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E-MAGIC
Magic Theatre
E-Newsletter - January 2006
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CHRIS SMITH
RETURNS TO NYC
Don’t worry –
it’s just for a month! Chris is in New York for the month of January,
directing Charles Grodin’s The Right Kind of People at Primary Stages, which received its world premiere at the Magic
in 2004. Based on Grodin’s experiences on a co-op board of a
fashionable Fifth Avenue
high-rise, the show was one of the highest grossing shows in our history.
Chris is in the midst of rehearsal in NYC, living the bi-coastal lifestyle,
commuting back to San Francisco
on his day off.
Chris was involved with
the show from its inception (when it was called Co-Op Chronicles) and took the text through
many readings and workshop productions. “The world premiere at the
Magic was a culmination of a 4-year process,” said Chris. “The
moment we put it in front of an audience, we knew that this play had a
future life – Chuck started re-writing and re-structuring the day
after opening.”
The play begins
performances in New York
in January 24 and joins a long list of plays that the Magic has contributed
to the national theatre landscape.
Click here
to find out more about the world premiere production at the Magic.
For more
information about the new production, visit www.primarystages.com.
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READ A SCENE FROM
MORBIDITY &
MORTALITY
The second
offering in this year’s HOT HOUSE, Morbidity & Mortality offers a frank and surprisingly humorous lesson in the workings of
the human heart. Under the direction of Loretta Greco, the Artistic
Director of the acclaimed New York company
Women’s Project, Courtney Baron's play will receive its world
premiere after a developmental process that included readings at Cherry Lane Theatre,
Atlantic Theatre and as a part of the New Works Now series at the Public
Theatre. And we are sure the script will keep on changing as it gets closer
to its first performance at the Magic.
Click here
for a sample scene from Morbidity & Mortality.
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PLAYWRIGHT INTERVIEW - DAVID
RAMBO
Literary
Manager Mark Routhier speaks with David Rambo, the playwright of The Ice-Breaker starting performances March
11. David discusses how he came around to writing a "science
play", his job as a staff writer on CBS's hit show CSI and his
experience as a writer watching his words come alive on stage: "In the
theatre, language, metaphor and allusion "fill the frame,"
allowing the audience to participate in the telling of the story."
Click here
for the full interview.
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COMEDY AT THE COMMONWEALTH CLUB
Annual
reading series features three contemporary comedies
The Magic partners with
the Commonwealth Club for the fifth year of the annual Martha Heasley Cox
Raw Play Series. This year’s festival of staged readings features
three extraordinary plays that will make you laugh out-loud and think.
Join us for an absurdist
take on the drudge of temp work, the story of a young woman with a severe
identity crisis and a hysterical farce about a real estate agent trying to
save a senator's career. Playwrights behind these hilarious works range
from up-and-comers Dan Dietz and Allison Moore to Gary Bonasorte, acclaimed
playwright and the late co-founder of New York's Rattlestick Productions.
Directors include California Shakespeare Theatre’s Sean Daniels,
Literary Manager Mark Routhier and Evren Odcikin.
Starting February 27 and
continuing for two more Mondays, the staged readings will take place at the
Commonwealth Club’s downtown San
Francisco location at 595 Market Street.
For more
information, click here.
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