Participating Theater Bloggers
- Aaron Riccio for Theater Talk, That Sounds Cool and metaDRAMA
- Adam Szymkowicz
- Garrett Eisler for The Playgoer
- Ian W. Hill for Collisionworks
- Isaac Butler for Parabasis
- Jaime for Surplus
- James Comtois for Jamespeak
- Leonard Jacobs for The Clyde Fitch Report
- Ludlow Lad for Off-Off Blogway
- Mark from Mr. Excitement News
- Matthew Freeman for On Theatre and Politics
- Moxie the Maven
- Nick from Rat Sass
- Rocco for What's Good/What Blows in NY Theatre
Sunday, June 3, 2007
A Final Last Word After-The-Fact Post
ok that's it everyone.
Thanks so much everyone!
M
I Just Blogged...
Also, more theater IS being done on screens. Just look at the MET, now in your local cineplex. (I, for one, am glad that it's working!)
dude!
it said "Why?"... that"
's my favorite question!!!
PS Cat* is the greatest ever...
really I'm writing this myself comtois
Plugging Living Dead in Denmark
This is pretty sweet.
For a limited four-performance engagement, Vampire Cowboys resurrects its critically-acclaimed award-winning production of Living Dead in Denmark for the first National Asian American Theatre Festival. The show's original run last season garnered 5 New York Innovative Theatre Award nominations including Best Production and winner of the Best Choreography/Movement category (not to mention made it to Yours Truly's Top Ten List for 2006).
For tickets go here.
Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company presents Living Dead in Denmark June 12th through 15th at The Clurman @ Theater Row (410 W. 42nd Street).
Living Dead in Denmark is an action-adventure/horror sequel to William Shakespeare's Hamlet. Set five years after the events of the original, the play follows the story of a newly resurrected Ophelia, Juliet and Lady Macbeth and their quest to save Denmark from an army of the undead. Includes the award winning fight choreography of Marius Hanford and zombie masks/gore effects by the legendary Chuck Varga (The Sexecutioner) of GWAR.
Featuring: Carlo Alban, Alexis Black, Jason Liebman, Maggie Macdonald, Tom Myers, Melissa Paladino, Jason Schumacher, Andrea Marie Smith, Temar Underwood & Amy Kim Waschke
Written by Qui Nguyen, Directed by Robert Ross Parker
Fight director: Marius Hanford
Set and lighting designer: Nick Francone
Costume designer: Jessica Wegener
Zombie masks and gore effects: Chuck Varga
Puppet design: David Valentine
Graphic media: Nathan Lemoine
For more information, go here.
Ready to fight,
James "Zombie-Killer" Comtois
5 minute warning
good night y'all
Stat Check
How to end blog event - a response to Freeman
And That's What the Blogosophere is For
Performance
THERE'S ALL THIS CRAP AROUND 6:15-7:00 OR SOMETHING
Red State Theatre
What exactly does speaking to the concerns of red state conservatives mean? Do you suggest the American theatre devote an entire wing of itself to the promotion of hatred gussied up as Bible studies? I'm sorry, but while I've heard this argument from Mannheimer over and over, and while I respect the view, I think theatre is theatre -- the moment you begin tailoring drama for this constituency or that constituency, it is no better than the stage of the Lord Chamberlain or Soviet Russia.
Be Right Back...
Unprofessional,
James "Witty Nickname" Comtois
jealous of nellie
Lil' Bit About The Pretentious Fest
Wanting to make out with Freeman,
James "Not Gay" Comtois
wag of the finger
Get some class, people. Or are they just so blog-illiterate they still don't get there is an etiquette?
Personally I delete them, btw.
So impressed there are people here!
To Agree with Aaron
WHERE'S THE BEEF?
If Adam can do it....
Kinda interesting...
But what the hell? I'm getting beer.
Your drunken monkey,
James "[Hic]" Comtois
Watch Out for Blogging TOO MUCH!
Where I'm At...
Red State Hooey
Hi there
I just saw eurydice. It is beautiful, amazing, breathtaking, outstanding and wonderful. Go see it.
Stop Making Sense
Enjoying my Yeungling...
PS. Hey why did I just have to enter a Wod Verification? Are being hacked by Terry Teachout???
In Absentia
On Multiple Critics (riffing on Ludlow Lad's comment)
Back to seriousness (and a shout out to the two people using those chairs on stage right now): part of what we are trying to do with the New Theater Corps blog (through Theater Talk) is to give voices to young theatergoers who actually know, love, and care about what's going on off-Broadway and to give as many viewpoints as we can to the various shows out there. What I've found is--GASP--performances vary from night to night, especially when you go off-Broadway, where things might exponentially improve from night to night. A scene change that took five minutes on the opening night for "Don Juan in Chicago" only took two minutes when I saw it, and a show that ran almost three hours ("Lipstick on a Pig") was only two hours long when I went. This is why it's dangerous to let the Gray Lady have the last say (or first say) on everything. (Is that heresay?)
