CUNY Academic Commons | Elyse Singer | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/esinger/activity/ Activity feed for Elyse Singer. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 1aabd32bbaea71d74a2302e01ccdf008 Elyse Singer (she/her/hers) changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/1009252/ Sun, 15 Sep 2024 17:15:53 -0400 b89a668e1ea437ea14e53483d82b3ebe Elyse Singer (she/her/hers) changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/927719/ Mon, 19 Jun 2023 12:25:40 -0400 3dac4aa9a2e9bc7e5557b9e719ec17fa Elyse Singer (she/her/hers)'s profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/749490/ Tue, 09 Mar 2021 15:33:17 -0500 73363c93167577f89244632369824a3c Elyse Singer (she/her/hers) joined the group The WAC Resource Center https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/705061/ Thu, 01 Oct 2020 18:24:19 -0400 f7c97192aed36101d773c95e59bf90d3 Elyse Singer (she/her/hers) wrote a new post on the site https://jadt.commons.gc.cuny.edu https://jadt.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=2713 Wed, 30 May 2018 12:10:05 -0400 by Ira S. Murfin
The Journal of American Drama and Theatre
Volume 30, Number 2 (Spring 2018)
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©2018 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center

Spalding Gray’s autobiographical monologues ex […]

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The Journal of American Drama and Theatre
Volume 30, Number 2 (Spring 2018)
ISNN 2376-4236
©2018 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center

Weary of endlessly scavenging for funding, […]

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The Journal of American Drama and Theatre
Volume 30, Number 2 (Spring 2018)
ISNN 2376-4236
©2018 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center

For a good understanding, the Spring 2018 American […]

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The Journal of American Drama and Theatre
Volume 30, Number 2 (Spring 2018)
ISNN 2376-4236
©2018 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center

Introduction

A quiet, yet hopeful group of […]

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The Journal of American Drama and Theatre
Volume 30, Number 2 (Spring 2018)
ISNN 2376-4236
©2018 by Martin E. Segal Theatre Center

“In this software universe, existence finds itself […]

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The Contemporary American Monologue: Performance and Politics by Eddie Paterson offers […]

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In Stage for Action: U.S. Social Activist Theatre in the 1940s, […]

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Reading Natalie Alvarez’s Immersions in Cultural Difference: Tourism, W […]

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It begins with a bold proposition. In Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left, scholar-practitioner […]

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To discuss the production history of Samuel Bec […]

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The history of black theatre in the United S […]

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Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left
By Malik Gaines
Reviewed by Kristin Moriah

The Contemporary American Monologue: Performance and Politics
By Eddie Paterson
Reviewed […]

]]> 142cad1397f25b34ef1ef1d241870cb0 Elyse Singer (she/her/hers) wrote a new post on the site European Stages http://europeanstages.org/?p=2193 Fri, 15 Apr 2016 02:42:08 -0400 The 2016 Oslo International Festival was the biggest to date. Stretching over three weeks, the festival offered twenty works of theatre, dance, performance, and music as well as seminars and talkbacks. It was also […]

]]> ac0d6dd2b05ca6b6f73fe56e3d79c94d Elyse Singer (she/her/hers) wrote a new post on the site European Stages http://europeanstages.org/?p=2266 Fri, 15 Apr 2016 01:56:58 -0400 A Pessimistic Background for a Start

When I see the nth show on our stages that is interested mainly in itself, or in the current fashion, or in its perfect following of a certain aesthetics, or in quickly […]

]]> ef8e7487e91edff95940a75fdba936ba Elyse Singer (she/her/hers) wrote a new post on the site European Stages http://europeanstages.org/?p=2224 Thu, 14 Apr 2016 22:36:42 -0400 Two weeks after the first appearance of his final production for Uppsala Stadsteater, I met with Linus Tunström to discuss his tenure as the theatre’s Intendant. When Tunström arrived in Uppsala in 2008, the the […]

]]> 365b4905e877ca768d931726436b3557 Elyse Singer (she/her/hers) wrote a new post on the site European Stages http://europeanstages.org/?p=2228 Thu, 14 Apr 2016 21:49:41 -0400 The Latvian director Alvis Hermanis (b. 1965) had worked for approximately ten years when he “broke out” internationally by taking part in the Salzburg Festival’s Program for Young Directors with a staging of […]

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]]> d4d7700273146d6364dd1987ee9b0766 Elyse Singer (she/her/hers) wrote a new post on the site European Stages http://europeanstages.org/?p=2262 Thu, 14 Apr 2016 03:15:11 -0400 The fall of 2015 marked several major events in France that will not be soon forgotten. The tragedy of 15 November and the sudden passing of Swiss director Luc Bondy on 28 November left a sense of emptiness in […]

]]> 5f46e9ccc25d4cc9a08ba69c016a776d Elyse Singer (she/her/hers) wrote a new post on the site European Stages http://europeanstages.org/?p=2250 Thu, 14 Apr 2016 03:07:24 -0400 In the beginning was the Word.
In the beginning was—The Iliad.
 

