Mariinsky Theatre

I arrived at the Wednesday night showing of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the Bellamy not knowing what to expect. I had never been to a Shakespeare production before, but I enjoyed the first production, A Streetcar Named Desire, so I had high expectations for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. I thought I would like A Streetcar Named Desire more since it was a realistic play and a little more relatable than fairies and spells, but I was completely wrong. Even though A Midsummer Night’s Dream was not…

world has always been the stage. And for those pursuing a degree from The University of Alabama’s Department of Theatre and Dance, their home, their stage does if fact span all the world—to performances of Hamilton and Kinky Boots and standing ovations at productions in Scotland and Ecuador. “We have been on a great run these past few years,” Bill Teague, professor and chair of UA’s Theatre and Dance Department, said. “Our students really have major accomplishments in the entertainment…

matter the gruesome aspects of the show. Overall, the production was fantastical because of the cast cohesion, the non-linear plot structure, the variety of set choices including the scale of them, and the range of technology used throughout it. As a theatre student, however, much of this was a learning experience to watch the puppeteers, looking for the production characteristics of the piece: how are they creating a mesmerizing show? The cast of Demolishing Everything was what made the piece…

It's Friday night, I've worked all week. What better way to unwind or should I say treat myself, than to head over to Angel's Rock Bar in Baltimore, MD to check out hometown legends Silvertung on the first night of their headlining North American Tour " Hit The Pavement". Oh wait, did I say unwind? Well I meant to say wound up. But not before supporting act VIA took to the stage with their gritty vocals and down & dirty lyrics. Who would have known they drove 26 hours straight from Minneapolis,…

Shrektastic Shrek The Musical made a leap of faith when it came from the film by Dreamworks to the highest level of commercial theatre; and it stuck the landing. The audience immerses itself in the backstory the witty princess Fiona, and the giant green ogre, Shrek, who is sent to rescue from a dragon-guarded tower in hopes to get his swamp back. The elements that stand out in Shrek The Musical are the costumes, a heavy amount of singing, and the acting, which all appeal to the 75$ price tag. To…

Theater Response 1.Going into the theater, I was expecting a fairly accurate performance directly scripted from the essays. When I realized that the college level performers loosely used the stories from the book in order to inspire their piece, I was pleasantly surprised. I really enjoyed how the actors and actresses made their performance uniquely about them and how their stories relate to those of “Reluctant Citizens” and “The Lonely Death of George Bell”. Watching and listening to each of…

In Our Town, Thornton Wilder incorporates a rather unique character known as the Stage Manager, who takes the form of a narrator that converses with onlookers, to guide his audience throughout the play. Stage Manager acts as a reporter similar to the role played by Choragus in Greek dramas, which helps in leading the spectators into the heart of the story. For instance, much like Choragus, the Stage Manager stands out in comparison to the other characters within the production because he informs…

Annotated Bibliography Anderson, David K. "The Theater of the Damned: Religion and the Audience in the Tragedy of Christopher Marlowe." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 54.1 (2012): 80. Web. 31 Oct. 2016. Anderson discusses in “The Theater of the Damned” the concept of religion in Doctor Faustus. Anderson discusses why the audience would pay to see characters of a play brought to such low points throughout the duration of the story. Anderson explains how the viewers of a play in the…

is not as common to the public eye: modern American theatre. Modern American film and modern American theatre have more in common than what people might believe, while still retaining their own uniqueness. For example, one similarity both theatre and film share is the formula, or definition, of their respective forms of entertainment. Eric Bentley defined theatre as A performs B for C (Brockett, 6). This means the most basic definition of theatre is performing something for someone else…

Since its introduction to the public in 1921, Six Characters in Search of an Author has been inspiring theatre artists towards the absurd realm of the metatheatrical. Both absurd theatre and the idea of something being metatheatrical in fact have strong roots in Six Characters in Search of an Author, as it was so ahead of its time in terms of realism and naturalism on stage. In the vein of the original production, subsequent productions of the piece have strived for the same shock value the…