French author Francois Rabelais once said that “we long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.” That’s certainly evident in Fordham’s mainstage production of Maria Irene Fornes’s play “Sarita,” which tells the story of one woman’s difficult journey confronting the ups and downs of a demanding life that forces her to decide between desire and finding the path to true love.
Step inside the Eugene O’Neill Theatre and it will take you on a funky, psychedelic ride you could never have anticipated. The time is the summer of 1978. The place is musician Fela Kuti’s night club, the Shrine, in Lagos, Nigeria. Before even entering the stage, the audience can sense Fela’s contagious energy.
Since 1992, Matthew Maguire, director of the theatre program at Fordham College at Lincoln Center (FCLC), has established a respectable and charismatic presence among the theatre student population. For Maguire, his drive and persistence spans over three decades of playwriting, directing, and acting experience both on campus and throughout the New York theatre scene.
Carrie Fisher begins “Wishful Drinking,” her bracingly witty one-woman show, by drifting through the first few rows of the theatre and tossing glitter over the audience while singing “Happy Days Are Here Again.” This daffy scene is a perfect opening because it sums up everything this evening is all about.
Fordham students have found a place for themselves at the Manhattan Repertory Theatre's Fall Festival this season. “Blue Sky Somewhere,” written by Michael Hilton, Fordham College at Lincoln Center (FCLC) ’09, and “Drawbridge,” written by Lauren Opper, FCLC ’10, will both be performed as part of the festival.
Keith Huff’s “A Steady Rain” Focuses on Storytelling But Abandons Visualization
Theatre is, above anything else, storytelling. Unfortunately, the first new play of the Broadway season takes this concept too far. Keith Huff’s “A Steady Rain,” which opened at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on Sept. 29, is literally just storytelling.
Art is extending from something we passively observe into something we experience and encounter. New communication and wireless technologies are facilitating that transformation. The result is an organic growth of art that is based on our relationships with one another and with our environment.
This summer saw the conversion of Broadway in Times Square into a pedestrian walkway, opening up more room for crowds that were formerly cramped on the sidewalk. This fall, the managers of the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre are going to wish 45th Street had been converted as well, for they will face hordes of fans and autograph-hounds clamoring to see one of the 2009-2010 Broadway theatre season’s biggest attractions.
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