i wanna play airplane

it looks incredibly simple. there’s almost nothing on stage… and you sort of think ‘wow, i came to a broadway show and it’s an empty stage.’ but really there’s an immense amount of technology and artistry that’s gone into the simplicity that the audience sees because below the floor it’s like this huge skyscraper scaffolding system down there.

Karen Olivo in Fun Home at Forward Theatre in Madison, WI

“Transposing Shakespeare’s tragedy from medieval Scotland to feudal Japan, director Yukio Ninagawa created a breathtaking world filled with samurai, kabuki witches, a highly expressive cherry tree, and a moving musical score of Buddhist chant and western classical music. This revival, the last production directed by Ninagawa before his death in 2016, transforms the Bard’s brutal tale of greed, ambition, and revenge into a poetic meditation on the ephemeral nature of existence.”

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“In these stories, the foreign lands are always filled with danger. And the white hero manages to talk sense into the crazy natives. And falls in love. But ends up going back home anyway from that magical place. Oh, and the locals somehow speak with stupid accents. In their own country.”

“all I want is to play some kick ass woman in an action movie in a fit outfit who can dual wield weapons and has a horse that she flips onto” -@EvaNoblezada

theatre meme: a song/scene that makes you want to self transcend — corner of the sky (pippin)

I think one of the best parts [is] not only the lyrical content such as, “Immigrants: We get the job done” or, “History has its eyes on you,“ but this color-conscious casting paired with the lyrics—the fact that I’m half Bangladeshi and my [character’s] last name is Schuyler and my sisters are completely different ethnicities, yet nobody questions it (…) We’re looking like we look today, but talking about our founding fathers. I think that provides hope and excitement and dreams for the future, while we’re still reliving the past.

David Henry Hwang is an award-winning Chinese American playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and theater professor at Columbia University School of the Arts. Hwang has been regard as “the first important dramatist of American public life since Arthur Miller” by Time magazine and is known for touching upon themes of gender politics and Asian American identity.

M. Butterfly is the 1988 Tony Award winner for Best Play and Pulitzer Prize finalist for Best Drama that was inspired by a 1986 newspaper short on the relationship between a French diplomat and a mysterious Peking opera singer. The original production that opened on Broadway was directed by John Dexter and starred John Lithgow and BD Wong.

The play’s 2017 revival is directed by Julie Taymor and stars Clive Owen and Jin Ha. While the 1988 production was primarily written from Hwang’s imagination, the more recent revival saw Hwang and Taymor work together after more research into the original love affair. Lauded as tense, dark, and provocative, the new production will be playing at the Cort Theatre until February 25, 2018.

IN THE  G R E A T E S T  CITY IN THE WORLD !

Well, it’s one of your favorite fantasies isn’t it? The submissive Oriental Woman and the cruel white man. Consider it this way: what would you say if a blonde homecoming queen fell in love with a short Japanese businessman? He treats her cruelly, then goes home for three years, during which time she prays to his picture and turns down marriage from a young Kennedy. Then, when she learns he has remarried, she kills herself. Now, I believe you would consider this girl to be a deranged idiot, correct? But because it’s an Oriental who kills herself for a Westerner-ah!-you find it beautiful.

musical theatre challenge | 9/10 shows: Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 “It seems to me that this comet feels me. Feels my softened and uplifted soul and my newly melted heart, now blossoming into a new life.”

everything that makes you you collides against the night and nothing’s black and white