Does the Devil Wear Prada in Indiana?
Discovering Broadway, a nonprofit founded in 2019, has brought actors and writers to the state for weeklong retreats to workshop movies-turned-musicals.
Christy Altomare, right, and Corey Cott performed material from the musical “Ever After” at Hotel Carmichael in Carmel, Ind.Credit.Lee Klafczynski for The New York Times
May 28, 2021Updated 5:15 p.m. ET
CARMEL, Ind. What do the performers Christy Altomare and Corey Cott do during a weekend in this midsize Central Indiana city in between workshops for a Broadway-aimed musical?
They get cake. And steak.
In that order.
“I’m pretty sure Corey lived in the Cake Bake Shop this week,” said Joel Kirk, the founder of Discovering Broadway, a nonprofit that brings New York actors and creative teams of Broadway-bound musicals to Indiana to work on their shows-in-progress.
Theater to Stream: Stars Gather for âMiscastâ and More
Other highlights include a new show by Kristina Wong, Joshua Harmonâs âBad Jewsâ and âBroadway by the Year.â
Gavin Creel, left, and Aaron Tveit singing âTake Me or Leave Me,â from âRent,â during the 2016 âMiscastâ gala. Credit.Jenny Anderson
May 12, 2021, 10:00 a.m. ET
âIt is about access.â That, put plainly, is the main reason the Young Vic in London will continue to livestream shows even after in-person theater resumes. âAccess is our driver,â Kwame Kwei-Armah, the theaterâs artistic director, said in a recent interview. âAnd this is a way that we make that access just a little more here and now.â
Denver actor Erik Sandvold plays The Poet in Theatreworksâ rebooted production of âAn Iliad.â The show was canceled right before opening night last year. âIâm grateful to have that proof that a beautiful work of art will mean different things at different times, but will always have something to offer us,â says Theatreworks artistic director Caitlin Lowans about âAn Iliad,â which was canceled more than a year ago due to the pandemic. It opens Thursday. Photo by Isaiah Downing
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Denver actor Erik Sandvold plays The Poet in Theatreworks’ rebooted production of “An Iliad.” The show was canceled right before opening night last year. “I’m grateful to have that proof that a beautiful work of art will mean different things at different times, but will always have something to offer us,” says Theatreworks artistic director Caitlin Lowans about “An Iliad,” which was canceled more than a year ago due to the pandemic. It opens Thursday. Photo by Isaiah Downing
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The Marriage of Bette and Boo (1985) and
The Singing Forest (2009).
In 2011, Dukakis played the leading role of Flora in
The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore at the Laura Pels Theatre. “Macabre, hilarious and weirdly touching more or less sums up Ms. Dukakis’ performance,” wrote Charles Isherwood in his
New York Times review of that production, “although a host of other adjectives might also be applied to her multihued portrait of a woman who has married and buried four husbands but cannot face the truth when the reaper comes to escort her from life’s banquet.” He continued: “While Ms. Dukakis renders with broad, almost Borscht Belt humor the vulgar aspects of the character, she shades her performance with haunting glimpses of deeper feeling.”