“I just love to be around people; I’m a people person to the extreme,” Mundy enthuses. “I will talk to anyone, anywhere. And I like the collaborative process.”
theater
Posted inArts, Entertainment & Film
Between Heaven and Hell: Purgatorio
Two characters, called Man and Woman, are in that color-less, form-less place called Purgatory. With one or the other dressed in the clinical white coat of a therapist, they spend eternity interrogating each other.
Posted inArts, Entertainment & Film
‘Les Miserables’ at Savannah Theatre
Originally, the Savannah Theatre production was to be the “concert version”, with the actors — in character, in costume — at center stage microphones. This, quite serendipitously, has changed.
Posted inArts, Entertainment & Film
‘Medea’ at Muse: Not Tyler Perry
There is a “Greek chorus”, as always, to comment and pass judgment on the dramatic proceedings, but this Medea is augmented with multi-media installations, live music from Electric Grandma, and choreography.
Posted inArts, Entertainment & Film
‘Sweeney Todd’ on the cutting edge
“I think everything about this is a super-mega love story,” DeVincent says. “I see it as a series of out-of-control operatic love stories.”
Posted inArts, Entertainment & Film
Shakespeare in the park
“If someone wants to write a song around the sonnet, if someone wants to do a dance about the sonnet, if they want to just get up and perform it … it’s open to interpretation for whatever the individual artist wants to do.”
Posted inArts, Entertainment & Film
AASU goes commedia!
‘In traditional commedia, some of the more buffoonish characters — such as the Pantalone and the Harlequin — were all masked. And the others were heavily made up. So it was almost like a mask, but not quite.’
Posted inArts, Entertainment & Film
Staged events: ‘Speech and Debate,’ the Mint Juleps
‘What I like about it is, as it goes through the story it doesn’t go out of its way very naturally. It avoids a lot of clichés. The characters are very real.’
Posted inArts, Entertainment & Film
Spring Awakening
With songs like “Life is a Bitch,” “My Junk,” “Touch Me” and “Totally Fucked,” Spring Awakening is about as far from Oklahoma! as a musical could possibly be.
Posted inArts, Entertainment & Film
Playing around
The last two shows David I.L. Poole directed were pretty serious dramas. Poole helmed Angels in America with his independent group the Collective Face, and Frankenstein as part of his […]
Posted inArts, Entertainment & Film
Everything olde is new again
From the halls of Scandinavia, Mesopotamia and Ancient Greece, Eve Butler’s epic tale began. For many days and nights, she read and ruminated upon the great adventure stories of old […]
Posted inArts, Entertainment & Film
From chair to stage
The subtitle for The Drowsy Chaperone is A Musical Within a Comedy. That’s pretty self–explanatory – once you know what you’re getting into, you can sit back and let it […]