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Elizabeth Dowd, Member of the BTE Resident Acting Company, and Rand Whipple, an Associate Ensemble Member, speaking about the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble production of "Annapurna" by Sharr White, running May 23 through June 9, 2024, at the Alvina Krause Theatre on Center Street in downtown Bloomsburg. Shows are Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30 pm and Sundays at 3:00. For more information: www.bte.org/
Today, I am so thrilled to announce my episode with Sharr White, playwright of Pictures from Home which is currently playing at Studio 54 starring Nathan Lane and Danny Burstein. Tune in today to hear some of the stories of Sharr's career, including the plays of his that have been based on New York Times article, basing Annapurna on a former teacher, the process of pitching Halston, why war used to be a theme that fascinated him, the play of his he's hoping to bring into New York, working with Larry Sultan's widow Kelly Sultan on Pictures from Home, Robert LuPone's ability to destroy scripts, his many years writing advertising copy, and the projects he's currently working on.
Photographer Larry Sultan began taking photos of his parents beginning in the early 1980s and he spent a decade interviewing, and writing about his parents and his relationship with them. He published a photo memoir in 1992 entitled “Pictures from Home.”. Before it was a book, it was an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City - and now, it's a Broadway show. Adapted for the stage by Sharr White and directed by Bart Sher, “Pictures from Home” is running through April 30 at Studio 54.
You may have noticed that The Riley Episode is different from every other episode of Generation. It's intensely focused on Riley's subjectivity, and as her 24 hours without sleep unfurl, you fully descend into her blurred reality. This was the result of deep collaboration between Chase Sui Wonders, who plays Riley, and the writers, including Generation co-creator Zelda Barnz and Sharr White, who co-wrote this episode. These three join hosts Gigi Goode & Whembley Sewell on the fourteenth episode of Generation: The Podcast to share some of the juiciest BTS moments from the season and talk intuitive shooting, self-excavation and how they got that iconic Riley line: “didn't anyone ever tell you not to get in the car with strange girls!?” Plus: how to talk about mental health without talking about mental health, unpacking Megan's successful mothering moment, and of course, Griley analysis with the biggest stan in the game. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
Behind every mother’s truly unhinged external monologue is a rampant internal monologue. In other words, if an Orange County white evangelical Christian mom is going off at the PTA meeting about gluten-free snacks… it’s definitely not about snacks. In episode four of the Generation, the HBO Max original series, we get a closer look at Megan, the woman who birthed dynamic twin duo Naomi and Nathan, and worries relentlessly about whether or not they will go to hell. So on the fourth episode of Generation: The Podcast, hosts Gigi Goode & Whembley Sewell unpack Megan’s relationship to normalcy, sex, loss, and change with series writer Sharr White, legendary actor Martha Plimpton, who brings Megan to life onscreen, and Generation co-creator Zelda Barnz.
Off Square Theatre presents Annapurna by Sharr White in the Black Box Theater November 1st - 3rd and November 8th - 10th.
On this episode of the podcast jeremy is joined by Playwright Sharr White whoses plays The Other Place and The Snow Geese have been produced on Broadway and whose new play Annapurna is currently playing off-broadway with Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally .
Bob Wilcox and Gerry Kowarsky review (1) THE OTHER PLACE, by Sharr White, at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; (2) FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF, by Ntozake Shange, at The Black Rep; (3) FORGET ME NOT, by Tom Holloway, at Upstream Theater, (4) THE WHIPPING MAN, by Matthew Lopez, at the New Jewish Theatre; (5) GOODNIGHT DESDEMONA (GOOD MORNING JULIET), by Ann-Marie MacDonald, at the Clayton Community Theatre; and (6) SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS, by Arthur Ransom, at the Center of Creative Arts.
She’s best-known to the world-at-large for her long-running role as Jackie, sister of the title character in the TV sitcom, “Roseanne.” But actress Laurie Metcalf has had a long and distinguished career as a stage actress. Metcalf was with the esteemed Steppenwolf Company in Chicago, and has appeared regularly on stages in New York and London – notably, across the pond, as Mary Tyrone in a recent production of Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Currently, she’s reclaimed the role of Juliana Smithton, a doctor turned pharmaceutical company representative whose well-controlled life is moving out of control, in Sharr White’s play The Other Place. Metcalf created the part in the play’s Off-Broadway production two seasons ago and returns to it for the play’s Broadway premiere, now running at the Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. Friedman Theatre. New York Times theater critic Charles Isherwood has a review. And you can join Metcalf, her co-star Daniel Stern and the playwright, along with WQXR’s Elliott Forrest, for a conversation about The Other Place at 5 pm on Thursday, Jan. 17, in the Jerome L. Greene Performance. Watch a live video Webcast or get tickets here.
Laurie Metcalf talks about her role in Sharr White's play "The Other Place" at MCC Theater, and the challenge of playing someone whose mental faculties are diminishing in a non-linear play, requiring her to constantly leap between varying states of mind. She also talks about her embrace of theatre during her college years at Illinois State University, where she first studied German, then anthropology, before settling on theatre; being one of the original company members of the acclaimed Steppenwolf Theatre and her satisfaction with her day job during those early years; her Chicago breakout role in "The Glass Menagerie" and how that production fit with the company's reputation for "rock and roll theatre"; her participation in both the Chicago and New York productions of Lanford Wilson's "Balm in Gilead", and how she is still approached on the street by people recalling that show 25 years later; her regular returns to the Steppenwolf stage throughout her television run on "Roseanne" and other TV and film work; her opportunities to play Kate Keller in "All My Sons" twice -- both at London's National Theatre and Los Angeles' Geffen Playhouse; how The New Group's production of "A Lie of the Mind" "saved" her after the brief run of "Brighton Beach Memoirs" and the failure of its companion piece, "Broadway Bound", to open; her affinity for the play "Voice Lessons", which she'll be returning to for a third time; and the appeal of Steppenwolf's "Detroit", scheduled for Broadway in the fall. Original air date - April 27, 2011.
Laurie Metcalf talks about her role in Sharr White's play "The Other Place" at MCC Theater, and the challenge of playing someone whose mental faculties are diminishing in a non-linear play, requiring her to constantly leap between varying states of mind. She also talks about her embrace of theatre during her college years at Illinois State University, where she first studied German, then anthropology, before settling on theatre; being one of the original company members of the acclaimed Steppenwolf Theatre and her satisfaction with her day job during those early years; her Chicago breakout role in "The Glass Menagerie" and how that production fit with the company's reputation for "rock and roll theatre"; her participation in both the Chicago and New York productions of Lanford Wilson's "Balm in Gilead", and how she is still approached on the street by people recalling that show 25 years later; her regular returns to the Steppenwolf stage throughout her television run on "Roseanne" and other TV and film work; her opportunities to play Kate Keller in "All My Sons" twice -- both at London's National Theatre and Los Angeles' Geffen Playhouse; how The New Group's production of "A Lie of the Mind" "saved" her after the brief run of "Brighton Beach Memoirs" and the failure of its companion piece, "Broadway Bound", to open; her affinity for the play "Voice Lessons", which she'll be returning to for a third time; and the appeal of Steppenwolf's "Detroit", scheduled for Broadway in the fall. Original air date - April 27, 2011.