New Yorkers started hearing the buzz about Oklahoma! last year, as yet another production from the acclaimed St. Ann’s Warehouse in Dumbo, Brooklyn, began making its presence known. The Sexy Oklahoma! The Oklahoma! with blood and darkness, a hard slap at the very notion that making America great had something to do with going back in time.
Now on Broadway in an immersive presentation at Circle in the Square, Oklahoma! is nominated for eight Tony Awards, including Best Revival/musical and, for Daniel Fish, Best Direction/musical.. Critically lauded, the production is a hit with audiences as well, playing to standing-room-only crowds week after week.
Deadline spoke to Fish recently about the production (which began in workshop at Bard College in 2015), and about the origins of his ideas for this staggering re-interpretation of a beloved classic musical.
Oklahoma!, directed by Daniel Fish,...
Now on Broadway in an immersive presentation at Circle in the Square, Oklahoma! is nominated for eight Tony Awards, including Best Revival/musical and, for Daniel Fish, Best Direction/musical.. Critically lauded, the production is a hit with audiences as well, playing to standing-room-only crowds week after week.
Deadline spoke to Fish recently about the production (which began in workshop at Bard College in 2015), and about the origins of his ideas for this staggering re-interpretation of a beloved classic musical.
Oklahoma!, directed by Daniel Fish,...
- 6/4/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Romanian film and theater director Lucian Pintilie died Wednesday at Elias Hospital in Bucharest, three days after being admitted in "critical condition," according to Romanian news reports. He was 84.
Dubbed "the Godfather of the Romanian New Wave," Pintilie — whose early films ran foul of communist authorities forcing him into exile in the early 1970s — was an inspiration to a new generation of Romanian filmmakers who have won international acclaim, including Cristi Puiu, Corneliu Porumboiu and Andrei Serban.
Known as a controversial filmmaker from the start, Pintilie's 1968 film Reconstruction — in which a ...
Dubbed "the Godfather of the Romanian New Wave," Pintilie — whose early films ran foul of communist authorities forcing him into exile in the early 1970s — was an inspiration to a new generation of Romanian filmmakers who have won international acclaim, including Cristi Puiu, Corneliu Porumboiu and Andrei Serban.
Known as a controversial filmmaker from the start, Pintilie's 1968 film Reconstruction — in which a ...
- 5/17/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Romanian film and theater director Lucian Pintilie died Wednesday at Elias Hospital in Bucharest, three days after being admitted in "critical condition," according to Romanian news reports. He was 84.
Dubbed "the Godfather of the Romanian New Wave," Pintilie — whose early films ran foul of communist authorities forcing him into exile in the early 1970s — was an inspiration to a new generation of Romanian filmmakers who have won international acclaim, including Cristi Puiu, Corneliu Porumboiu and Andrei Serban.
Known as a controversial filmmaker from the start, Pintilie's 1968 film Reconstruction — in which a ...
Dubbed "the Godfather of the Romanian New Wave," Pintilie — whose early films ran foul of communist authorities forcing him into exile in the early 1970s — was an inspiration to a new generation of Romanian filmmakers who have won international acclaim, including Cristi Puiu, Corneliu Porumboiu and Andrei Serban.
Known as a controversial filmmaker from the start, Pintilie's 1968 film Reconstruction — in which a ...
- 5/17/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Energetic founder of the pioneering experimental theatre club La MaMa
The major impetus and example for much of our first fringe and alternative theatre 50 years ago came from New York, specifically a small group of off-off-Broadway and Greenwich Village cafe theatres where Ellen Stewart, who has died aged 91, reigned supreme as the founder and artistic director of La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club.
Although never renowned as an actor or director herself (she took to directing in later life), Stewart generated creative energy and excitement in others, incontrovertible proof that theatre can only thrive given the right circumstances or opportunities.
She considered her artists as her family and, in the earliest days, kept them in clothes from her work as a designer. Many actors slept in her apartment or in the theatre itself. In British terms, she was the Lower East Side's Lilian Baylis, with elements of Sybil Thorndike and Thelma Holt.
The major impetus and example for much of our first fringe and alternative theatre 50 years ago came from New York, specifically a small group of off-off-Broadway and Greenwich Village cafe theatres where Ellen Stewart, who has died aged 91, reigned supreme as the founder and artistic director of La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club.
Although never renowned as an actor or director herself (she took to directing in later life), Stewart generated creative energy and excitement in others, incontrovertible proof that theatre can only thrive given the right circumstances or opportunities.
She considered her artists as her family and, in the earliest days, kept them in clothes from her work as a designer. Many actors slept in her apartment or in the theatre itself. In British terms, she was the Lower East Side's Lilian Baylis, with elements of Sybil Thorndike and Thelma Holt.
- 1/27/2011
- by Michael Coveney
- The Guardian - Film News
Ellen Stewart, founder of La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club and one of the pioneers of the Off-Off-Broadway theater movement, died on Jan. 12. She was 91.Stewart nurtured the careers of many influential theater figures, often giving them their first exposure, including directors Richard Foreman, Robert Wilson, Tom O'Horgan, and Joseph Chaikin; actor-playwright Harvey Fierstein; playwrights Sam Shepard, Charles Ludlam, Adrienne Kennedy, Taylor Mac, Lanford Wilson, and Israel Horovitz; composers Philip Glass, Elizabeth Swados, Meredith Monk, and Stephen Schwartz; and theater troupes Mabou Mines and the Talking Band. She also introduced American audiences to such European directors as Jerzy Grotowski and Andrei Serban.Stewart came to New York in the 1950s to become a fashion designer and founded La MaMa in 1961. More than 2,000 productions later, the theater, which is located at 74A E. Fourth St. in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, is still going strong. During the theater's infancy, Stewart funded it with her earnings from dress designing.
- 1/13/2011
- backstage.com
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