Podcasts about stagesource

SANTA DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE: Mom and Dad have never gotten around to telling Jeffrey that there's no Santa. He's 30, and he still believes. This Christmas the truth comes out about Santa, as well as a few other family secrets. Written by Patrick Gabridge Directed by Jonathan Cook Performed by Marian Thibodeau as "Mom", Krys Bailey as "Dad", and Michael Silvio Fortino as "Jeffrey". Intro/Outro music: JK/47 About the writer: Patrick Gabridge has been a Playwriting Fellow with the Huntington Theatre Company and with New Rep and have received fellowships from the Boston Foundation and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. His short plays are published by Playscripts, Brooklyn Publishers, Heuer, Smith & Kraus, Stage Rights, and YouthPlays, and have received more than 1,000 productions from theatres and schools around the world. He helped start Boston's Rhombus Playwrights writers' group, the Chameleon Stage theatre company in Denver, the Bare Bones Theatre company in New York, the publication Market InSight… for Playwrights, the on-line Playwrights' Submission Binge, and the New England New Play Alliance. He's currently the Eastern New England Regional Rep for the Dramatists Guild, a member of StageSource, and a past board member of the Theatre Community Benevolent Fund. He's the producing artistic director of Plays in Place, a company focused on creating new site-specific plays in partnership with cultural institutions and historic sites. Gather by the Ghost Light merch available at Home | Gather by the Ghost Light (bigcartel.com) If you would like to further support this podcast, please visit Gather by the Ghost Light is increasing public knowledge of emerging writers and actors (buymeacoffee.com) If you are associated with a theatre and would like to perform this play, please send an email to licensing@gatherbytheghostlight.com to get connected with the playwright. If you enjoy this podcast, please please please leave a rating on your preferred podcast app! Gather by the Ghost Light  

MISS SAIGON COMPOSER: Claude-Michel Schonberg LYRICIST: Richard Maltby Jr & Alain Boublil BOOK: Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schonberg SOURCE: Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly (1904) DIRECTOR: Nicholas Hytner CHOREOGRAPHER: Bob Avian PRINCIPLE CAST: Willy Falk (Chris), Jonathan Pryce (Engineer), Lea Salonga (Kim) OPENING DATE: Apr 11, 1991 CLOSING DATE: Jan 28, 2001 PERFORMANCES: 4,092 SYNOPSIS: In war torn Saigon, Chris, an American soldier, meets Kim, a sex worker lorded over by The Engineer, and begins a romance that produces a child. When Chris returns to America, Kim, dutifully and tragically, awaits his return to rescue her and his son.   A discussion of the impact of Miss Saigon on the casting industry and on the AAPI community. A film documenting the casting of Lea Salonga in the leading role sheds light on the racist and patriarchal process facing the young actors auditioning for the protagonist and a survey of public correspondence from Actors Equity representatives, critics, and artists illustrates the racism present in the casting of white actor, Jonathan Pryce in the role of a Eurasian character. Postcolonial theorists have written extensively about the troubling implications of the show's commercial success. This chapter seeks to outline the shortcomings in the Asian and Eurasian representation in Miss Saigon while envisioning possible futures for racially-charged stories on the commercial stage. Jeanmarie Higgins is an associate professor in the Pennsylvania State University School of Theatre. A new works dramaturg, she publishes widely on the intersection of theory and practice. Jeanmarie is the editor of Teaching Critical Performance Theory in Today's Theatre Classroom, Studio, and Communities (Routledge 2020), and her performance criticism is published in Theatre Journal, PARtake: Journal of Performance as Research and Theatre and the Macabre (University of Wales Press 2021). Micah Rosegrant- Micah (they/them) is a twink poet who carves queer divinity through breath, word, and movement. They are cousin and learner with all life, glitching their myriad selves to shape change as a spirit guided by relation, a Co-Director at Arts Connect International, and an online avatar @micah_pdf. Previous A.R.T. collaborations include: Creating Equal (Steering Committee); Making Democracy Work with the Harvard Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (Co-Creative Ensemble); Dragon Cycle (Assistant Director); and Clairvoyance (Love Nurse). Sarah Shin (she/her/hers) is a Schwenksville-raised Boston-trained, Brooklyn-based Korean American theatre artist. She co-founded and still runs Asian American Theatre Artists of Boston (AATAB) to empower and connect Asian American student and working artists in Boston, is on the steering committee of API Arts Network, and serves as a Board Member for StageSource and Advisory Board Member for Boston Playwrights' Theatre. She is a member of National Queer Theatre's Artistic Collective, an Artistic Associate of Sanguine Theatre Company, and a 2020-2021 Asian American Arts Alliance Artist-in-Virtual-Residence, where she developed her solo work exploring Asian identity and Whiteness in musical theatre. She's passionate about more diverse representation, community and family, music, and gifting love in all ways possible. BFA Theatre Arts Boston University. Lianah Sta. Ana-  Broadway: Miss Saigon, YoungArts Theatre alumna and Apollo Amateur Night winner. Has trained at FPAC in HHS. SOURCES Miss Saigon, Original Cast Recording, Geffen Records (1990) The Story of Miss Saigon by Edward Behr and Mark Steyn, published by Arcade Publishing (1991) The Heat Is On: The Making of Miss Saigon starring Jonathan Pryce and Lea Salonga, directed by David Wright, Freemantle Home Entertainment (1989) Miss Saigon 25th Anniversary starring Jon Jon Briones and Eva Noblezada, directed by Brett Sullivan, Cameron Mackintosh International (2016) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 Welcome to Episode #25 of “This is a Thing” the Greater Boston arts podcast.  This week a chat with the lovely actress, singer and musician Erica Spyres! Here’s a preview of our discussion topics: Missouri. Boom. She met Stephen Sondheim. In France. Oui. Being in the national  tour of Once. Fiddle culture?  Yeah, it’s a thing. Go […]

