Aurora Theatre Co Announces Season of Premieres
by Julie Musbach
- Mar 29, 2018
Berkeley's acclaimed Aurora Theatre Company proudly announces the lineup for its 27th season that opens with the Bay Area premiere of Dominique Morisseau's homage to Motown, DETROIT '67. The West Coast premiere of Jonathan Safran Foer's best-selling novel EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED, adapted by Simon Block, follows.
BWW Review: THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING at Arena
by Roger Catlin
- Oct 17, 2016
One of the failings of human beings is the hesitance to visit those who have lost loved ones. We wonder about the right thing to say when the actual requirement is to be present and to listen. That's all that's asked of audience members for 'The Year of Magical Thinking,' Joan Didion's adaptation of her own award-winning memoir into a one-woman play, now at Arena Stage.
THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING Set for Roxy Regional Theatre's theotherspace, 2/23-3/3
by Tyler Peterson
- Feb 4, 2015
'Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.' Those were the first words written by author Joan Didion after the sudden death of her husband of nearly four decades. Didion's powerful memoir of love and loss, THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING, will unfold upon the stage of the Roxy Regional Theatre's theotherspace for four evenings, February 23 - March 3.
Vanessa Redgrave to Read Joan Didion's 'Blue Nights' to Benefit BC/EFA
by Tyler Peterson
- Oct 20, 2014
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and The Cathedral of St. John the Divine announced today that Tony Award-winning actress Vanessa Redgrave will perform a reading of Blue Nights, the evocative memoir by Joan Didion, at a special benefit performance at 8 p.m. Monday, November 17, at The Cathedral (1047 Amsterdam Ave, NYC).
Penobscot Theatre Company Releases Leadership Update
by Tyler Peterson
- Aug 12, 2014
The board of directors of Penobscot Theatre Company has announced that Artistic Director Bari Newport has been named producing artistic director, and Mary Budd, who had served as the theatre's interim managing director since February, has been named executive director.
BWW Reviews: APT's Sarah Day Delivers Magnificent THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING
by Peggy Sue Dunigan
- Jul 18, 2014
Perhaps the power of American Players Theatre can be determined by an audience's silence when exiting the Touchstone Theater after a Sunday evening performance, the haunting quiet almost reverent appreciation for what had transpired minutes before. In Spring Green, Sarah Day illuminates the stage in an approximately one hour forty five minute no intermission performance. APT's one woman play retells award winning author's Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, a play she adapted in 2007 and based on her memoir from the year after her husband John Gregory Dunne died in 2003 A time when Didion simultaneously coped when her daughter Quintana suffered from septic shock, often lying n the hospital's ICU hovering between life and death.
THE WHIPPING MAN Runs Now thru 2/16 at Archbold Theatre
by BWW News Desk
- Jan 29, 2014
The Whipping Man performs January 29 - February 16 in the Archbold Theatre at the Syracuse Stage/Drama Complex. It is recommended for ages 13 and up due to mature subject matter. Tickets can be purchased online at www.SyracuseStage.org, by phone at 315-443-3275, or in person at the Syracuse Stage Box Office at 820 East Genesee Street. Discounts are available for groups of 10 or more at 315-443-9844.
THE WHIPPING MAN to Run 1/29-2/16 at Archbold Theatre
by Tyler Peterson
- Jan 17, 2014
The Whipping Man performs January 29 - February 16 in the Archbold Theatre at the Syracuse Stage/Drama Complex. It is recommended for ages 13 and up due to mature subject matter. Tickets can be purchased online at www.SyracuseStage.org, by phone at 315-443-3275, or in person at the Syracuse Stage Box Office at 820 East Genesee Street. Discounts are available for groups of 10 or more at 315-443-9844.
The Human Condition is Captured in A COLLECTION OF WRITINGS II
by BWW News Desk
- Nov 4, 2013
To understand the human condition is to feel it in its entirety, and John R. Gregory allows his readers to have a literary experience that reflects the wonderful complexity of life. His new book, 'A Collection of Writings II,' explores the heart and mind through prose and poetry, giving readers unique insights about the world around them, and what lies within their beings as well.
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