Links tagged with “theater”
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Young Directors’ Guide to Lighting
A nice guide by Alex Forey to how theatre directors should work with lighting designers. (via Interconnected)
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In which Phil uses his loaf for once « West End Whingers
(A different Phil.) The National Theatre made out of bread.
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Theatricalia
Matthew Somerville’s new theatre database site. It already features nearly 19,000 productions, and you can add more.
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Reduced Circumstances - Current showcase
Run actors’ showcases at Soho Theatre twice a year.
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West End Whingers
I’m enjoying this blog’s theatre reviews. Intelligent but down to earth and nothing too obscure.
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Debut Productions - Homepage
London theatre showcases.
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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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Internet Theatre Database
“Archiving and catalogizing professional theatre.” Yes, “catalogizing.” Looks to be Broadway only at the moment
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IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information
Comprehensive (goes back decades in great detail) but Broadway-only theatre database.
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StageClick.com
The “local theater version of IMDb.com”, local being three US cities.
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London Theatre Blog
Looks like good stuff. (via Encore Theatre Magazine)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | The invisible man
David Nicholls on realising, after eight years as an actor, that he just wasn’t very good.