Back Stage West

1. SHOWTUNE
Jerry's Girls. Jerry's Boys. Jerry at the Hollywood Bowl. Tap Your Troubles Away. Aside from perhaps Stephen Sondheim, no contemporary Broadway songwriter has been the ...
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2. [SIC]
How to write about the nature of contemporary life, fractured language, and fragmented interpersonal communication without penning a banal play is the task Melissa James ...
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3. Theatre & Politics in St. Paul
The set shouldn't steal the show, but the set can contribute much to a show's success. So it is with annual conferences of the American ...
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4. Role Reversals
At the IFP Los Angeles Film Festival a few weeks ago, I was struck by how many narrative feature films in the festival's program were ...
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5. THE SWEET MADNESS
Director Frederique Michel's elegantly presented adaptation of Simone de Beauvoir's novella meshes poetry, surreal onstage imagery, and dream-like movement to create a complicated but nuanced ...
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6. ORDER MY STEPS
Midway through its Faith-Based Theater Cycle, which began in 2001, Cornerstone Theater Company is still not settling for easy answers. That, of course, would be ...
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7. DGA: TV Diversity Dormant
Despite persistent scrutiny of network and studio hiring practices by the Directors Guild of America, directing opportunities on top television series continue to be few ...
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8. NEA Funding Increases
The long process for federal arts funding has begun with the House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee proposing to bank the National Endowment for the Arts with ...
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9. NewsWire?
Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003) ...
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10. The Skinny
While there might not be too much going on in the way of film production these days, there's still a buzz of activity in Los ...
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