Last week we welcomed the twenty-first annual NewFest production to the stage with the black comedy, Rough & Tumble, by Patrick McDonald. Patrick is the recipient of the 2012 Rod Parker Playwriting Fellowship. His play, a comedic look at reality television and mankind’s too-easy spiral toward a more animalistic mentality when faced with a difficult…
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Monthly Archives: March 2012
The Music of Café Variations – Gershwin’s Music
by Magda Romanska As a child, George Gershwin would constantly get in trouble, well on his way to become a juvenile delinquent. It was sheer luck that saved him when his mother decided the family needed a piano for Ira to start music lessons. However, as soon as the piano was pulled up through the…
They meet, they flirt, they fight and break up…
By Sarah Weintraub As a photographer, I envy those artists who can go to cafés and sit with their tea or coffee for hours, finding key strokes or lines on paper to express the right emotion or meaning in the moment. When Magda Romanska, the dramaturg of Café Variations and my faculty advisor, asked if…
A Comedic Journey to the Amazon Begins Tonight
The long anticipated NewFest 2012 production of Rough & Tumble is opening today! The first performance of Rough & Tumble will be held tonight at 8:00 pm in the Jackie Liebergott Black Box at the Paramount Center, where the audience will be transported into the Amazon Rainforest to follow the adventures of the crew of…
A Pretty Crazy Ride
Patrick McDonald talks with us about the “pretty crazy ride” of writing and rehearsing his new play, Rough & Tumble, our 2012 NewFest production:
SHINSAI in the Making
by Katherine Charleton I graduated from Emerson last May with a degree in Arts Management, and moved to New York for a temporary gig as Press Coordinator at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. It was during my senior year at Emerson that I realized that I wanted to work in marketing, specifically audience development.…
A Stroll Down Memory Lane
Late last month we presented Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, a powerful chronicle of the LA Riots that rattled the nation twenty years ago. Just last weekend we presented SHINSAI: Theaters for Japan, a benefit event for the Japanese theater community that was ravaged by the earthquake and tsunami of a year ago. See photos of…
The Making of an Antelope
Rough & Tumble, the play, follows the crew of Rough & Tumble, a survival television show on location in the Amazon, where you would expect to see and hear any number of animals. In fact, twenty to forty million species of animals are estimated to live in this dense South American rainforest. Despite the vast number of…
The Connection
By Magda Romanska I am a dramaturg for the upcoming production of Café Variations, a collaboration between the SITI Company, ArtsEmerson, and Emerson Stage. I am also a faculty member at Emerson, teaching courses in dramaturgy and theatre history. The first brainstorming rehearsals for the production began in New York City, just as the Spring…
Entertaining Political Theater
by Christine Bernard This week ArtsEmerson is presenting Ameriville, a show that has been called “political theater made entertaining.” After our successful presentation of Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 and its focus on the social and racial struggles that are part of the American reality, Ameriville continues the motif by examining our country through the lens…
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