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Out There :: Cremasterpiece theater
The five films that comprise the Cremaster Cycle created by art-world darling Matthew Barney are getting a rare re-release in a series of screenings beginning this Friday, July 30, at the Roxie Theater in SF.
Theatre Features
Hal Sparks gets the last laugh
Hal Sparks isn’t a gay man, he just played one on television, but in a big way - on the groundbreaking Showtime series Queer as Folk where his character was central to the action for the show’s six seasons. Off-screen Sparks is a rock musician, a stand-up comedian and an opinionated talk show personality.
Wicked’s Gregory Maguire takes on the Brothers Grimm
Gregory Maguire is best-known for having re-imagined The Wizard of Oz as Wicked, his hugely popular novel that became the basis of the hugely popular musical. This month finds him re-imaging Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs for the stage as one of the seven fairy tales re-imagined in Grimm, Boston-based theater Company One’s current production that continues at the BCA through August 14, 2010. EDGE exchanged questions via email with Maguire this past week about how he became involved in the project, his thoughts on fairy tales and what attracted him to reworking Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Marc Wolf :: still asking and telling
With Congress reconsidering Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, actor/playwright Marc Wolf has returned to his 2000 Obie Award winning solo piece Another American: Asking and Telling for a summer’s run at New York’s Daryl Roth DR2 Theatre in Union Square. EDGE spoke to Wolf as to why he chose to return to his play, how things have changed concerning the policy and the challenges facing today’s military.
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Blackbird: Honoring a Century of Pansy Divas
It pays to do your homework before seeing Blackbird: Honoring a Century of Pansy Divas, now in the smaller venue at Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory. Fortunately, writer-performer-designer Seth Eisen has provided a Cliffs Notes shortcut to your assignment in the program, and your enjoyment of this macabre and fascinating homage will be considerably enhanced if you take the time to read it before the show begins.
Peter Pan
Much of the fuss surrounding the tented Peter Pan production at the Embarcadero is the 360-degree screen that surrounds the audience. The CGI projections can give dips and swerves as Peter and his cohorts fly from London to Neverland, and that, to be sure, can be dizzily exciting. But mostly this new adaptation of the J.M. Barrie classic takes place on the stage floor, mostly earthbound in fact and occasionally in metaphor, while the super-sized screen often shows what is basically static, albeit pretty, wallpaper.
