By Chandler David, Production Dramaturg The life of Don Freeman is one that steadily followed the course of Corduroy’s journey. Freeman is the author of more than 20 children’s books,…
Thank you to all who auditioned for the first two productions of our Spring 2021 semester, Everybody and Marisol. We are pleased to share the cast lists for these productions….
By Rocío Perez, Dramaturg, The Resistsible Rise of Arturo Ui In the first few lines of Bertolt Brecht’s The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui we hear an announcer:“Ladies and Gentlemen,…
Can we maintain our sense of community and collaboration with each other, our bonds with our audience, re-create the electricity that we know can take place in the air, “live,” between performers and audience from a platform stage—with home viewers on a Transmedia platform?
Thank you to all who auditioned for our Fall 2020 productions, including Men On Boats, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Corduroy, and A NEW Song Cycle (previously Godspell). We…
By Henry Aceves, Production Dramaturg (NewFest New Play Workshop: Amanuensis, or The Miltons) Our playwright, L, describes Amanuensis, or The Miltons as “a tale, a grapple, a loosely-historically-based feminist fantasia.”…
by Henry Aceves, Production Dramaturg (NewFest New Play Workshop: Amanuensis, or The Miltons) Paradise Lost has been considered an essential work in the English literary canon since the first…
By Jake Mouchawar, Production Dramaturg for Squeaky Fromme Love Song Before James La Bella’s new play Squeaky Fromme Love Song, the 1990 cult musical Assassins was the first (and only) fictional…
Our 2020–2021 season explores the question “What are you working to build?” We will feature stories of working to build new societies, both through kindness (Godspell) and force (The Resistible…