These words can best sum up both the story and the scenic language of the remarkable performance Ilijada (The Iliad), a co-production of th […]

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]]> 0e7c9571d8ca14c8b731bd0b820c8562 Elyse Singer (she/her/hers) wrote a new post on the site European Stages http://europeanstages.org/?p=1922 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 17:50:27 -0500 The National Theatre in Budapest has been troubled by political and cultural cross-currents for the past years, which have left temporary marks on its audience, repertoire, and stagings as well as long-term marks […]

]]> b416621d989fe839da2b20ff74240d01 Elyse Singer (she/her/hers) wrote a new post on the site European Stages http://europeanstages.org/?p=1890 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 17:49:43 -0500 The political tensions that have recently developed between Russia and the West have had an impact on the reception of Russian culture and theatre in Finland. Over the past year, Finnish theatre companies and […]

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Juan Carlos Rubio has had quite a hit with Las heridas del viento [The Wounds of the Wind]. The play first premiered over a decade ago at Miami’s Teatro 8, in a […]

]]> a266380dbe73777a3ba9e54d14ac3880 Elyse Singer (she/her/hers) wrote a new post on the site European Stages http://europeanstages.org/?p=1917 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 17:47:52 -0500 Swedish director Linus Tunström’s new staging of the first part of Goethe’s Faust at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden insightfully moves the text into the twenty-first century. Much has been made of the director’s […]

]]> f0d05d5bcb5a7cc18162b23bb435d882 Elyse Singer (she/her/hers) wrote a new post on the site European Stages http://europeanstages.org/?p=1934 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 17:47:19 -0500 Many theatre festivals in Germany make headlines in the national and international press. The biennial Augenblick mal! (a rough translation might be “Just a moment!”), whose program this year not only featured top […]

]]> 2e00c0ac70ffdf862e0955767458acbb Elyse Singer (she/her/hers) wrote a new post on the site European Stages http://europeanstages.org/?p=1910 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 17:46:44 -0500 Montreal’s Festival Transamériques has a new director, Martin Faucher, actor, director, teacher, administrator and artistic consultant to the festival since 2006. For his first festival, his program choices in […]

]]> 91b6f36ee981d48d68948a886107d52c Elyse Singer (she/her/hers) wrote a new post on the site European Stages http://europeanstages.org/?p=1930 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 17:45:58 -0500 Founded in 2000 by Jale Karabekir and Zeynep Kaçar, Tiyatro Boyalı Kuş (Theatre Painted Bird) is Turkey’s pioneer feminist theatre and performance company. The group is primarily known for their deconstructive in […]

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]]> 6f3fc8acb3418dc3ee27f61c0950bbc1 Elyse Singer (she/her/hers) wrote a new post on the site European Stages http://europeanstages.org/?p=1801 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 17:43:05 -0500 In 2014, the 68th Festival d’Avignon, for the first time under artistic direction of Olivier Py, managed to survive both the strikes by part-time cultural workers (the “intermittents”) who fought to close down a […]

]]> b5191e8142cc545964e6e0b19b6a838e Elyse Singer (she/her/hers) wrote a new post on the site European Stages http://europeanstages.org/?p=1936 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 17:40:52 -0500 During a brief visit to Madrid in April 2015, I saw four plays. They ranged from a spectacular production at the Teatro Español’s Matadero of Fernando Arrabal’s latest work, Pingüinas, to a surprisingly moving o […]

]]> 2bcdf9e52335f3caa9369bded6afd81d Elyse Singer (she/her/hers) wrote a new post on the site European Stages http://europeanstages.org/?p=1939 Tue, 24 Nov 2015 17:39:30 -0500 The international popularity of the annual Berlin Theatre festival, the Theatertreffen, continues to grow, and so does the demand for the limited number of seats, especially when productions are presented in a […]

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