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The New York Times THE MORNING LINE DATE: Monday, July 23, 2012 FROM: Kelly Guiod, Michael Strassheim, Emily Meagher Michelle Farabaugh, Jennifer Laski, Erica Israel PAGES: 30, including this page Political Sex Scandals Onstage, in 'Tail! Spin!' - NYTimes.com JULY 19, 2012, 2:47 PM Political Sex Scandals Onstage, in ‘Tail! Spin!’ By ERIK PIEPENBURG When politics and sex meet it makes for great political theater. This summer they'll be theater when Mo Rocca ("CBS Sunday Morning"), Rachel Dratch ("Saturday Night Live") and Sean Dugan ("Smash") take the stage in "Tail! Spin!" -- a verbatim recitation of steamy e-mails, texts, interviews and Twitter messages that surfaced during recent political sex scandals. The show, created by the NPR contributor Mario Correa, is scheduled to play five performances, from Aug. 11-16, at the Kraine Theater as part of the 2012 New York International Fringe Festival. Directed by the Tony nominee Dan Knechtges ("Lysistrata Jones"), "Tail! Spin!" focuses on the sexual transgressions of four American politicians: Mark Sanford, the former governor of South Carolina who admitted to having an affair with a lover he had met while on vacation in Argentina; Larry E. Craig, a former Republican senator from Idaho who was caught in an undercover sex sting; and two former United States congressmen, Anthony Weiner of New York, who resigned over lewd online behavior, and Mark Foley of Florida, who resigned after he was caught sending sexually explicit texts to teenage Capitol Hill pages. The cast will portray some 30 different roles, including members of the media and the politicians' paramours and relatives. Two other cast members are still to be announced. This post has been revised to reflect the following correction: Correction: July 19, 2012 An earlier version of this post misspelled the last names of the writer Mario Correa and the director Dan Knechtges. http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/19/political-sex-scandals-onstage-in-tail-spin/?pagewanted=print[7/23/2012 9:21:15 AM] Skirball Center Announces New Season - NYTimes.com JULY 19, 2012, 2:00 PM Skirball Center Announces New Season By ERIK PIEPENBURG The Belgian theater company Ontroerend Goed, the minimalist composer Terry Riley and the Australian dance company Circa are among the performers in the 2012-13 season at the N.Y.U. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. Mr. Riley and other musicians and composers, including John Zorn and Lou Reed, will be among the participants in a three-night festival of film and music from the Joshua Light Show, an event founded by the multimedia artist Joshua White that features music played in front of psychedelic projections. Skirball's other musical offerings include performances by the ukulele player Jake Shimabukuro and the Black Arm Band, a group of aboriginal musicians from Australia. Ontroerend Goed, which had a hit at the 2010 Under the Radar Festival with "Once and for All We're Gonna Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up and Listen," returns to New York with "Audience," a multimedia work that questions the divide between viewer and performer. Other theater productions include "Not by Bread Alone," a multisensory work from Tel Aviv's Nalaga'at Theater, a deaf-blind acting company, in which performers bake and break bread with the audience; and "The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer," a one-man puppet show from the creator-performer Tim Watts that was named the Outstanding Solo Show of the 2009 New York International Fringe Festival. Dance offerings include Circa's "Wunderkammer," a blend of circus and acrobatics, and performances by Mummenschanz; Monica Bill Barnes & Company; and the dancer Paul White in Meryl Tankard's "Oracle." More information is at nyuskirball.org. http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/19/skirball-center-announces-new-season/?pagewanted=print[7/23/2012 9:14:45 AM] Baryshnikov Arts Center Announces Fall Season - NYTimes.com JULY 20, 2012, 3:17 PM Baryshnikov Arts Center Announces Fall Season By DANIEL J. WAKIN "La Douleur," a French theater piece based on the diaries of the writer Marguerite Duras and directed by Patrice Chereau, will come to the United States as part of the fall season at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, the organization announced. The play stars the prominent French actress Dominique Blanc and includes the collaboration of the choreographer Thierry Thieû Niang. It will be staged in French with projected titles in English. The season, which will run from Sept. 20 to Dec. 15, includes an appearance by the Bolshoi Puppet Theater in its United States debut, performing an adaptation of "Kholstomer: The Story of a Horse," a short story by Tolstoy. The center also will have musical and dance performances. The choreographer Doug Elkins will bring his dance company for performances of his work based on Shakespeare's "Othello" set to Motown music. Other choreographers featured at the center will include Raimund Hoghe and Malavika Sarukkai. The St. Luke's and International Contemporary ensembles will perform musical programs. http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/baryshnikov-arts-center-announces-fall-season/?pagewanted=print[7/23/2012 9:15:46 AM] Fall Slate Is Set for 59E59 Theaters - NYTimes.com JULY 22, 2012, 7:27 PM Fall Slate Is Set for 59E59 Theaters By ADAM W. KEPLER 59E59 Theaters has announced that it will present the New York premiere of a revival of Stephen Schwartz's musical "Working" beginning Dec. 1 as part of its fall season. Based on the 1974 nonfiction book of the same name by the oral historian Studs Terkel, this version of "Working," which had a run last year at the Broadway Playhouse in Chicago, includes two new songs written by Lin-Manuel Miranda ("In the Heights"). Casting has not been announced. The season will start on Sept. 5 with "Fly Me to the Moon," a new comedy written and directed by Marie Jones ("A Night in November") about two social workers who face a moral dilemma when a man in their care dies after winning a horse racing bet. That is to be followed by, among others, "A Twist of Water," written by Caitlin Montanye Parrish ("The View From Tall"), from Nov. 1 through Nov. 25, and "The Outgoing Tide," written by Bruce Graham ("Any Given Monday"), from Nov. 7 to Dec. 16. http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/fall-slate-is-set-for-59e59-theaters/?pagewanted=print[7/23/2012 9:17:36 AM] Women's Project Has New Plays for Its New Home - NYTimes.com JULY 22, 2012, 7:35 PM Women’s Project Has New Plays for Its New Home By PATRICK HEALY "Jackie," a play by the Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek that dissects the life and legend of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, will have its North American premiere this winter at the new Off Broadway home of the Women's Project, the producing artistic director, Julie Crosby, said. The theater company, now 35 years old, which produces plays written and directed by women, will mount "Jackie" and two other shows for its 2012-13 season at City Center Stage II, which the Pearl Theater Company vacated this year to move to the old home of Signature Theater Company. The first show will be "Bethany," written by Laura Mark and directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch, a dark comedy about morality set in an American exurb where home foreclosures are spreading. The production, a world premiere, is scheduled to run Jan. 11 to Feb. 17. "Jackie," which will be directed by Tea Alagic ("Aliens With Extraordinary Skills") from a translation by Gitta Honegger, is set for Feb. 24 to March 31. Ms. Crosby described the play (a monologue by the onetime first lady) as "a disturbing exploration of submission, power and the hypocrisy of everyday life." The stage works of Ms. Jelinek, an Austrian playwright and novelist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004, are infrequently produced in the United States, and one-woman shows like "Jackie" are rare for the Women's Project given Ms. Crosby's preference for shows that are deeply theatrical and not confessional. The third play is "Collapse," by Allison Moore and directed by Jackson Gay, a comedy about crumbling structures and relationships that was inspired by the 2007 collapse of the Interstate 35 W bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. The production, a New York premiere, will run April 7 to May 19. http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/womens-project-has-new-plays-for-its-new-home/?pagewanted=print[7/23/2012 9:12:58 AM] New Music Inspired by Beckett Plays - NYTimes.com JULY 22, 2012, 7:21 PM New Music Inspired by Beckett Plays By ADAM W. KEPLER The Cygnus Ensemble has announced that it will perform new musical compositions based on the works of Samuel Beckett, to be paired with three of his one-act plays in a new production, "Sounding Beckett." The plays, "Footfalls," "Ohio Impromptu" and "Catastrophe," are to be directed by Joy Zinoman with a cast including Ted Van Griethuysen, Philip Goodwin and Holly Twyford. Each play will be followed by new musical pieces inspired by the plays and written by the composers Chester Biscardi, Laura Schwendinger, David Glaser, Laura Kaminsky, John Halle and Scott Johnson. The production will run Sept. 14 to 23 at the Off Broadway theater Classic Stage Company. http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/new-music-inspired-by-beckett-plays/?pagewanted=print[7/23/2012 9:18:23 AM] Love Loses Its Balance at This Dacha - The New York Times July 22, 2012 THEATER REVIEW | 'UNCLE VANYA' Love Loses Its Balance at This Dacha By BEN BRANTLEY Love has no dignity — no, not a shred — in the Sydney Theater Company’s glorious “Uncle Vanya,” which runs (and lopes and dances desperately) only through Saturday at City Center.
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