Nabiyah: I also think there’s something unique about retelling myths and tales, which is the aspect of dissecting archetypes. Because you can dissect an archetype as it is outside of yourself and in the external world, but you can also use it to dissect aspects of your psyche and learn so much about yourself, and therefore learn about other people and be more compassionate and be a little more understanding. So I think there’s something special about the classics.
Courtney & Brian
the 21st Century Blues #1
Visiting Long Island
2016 Lilly Award photo booth
2016 Lilly Awards
Monday, May 23rd, 2016
Irene Diamond Stage at Signature Theatre
New York City.
Quiara Alegría Hudes in her home
in The Interval
An Interview with Quiara Alegría Hudes
“I rarely have just one idea. I often have a few things knocking around, and it’s kind of like molecules, and they start bumping into each other and I start to learn a lot from how those bumps happen….In some ways those molecules have been knocking about since I was a teenager, since they’re in me. But when I sat down to actually start writing this thing, I knew I wanted it to be about a group of people who tell stories. That was an early conceit. And they’re going to tell stories that gloss over some of the things they’d rather forget, but the stories are also their way of coping with the things they’d rather forget. ”
~Quiara Alegría Hudes (Full Interview)
Diane Paulus for the Interval
in Theater, Portraits, The Interval
“I think my interest in the American musical theatre is in shows that can do all of those things: they move you and they entertain you. And to be entertained, that’s a human need, the idea of diverting oneself to see something, that’s part of what we need as human beings. We also have a need to learn. We also have a human need for spectacle, which to me is defined by seeing something larger than yourself. Why do we go to a mountaintop and look at the horizon or go to an ocean? Because it’s spectacle, and you feel awe in the presence of something larger than yourself. The human need for ritual, that’s also why I love theatre. We move through something as a group. I love to do theatre that tries to drive on a lot of those cylinders. It would be great if it could be entertainment, be spectacle, be ritual, and also make us feel and think and teach us something.”
~Diane Paulus
(Full Interview)
Annette on E. 4th
Rebecca Luker uptown
in The Interval
“I don’t feel like I’ve ever really been an ingénue. I think of ingénue as not the leading lady, and even when I was younger I was more in the leading lady part—I was always old. But there’s not really a male counterpart to that, is there?”
~Rebecca Luker (Full Interview)
Renée Elise Goldsberry at Sardi’s
in The Interval
“I think the strongest people are really okay with not feeling anything. If I come out, and I don’t feel anything, it’s okay. The words are enough, what’s happening here is enough … That’s one thing you learn when you’re in a Hamilton. That’s the beauty of being supported by such a strong structure. You have nights where you feel like you’re brilliant and nights where you feel like you were a fraud, and people you respect will be equally as moved because the piece is that strong.”
Renée Elise Goldsberry at Sardi’s
for The Interval
Ruthie Ann Miles before a performance of "The King and I"
in The Interval
Elena
in Portraits
Montego Glover at Lincoln Center
in Theater, The Interval, Portraits
“The good news, I feel, is that I have yet to meet a character that I didn’t have something in common with, even if on the surface we appear to have nothing in common. So I look for women—I’ve yet to play a man, but I’m sure it’s on its way—who have a story to tell, who I find interesting and compelling, since that’s the hook into wanting to tell the story. So interesting, compelling, heartfelt stories is really what I’m after.”
Montego Glover
Full Interview
Betsy Wolfe after a performance at Carnegie Hall
in The Interval
Amber in Alphabet City
in Portraits
smiling at the follies of human beings, of course.
The Last Photo at the Carmine House
in Portraits
Liesl Tommy at the Golden Theatre
in The Interval
Kelli O'Hara before her masterclass
in Theater, The Interval, Portraits
Newport
in New England