Leonard...
missing the party
But missing the party. Are any of you at the party missing the party? It's an internal thing.
i'm real i'm real
IMPORTANT!
The Dean
Does Rocco Exist?
He really is Marian Seldes, then. I guess Angela Lansbury wouldn't go on with his understudy...
What's Going On Outside?
Three White Balloons
What is action? Leave the virtual. Send something real. Talk to me.
Playgoer
Wasting everybody's time with insipid drivel,
James "On The Ball" Comtois
There are chairs on the stage
They just turned on music, too. I feel nothing. Why can't I feel?
Our Community
Mirrors in Mirrors (and an answer to Parabasis' question)
Time Lag Issues
What you need to do is...@ the bottom fo the screen under "Post Options" make sure that the TIME in the Post Time and Date is correct. Or at least AFTER the last post published on the blog.
Dedication
Good Evening
Simulspying
In what must be the ultimate over-the-shoulder reading experience, I'm watching those who are here in the Brick right now at 8:32 as they watch me (or not). I should've brought a camera, because then those of you in the remote locations could have visual updates too, but right now, I'll give you a brief synopsis of the setting.
Empty chair, empty chair, laptop, fan, empty chair, empty chair, laptop, Matt, Pam, aisle, empty chair (x5): rinse, wash and repeat to fill out the rest of the audience (five deep, at increasing heights and with intermittent attendance), and then, on stage, a disco light show projecting against the projection of the blog on a white-screen (now currently the Dell screen of death, now currently lights off, typing in the dark recesses of a memorized keyboard), and two people sitting on stage by a microphone, an ominous laptop, and more.
Here's a question, as the testing voice echoes over the theater: what does theater actually require? I mean, what does it take to have a (LOUDER) show?
I think it's fine too. Let's get to business.
The thing is impossible
I am not at an undisclosed location. I am, in fact, present. Because it's THEATRE bitches.
An Ending
"The Message" from VAMPYROS LESBOS.
Five Minutes All
With sad Ennio Morricone music playing behind us here . . .
NOW I'M POSTING AS "THE AUDIENCE" NOT "JEFFISAWESOME"
Does anyone feel like
I am being asked to think. This is not what I signed up for. I signed up for... um. Shit. This is all my fault.
If I ran the NY Times
Gardner here.
Intrepid audience members can come to this computer and blog.
Hi, Berit. Does the back of my head look ok?
M
Synchronize Your Laptops
IWH
Finally...
The soaked fat kid in the front row,
James "Sexy Bitch" Comtois
Time Check
Leonard--?
You missed out on some groupie action, man . . .
IWH
The Setting Up
Also, Michael Gardner is concerned about posting some "moderator" questions - I worry that if that winds up becomning more like an IM session, and not actual "blogging" - we might as all be in a chat room then, right.
Ah, he's going to post on the computer set up for audience members to post on . . . that'll work . . .
IWH
Remotely
LJ
The Blogging Event Impends
I got here early to check out Matt Freeman's show at the Pretentious Festival and it was indeed the most fucking pretentious thing I've ever seen. I'm not sure if he secretly loves Sarah Ruhl or totally resents her, but the show was really funny. Well done Freeman!
Crossposted at Mr. Excitement News
hello lovelies
xxx,
moxie
Deep in the Belly of the Beast
According to legend, My Current Employer has a dressing room somewhere that has one of those state of the art Japanese Musical Toilets... you know, the ones with the bidet setting?
Oh the Glamour!
Ludlow Lad checking in from Undisclosed Location #52
Is anyone listening to me?
Is anyone looking at me?
Is anyone bothering about me at all?”
Old School Blog Workshop
I've brought a helium tank and some white balloons. Also at the workshop booth there will be a supply of string, scotch tape, post-it notes, and toy soldiers, if need be.
Think about the airborne corporeal posts you should send. Statistics have shown that this technique of blogging with helium balloons provides as many readers as modern blogging methods do.
I tied this soldier to the Great White with scotch tape and Captain Ahab's last words.
"Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. Sink all coffins and all hearses to one common pool! and since neither can be mine, let me then tow to pieces, while still chasing thee, though tied to thee, thou damned whale! Thus, I give up the spear!"
Test Post From Wee Young James
Your intrepid and pretentious blogger,
James "Humble Pie" Comtois
Tech Time
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Flogging
Leonard J.