by Becca Liss | Dec 11, 2008 | Stage
In a time when access to healthcare is a pressing concern for many, it isn't out of place to wonder what we would do to get it. Moliere's play The Imaginary Invalid takes a comedic look at this question with a hypochondriac father who seeks to marry his...
by Chris Rohmann | Dec 11, 2008 | Stage
It begins in 1963, with a woman bleeding to death in a hallway of Harlem Hospital, the victim of an attempted coat-hanger abortion. Bill Baird, a 31-year-old medical researcher, witnessed that horrible, unnecessary death. The experience, he now says, made him into an...
by Sarah Feldberg | Dec 18, 2008 | Stage
Images associated with ballet—lithe, tutu-clad dancers and elaborate, evocative set design—are distinctly rooted in Romantic artistic traditions, and some of the world's most iconic ballets are derived from definitive Romantic texts (The Nutcracker was...
by Chris Rohmann | Dec 18, 2008 | Stage
A fixture of the holiday entertainment season is those perennial reruns of It's a Wonderful Life. The beloved movie has now found its way onto the stage, in not one but two quite different dramatizations. One of them fills the stage with 53 performers, and one...
by Chris Rohmann | Jan 8, 2009 | Stage
For stage actors, the standard demarcation between professional and amateur is membership in Actors' Equity Association. While you can be paid for acting without being in Equity—and in some cases vice versa—the union is the accepted mark of those who...