 Welcome to Episode #24 of “This is a Thing” the Greater Boston arts podcast. Summer is over and we are back! This week a chat with actor, singer and producer John Ambrosino! Here’s a preview of our discussion topics: Running.  Is it fun? His time in the cast of Jersey Boys in Las Vegas! Our apparently […]

Hi!  Welcome to Episode #23 of “This is a Thing” the Greater Boston arts podcast. No one panic- we’re still doing this Thing, but it’s summer y’all and sometimes we gotta pace ourselves. This week a chat with actor, Serge Clivio!  We chat about so many things! Here’s a preview of our discussion topics: The […]

Hey there!  Welcome to Episode #22 of “This is a Thing” the Greater Boston arts podcast. This week a chat with actor, Andrew Giordano!  We chat about so many things! Here’s a preview of our discussion topics: Zumba!!!!! That’s right. His business endeavors! Tenors Undercover, Step It Up and more things to come! The untral-awesome […]

Welcome to Episode #21 of "This is a Thing" the Greater Boston arts podcast. This week a chat with director, dancer, choreographer, actress, Super Woman- Ilyse Robbins! If it sounds like I'm a huge fan of this lady during the interview, it's because I AM!

Welcome to Episode #20 of "This is a Thing" the Greater Boston arts podcast. This week a chat with costume designer Tyler Kinney, one of American Theatre Magazine's Top 20 People People to Watch!

Welcome to Episode #19 of "This is a Thing" the Greater Boston arts podcast. This week a chat with dramaturg, director and actress A. Nora Long!

Episode #18 of "This is a Thing" the Greater Boston arts podcast. This week a chat with actress Vanessa Dunleavy! We had so much fun!

Welcome to Episode #17 of "This is a Thing" the Greater Boston arts podcast. This week a chat with actor Kyle VanZandt!

