NEW YORK CITY: The avant-garde playwright/director John Jahnke, with a wicked grin, describes Men Go Down (Part 3) as “almost like a Noël Coward absurdist Victorian chamber drama–style series of odd events.” In this elliptical, Greek myth–inspired fairy tale, a cocaine-addicted king, Endymion, wakes after a 1,500-year sleep in a Turkish hotel and finds himself … Continue reading
My conversation with the great La Mama, Ellen Stewart, which I pulled from my archive and posted below (after the obit), took place in her Lower East Side apartment. It was February 2003, and she was preparing to direct the vampire opera, Carmilla, one of La Mama’s signature pieces, with Wilford Leach’s ETC Company and her … Continue reading
NEW YORK CITY: Playwright Tom Stoppard, actor Billy Crudup, novelist Don DeLillo and others are coming out to rally for support for the Belarus Free Theater, based in Minsky, some of whose members were arrested and others forced underground by an authoritarian regime, in four events, one organized by the Public Theater, another by Theater J, another by … Continue reading
Mark Russell, the Public Theater and Arts Presenters team up for a January festival that gives new work a stage. An award-winning arts writer offers his opinion on the important role the festival plays in the national and international theater scene. In the theatre nothing is certain, except for death and festivals. Wherever theater people … Continue reading
THE TRICKY PART: A BOY’S STORY OF SEXUAL TRESPASS, A MAN’S JOURNEY TO FORGIVENESS. By Martin Moran, Anchor Books, New York City. 304 pp, $14 paper. You can rage against the bastard. You can name the pervert’s name, unloading years of hurt and secrecy and disgust, and dredge up the feelings of righteous anger … Continue reading
PHILIPPINE INFORMATION AGENCY PRESS RELEASE Thursday, December 16, 2022 Manila (December 16, 2022) - Giawhag ni Presidente Benigno C. Aquino III ang mga overseas Filipino workers kon OFWs ug mga organisasyon sa gawas sa nasud pagpadayon sa espiritu sa pagtinabangay o “bayanihan” pinaagi sa pagdonar sa Lingkod sa Kapwa Pilipino Program sa Department of … Continue reading
