Unify the Stage

Ivo van Hove's Roman Trilogy: based on Shakespeare's Roman plays. Sexy.

Short interview with director Jan Philipp Gloger on his production of The Flying Dutchman: http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,16125878,00.html

From The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/theatreblog/2010/mar/26/theatre-directors-advice?intcmp=239

There is a new facebook page which everyone must add to their friends, or like, or whatever. It's called "The State of Chicago" and it is, "about building and strengthening the Chicago community in the areas of entrepreneurship, the arts, poverty, and education."  http://www.facebook.com/StateOfChicago Chicago theater director Jonathan Berry posted this the other day: "Having worked in Chicago as a theater artist for 15 years, I feel like the community and the work that is being presented is second to none in the states. While New York certainly has more financial opportunity, I believe the quality of the work here, in particular the quality of the acting, is to my taste more consistently high.  And, what's more, the gap between store front and the major equit y houses feels primarily financial. You can see a brilliantly staged and acted work in a small basement just as easily as you can by going downtown and buying a more high-priced ticket for o...

I will try to keep a running list of links here for Internships for Young Directors, please post comments with more that I should have here! http://www.guthrietheater.org/guthrie_opportunities/career_opportunities/internships/directing http://www.milwaukeerep.com/about/internship.htm http://wtfestival.org/jobs/directorsinternship http://www.internweb.com/internship/DC/551/833/int/

Robert Wilson's staging of Rufus Wainwright's musicalization of Shakespeare's sonnets. So pretty. Oh yeah.

This article came out in the New York Times yesterday: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/theater/richard-maxwell-comes-full-circle-with-oneills-early-plays.html?pagewanted=all I put this in here to inspire the young directors out there who can afford to intern, to do it. And if you can't, then, find other ways to get in the rooms. But not just anywhere. Look for people who inspire you and get in their rooms, find a way, there is always a way, and you learn things that you never thought possible. Richard Maxwell fascinates me. He founded a theater company in Chicago years and years ago that no longer exists called the Cook County Theater Department. If you live in Chicago find someone older than you and ask them about Cook County. They speak of this company with affection. I had a teacher when I went to Columbia who had been working in New York with the Wooster Group and other "downtown" theater companies, and he showed us a video of Richard Maxwell's company t...