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Dobama's Night Kitchen
Dobama Theatre had been presenting short plays following 8 pm "mainstage" productions for several seasons before artistic director Joyce Casey asked David Hansen to act as the producer of a series of late-night events geared specifically to audiences in their late-teens and twenties. Called ''Dobama’s Night Kitchen'', the title inspired by the 1970 Maurice Sendak children’s book, began in Fall, 1995. David Hansen’s three-year tenure as artistic director of the Night Kitchen was dedicated to three models of production; the long-form improv, the collaboratively written script based around a single theme, and the new play written by a local (Cleveland-based) playwright. Dobama's Night Kitchen was the first Cleveland area theater to present long-form improv. These included the MTV inspired ''The Realistic World'' and the X-Files inspired ''One Step Beyond''. In 1997 Hansen produced his own play, ''The Vampyres''. Dobama's Night Kitchen also produced the first solo performanc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dobama Theater
Dobama Theatre is located in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, United States. It was founded in 1959 by Donald and Marilyn Bianchi, Barry Silverman, and Mark Silverberg. The name Dobama was created from the first two letters of each man's name. The first play produced by Dobama Theatre was ''The Rope Dancers'' by Morton Wishengrod. After almost ten years as a nomadic theater company using various spaces around Cleveland, Dobama established a permanent home on Coventry Road in Cleveland Heights in 1968. From its origin, the artistic director was Donald Bianchi, though his wife Marilyn Bianchi was a strong artistic presence until her death in 1977. In 1976, one of the founders, Barry Silverman, assumed proprietorship of the Belfry Theater in Wisconsin for a few summer seasons under the name "Dobama West." From 1991 to the end of 2008, Dobama was managed by artistic director Joyce Casey, who made Dobama a "leading producer of new and recent plays". In 2005 Dobama was evicted from the C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Hansen (actor)
David Hansen (born July 26, 1968) is an American playwright, actor, director and arts educator. He is the founder of Dobama's Night Kitchen and co-founder of Guerrilla Theater Company and Bad Epitaph Theater Company. He is a graduate of Bay Village, Ohio, Bay Village High School, and holds a degree in Theater from Ohio University. He is married to writer Toni K. Thayer. He is currently Education Outreach Associate for Great Lakes Theater. Awards * (2021) ''Sherlock Holmes Meets the Bully of Baker Street'': Shubert Fendrich Memorial Playwriting Contest * (2010) Community Workforce Fellow, Community Partnership for Arts and Culture * (2006) ''Spencer Tunick In Cleveland'': First Place Use of Sound (with Toni K. Thayer and Dave DeOreo for WCLV, WCPN) from the Press Club of Cleveland * (2004) ''I Hate This, I Hate This: A Play Without the Baby'': Excellence in Solo Performance at the New York International Fringe Festival Published works *(2020) ''Sherlock Holmes Meets the Bully o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Sendak
Maurice Bernard Sendak (; June 10, 1928 – May 8, 2012) was an American author and illustrator of children's books. He became most widely known for his book ''Where the Wild Things Are'', first published in 1963.Turan, Kenneth (October 16, 2009)'Where the Wild Things Are' Movie Review. ''Los Angeles Times''. Born to Polish-Jewish parents, his childhood was affected by the death of many of his family members during the Holocaust. Sendak also wrote works such as ''In the Night Kitchen'', ''Outside Over There'', and illustrated many works by other authors including the ''Little Bear (book), Little Bear'' books by Else Holmelund Minarik. Early life Sendak was born in Brooklyn, New York (state), New York, to Polish Jewish immigrants Sadie (née Schindler) and Philip Sendak, a dressmaker. With Biographical Note. ''The New York Times Magazine'', Page 216. Sendak described his childhood as a "terrible situation" due to the death of members of his extended family during the Holocaust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In The Night Kitchen
''In the Night Kitchen'' is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak, first published in harcover in 1970 by Harper and Row. The book depicts a young boy's dream journey through a surreal baker's kitchen where he assists in the creation of a cake to be ready by the morning. ''In the Night Kitchen'' has been described by Sendak as part of a trilogy of books based on psychological development from ''In the Night Kitchen'' (toddler) to ''Where the Wild Things Are'' (pre-school) to ''Outside Over There'' (pre-adolescent). It was a Caldecott Honor recipient in 1971. It was adapted into a five-minute animated short film on January 1, 1987 directed by Gene Deitch and released by Weston Woods. The book drew controversy in the US due to depictions of nudity. Plot summary The main character is a young boy named Mickey who, while sleeping in his bed, is disturbed by noise on a lower floor. Suddenly, he begins to float, and loses all of his clothes as he drifts int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Morton (playwright)
Sarah Morton is an American playwright, actor, educator and activist and a native of Cleveland, Ohio. Selected works * (2009) "Dream/Home" premiered at the Cleveland Play House, produced by Dobama Theater * (2006) "Night Bloomers" premiered at the Cleveland Play House, produced by Dobama Theater * (2004) "4 Minutes to Happy" solo performance, premiered at Cleveland Public Theater, presented at the New York International Fringe Festival * (2001) "Safety" premiered at Dobama Theater * (1999) "Thrillsville" premiered at the Cleveland Play House Next Stage Festival * (1998) "Eight Impressions of a Lunatic" premiered at Dobama Theater * (1998) "The Eighth Wonder of the World" solo performance, premiered at Dobama Theater * (1998) "Love In Pieces" premiered at Cleveland Public Theater * (1996) "Fever Dream: Episode Three" premiered at Dobama Theater Dobama Theatre is located in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, United States. It was founded in 1959 by Donald and Marilyn Bianchi, Barry Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York International Fringe Festival
