Favorite Director(s)
Favorite Director(s)
#1Favorite Director(s)
Posted: 1/3/10 at 7:12pm
Who are your favorite contemporary directors, and why?
My picks...I could list a bunch more, but I'll start with two:
Bartlett Sher - He's proved himself in straight plays (Awake and Sing!, Joe Turner) and musicals (South Pacific, Light in the Piazza). He knows how to work on a thrust stage, and use the configuration to his advantage by manipulating the extra space it enables him to use to give us moments of expanse and moments of intimacy.
Matthew Warchus - Presenting God of Carnage and the Norman Conquests in one season, he has proved himself a master of realism and the ensemble cast. It would be interesting to see his take on something else, but as long as the productions he continues to bring us are so gripping, I don't really care what they are.
Your turn! I stuck with people who have directed on Broadway, but you can choose anyone.
#2Favorite Director(s)
Posted: 1/3/10 at 7:38pm
Rupert Goold. He's effing MENTAL, but he produces incredibly memorable visuals, fabulously creepy atmosphere, and works well with new technologies, rather than looking a bit lost and confused. I'm totally looking forward to his Romeo and Juliet and can't wait for the filmed version of Macbeth to be released.
John Doyle. OH NO NOT ACTOR-MUSICIANS AGAIN! There, I said it for you, so let's move on. He takes what some people see as a pointless gimmick (but is often done for practical reasons) and makes it work. Even if you don't think it works, he still draws bloody good performances out of his actors.
Michael Boyd. I didn't like Shakespeare. I saw Henry V directed by Boyd. Now I'm a card-carrying member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, and a Friend of Shakespeare's Globe. The man's GOOD.
Michael Grandage. But only with Adam Cork on sound, Christopher Oram on design, and Neil Austin on lights. If I've got those four, I don't even need actors. I'll just happily watch the lights sweeping across the empty set while Cork fills my ears with wonders.
nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#2Favorite Director(s)
Posted: 1/3/10 at 11:06pmTrevor Nunn, Bart Sher, Wilson Milam, Tina Landau, Julie Taymor, Jack O'Brian, Anne Bogart, Nicholas Hytner, Dan Sullivan, Hal Prince
#3Favorite Director(s)
Posted: 1/3/10 at 11:50pmI love David Cromer. A lot. It's a dream of mine to work with someday.
harper4
Understudy Joined: 6/9/08
#5Favorite Director(s)
Posted: 1/4/10 at 11:20amSam Mendes, Mark Brokaw, Julie Taymor and Terry Kinney
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