‘Want a Mint? …Extra Strong’ was the title of Barrow Youth Theatre’s production at Forum 28 in February 1992. The Mail’s reviewer said the group had put together a fine team performance and highlighted Phillip Gregg and Dom Greaves for showing ‘an excellent flair for comedy’. SCENE: Alex Hutt, Phillip Gregg, Christian Hill, Dominic Greaves and Leighton Metcalfe, who appeared in Want a Mint? …Extra Strong in 1992 Later that year the group ran a series of Easter workshops, with sessions for 13- to 19-year-olds and adults. They included sessions on rhythmic work and lyrics, masks, improvisation and ways to approach creating a character from scratch.
Gate theatre auditorium transformed into Creative Studio Space
Updated / Thursday, 18 Feb 2021
12:35
The Gate theatre have announced their 2021 plans, with the entire Gate auditorium, including the stage area, to be transformed into a new Creative Studio space for work to be made by a formidable array of contemporary theatre talent.
Artists and Companies scheduled to work in and with the new Gate Creative Studio over the coming months include THISISPOPBABY, Theatre Lovett, ANU Productions, Michael Keegan-Dolan & Teac Damsa, CoisCéim, Camille O’Sullivan, Mikel Murfi, Dead Centre, Gate Bursary Artist Marc Atkinson and Gate Artists-in-residence Loosysmokes.
Camille O Sullivan
In addition, a new series of producing masterclasses will take place online, along with the launch of
Review: Joffrey Ballet's "Nutcracker," new this year by choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, tells its story from the Chicago World's Fair of 1893. This new "Nutcracker" is very much about Chicago. (4 stars)
Christopher Wheeldon s new Nutcracker for Joffrey announces Broadway artists chicagotribune.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chicagotribune.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Print
It’s a 2020 magic show moment: An audience member is trying to pick a card. Her lips are moving, but nobody can hear her.
“You have to click unmute,” the magician explains gently. “It’s the little microphone in the lower left corner of your screen.”
The now-familiar indignities of Zoom don’t faze the three hosts of “Elephant Room: Dust From the Stars,” a production commissioned by Center Theatre Group and running for only seven performances, ending Sunday.
Creators and performers Geoff Sobelle, Steve Cuiffo and Trey Lyford play the unapologetically cornball magicians Dennis Diamond, Louie Magic and Daryl Hannah, who resemble a trio of Doug Henning wannabes from the 1970s Diamond rocks the mustache, Magic the shoulder-length perm and Hannah the friendly overbite but are clearly light years ahead of the rest of us in their mastery of the maddening, glitchy, cumbersome digital world to which human interaction has lately been banished. Together, under the