Remy Bumppo Theatre Company Announces Marti Lyons as its New Artistic Director broadwayworld.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from broadwayworld.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
East West Players in partnership with San Francisco's EnActe Arts and New York City's Hypokrit Productions will present the virtual world premiere of The Sitayana (Or “How to Make an Exit”), by Lavina Jadhwani.
Everybody knows âA Christmas Carol,â the 1843 novella by Charles Dickens that has become an iconic stage and screen holiday special. Far fewer people are familiar with âThe Chimes,â the story he published the following year (and the second in an eventual series of five Christmas books).
Watching artistic director Nick Sandys as Dickens giving a virtual reading of the book for Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, it s not too hard to figure out why.
Mind you, Sandysâ performance of âThe Chimesâ â subtitled âA Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year Inâ â is terrific. He takes on 17 characters, differentiating among their regional British accents, and his adaptation of the tale, trimmed from two hours to 90-or-so minutes, flows along smoothly and fairly clearly. Staged live for Remy Bumppo in 2012 and reprised in 2013, it has been thoughtfully reworked for the digital format with the help of video editor Ia
Artistic Director of Remy Bumppo Theatre Company plots an exit 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.