Wednesday - Deb Laufer and ANGELA'S MIXTAPE

Welcome back all,

Tomorrow we have End Days playwright Deb Laufer in class right at 4:30, so please be on time, with a question for Deb!

And we'll gather at the Ohio Theater at 7:40 to see Eisa Davis's

Angela's Mixtape

66 Wooster Street, Between Spring and Broome (C or E to Spring)

AND Eisa will talk with us afterwards.  The show's gonna be grand.

Huge day everyone!

If you cannot attend PLEASE let me know asap so we can release your tickets.

Karen

Singing Forest 2pm Saturday

Next Outing:  The Singing Forest by Craig Lucas at the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Avenue,

This Saturday at 2pm!  Not 3pm!

It's a long show - 3hrs.  AND we get to talk to Craig afterwards, we think.

So lots a culture for your non-buck this weekend.

Enjoy the rest of spring break, and I will see you there!

hey Theater TRaC!

What's up y'all?

Just wanted to hip you to a post on the Multi TRaC Blog I just put up. I link some of the recent coverage of Neil LaBute's reasons to be pretty in the New York Times.

In addition to a review and a profile of LaBute, there is a very cool (and short) slideshow with the guy who designed the ad campaign for the show. He talks about how they came up with the posters, briefly discusses the process of designing a marketing campaign, and how they finally put together those posters we've all seen all over the city asking, Doesthisplaymakemelookfat?

Check it out here: http://multitrac.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-york-times-coverage-of-reasons.html

End Days Reviews

Very positive, yet very different!

Read reviews here in Variety, Curtain Up, Theatermania, and the New York Times.

And let's talk about the differences tomorrow!

Karen

We are ON for Tuesday 4:30 pm - NEW DRAMATISTS

Hello folks,

It sounds like we have enough to meet on Tuesday April 7, so we will have class.

We will meet NOT at our usual space BUT at New Dramatists, 424 West 44th Street between 9th and 10th Avenue.  Ring the doorbell and someone will let you in, please tell them you are here for Karen Hartman's class.  

I will be there right at 4:30, but if you arrive early you can wait (quiet-ish) in the "library," a nice cozy room with couches where you can read scripts.

We will be meeting with John Steber, a casting director at New Dramatists.  You've now seen two plays with two different amazing casts - a casting director knows lots of actors, and helps choose the right people for each show (at New Dramatists, John frequently chooses himself for readings and workshops).

Be ready with questions for John - he is also a warm, wonderful person who knows lots about theater.  

You'll learn more about New Dramatists right in the building that day.

See you Tuesday, and keep looking for those END DAYS reviews!

Take care,

Karen

PS We'll have our discussion of END DAYS reviews at New Dramatists, and finish around 6pm, when the building closes.  Makes more sense than hauling back to our usual space.

Wednesday April 1st, 2009


Our special guest Martin Denton of NYTheatre.com talking to Theater TRaC students and Karen during our class.















That same night we saw a FANTASTIC play called End Days at the Ensemble Studio Theater