Sound & Vision: Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw
Allyson McCabe talks with Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw, two of the founders of the performance group Split Britches, about their lives and work.
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Posts Tagged: theatre
The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #22: Poverty Is Never “Genteel”
Poverty may have been beloved of St. Francis, but not so much by the rest of us. Nobody likes to look at advanced poverty, toothless and drooling, clutching the hands of children who have running sores on their filthy legs. Poverty is a crackhead who pisses on the pavement, and sleeps with fleas and stray […]
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The Dark Lady
In my imaginings, Ava was always a woman driving at night, a face behind glass in a shiny speeding vehicle, motoring down the road.
...moreOff the Mainstream Map
For Bitch Media, Rumpus Funny Women Editor Elissa Bassist interviews writer-actress Roberta Colindrez on her recent roles in Amazon’s adaptation of Chris Kraus’s I Love Dick and the Broadway adaptation of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home, two powerful narratives centered on women. Colindrez believes in the power of stories: Theatre is—and I’m quoting someone very loosely—the […]
...moreHaving Fall Fun This October
As ever, we’ve a stimulating shortlist to offset the arrival of the cold autumn weather: look no further for the latest in art, film, theatre and restaurant openings. No need to be depressed thinking about winter’s inevitability. Instead, check out this to-do list for the season of mellow fruitfulness from AnOther.
...moreWho Cares Who Wrote Shakespeare?
At Guernica, Tana Wojczuk shares her personal story of seeing Shakespeare performed as a child and her eventual realization and understanding of Shakespeare’s humor, and defends the importance of seeing Shakespeare’s works on stage: This is one of the reasons it was important to see Shakespeare performed, and not just to read him. Many of Shakespeare’s […]
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Baltimore, Offline
Social media’s role in all this is especially strange in that it makes people feel obligated to speak out, whether they’ve thought hard about their place in the discourse or not.
...moreTragedy in Spades: a Crime Documentary (the Play)
Probably internationally acclaimed playwright Liza Birkenmeier, dubbed “the next big thing” by someone somewhere, who wrote national bestseller “Funny Women #136: Recommendation Letter” is also here to help you with your weekend plans. The cultural moment we are in is obsessed with true crime . . . and with truth, and with crime. Through April 9th in […]
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #23: Plays to Devour on the Page and the Stage
Of course it’s tremendous to see a play on stage, but reading a play, its script, is a pleasure in its own right. I think for many of us the notion of reading plays was ruined in high school, what with the dreadful, hackneyed line-by-line dissection of Romeo and Juliet and Our Town led by […]
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Mark Leyner
Mark Leyner on his new book Gone with the Mind, pressuring the novel form, being a purist Dionysian, and artisanal pap smears.
...moreArtists as Activists
I was recently asked by a young interviewer if writing, with all the time it takes and its use of paper (though I compose on a computer) is not antithetical to what is needed now, the speed that is, to push a speedy change of consciousness and behavior. I answered: “But it’s the writers who […]
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The Rumpus Interview with Norman Lock
Writer, playwright, and poet Norman Lock delves into his process and discusses inserting himself into his own fiction, writing from the perspective of iconic characters, and acting as the lawgiver of one’s own imagination.
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The Rumpus Interview with Daniel Alarcón
Daniel Alarcón talks about his latest novel, At Night We Walk in Circles, drawing inspiration from Bolaño and Chekhov, the writer’s place of privilege, and the questions that arise from an imagined life that easily could have been.
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ALBUM #6, Audio Portraits of Artists and Writers at Work: Deb Margolin
Playwright and performance artist Deb Margolin has been honored with an OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance, the Kesselring Playwriting Award
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The Rumpus Interview with Octavio Solis
Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright Octavio Solis sits down for a chat about night terrors, universal storytelling, and finding a home with the Magic Theatre of San Francisco.
...moreBeat Generation Brought to the Stage
Beat Generation, Kerouac’s only known full-length play, will premiere this year in eight performances as part of October’s Jack Kerouac Literary Festival in Lowell, Massachusetts. The play was written in 1957 and shelved for half a century before being uncovered in a Jersey City warehouse in 2004. (Via Book Bench)
...moreMorning Coffee
This is all very serious. Everything in the world is going to be ok because this link is filled with tiny pandas. Polish sound postcards. The Royal Shakespeare Company is building a full-scale replica of their theatre and shipping it to New York. Let’s talk a little bit about forced perspective. I heart a good […]
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