For Broadway Play, Mamet Is a Blogger
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In a promotion for his soon-to-open play âNovember,â David Mamet will continue to write a blog from the perspective of his leading character after the premier.
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The aggressively maudlin "Brooklyn" is a throwback to the whimsy-laden little musicals that blossomed Off Broadway several decades ago.
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The hit Broadway show may now be filmed.
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âJerry Springer: The Operaâ uncovers something grand within the small, squalid lives it portrays.
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A new performance of 'Dividing the Estate' finds the legendary playwright very much engaged in present-day issues.
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Douglas Carter Beane, the playwright whose latest play, ÂThe Little Dog Laughed,Â opened on Broadway last week, talks about his muse: Duck on Bike.
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Revolutionary or unreadable? The long, strange afterlife of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
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This beautifully performed, touching one-act play is not quite the personalized cry against genocide that the playwright intends it to be.
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Jeff Jarvis, whose mind occupies the intersection of mainstream media and the blogging world, perhaps more than any other person, is having a conference in mid-October in NYC to bring together people from both worlds to present constructive ideas for working with each other. Me, my feet are firmly planted in the blogging world, but I've spent a lifetime reading and watching MSM, starting with the NY Times at the kitchen table with my parents and brother, when growing up. Some of my fondest memories as a child were our discussions of the days events, and the Times was our common structure. Everyone in our family read the newspaper, often from cover to cover.  As Jarvis councils us, never mind the mistakes, what can we do to make things work better? And I have a couple of proposals in that direction that I will try to present at the October 11 conference. In all cases, they involve the MSM opening up more to include not only the ideas of blogging, but also the bodies of the bloggers.  1. I've said it many times before, it's worth raising again. Any newspaper or radio or TV station with a good reputation in its community could embrace the fresh ideas of the bloggers in their community by offering free blogs to members of the community, who may be new to blogging. I suggested this to the Times in 2001 -- when a person is quoted in a Times article, a few days after the piece runs, contact them, and ask if they'd like to have a NY Times hosted blog. There would be no control over what appeared on the blog. It would have a nytimes.com domain (something like bullmancuso.nytimes.com). Build an aggregator, something very much like Twitter (which is after all, a river of news, not exactly a new idea, heh) that shows all the new posts from members of the community. Encourage (but don't require) your editorial people to read the blog posts. Let whatever happens happen.  2. Here's a new idea that I haven't proposed before. Open your newsroom to bloggers. Set aside a half-dozen desks for people who blog in your community, people you've gotten to know, and provide them with wifi, a water cooler, your coffee (no matter how bad it is) and chance to work alongside your editorial people and (very important) with each other. It's an incredible thing when bloggers get together in a physical space, the sparks can really fly. Now imagine what could happen if those sparks got flying between the remaining editorial people in a professional news organization and the bloggers. I believe the secret of scaling the news is right there, you just have to open the door and see what comes in.
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A once-lost work by Tennessee Williams reveals the young playwright writing about his love life without disguise or subterfuge.
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In Stephen Massicotteâs excellent new play,  T. E. Lawrence and Robert Graves are two veterans and it takes no leap of the imagination to translate their World War I experiences into stories from todayâs newspaper.
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Playbill - Lemkin's House, an expressionist-tinged play by Catherine Filloux about the man who coined the word "genocide," and his anguish over its toleration in the modern world, returns to New York City Sept. 13.
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It seems fitting that this  revival of Harold Pinter's classic play should arrive on the  40th anniversary of both its original Broadway production and  the first (and ridiculously, only) Broadway appearance by its  star, Ian McShane.
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Playbill - Frankenstein, the new musical theatre experience that will tour in 2007-08, continues its development in rehearsals toward private industry readings scheduled for the week of Dec. 18 in Manhattan.
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Iraqi doctor turned filmmaker Omer  Salih Mahdi had the strange experience of seeing his life  portrayed on stage this weekend at a preview performance of  "Betrayed," a play about Iraqis who worked for Americans.
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The chief theater critic for The Times shares his favorite moments in theater in 2004.
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Ken Urbanâs new play is mystifying and frustrating. But there are satisfying elements in the production, which are rendered with wit and feeling by the versatile cast.