Opening the Curtain

Opening the Curtain

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Opening the Curtain episodes

  • Remembering John

    The company that created "Ganesh versus the Third Reich" is, in their own words, "a company driven by an ensemble of…actors perceived to have intellectual disabilities."

    5 min
  • Damn Ephemerality!

    Now typically when I talk about the ephemeral quality of theater, it’s
    something I’m celebrating.  It’s part of what makes theater so magical
    and essential.  Theater can’t be repackaged in a ‘best of’ box set or
    re-released in 3d.  You need to be there in the room or . . . well . . . you missed it.


    And that’s the flip side to that magic.

    5 min
  • Financial Times

    It’s

    been a tough couple of years, a sort of family recession for Nora. 
    Looking back, it all started when her husband left his job.  He couldn’t
    find another.  Really there was nothing out there.  Then he got sick,
    really sick.  There were some major medical bills to be paid.  Nora
    didn’t know what to do.  She had to find a way to get the money. She had
    to save her husband.  But how?

    5 min
  • Six Voices

    Take a break from the holiday chaos and treat yourself to the Fiasco Theater Company's production of Shakespeare's "Cymbaline" at the Broad Stage.

    5 min
  • Listen

    Nothing brings out family dysfunction quite like the holidays, does it? That's where Jon Robbin Baitz's play, "Other Desert Cities," at the Mark Taper Forum begins.

    5 min
  • A Commercial Formula

    Take the best tunes from a director who turns out films with great soundtracks, cast talented singers with great pipes and you've got Rockwell's "For the Record."

    5 min

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