Welcome to Episode #16 of "This is a Thing" the Greater Boston Arts podcast! This week, an interview with Daniel Morris, Producing Artistic Director for Bad Habit Productions, director, and House Manager for the Huntington BU Theatre.

Jeremy Johnson interviews Maureen Keiller in this episode of "Live from the Library".  Maureen Keiller was last seen in 33 Variations at the Lyric Stage of Boston. Other credits: Big River, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Elliot Norton and IRNE award for Best Midsize Production), Speech and Debate (Elliot Norton Award, Best Midsize Production), Epic Proportions, Inspecting Carol (all at Lyric Stage); Nine, The Little Dog Laughed, The Women, Almost Maine, The Wild Party (SpeakEasy Stage); Car Talk:The Musical!!! (Central Square Theatre); The Sweetest Swing in Baseball (Boston Theatre Works); A Streetcar Named Desire (New Repertory Theatre); Anne of Green Gables, Ramona Quimby, Pippi Longstocking (Wheelock Family Theatre);Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (Lyric West). Film work includes: Fever Pitch, We Pedal Uphill, My Best Friend's Girl. Television: The Makeover (Hallmark/ABC Family); Brotherhood (Showtime series); We Made America (WGBH). Maureen is a two time IRNE winner.

Listen to this great conversation about violence design, stage combat, fight choreography, and the difference between the three. Meron Langsner, Angie Jepson, Robert Najarian, and Ted Hewlett joined Julie Hennrikus in the StageSource library to talk about their list of best practices, the importance of mentoring, and to share some stories. 

Jeremy Johnson interviews John J King in this "One on One" episode of "Live from the Library". John's most recent play is "From Denmark with Love", a James Bond/Hamlet mash-up.  BIO: John J King is part Texan and part Tyrannosaur. He lives in Boston where he makes plays | art | music, and scares little children who thought dinosaurs were dead. He has a Bachelor of Arts from SUNY Boondocks and an accent from his mama. Goals include recording a great dance tune, making impossible things from cardboard, and singing in a girl group.  Mission: Devoted to Creating and Spreading Delight.

Jeremy Johnson interviews Costume Designer Molly Trainer in this "Live from the Library: One on One" coversation. Molly Trainer (USA 829) is a Boston-based freelance costume designer for theater and media. She also creates commissioned works and provides consulting services for individuals and organizations. In 1999 Ms. Trainer undertook a major career change to devote herself full-time to costume design, following several years designing costumes as an avocation while working in the medical industry as a specialized clinical technician, educator and Product Manager. Since then she has she has earned awards and nominations for her work, designed shows, including more than a dozen premiers and been an exhibitor for The World Stage Design Expo. Ms Trainer has a special interest in mentoring young designers, and has been speaker, adjudicator, instructor and workshop leader for various theater organizations, colleges, and the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. Ms Trainer earned her BS at Northeastern University, studied photography at the University of the South and design in Boston at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and The School of Fashion Design. 

Jeremy Johnson interviews Karen Perlow in this "One on One" interview. Karen is a freelance lighting designer in the greater Boston area.  In addition to working at most of the local midsized theaters, she teaching lighting design at MIT.  She is a 3-time recipient of the IRNE award for best lighting design.  As a former member of the StageSource board, she was influential in organizing the first REPA (StageSource) Job Fair. 

Jeremy Johnson, the Member Services Manager of StageSource, debuts his "One on One" interview with this podcast. His first guest: Larry Coen. An award winning director and actor, Larry Coen has been honored with Elliot Norton awards for his productions of The Divine Sister for SpeakEasy Stage and Phantom of the Oprah for the Gold Dust Orphans.. Larry also serves as the Artistic Director of City Stage Company which provides free arts education programs and performances for low income kids and families. In addition, he is a playwright and co-wrote the Broadway comedy Epic Proportions. His most recent directing venture, the Boston premiere of Chinglish, played to full houses at the Lyric Stage Company of Boston and has garnered him a Best Director IRNE nomination.