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Maria-Christina Oliveras getting nominated for The Balusters over Marylouise Burke or Margaret Colin is insane. 

I'm curious about the venue.  Do we think it's a pop-up for this show only or actually a new venue?

The current problem with staging shows completely in the round is that high-paying audiences want cool design elements which are difficult, if not impossible, in the round.  Our suggestion is to completely gut The Circle in the Square and use it for immersive shows which have become very popular.

Play Co is remounting Sarah Einspanier's LUNCH BUNCH - originally staged at Club Thumb's Summerworks.

Highly recommended!

Off-Off Blogway

We saw this last week and really like it A LOT. Loved the adaptation. Loved, loved Parker Posey. It was definitely less than 3 hours, more like 2 1/2. Felt like Act 4 needed work, but overall we really enjoyed it.

In our experience, the bad behavior happens much less  frequently Off-Broadway and downtown; is seems to be a Broadway issue, although we could see it happening at a venue like New World Stages, too.

I can understand the cast not wanting to do a concert version; it shows neither their performances nor the show in an optimal light.  And the performers know that audiences have paid for a full production.

We asked one of the nominators: A Case of Existence of God opened one day too late to be eligible.

Whenever we've wondered why more shows don't run in rep on Broadway to share costs, we were always told that it was due to unions and their costs would make it cost prohibitive. Wonder what changed (apart from obviously vacant houses due to a pandemic)?

That's interesting and disappointing, Distinctive Baritone.

Can you think of any plays that may work particularly well online on a zoom-like platform?  Plays with less physicality perhaps?  Julie Halston offhandedly said, in a conversation with TheaterMania, that she wouldn't want to see Pinter on Zoom - and that was a playwright whose work I thought could work in that format...

Let's inspire some online works!

PS: I live the Apple plays written directly FOR zoom, too!

I thought the Act changes in the Roundabout's TIME AND THE CONWAYS were very memorable.  Set by Neil Patel.

One Flea Spare by Naomi Wallace is set in plague-ravaged 17th Century London.

Synopsis:  A wealthy couple is preparing to flee their home when a mysterious sailor and a young girl appear sneaking into their boarded-up house. Now, quarantined together for 28 days, the only thing these strangers fear more than the Plague is each other.

I wonder if Same Time, Next Year would have been a better choice?

Didn't this get a pretty bad review in the Times when it was out west? Did they decide to bring it to NY because Isherwood is gone?

Thank you DHAFER that is definitely the music!

With the coming of DAMES AT SEA, I'm researching the beginnings of the Off-Off Broadway movement again.

Caffe Cino, where DAMES AT SEA premiered, also gave a start to Marshall Mason, John Guare, Robert Patrick, Jeff Weiss, Sam Shepard, Paul Foster, H.M. Koutoukas, Doric Wilson and many others.

There is a great site dedicated to the Cino: HERE.

It was before my time, but wondering if anyone here experienced the Caffe Cino first-hand?

Six Degrees of Separation - Stockard Channing

Saw 10 out of 12 last week.  It really is a must see for anyone involved in theater.  It's a tad too long at 2 and a half hours.  If anyone asked, I'd tell them exactly what to cut.

It must have been a nightmare to tech a show about a tech rehearsal.