The New York International Fringe Festival, or FringeNYC, was a fringe theater festival and one of the largest multi-arts events in North America. It took place over the course of a few weeks in October, spread on more than 20 stages across several neighborhoods in downtown Manhattan, notably the Lower East Side, the East Village, and Greenwich Village. Most of the venues were centered on the FringeHUB. Yearly attendance topped 75,000 people. Festival Unlike most Fringe festivals, FringeNYC uses a jury-based selection process. Around 200 shows, out of a much larger pool of applicants, are selected for inclusion each year. However, from 2018 the Festival reduced the number of shows. The festival was founded in 1997 by Aaron Beall, John Clancy, Jonathan Harris (also known as Ezra Buzzington), and (current Artistic Director) Elena K. Holy, and is produced by The Present Company. Notable shows that premiered at FringeNYC include ''Urinetown'', '' Dog Sees God'', the musical a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soap Scum
Soap scum or lime soap is the white solid composed of calcium stearate, magnesium stearate, and similar alkaline earth metal derivatives of fatty acids. These materials result from the addition of soap and other anionic surfactants to hard water. Hard water contains calcium and magnesium ions, which react with the surfactant anion to give these metallic or lime soaps.{{Ullmann, author=Angelo Nora, Alfred Szczepanek, Gunther Koenen, title=Metallic Soaps, year=2005, doi=10.1002/14356007.a16_361 :2 C17H35COO−Na+ + Ca2+ → (C17H35COO)2Ca + 2 Na+ In this reaction, the sodium cation in soap is replaced by calcium to form calcium stearate. Lime soaps build deposits on fibres, washing machines, and sinks. Synthetic surfactants are less susceptible to the effects of hard water. Most detergents contain builders that prevent the formation of lime soaps. See also * Water softening * Tadelakt, a form of lime-soap-based waterproof plaster * Qadad ''Qadad'' ( ''qaḍāḍ'') o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stupid Kids
''Stupid Kids'' is a play by John C. Russell (1963–1994), first published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc. of New York, and first performed in 1991. Very similar in tone, plot, and characters to the film Rebel Without a Cause, the play follows four students at Joe McCarthy High. Subsequent to its New York run, it played in Seattle and Boston. Plot Jim has a crush on Judy and Judy's boyfriend Buzz is a popular jock. After a police raid on a rave, Jim makes friends with Neechee (a fey kid who has nicknamed himself after Nietzsche) while Judy befriends punkish riot grrrl Riot grrrl is an underground feminist punk movement that began during the early 1990s within the United States in Olympia, Washington and the greater Pacific Northwest and has expanded to at least 26 other countries. Riot grrrl is a subcultur ... Kimberly. As Jim and Judy pursue each other through the unpleasant social procedures of high school, abandoning their rebellious nature in favor of comfortable ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shopping And Fucking
''Shopping and Fucking'' (sometimes billed as ''Shopping and F**king'') is a 1996 play by English playwright Mark Ravenhill. It was Ravenhill's first full-length play. It received its first public reading at the Finborough Theatre, London, in 1995. It was performed in 1996 at the Royal Court Upstairs (located temporarily at the Ambassadors Theatre in London's West End), before embarking on a national and international tour, co-produced by Out of Joint and the Royal Court Theatre. When first produced, ''Shopping and Fucking'' received mixed reviews. Some were shocked by the play's sexually violent content, which includes the pseudo-rape of an underage male by other males. Other critics were drawn to the play's black humour, and its mixture of Sadean and Marxist philosophies. Along with Sarah Kane's ''Blasted'', it was a prime exemplar of British in-yer-face theatre of the 1990s. Central themes The sexual violence of ''Shopping and Fucking'' explores what is possible if cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrienne Moon
Dobama Theatre is located in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, United States. It was founded in 1959 by Donald and Marilyn Bianchi, Barry Silverman, and Mark Silverberg. The name Dobama was created from the first two letters of each man's name. The first play produced by Dobama Theatre was ''The Rope Dancers'' by Morton Wishengrod. After almost ten years as a nomadic theater company using various spaces around Cleveland, Dobama established a permanent home on Coventry Road in Cleveland Heights in 1968. From its origin, the artistic director was Donald Bianchi, though his wife Marilyn Bianchi was a strong artistic presence until her death in 1977. In 1976, one of the founders, Barry Silverman, assumed proprietorship of the Belfry Theater in Wisconsin for a few summer seasons under the name "Dobama West." From 1991 to the end of 2008, Dobama was managed by artistic director Joyce Casey, who made Dobama a "leading producer of new and recent plays". In 2005 Dobama was evicted from the Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Belber
Stephen Belber (born March 3, 1967) is an American playwright, screenwriter and film director. His plays have been produced on Broadway and in over 50 countries. He directed the film adaptation of his Broadway play, ''Match'', starring Patrick Stewart, (playing the Tony nominated role created by Frank Langella). He also wrote and directed the film ''Management'', starring Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn and Woody Harrelson and wrote the HBO film '' O.G.'', starring Jeffrey Wright, Theothus Carter, and William Fichtner. Belber was an actor and associate writer on ''The Laramie Project'', (which later became an HBO film, for which he received an Emmy nomination), as well as a co-writer of ''The Laramie Project, Ten Years Later''. Early life Belber was born in Washington, D.C. He studied philosophy at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, graduating in 1989. He attended the Trinity/La MaMa Performing Arts Program following his graduation.Dworin, Judy. Trinity/La MaMa Archives ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
