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Aguirre-Sacasa, Roberto: The Velvet Sky (2005)
Boulbil, Alain: Martin Guerre (1999); Les Miserables (2006 performance)
Brittain, Victoria and Slovo, Gilliam: Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom (2005)
Britten, Benjamin with E. M. Forster and Eroc Crozier (after a novella by Herman Melville): Billy Budd (1951)
Cassler, Robert: Second in the Realm (1996)
Chaucer, Geoffrey (adapted: Mike Poulton) Canterbury Tales, Part II (1390); Christopher Marlowe: Edward II (1592)
Cheatham, Richard A:. President John Tyler (2001)
Corbett, Bill: Heckler (2000)
Donnelly, Paul: Whole Against the Sky (2006)
Everett, Jemal: Keep on Dancing (2001)
Kahm, Harold. The Crowded Bed (1968)
Kaling, Mindy and Walters, Brenda: Matt & Ben (2004) and Bartlett, Bob: Xphiles Unrequited; Howard Walper, Steven Gottlieb, and Andrew Lloyd Baughman: Renaissance; (2005) Thomas Keneally: Either Or. (2007); Kyle Jarrow: A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant (2007)
Kaufman, Moises: Gross Indecency, the Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (1998) and The Laramie Project (2000) (including HBO film); 33 Variations (2007)
Logan, John: Never the Sinner (2000)
McNally, Terrence. Corpus Christi (1998) (various other authors: The Rocky Picture Horror Show; Beautiful Thing; If Angels Were Mortal; Looking Around the Stable); with John Kander, Fred Ebb: Kiss of the Spider Woman (1992).
Nsync: Popoddysey Concert (2001)
O’Neill,
Rice, Tom and Andrew Lloyd Webber: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1967; 1996/1999) (Blogger)
Scime, Don. The David Dance (2003)
Sondheim, Stephen and Lapine, James. Sunday in the Park with George (1984); Adam Guettel: The Light in the Piazza (1962)
Toscano, Peterson. Doin’ Time in the Homo No Mo Halfway House: How I Survived the Ex-Gay Movement (2000)
Wallace, Naomi. In the Heart of America (1994) (note on new play The Eyes of Babylon, author Key???, review forthcoming)
Wells, Chris: Liberty! (1998); Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein! (1976)
Wilder, Thornton. Our Town (1938) (blogger)
Wilson, Jonathan: Kilt (1995)
Wolf, Marc Another American: Asking and Telling (1999)
Colonial
(Cappies: Various): Senioritis (2007) (blogger) along with Morgan and Johnson: The Sunbonnet Girl (1930)
Here! Comedy Presents: Kate Clinton (2006); Eddie Izzard: Dressed to Kill (1999) (blogger)
Apex Follies: The Ultimate Halloween Bash (2006) (direct blogspot link)
Videos of rather literal
adaptations of Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
(1945) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955)
Concert notes: Ad hoc notes on musical performances (2006 --); and operas: discussion of Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes (1951), The Turn of the Screw (1954), Death in Venice (1973); Arrigo Boito’s Mefistofele (1868); Alan Berg’s Wozzeck (1914) and Lulu (1935); Giacomo Pucini’s Turandot (1926); Richard Strauss Salome (1905); Elektra (1909); Peter Tchaikovsky, Eugene Onegin (1877); Jason & DeMarco (2002-2006 à); Gilbert and Sullivan: The Mikado (1987); Giacomo Puccini: La Boheme (1896); Engelbert Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel (1891)’ Giuseppe Verdi / Shakespeare: Macbeth (1847, 1606); (with Alexander Dumas fils) La Traviata (1853); John Adams / Peter Sellars Doctor Atomic (2005); Horman: The Song of Ruth (1996); Saint-Saens: Samson and Delilah (1877). .
Tan Dun: The First Emperor (blogspot) (opera)
External link to review by Philip Low of Ivana Sajko, performed by Pamela Rabe, of “Womb with a View” (external review)
There is an upcoming musical
comedy “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” by Jaz Dorsey, which
is calling for stories by military veterans. A more complete description of the
plans and storyboard is provided by F. Daniel Kent in Out and About Nashville, June 2003: The web reference is www.outandaboutnashville.com/PDFs/June2003.pdf.
Apparently the play
has been produced, although I have not seen it. Here is a more recent reference: http://www.buddybuddy.com/pc-play.html
I don’t think I’ll get to see the play “Terrorism” by the Presnyakov Brothers (Russian) now in its run at the Studio
Theater in
http://9mmfilm.com/articles/terrorism.htm or from Playbill: http://www.playbill.com/news/article/92508.html or http://www.curtainup.com/terrorism.html
This play was written before 9/11.
I saw a performance of Larry Kramer’s play about dealing with AIDS, The
Normal Heart, in the early 90s.
I am hoping that in due course there will be a film of this play (just as there
is now a film of Jonathan Larson’s musical Rent). There is a
comment about Kramer’s play at http://www.doaskdotell.com/content/wchap3.htm
at note 53a.
Blogger review of “The Normal
Heart” and “The Destiny of Me”
is here.
If you want to provide a review, email me (contact information at http://www.doaskdotell.com/contact.htm
)
Here is a news item,
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SONY_GAY_LABEL?SITE=ORBAK&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
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