted:
Mac Wellman’s “3 2’s; or AFAR” offers the playwright’s typically dizzying and fluid unfurling of language. References, registers and nonsense rhymes fly with madcap precision…everything in “3 2’s; or AFAR” eludes, and deliciously so.
Read more at The New York Times.
Alexis Soloski at The Village Voice reported:
His theater seems to defy rational description. It requires that you be present–breathing, watching, and most of all listening–in the performance space as Wellman’s words surround you. Being and time are what he demands of you–and the rewards are ample.
Read more at The Village Voice.
Additional reviews at New York Theatre Review, nytheatre.com.
Woodshed’s Jessica Pabst and contributing artist Kip Fagan get a three week extension! Broadway.com reports:
Asuncion, the new play written by and starring Oscar nominee Jesse Eisenberg, has extended three weeks at off-Broadway’s Cherry Lane Theatre. The Rattlestick Playwrights Theater production will now close on December 18 instead of November 27 as previously announced.
Directed by Kip Fagan, the play also stars The Hangover’s Justin Bartha.
Read more at Broadway.com, Playbill.com, and BroadwayWorld.com.
Check out the great article about The Tenant by Alexis Soloski in today’s Times!
Woodshed needs volunteers for the next couple weeks as we get The Tenant up and running! Email staffing@woodshedcollective.com and let us know when you can stop by to help!
Directors of Woodshed Collective’s The Tenant, Teddy Bergman and Stephen Brackett will participate in The Amoralists’ panel on site specific work. BroadwayWorld.com reports:
In conjunction with The Amoralists’ upcoming run of HotelMotel, their site-specific double feature at The Gershwin Hotel with a World Premiere by Derek Ahonen and a New York Premiere by Adam Rapp, The Amoralists present Theatre Where You Least Expect, a panel discussion about the challenges, joys, and importance of site-specific theater, the role of the audience and the types of spaces that work best.
Read more at BroadwayWorld.com or TheaterMania.com.
Woodshed member Jessica Pabst will design costumes for Center Theatre Group’s production of This, starring Saffron Burrows and Eisa Davis. Brian Scott Lipton reports:
The play focuses on Jane, a single mom in her late 30s who has shut down after her husband’s death.
The show will feature scenic design by Louisa Thompson, costume design by Jessica Pabst, lighting design by Matt Frey, original sound design by Matt Tierney, and original music by Peter Eldridge.
Read more at TheaterMania.com or Playbill.com.
Contributing artist Caridad Svich has won the Francesca Primus Prize for her play The House Of Spirits (which was directed at the Denver Center by another contributing artist, Jose Zayas). Brian Scott Lipton reports:
Caridad Svich has won the $10,000 Francesca Primus Prize for her play The House of the Spirits. Jointly sponsored by ATCA and the Francesca Ronnie Primus Foundation, the Primus Prize is given annually to an emerging woman theater.
Svich’s play is a dramatic adaptation of Isabel Allende’s sprawling novel, The House of the Spirits, which follows the fortunes of three generations of a Chilean family against the backdrop of political upheaval that shaped and split the country during the major part of the 20th Century. The play was read as part of the 2010 Colorado New Play Summit and given a full production at the Denver Center Theatre Company in the fall.
Read full article at TheaterMania.com.
Reed Birney, Evan Enderle, Matt Stadelmann, and Jenny Seastone Stern will take part in the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference in July.
Under the leadership of artistic director Wendy C. Goldberg, the National Playwrights Conference will nurture eight new plays July 6-30.
Read more at Playbill.com
Erika Sheffer’s play, Russian Transport, will receive its world premiere as part of The New Group’s 2011-2012 season! Russian Transport was developed in Woodshed’s PlayDates reading series in late 2009 and was subsequently passed along to Scott Elliott and Ian Morgan at The New Group. Broadway.com says:
Kicking off the season will be the world premiere of Sheffer’s Russian Transport, directed by New Group artistic director Scott Elliott. Set in the Russian-Jewish enclave of Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, the play is a tale of an immigrant couple, their two assimilated teenagers and the fierce and fiery upheaval they experience when sexy, mysterious Uncle Boris from the old country comes to stay with them for his shot at the American dream.
Read more at Broadway.com or check out similar articles at TheaterMania.com, BroadwayWorld.com, Playbill, Variety, and The New York Times.
Company member Jocelyn Kuritsky will begin development on a project revolving around medieval female mystics, along with Kate MacCluggage, Christina Pumariega, Jennifer Joan Thompson, and Amirah Vann. The project is being produced through Studio Tisch at the NYU Grad Acting Alumni Association.
Studio Tisch is a place in which alumni of the Graduate Acting Program can explore and present work – either known plays or work alumni have developed or are curious about developing.
Read more about Studio Tisch here.
Contributing artist Duncan Sheik releases a new album covering some 80s favorites.
There was more to the 1980s than mullets and Happy Pants. And fans of bands like Talk Talk or the Blue Nile know there’s more to the music from the dawn of synth pop than squiggly sounds wrapped around inane choruses. That’s why I so love Duncan Sheik’s new album, Duncan Sheik Covers ’80s. Lush and sexy, it’s also a serious inquiry into what’s still relevant about music that many would keep frozen in a mist of Aqua Net hair spray.
Read more at NPR.org.
Woodshed Collective member Jocelyn Kuritsky will act opposite Tina Benko, Rocco Sisto and others in Red Bull Theater Company’s Obie Award-Winning reading series.
Presented as part of the company’s Revelation Readings series, the program will feature works by Liz Duffy Adams, Mike Anderson, Heidi Armbruster, Elizabeth Egloff, David Grimm, Wendy MacLeod, Elizabeth Miller, and Jason Gray Platt.
Read whole article at TheaterMania.com.
