Topic: Adam Rapp
The snowy woods of the Sierra Nevada are not easy to simulate inside a small Off Broadway theater, but Raul Abrego, the designer of the new drama...
One room. Two plays. An intimate experience of epic proportion.". . That's how the site-specific production "HotelMotel" hawks itself, and...
Though Adam Rapp is known as a playwright, he is actually much more. ?
Rapp is known for portraying graphic, some would even say vulgar, situations in his work. In addition to Red Light Winter, Rapp has written the stage plays Nocturne, Train ...
"They're burning tires in the pits again. I can't see them cause I'm hided, but I can smell them all thick and hot and fiery like pepper and smoke and wet thunderhorses mixed together. The underlying assumption in the ...
The good librarian at Denver Public Library recently sent an email laying out a scintillating road-map for Punkzilla, a young adult novel by the ever creative Adam Rapp: For a runaway boy who goes by the name "Punkzilla," kicking a meth habit ...
The novelist stereotypically regards himself as God, a somewhat justifiable illusion: To judge from Adam Rapp's latest work, a sour-hearted satire called The Metal Children, the writer-director might be suffering from similar delusions: When he visits a Midwestern hamlet that has ...
In his recent TONY interview, the monologuist Mike Daisey bemoaned the institutional slowness of American theater, and used the scarcity of responses to the financial crisis as an example of this problem. Adam Rapp's agitprop sketch Classic Kitchen Timer stages a ...
Hunter Bell is thrilled to be on Broadway. And yet, two years ago, when celebrated Red Light Winter author Adam Rapp was offered the crown, he passed. "There was an offer to do it through the Roundabout, produce it at the Walter ...
Adam Rapp's female characters often exist on the fringes of his plays. She plays Maryanne, a cancer-stricken Midwestern mother desperate for joy, who takes her emotionally repressed 17-year-old son, Dennis (Christopher Denham), on a trip to New York.. Rapp (a Pulitzer ...
Asked to write a one-act on the theme of " A dead Iraq War vet and Britney Spears. Elizabeth Meriwether laps the others with 90 Days, a cold-eyed little gem about a recovering addict (Patch Darragh) on the phone with his ladylove. Meriwether ...
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Adam Rapp at the Humana Festival
At the Humana Festival for New American Plays, playwright-director Adam ...2011-04-12 -
Times Critic CHARLES ISHERWOOD on Abandoning ...
Charles Isherwood of the New York Times on why he ...2011-11-07 -
Ali's Video Diary: Part Three
Watch as Ali Dachis gives you a behind-the-scenes look at ...2011-11-08
