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May 2000 - Jan. 2002: ActorsUpdate.com
'Ground Zero' Theatre "All But Destroyed" By Fire—12/10/2001
The Riant Theatre was "all but destroyed" by fire on Thursday, December 6, when, according to Artistic Director Van Dirk Fisher, sparks from renovations occurring on the floor above the theatre space ignited a blaze that swept through the theatre located on the fourth floor of 161 Hudson Street.
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The Bloomberg Questions—11/20/2001
COMMENTARY: If a strong mayor can make a difference in the arts, what kind of difference will New York's next mayor make?
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Never Let Current Events Get in the Way of Good Theatre—11/08/2001
Legend Theater Company's efforts to produce a play about murder, prostitution, free press and war in 9/11's wake
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NPCC: New York's Non-Profit Advocate—10/30/2001
Where can non-profit theatre companies go to receive advanced word of federal funding opportunities; to access legal assistance, office supplies and payroll processing at a discounted rates; to set up a retirement plan for their company members; or to take out low-cost liability insurance for their directors? The answer to all of the above is the NonProfit Coordinating Committee of New York (NPCC)
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Film Startup Seeks Actors/Members—09/07/2001
The Om Group, a new film ensemble based on the principles of the Danish film movement Dogma 95, is looking for actors interested in working collaboratively on short and feature length films.
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Parlez Vous Ionesco—09/07/2001
Eugene Ionesco, the poet whose English lessons provoked a mid-life foray into playwrighting and whose playwrighting helped "father" the Absurdist movement (he preferred "Derision"), is the subject of a three-month-long festival celebrating his works.
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New Musical Dramatizes Susan Smith Case—08/27/2001
In 1994, Susan Smith murdered her children, then conned the nation into believing a carjacker kidnapped them. Pleading on national television for the purported kidnappers to return her children unharmed, Smith convinced law efforcement officers and a nation to believe her story. This conviction led to the arrest of an innocent man whom authorities suspected of committing the crimes. He was found innocent only after Smith confessed to the killings. Eight years later, Van Dirk Fisher and the Riant Theatre examine the motivations behind Susan Smith's despicable act as well as the emotional journey of the man accussed of kidnapping her children in "Rock-a-My Soul in the Bosom of Abraham."
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Poe Made Palpable—08/23/2001
Stories from the Fringe: A Touch of Poe
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A Death in the Skies Relived on Stage—08/22/2001
What constitutes self-defense and what connstitutes murder? After Hours Productions explores the sometimes fine line between these two sides to killing with its presentation of "Fifty Minutes," a drama taken directly from last year's headlines and brought to the New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC) stage.
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Solo Show Seeks Sexual, Spiritual Balance—08/17/2001
Can evangelical Christianity be reconciled with homosexuality? C. Paul Canaday, creator of "Word Made Flesh," a solo piece presented at this year's New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC), attempts to answer that question in his story of a fifteen-year-old boy named Joel’s journey into spiritual and sexual maturity.
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Summer's Harvest Comes Early to NYC—08/10/2001
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FringeNYC: Short List—08/10/2001
Let's get ready to rumble. The annual rite of summer has come upon us as the New York International Fringe Festival (FringeNYC) begins its fifth campaign this weekend. "Packed for freshness," as this year's program cover proclaims (they must mean vacuum-packed given the size of this thing), FringeNYC will present more than 180 shows and 1,200 performances spread across 17 venues all in less than three full weeks.
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Fringe Festival Breakdown—08/10/2001
We callin' em like we see them here at (a)(u). And right now, hours before Fringe kicks off, based on what we've read and on our conversations with those involved in shows in this year's fest, we present our short list of productions we find intriguing. We've posted them for you to peruse.
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Tenant's Rights: The Right to Organize—07/27/2001
Finding an apartment in New York City is hard. But once you zero in on a space and sign the lease, the hard work is supposed to be over...right? In today's housing market, this scenario is rarely the case. With efforts to decontrol rent-stabilized apartments and efforts to promote "market rate" apartments at their zenith coupled with local government support that's fast approaching its nadir (following a revision of rent laws in 1997), apartments--rent-stabilized and otherwise--are increasingly becoming battlegrounds where belligerent owners brush with resistant renters.
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To 'Graceland' and Back in Four Weeks—07/25/2001
How can you learn everything about Elvis in under four weeks, the maximum time allowed by Equity New York Showcase code? As Michael Stebbins, artistic director of Stage Door Acting Ensemble, discovered while rehearsing his production of "Graceland" by Ellen Byron, you have to get a little creative.
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Never Say Never or It's a Mad, Mad World—05/04/2001
Proile of The Collection Agency theatre company
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Hero's Quest Cut Short—04/27/2001
J. Daniel "Danny" Casolaro died chasing a story. A Washington, D.C.-based freelance journalist, he had spent the better part of a year investigating a loose network of covert middlemen that he dubbed "The Octopus." His goal was to publish a book, perhaps become famous. His research had uncovered several links between various covert operatives and conspiracies they were a part of, but his conclusions were difficult to document. His sources were duplicitous. He knew that. He had followed leads down dead ends before. He had seen his manuscript rejected. So he had reason for doubting his success or himself. But he always pressed forward. Then a new lead took him to Martinsburg, W.V., where Danny Casolaro was found dead in his hotel room of an apparent suicide. The date was August 10, 1991.
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