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COMING IN July/August 2008
THE MARTIN CHRONICLES
By Frank Rizzo
Bedazzled by Ethel Merman in Call Me Madam, young Nicholas Martin set his sights on being a star on Broadway. But it wasn’t until his forties that he discovered his true calling: directing. Critical kudos followed Martin into his sixties, when he found himself taking on another assignment he never contemplated—that of artistic director, first at Boston’s Huntington Theatre Company (where he staged Noah Haidle’s Persephone, with Melinda Lopez, and Mimi Lieber) and now, at 70, as head of the Williamstown Theatre Festival in the Berkshires of Massachusetts. Critic Frank Rizzo quizzes Martin about the ups and downs of his singular career—and the works he’s bringing from both his home stages to Broadway.
Full-Length Play:
‘OUR DAD IS IN ATLANTIS’
By Javier Malpica
Translated by Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas
Two Mexican brothers, ages 8 and 11, left with their grandmother in a rural village while their father goes to the United States to look for work, rely on one another for emotional and physical support. This powerful work by award-winning author Javier Malpica had its American debut Off Broadway in April under Debbie Saivetz’s direction.
COMING IN September 2008
I Thought I Saw Emmett Till
What is left to say about Emmett Till, the black 14-year-old who on a trip from Chicago to rural Mississippi to visit relatives in the summer of 1955 unthinkingly whistled at a white woman in a candy store and became the target of a brutal lynching? Playwright, performer and essayist Carl Hancock Rux talks with two wildly different theatre artists re-investigating this emblematic event of the civil rights era—experimentalist auteur Ping Chong and playwright Ifa Bayeza, whose The Ballad of Emmett Till premiered this spring at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre with Joseph Anthony Byrd, in the title role. What, Rux queries, does Emmett Till’s story mean to American society in the politically charged present moment?
The Essential Image: 6 Master Photographers of the Stage
American Theatre art director Kitty Suen presents a color portfolio of the most exciting contemporary theatre photography in America. Six master photographers will comment on the qualities of a great theatre photo and how the technological developments of recent years have transformed their profession.
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A full-length play - Title TBA
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