All posts tagged "mary zimmerman"
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Folger’s ‘Metamorphoses’ Is As Good As Gold (Review)
The Folger's "Metamorphoses" charts a fantastic voyage through myth and time, and in brilliantly engaging company.
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Theater Review: “The White Snake” at Constellation Theatre
Solid stagecraft and storytelling serve Constellation's inventive production of "The White Snake"
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Review: The Arabian Nights at Constellation Theatre
An energetic, harmonious ensemble sails through the Constellation's confident return to Arabia
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Monkey Business: Journey to the West (review)
Constellation Theatre's "Journey to the West" fails to be about the destination
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Magical Metamorphoses
Mary Zimmerman is a professor at Northwestern University, and her show Metamorphoses had its genesis as an academic exercise there nearly two decades ago. But...
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Pool Days
A decade after Mary Zimmerman won a Tony Award for her direction of Metamorphoses, her dramatic interpretation of the Ovid classic is still giving her...
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Pool Party
''Some of the front rows of the audience ,'' says Constellation Theatre Company's managing director A.J. Guban. ''Just a little splash, just a little...
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Magic Carpet Ride
Aladdin doesn't appear in Mary Zimmerman's The Arabian Nights. Neither does Sinbad the Sailor. Both fairy tales weren't originally part of the stories of Scheherazade,...
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Satirical Song
Next June, Doug Peck will get married in his hometown of Chicago. ”It’s not legal yet but we’re doing it anyway,” he says. The...
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Ship of Dreams
In an age when so many writers of plays (and prose, for that matter) doom their characters to nausea-inducing sincerity or overcooked irreverence in the...
