BOMB 112/Summer 2010
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Michelle Boulé dances as if possessed; she refers to it as channeling, movement as a conduit. Here she discusses her relationships with choreographers like Miguel Gutierrez and Deborah Hay and increasing intersections between dance and visual art.
Oskar Eustis, the Public’s Artistic Director, and his collaborator, Hewes Award-winning set designer David Korins. Having recently collaborated on Passing Strange among other productions, the two discuss how process makes perfect.
Watch a BOMBLive! Playwrights Young Jean Lee & Richard Maxwell discuss race, politics, and her latest play The Shipment in the web-exclusive video interview filmed live P.S. 122.
David Levine spoke to director Michael Thalheimer as he prepared to bring his version of Frank Wedekind’s Lulu to New York which just played to rave reviews at BAM. This interview is a part of the Select Equity Series on Theater.
Listen to a podcast of a post-show discussion with musician/performer Cynthia Hopkins and playwright Craig Lucas, recorded live at Soho Rep on May 20, 2010, as part of their FEED series.
In her most recent theater piece, The Truth: A Tragedy, Hopkins tackled her father’s deterioration. Annie-B Parson rolled the dice to find out how Hopkins converts her demons into one-woman productions blending music, dance, fact, and fiction.
The iconic dancer and choreographer is collaborating with musician Lukas Ligeti on Itutu, blending African pop with Western symbolism. They dissect African polyrhythms and Armitage’s movement language of sinuous curves.
Jefferson describes Bradshaw’s plays as treacherous territories peopled with high-achieving suburbanites and professors gripped by sexual and racial manias. Their most dangerous quality: they act on pure id.
Young Jean Lee interviews Kelly Copper and Pavol Liška, founders and directors of the Nature Theater of Oklahoma. Their production of Romeo & Juliet runs through 1/17 at The Kitchen.
With cheap suits and utopian agendas, the Yes Men invade business conferences and the television newsroom posing as politicians and corporate spokesmen. It’s aigtprop for a new age, played out in real life
The Select Equity Group Series on Theater. Playwright Richard Maxwell directs artist and writer John Kelsey in an impromptu rehearsal of an angst-riddled monologue. A discussion on the intricacies of delivering a text ensues.
The Select Equity Group Series on Theater. Eno, who’s been hailed as “the Beckett of the John Stewart generation,” with his collaborator Sola at the former Howard Johnson’s restaurant and points beyond.
The Select Equity Group Series on Theater. The Academy Award winner on how acting has helped him perfect his other love— directing for the theater. Just opening: Little Flower of East Orange at LAByrinth Theater Company.
Winter Miller accompanied Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Nicholas Kristof to Chad, interviewing refugees from the Darfur genocide. The result: her stark, highly emotional play In Darfur.
Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar have compressed dance and theater into their own spectacular hybrid. The Other Here is running at the Dance Theater Workshop through September 29.
National treasure Kate Valk, on her acting life with the famed Wooster Group, their interpretation of Hamlet, and channeling the ghosts of legends. Part of the Select Equity Group Series on Theater.
Master actor John Turturro spoke with compatriot June Stein about the art of directing during previews of Yasmina Reza’s A Spanish Play.
Sarah Ruhl won a MacArthur for The Clean House, which just closed at Lincoln Center in New York. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel sets the stage.
Doña Julia Julieta, of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, on Mazatec ancestral knowledge, sacred mushrooms, and one patient’s extraordinary regression through time.
On the craft of directing and playwriting for a woman’s body, the body politic, and a people’s soul.
Playwright Theresa Rebeck bring us the most memorable of contemporary visions in her plays. Director and producer Evangeline Morphos speaks with Rebeck about storytelling, Beckett, censorship, and the true nature of laughter.
Gabriella De Ferrari speaks with venerated choreographer and BOMB Living Legend William Forsythe just after his extraordinary new production Kammer/Kammer premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Celebrated for his dissection of WASP America, playwright A. R. Gurney talks with colleague Romulus Linney about Gurney’s most popular plays: The Dining Room, Sylvia, The Cocktail Hour. His latest, Indian Blood opens.
Adam Rapp’s moody plays take place in the underbelly of American life; his characters, searching for a way out, often fail. The world premiere of his new play Kindness is at the Playwrights Horizons from September 25th to November 2nd.
The celebrated playwright and author converses with theater producer Morphos (behind, most recently, Sam Shepard’s The God of Hell), about his book of short stories, A Primitive Heart. In all of Rabe’s work, the past haunts his protagonist.
Edge Theater Company produces unequivocally complex new American plays that bring a provocative mix of dark humor and ardent wit to bear in their exploration of life’s messy contingencies. Carolyn Cantor directed their latest, Orange Flower Water.
Haitian choreographer and drummer Peniel Guerrier was trained in traditional Haitian and African movement, and his choreographies acknowledge each tradition’s rhythms and rituals while fusing them in unexpected ways.
Playwright Romulus Linney has been following Laura Linney’s career since its inception—he’s her dad. Fresh from roles in Clint Eastwood’s film Mystic River and Donald Margulies’s play Sight Unseen, the actress is working non-stop.
New York-based cartoonist Ben Katchor is a recorder of vanished and vanishing places. His latest project, a full-blown musical-theater production titled The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island, brings his drawings and writings to the stage.