Theater writer Alexis Clements writes a thoughtful essay about the burgeoning renaissance of play publishing in New York City and FEED/Soho Rep are featured! Read the article here.
Gregory S. Moss in The Brooklyn Rail
Here’s a nice interview with our current playwright Gregory S. Moss about his journey to becoming a playwright. He’s no dummy. (read more)
In Conversation with… actor Matthew Maher
The actor Matthew Maher has appeared in a number of Soho Rep productions over his career. Now he is preparing to play Hat in our upcoming world premiere production of Gregory S. Moss’s Orange, Hat & Grace. (read more)
Jomama Jones workshops her Christmas show!
As part of Soho Rep’s 2010/2011 season, we are delighted to welcome the elegant and worldly cabaret queen Jomama Jones and her fabulous band to our mainstage with their new show called RADIATE. Last week a workshop was held at development hub New Dramatists and FEED couldn’t resist sharing some candid shots as a tiny taste of our Christmas show. (read more)
Enter the world of Orange, Hat & Grace
As rehearsals commence on our first show of the season, our design team is deep into the process of rendering the world of the play. Our set designer, Rachel Hauck, shares photos from which she is drawing influence for the set design. Click on the photos to enlarge them. (read more)
FEED events announced for “Orange, Hat & Grace”
We continue our mainstage FEED discussions with some exciting events planned around the world premiere of Greg Moss’s ORANGE, HAT & GRACE. This FEED cycle ranges in its themes from the natural world and man, old American music, the art of playwrighting and the study of language in feral children. These talks are as eclectic as we can make them. See you at the theater for any or all of them.
FEED events are free and open to the public. You do not need a ticket for the show, simply show up on the day at the advertised time.
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FEED events coming for ORANGE, HAT & GRACE
Join FEED in September and October when we present new post-show discussions for Greg Moss’s ORANGE, HAT & GRACE. We will be welcoming some very special guests as we turn our attention to an array of subjects including: the natural world versus man, how feral children develop language and how music influenced the writing of the play.
These are only a few of the themes we will be exploring as part of our FEED postshow discussions.
Also new for this production is our first Creative Team Talk. These will be informal opportunities for you, the audience, to listen to the production’s creative team speak about the making the mainstage production.
Details soon.
“Cabinets of Curiosities”: FEED 6 post-show discussion now available on-line
FEED’s post-show mainstage conversations wrapped up for the season with an insightful discussion of “wonder cabinets”, museums and how these things relate to Cynthia Hopkins’ The Truth: A Tragedy. Click here to listen to this extraordinary conversation.
(Panelists in photo left to right: Cynthia Hopkins, D.Graham Burnett, Lawrence Weschler, Dave Herman)
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“Ancient Tragedy vs. Modern Tragedy”: FEED 5 post-show discussion now available on-line
Our next FEED discussion in support of THE TRUTH: A TRAGEDY is now available on-line. Listen in to the playwright Craig Lucas and writer-performer Cynthia Hopkins speak about the concept of tragedy and how it relates to Cynthia’s work, as well as a smorgasbord of other wonderful topics and ideas.
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“Neurological Illness, The Family and Art”: FEED post-show discussion now available on-line
FEED discussions for THE TRUTH: A TRAGEDY kicked off with a sensational talk on the above topic. The panel delved into aspects of Parkinson’s disease and how artists respond to such an illness. We also got to hear how scientists on the panel responded to Cynthia Hopkins’ beautiful solo show. The discussion is available here. (read more)
THE TRUTH: A TRAGEDY–FEED discussions announced
We are delighted to announce our next round of FEED events to coincide with Cynthia Hopkins’ piece The Truth: A Tragedy. Please see below for more information. As always, FEED events start directly after the performance and are free of charge. You do not need a ticket to the performance, simply show up at the theater; it’s first-come-first-served. Guests and themes subject to change.
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