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dramas missing in action

November 5, 2012Ashden DirectoryAssociate Editor, Boston Globe, British Lad, British Playwrights, Climate Change, Dearth, Don Aucoin, Features Interviews, Gutman, Interviews News, Metaphors, Missing In Action, Robert Butler, Six Ways, Steed, Theatre Critic, Tony Award, Tonys, War Horse, World War I

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Kellie Gutman writes:

With War Horse coming to the end of its run in Boston, the theatre critic for the Boston Globe, Don Aucoin remarks on the dearth of war dramas on stage. Â He writes:During a decade when the United States was mired in two wrenching, costly, and divisive wars, the only combat drama to win a Tony Award as best play was a heartwarming, puppet-driven tale about a British lad and his beloved steed in World War I: War Horse… In fact, if you scan the list of plays, musicals, and performances nominated for Tonys in the past ten years, you’d barely know we were at war at all.

Until recently, much the same could be said about plays on climate change.

See british playwrights have “blithely ignored” climate change

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Showman Fabricators Celebrates Donyale Werle’s Tony win for Peter and the Starcatcher

June 11, 2012Announcements, Broadway Green Alliance, LDIAcceptance Speech, Benken, Best Scenic Design, Brava, Carpenter, Conscience, Email, Environmental Impact, Long Island City, Long Island City New York, Material Choices, Nbsp, Pearson, Peter And The Starcatcher, Showman Fabricators, Star Catcher, Technical Supervisor, Tony Award, Tony Awards, Werle

After Donyale Werle’s win for best Scenic Design for a play at the Tony Awards last night, Showman Fabricators, who worked to bring the show to Broadway, sent an email to congratulate Donyale Werle on her Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play for ‘Peter and the Starcatcher’. Saying “Building this set was an honor and pleasure.”

Read on from their email this morning…..

BRAVA!! to Tony Award winning Set Designer Donyale Werle for her work on ‘Peter and the Star Catcher’.

Best Scenic Design of a Play was 1 of 5 Tony Awards ‘Peter’ won last night. Donyale is very conscience about the environmental impact of her designs and material choices. We could not have been more proud to have built this show for her. Congratulations to Donyale as well as David Benken, Technical Supervisor and Patrick Eviston, Production Carpenter. And Donyale, thanks for the shout out during your gracious acceptance speech!

Set Designer Donyale Werle at Showman Fabricators

Playbill came to Showman and took a tour through the sustainability-conscience design and fabrication process of ‘Peter’ with Donyale Werle. For more information about the show, visit Peter and the Starcatcher.

Highlights of ‘Peter and the Starcatcher’

Click the video to view some of the highlights of ‘Peter and the Starcatcher’. Also visit the Showman and ‘Peter and the Starcatcher’ facebook pages for additional video’s and information.

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â€œRecycled Comedyâ€ and the Ambassador Theatre Group

June 24, 2010news26 June, 4 September, Ambassador Theatre Group, Artistic Director, Atg, Boeing Boeing, Business Practice, Comedy Theatre, David Hirson, David Hyde Pierce, Environmental Performance, Exhibition Showcases, Joanna Lumley, Mark Rylance, Much Ado About Nothin, Olivier Awards, Recyclable Materials, Replica Costumes, Shakespeare Globe Theatre, Tony Award

Reprinted from Broadway World: â€œMark Rylance Visits Comedy Theatreâ€™s â€œRecycled Comedyâ€ Exhibit, Runs Through 9/4â€³ June 17, 2010

Actor Mark Rylance, who will be in the upcoming revival of David Hirsonâ€™s La BÃªte at the Comedy Theatre, visited the theatreâ€™s current exhibition, â€œRecycled Comedy.â€ Rylance will be starring in La BÃªte alongside Joanna Lumley and David Hyde Pierce at the Comedy Theatre from 26 June until 4 September.

The â€œRecycled Comedyâ€ Exhibition showcases replica costumes from past productions that have played at the theatre made entirely from recycled and recyclable materials. Each costume sits in its own â€˜environmentâ€™ which is complemented with light and sound. For the past month front of house, management, crew and box office staff at the Comedy Theatre have been working hard to develop and realize the exhibition which promotes recycling and raises environmental awareness.

Rylance, who has a strong interest in environmental and recycling issues, won two Olivier Awards with his roles in MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHIN and JERUSALEM. He was also honored with a Tony Award for BOEING BOEING. He served as the Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Globe Theatre from 1995-2005.

The Comedy Theatre is owned by the Ambassador Theatre Group (ATG). ATG is committed to achieving the highest standards of environmental performance, preventing pollution and minimising the impact of its operations on the environment.

ATG believes it is both good business practice and our duty to protect natural resources and therefore aim to conserve energy, water, wood, paper and other resources – particularly those which are scarce or non renewable. ATG also aims to reduce waste through re-use and recycling and by using refurbished and recycled products and materials where such alternatives are available.

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Theater Matters â€“ notes from EMOS 2009 Part III

May 25, 2009Earth Matters on StageBeautiful Teens, Blogger, Broadway Production, CSPA, Discourse, Emos, Garrett, Globe, Green Art, Matinee, Metamorphoses, Midwest, Pleasure, Reputations, Robinson Theatre, Sounding Boards, Theater Artist, Thirties, Tony Award, University Of Oregon

Today has been a bit slow at EMOS for me. I did attend the 2pm matinee of the University of Oregonâ€™s student production of Metamorphoses in the Robinson Theatre, however, and even though I happened to see the Tony-award winning Broadway production in 2002, I was mightily impressed with the production here. It helps, of course, when the show is lined with a cast of beautiful teens and twenty-somethings. (makes even a late thirties [nameless]theater artist and blogger feel old!)

I sat with Moe Beitiks of the Green Museum Blog for the performance, and you may or may not be happy to hear that prior to the show she convinced me why she thought ecoTheater remained valuable to the ongoing â€œgreen artâ€ discourse. Thanks, Moe: after some thought, Iâ€™ve realized that I needed to hear that â€” especially in the way you put it.

Speaking of whichâ€¦

Itâ€™s been nothing short of a pleasure to have met and spent time with both Ian Garrett of the CSPA and Moe. Iâ€™ve corresponded and followed their work closely over the last two or three years, and though their reputations preceed them, they have been entirely pleasant, and wonderful, articulate, honest sounding boards. Artists in America â€” indeed, across the globe â€” are lucky to have them working so tirelessly.

Iâ€™m sure Iâ€™ll have yet more to say tomorrow about my entire, albeit abbreviated, EMOS experience as I travel back to the Midwest. Until thenâ€¦Â

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