Theater
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Episode 472: Spencer Huffman!
Episode 472 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). In this week’s show, I talk to the spring 2021 resident of The Kerouac Project of Orlando, playwright Spencer Huffman. NOTES TDO Listeners can get… Continue reading
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Episode 469: Geoffrey Kent!
Episode 469 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). In this week’s show, I speak with the actor Geoffrey Kent about Shakespeare in performance, how actors make the texts come alive, the modern English translation… Continue reading
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Episode 463: Raphael Cormack!
Episode 463 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). In this week’s episode, theater scholar Raphael Cormack and I discuss the allure of Arabian music, the revolutionary times in Egypt between the world wars,… Continue reading
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Episode 410: Ron Schneider!
Episode 410 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on Apple podcasts, stitcher, spotify, or click here to stream (right click to download, if that’s your thing). This week, I speak to actor, show writer, and memoirist Ron Schneider about the show business life, theme park creativity, and learning to master new… Continue reading
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Buzzed Books #91: Aaron Sorkin’s To Kill a Mockingbird
Buzzed Books #91 by Chuck Cannini Aaron Sorkin’s To Kill a Mockingbird on Broadway A friend of mine paced in his living room one evening. Bill O’Reilly spoke to him from a television screen; something about a man named George Zimmerman, who had fatally shot African-American teenager Trayvon Martin. What mattered was how this friend of… Continue reading
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Episode 300: A Craft Discussion of Three Uses of the Knife, with Vanessa Blakeslee!
Episode 300 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I talk with Vanessa Blakeslee about David Mamet’s Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama. We manage not to kill one another. TEXTS DISCUSSED Episode 300 of The Drunken… Continue reading
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Shakespearing #48: As You Like It at CSC
Shakespearing #48 by David Foley Wit and Fresh Sorrow: As You Like It at CSC When non-traditional casting is not the same as color-blind casting, things can get interesting. (I realize non-traditional casting is a bit of a misnomer since by now it’s quite traditional.) In John Doyle’s new production of As You Like It… Continue reading
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Shakespearing #47: The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespearing #47 by David Foley The Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare in the Park Production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream The cult of the Fairy Queen has fallen into disuse, reduced to a remnant of aging votaries who follow her through the woods dressed in white. They serve her gently and lovingly, and why wouldn’t they?… Continue reading
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Episode 263: Missy Barnes, Lena Barker, and Nicholas D’Allesandro!
Episode 263 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s show, I talk to Missy Barnes, Lena Barker, and Nicholas D’Allesandro about their production of Urinetown, plus Sasha Graybosch shares some thoughts about Denis Johnson. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Follow the Annie Russel theatre… Continue reading
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Shakespearing #44: Gender and Shakespeare in Soho
Shakespearing #44 by David Foley Father of Lies: Gender and Shakespeare in Soho Lisa Wolpe, founder and artistic director of the Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company, has recently been performing a couple of theatre pieces at the Here arts space on 6th Avenue and Spring Street in Soho. In one, Macbeth3, she plays the title… Continue reading
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