Peter Filichia, James Marino, Michael Portantiere, and Jan Simpson talk about Jan’s Summer Reading list. In the main discussion we chat about plays we love.
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Peter Filichia | [email protected] | Facebook
PETER FILICHIA is a playwright, journalist, and historian with a number of books. His columns appear at Masterworks Broadway, Broadway Select and many other places.
James Marino | [email protected] | Twitter | Facebook
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Michael Portantiere | [email protected] | Facebook
MICHAEL PORTANTIERE is a theater reviewer and essayist. He is the founder and editor of CastAlbumReviews.com. He is also a theatrical photographer whose photos have appeared in The New York Times and other major publications. You can see his photography work at FollowSpotPhoto.com.
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JAN SIMPSON is the Director of the Arts and Culture Journalism Program at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY, and also writes for TDF Stages, American Theater and has her own blog at Broadway & Me. She sits on the executive board of the Outer Critics Circle and is a member of the American Theatre Critics Association. Jan’s podcast, Stagecraft, can be heard on BroadwayRadio as well.
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Discussion:
Jan Simpson: Theater Books for Summer Reading 2020
Novels in the theater world
The Garrick Year by Margaret Drabble
Hogarth Shakespeare Book Series
Hag-Seed: William Shakespeare’s The Tempest Retold: A Novel (Hogarth Shakespeare) by Margaret Atwood
Satire of theater world — Waiting for Guffman… on Stage?
Inspecting Carol (riff on putting on A Christmas Carol)
Red White and Blaine (the show within the movie)
A Parody of a Mockumentary. Now That’s Meta. By Suzy Evans (The New York Times) Dec. 17, 2014
“Red, White, & Blaine,” at the Chicago theater iO, is a stage parody of the mockumentary film “Waiting for Guffman.” From left, Brian Finlay, Bri Fitzpatrick, Robert Bacon and Jeannie Cahill Griggs play residents of the fictional Blaine, Mo.
CHICAGO — Two seemingly unrelated events occurred in 1996. Jeff Griggs moved here to study improv comedy. And Christopher Guest made the mockumentary “Waiting for Guffman.”
via The New York Times
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Topic: Plays We Love
PF: Precious Sons (Frank Rich, New York Times Review, March 21, 1986)
JS: August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
MP: Two from August Wilson: Fences and Jitney
Cheryl Hodges-Selden: Equus was my first Broadway show. Leonard Nimoy starred.
Michael Gilson: What do the panelists think of COPENHAGEN?
PF: Linda sat next to Jim Walton (from Merrily We Roll Along) @ Copenhagen
The Cavern
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JS: A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters
PF: The Master Builder by Ibsen
MP: Tennessee Williams‘ A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie
A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller
JS: How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel
PF: Graceland
MP: Indecent by Paula Vogel
Night Mother Marsha Norman
God of Carnage Yasmina Reza
Ruined by Lynn Nottage
Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage
Robb Johnston: Inherit the Wind and Musical Comedy Murders of 1940
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