Theatre

Three Intertwined Mysteries Cast Killer Shadows Over “NOIRTOWN”

August 27, 2019 iartmedia Theatre 0 comments

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A private eye, John Beckett, and a woman in a burgundy dress lock eyes five feet away from me in the dimly lit cabaret. She introduces herself as Vivian but he calls her Effie, suspecting she might be somebody he met a while ago. She looks troubled. He glares with the excitement of a person whose work is driven by passion, not money… Read more… Read More

A New Festival Shows Off Creators Ready to Launch

August 22, 2019 iartmedia Theatre 0 comments

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If the eclectic clutch of productions in its first week is any indication, the Rave Theater Festival is off to a promising start. A variety of worlds — from a British ship of pilgrims to a maze populated with competing detectives — have been unfolding inside the neo-Gothic walls of a former school on the Lower East Side. Those worlds, and many others, are part of the first Rave Theater Festival, running through Aug. 25 at the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center. It is the brainchild of the Tony Award-winning impresario Ken Davenport, who noticed festivals disappearing as the physical space for productions in New York became more limited. Read more in nytimes.com/…/rave-theater Read More

Rave Theater Festival Review: Noirtown. Immersive Bogarting

August 22, 2019 iartmedia Theatre 0 comments

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It was uncanny how much “Noirtown” made me feel as if I was living inside a film noir classic like “The Maltese Falcon” or “The Big Sleep” – stylish, seductive, tough-talking and unfathomable. For much of the time, I didn’t know what the hell was going on. “Noirtown” opened the inaugural Rave Theater Festival, which is presenting some 20 new works from August 9th through August 25th in a single building, The Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center at 107 Suffolk Street on the Lower East Side. “Noirtown” unfolds on the second floor of the building, in Teatro Latea, a space with three rooms (two of them usually used as the backstage), two hallways, and a shallow mirrored alcove. This is an important detail, since the show, a production of a two-year-old immersive theater company called Witness, requires audience members to choose which characters to follow from room to room. As with the classic film noir, “Noirtown” begins in mystery, but also something close to clarity. Read more in https://newyorktheater.me… Read More

“THE 39 STEPS”

July 06, 2018 iartmedia Actor, Theatre 0 comments

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This Summer, Daniel returns to “THE 39 STEPS” as Richard Hannay at Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre: A Lyceum Premiere! Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have the thrilling, and riotously funny whodunit for anyone who loves the magic of theatre. This 2-time Tony® and Drama Desk Award-winning treat is packed with nonstop laughs, over 150 zany characters (played by a ridiculously talented cast of 4), an on-stage plane crash, handcuffs, missing fingers and some good old-fashioned romance! A man with a boring life meets a woman with a thick accent who says she’s a spy. When he takes her home, she is murdered. Soon, a mysterious organization called “The 39 Steps” is hot on the man’s trail in a nationwide manhunt that climaxes in a death-defying finale! A riotous blend of virtuoso performances and wildly inventive stagecraft, The 39 Steps amounts to an unforgettable evening of pure theatrical pleasure! MYSTERY RATED PG http://lyceumtheatre.org/occasion/the-39-steps/ Read More

“BASKERVILLE: A SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY”

July 06, 2018 iartmedia Actor, Theatre 0 comments

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This Fall, Daniel will play Dr. Watson in KEN LUDWIG’S “BASKERVILLE: A SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY” at Sierra Repertory Theatre: The Hound of the Baskervilles has never been funnier! Male heirs of Baskerville are being offed one by one so Sherlock and Watson must brave desolate moors before a family curse dooms its newest heir. Get caught up in a dizzying web of clues, silly accents, disguises, and deceit as five actors deftly portray more than forty characters. (Rated PG) August 31-September 30, 2018 Fallon House Theatre http://www.sierrarep.org/ken-ludwigs-baskerville-a-sherlock-holmes-mystery.html Read More

VISITATIONEXPERIENCE.COM

March 09, 2018 iartmedia Theatre 0 comments

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www.visitationexperience.com/about THE VISITATION a new immersive theater experience RETURNING FOR TWO WEEKENDS ONLY Thursday March 8, 2018 – Saturday, March 17, 2018 THE WYCKOFF HOUSE 5816 Clarendon Rd, Brooklyn, NY 11203 Read More

Cast and Creative Team Announced for The Old Globe’s THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST

January 08, 2018 iartmedia Actor, Theatre 0 comments

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The Old Globe’s 2017-2018 Season continues with today’s announcement of the complete cast and creative team of a top-notch revival of Oscar Wilde’s endlessly entertaining comedy The Importance of Being Earnest. Maria Aitken will direct the Globe’s handsome production of this timeless world classic-an unmissable opportunity to see what the London Telegraph calls “the most perfect comedy in the English language.” The Importance of Being Earnest will run January 27 – March 4, 2018 on the Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage in the Old Globe Theatre, part of the Globe’s Conrad Prebys Theatre Center. Tickets start at $30.00 and are on sale now to the general public. Previews run January 27-31. Opening night is Thursday, February 1 at 8:00 p.m. Oscar Wilde’s wildly entertaining comedy sparkles with dazzling wordplay and hilariously unlikely situations. This “trivial comedy for serious people” features two carefree bachelors, Jack and Algernon, each with a carefully hidden double life. But when Algernon discovers that Jack has been posing as a man named Ernest to escape to the city, he promptly travels to Jack’s country estate to pose as the fictional figure himself! Silliness ensues with whimsical ingénues, jealous fiancées, indomitable dowagers, and the most famous handbag […] Read More

Hunting the Witch Hunter in “The Visitation” – Review

November 09, 2017 iartmedia Review, Theatre, video 0 comments

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A new immersive theatre company debuts in Brooklyn It’s 1682; the “witch hunter” has come to town to investigate yet another suspicious incident. Will he find witchcraft or some other form of evil? The young girl in question is one, poor Anne Gunter. And she has been afflicted with something terrible: eyes rolling into the back of her head, flailing limbs, babbling verse, and even spitting out pins, to her father Brian’s astonishment. Her family are concerned and have called in two specialists; however, the two priests on the scene are more inclined to use patience and prayer as their primary weapons. Both Father Wake (an authoritative, wise-sounding Daniel Harray) and Father Prideaux (an eager, unsettling Brian Lore Evans) have traveled great distances to the Gunter family home in order to complete their investigation. But we’re not in just any old family home: we are in the storied Wyckoff House, which is the oldest house in New York City. It has been lovingly restored in the colonial style and now functions as a museum, except for tonight, when it has been transformed into the set for The Visitation. This very old, worn house is mostly dark on this brisk November evening, save […] Read More

THE VISITATION, Immersive Play About Witchcraft, to Haunt Wyckoff House

October 30, 2017 iartmedia Actor, Theatre 0 comments

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The Visitation, an immersive play about historical witchcraft, Opens Off-Broadway on November 3. The new show transports the audience to 1682 in the Wyckoff House, the oldest building in NYC. For three nights only, audiences are invited to the Wyckoff House for a new immersive theatrical experience that places them at the center of a witchcraft inquest. The Visitation transports the audience to 17th-century New York. A young girl has fallen ill. The cause, she claims, is witchcraft. As a foreboding winter rolls in, two priests are dispatched to her family’s rural home, tasked with investigating the claims. As the evening progresses, the inhabitants of the house begin to uncover dark secrets – about one another and themselves. Based on a true historical witchcraft case, this lantern-lit promenade immersive theater piece is written by Michael Bontatibus and directed by Drew Gregory. The cast features Brian L. Evans, Ben Gougeon, Rae Haas, Daniel Harray (Orange is the New Black), and Virginia Logan (Sleep No More). Audience members will be free to follow characters throughout the rooms and grounds of the Wyckoff House, which dates from 1638 and is the oldest structure in New York City. Playing to only 40 audience members a night, the close-quarters, […] Read More

Ted van Griethuysen unforgettable in The Father (review)

May 16, 2017 iartmedia Actor, Review, Theatre 0 comments

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“People like us, who believe in physics,” Albert Einstein once said, “know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” Einstein meant it as consolation — he was speaking at the funeral of a friend — but alas, for André (Ted van Griethuysen) the distinction has melted and he is in terror. A man of great dignity and self-possession, Andrei finds himself facing some disconcerting uncertainties. Is he in his apartment, or his daughter Anne’s (Kate Eastwood Norris, or, sometimes, Erika Rose)? And who is that man (Daniel Harray or, sometimes, Manny Buckey) in the apartment with them? Why doesn’t his other daughter, Elise, come to visit them any more? And where is his damn watch? Ted van Griethuysen and Kate Eastwood Norris in Studio Theatre’s The Father. (Photo: Teresa Wood) The Father comes to us as a comedy might: André, having terrorized his nurse into resigning, now must confront his daughter, who has a terrible dilemma. It is this: she is moving from Paris to London to be with her lover, and must find a solution for her father, who is slipping into dementia. She cannot look after him, and if she can’t […] Read More