BOMB 118/Winter 2012
Hadley Roach attends the PS122 Launch Party on the Gawker rooftop to preview the real and imagined treats of the 2011–2012 season.
Our friends at 651 Arts are hosting LIVE & OUTSPOKEN music, theater, and dance series and BOMB is proud to be their official media sponsor.
Our friends at 651 Arts are hosting LIVE & OUTSPOKEN music, theater, and dance series and BOMB is proud to be their official media sponsor.
Our friends at 651 Arts are hosting LIVE & OUTSPOKEN music, theater, and dance series and BOMB is proud to be their official media sponsor.
Whispering Pines 10 features Shana Moulton as a mute hypochondriac shuffling around a green screened home, with pop librettos by Nick Hallett. Kareem Estefan reports.
Watch a BOMBLive! This video features an interview of playwright Young Jean Lee by playwright Richard Maxwell, filmed at the Mabou Mines Theatre, New York City, on November 5, 2008. It is part of The Select Equity Group Series on Theater.
Read a BOMBLive! edited transcript of this video interview: Young Jean Lee interviewed by Richard Maxwell at Mabou Mines Theatre, New York City in November 2008.
Scott Shepherd, narrator of the Elevator Repair Service’s GATZ and actor in The Wooster Group’s version of Vieux Carré talks shop with playwright/director Richard Maxwell.
The two playwrights and performers on the drawbacks of being in constant production mode versus the pleasures of, and requirements for, the incubation of plays: a dose of folly and wonderment.
In this Editor’s Choice, Mac Wellman reviews The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater 1945–85 edited by Kevin Killian and David Brazil.
Scott Shepard reviews Mac Wellman’s new book of plays, The Difficulty of Crossing a Field.
Andrew Moszynski on why optimism is at the heart of the socioeconomic statements Fernanda Laguna makes with her paintings, drawings, poems and plays.
This First Proof contains the afterword to the play From Alice Invents a Little Game and Alice Always Wins. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the one-act play The Final Interrogation of Ceauşescu’s Dog. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains an excerpt from the play Requiem. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains excerpts from the screenplay Thirty-Two Short Films about Glenn Gould. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
Screenplay adopted from a real-life correspondence between two poets, “Neighbor” by Jacki Ochs. This article is only available in print.
Short play consisting mainly of dialog between singers and musicians about music and other topics, “Orpheus In Love” by Craig Lucas. This article is only available in print.
Writer Thulani Davis has achieved something that many writers strive for. Davis has been able to stretch her talents across many forms of writing. She is known for her work as a journalist, poet, novelist and librettist.
Excerpts from a screenplay featuring literary figures as characters, “On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine.” Screenplay written by Mark Magill, story by Jill Godmilow and Mark Magill.
Four photographs, by Bill Cunningham, from a performance of Total Beauty in Three Acts by Delia Doherty and Corey Tippin. This article is only available in print.
Excerpts from screenplay about a post-apocalyptic world, Caligari’s Children by Ann Powell and Rose Sand. This article is only available in print.
A theatre of the grotesque, degradation, and disintegration, “Umarla Klasa (The Dead Class): Dramatic Séance of Tadeusz Kantor” translated by M. Dabrowski. This article is only available in print.
Excerpts from Scenes II and IV of Susan Landau’s Fiction Music Theatre play Cathode Cruel exploring psychology and sexuality. This article is available only in print.
A jarring re-imagining of Shakespearean characters tackling the disease of corruption (largely in French), part two of Desire, a play by Kathy Acker. This article is only available in print.
Write-up for a play by Gary Indiana. This article is only available in print.
A jarring re-imagining of Shakespearean characters tackling the disease of corruption, part one of Desire, a play by Kathy Acker. This article is only available in print.
