7 month ago
philgyford : Food Court Musical at Improv Everywhere - This video makes me all happy. (via Boing Boing)
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12 month ago
plasticbag : JK Rowling says Dumbledore was gay, and I couldn't be happier about it. I've seen too many gay characters recently in films and theatre and TV that are filthy old stereotypes for an audience to find amusing, like pets... - I saw Stardust yesterday and loved it. But I hated that the gay character in it was obsessed with women's clothes and dancing around. I saw Spamalot and I loved it. I just hated that the weak girly man was gay, and the butch gay man liked disco... Idiots.
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13 month ago
philgyford : The Terrific Electric, by Boiler Room for BITE 2007 at the Barbican - a photoset on Flickr - Photos from the dress rehearsal of the play I enjoyed at the Barbican's Pit a couple of weeks ago.
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14 month ago
philgyford : StageClick.com - The "local theater version of IMDb.com", local being three US cities.
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14 month ago
philgyford : IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information - Comprehensive (goes back decades in great detail) but Broadway-only theatre database.
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14 month ago
philgyford : Internet Theatre Database - "Archiving and catalogizing professional theatre." Yes, "catalogizing." Looks to be Broadway only at the moment
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20 month ago
philgyford : London Theatre Blog - Looks like good stuff. (via Encore Theatre Magazine)
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20 month ago
philgyford : The Last Two Minutes of the Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen - Review - Fringe Festival - New York Times - A play from 2005. Great idea.
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21 month ago
philgyford : The Stage | Newsblog | The play(wright)'s the thing.... - About group-devised theatre vs theatre written by a playwright, which made some things floating in my head solidify a bit. (Plus my comment beneath it.)
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22 month ago
philgyford : Playwright Nina Raine on the difficulties of directing your own work | | Guardian Unlimited Arts - What it says.
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23 month ago
philgyford : Aurelian Koch - This chap teaches one of our classes at LISPA and he showed us some of these photos. Fab costumes and seats made using some interesting materials.
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23 month ago
philgyford : Theatre of All Possibilities - Gallery - Interesting-looking London/Santa Fe theatre company, and these videos hint at doing interesting things with computer generated stuff.
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26 month ago
jkottke : New Improv Everywhere mission: 225 people at the Home Depot in Chelsea all moving in slow motion - New Improv Everywhere mission: 225 people at the Home Depot in Chelsea all moving in slow motion. The sped-up video showing all the slow-moers moving at normal speed while everyone else zips around is pretty great. (thx, jakob)
deusx : Improv Everywhere Mission: Slo-Mo Home Depot - "How would people react if they found themselves surrounded by people moving forward at a different rate or time (or not moving at all)?"
Jeremy Zawodny : Slo-Mo Home Depot - Slo-Mo Home Depot: Improv Everywhere rocks
philgyford : Improv Everywhere Mission: Slo-Mo Home Depot - Lots of people go into a store as shoppers and, in unison, all move in slow motion. Shortly after, they all stand motionless, which is even better. (via Kottke)
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26 month ago
philgyford : LRB | David Edgar : Stalking Out - Review of a John Osborne biography with lots of interesting history about 1950s/60s London theatre, especially 'Look Back in Anger', Stratford East, and the Royal Court, and whether theatre was shaken up or not.
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30 month ago
philgyford : Actors & Writers London - Someone emailed to point me at this and I'll lose it if I don't link to it. Fortnightly rehearsed readings of new plays.
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32 month ago
Rod Begbie : Rentaghost The Musical - UK Theatre Production - Classic British kids TV show turned into a touring musical by Joe Pasquale! (via my sister, whose email had the subject line "Yes, really") #
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33 month ago
philgyford : London Centre for Theatre Studies - Year-long, 40 hours per week (over 4 days) acting course for mature students. Sounds very intense.
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33 month ago
philgyford : The Questors Theatre - Acting at the Questors - "The largest amateur theatre in Europe"
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33 month ago
philgyford : Improbable Show - DEVOTED AND DISGRUNTLED What are we going to do about theatre? - A friend enthusiastically told me this was a really good event. Certainly lots of discussion there.
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33 month ago
philgyford : London Theatre and Concert Venues: What theatregoers tell you, that box office staff do not. - Loads of info about shows: reviews and loads of detail about the seats to book or avoid. (via Haddock)
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37 month ago
philgyford : The Stage Online :: Newsblog - I stumbled across the Stage's weblog earlier in the week, and it's very good indeed.
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40 month ago
Aquarion : thoughts for less-experienced Fringe performers: a rant - we are not slime moulds
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41 month ago
philgyford : Blogsonstage - Hosted service for theatre-oriented weblogs. Needs a nicer front-end, but fairly early days.
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41 month ago
philgyford : Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | Love letter to Broadway - Richard Eyre on 'Guys and Dolls'. I *love* 'Guys and Dolls'.
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43 month ago
philgyford : Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | The invisible man - David Nicholls on realising, after eight years as an actor, that he just wasn't very good.
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