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...Stoppard's new play, Rock 'n' Roll, opening on Broadway Nov. 4, is about Czechoslovakia in the years between the 1968 Soviet crackdown and the 1989 Velvet Revolution - set against the backdrop of the rebel rock music of the era. The playwright talked with TIME's Richard Zoglin about the play, his tastes in rock and other matters. Excerpts...
There is cause to be pessimistic about the [dearth of]high-end straight plays on the West End and Broadway. But the animal itself seems to be living and breathing, because the supply of new young plays seems to be as rich as ever. It seems that there's an awful lot of people under 30 who actually want to write for the theater. And I don't think it matters finally whether their plays are in a 1000-seat house or in a pub, or anything in between. The fact is that people are attracted to new work...
...when its leader, Warren Jeffs, was found guilty of being an accessory to rape for forcing a 14-year-old girl in the group to marry her 19-year-old cousin. Jessop, 38, tells her extraordinary story in a riveting new book, Escape (Broadway). TIME's Andrea Sachs spoke with Jessop from her home in a suburb of Salt Lake City...
...Course Innovation Funds, and Boston-area queer theater group Theater Offensive. LEAVING A LEGACY Both the Five Lesbian Brothers and the Split Britches are known for irreverent, satirical, and emotionally raw performances in queer theater, and members of both groups have been honored with the OBIE award, Off-Broadway theater’s highest accolade. The discussion Monday evening was ostensibly focused on how the transitory realm of theater can change the world, how to deal with the inevitably fleeting nature of the medium, and how to create a legacy for the future of queer performers. They discussed topics ranging...
...Mankiewicz and the urban sophisticates he wrote about, words were swords in the duel of wits. He thought of himself as a screen playwright, and Hollywood as Broadway West: films were theater in closeup. (Academy voters apparently agreed with Mankiewicz: they named him best director as well as best writer for Three Wives and Eve.) No question, he loved the sound of his own authorial voice; it had an overripe eloquence that could beguile any viewer-listener. And when he turned plays into films - producing Philip Barry's The Philadelphia Story or directing Shakespeare's Julius Caesar - he could fall...