If you have plans to come out to Brooklyn over the next few weekends, you might want to grab yourself a ticket to see Wonderful Town at the Gallery Players theater in Park Slope.  If you do, you’ll see my husband, Adam singing on stage as Robert Baker, the magazine editor who falls for the writer from Ohio, Miss Ruth Sherwood, in 1935 New York. And Ruth, by the way, is played by the fabulously entertaining Cabaret singer, Molly Pope (Village Voice named, “Best Singer to Turn Life into a Cabaret - 2011”)

$18 for a night of laughter, song and dance? Trust me when I say it’s well worth it. Check out this article on Playbill for more info.!

Next week I begin working with Women’s Project on photos for their upcoming play, We Play for the Gods. I absolutely love Women’s Project and could not be more thrilled to be involved with this exciting project, which was conceived by 14 female artists collaborating together in the WP Lab.

Check out this article announcing the production on broadwayworld: http://offbroadway.broadwayworld.com/article/Womens-Project-Presents-World-Premiere-of-WE-PLAY-FOR-THE-GODS-61-623-20120503

And visit: http://weplayforthegods.com/ for lots more info. Opening night is June 11th & previews begin June 1st!

I’m very excited about Lincoln Center’s new LCT Young Angels brochure - it has my photo on the cover!  (And lots more fun photos inside, too!)

I am VERY excited about seeing and photographing ROOM tonight at the Julia Miles Theater on W. 55th Street starring Ellen Lauren.  Can’t wait to share the photos… In the meantime, read on to learn more about ROOM and the wonderful Women’s Project, and Siti Company.

Women’s Project & SITI Company present
ROOM
based on the writings of Virginia Woolf
directed by Anne Bogart
adapted by Jocelyn Clark
starring Ellen Lauren

Sets by Neil Patel; Costumes by James Schuette; Original Lighting by Christopher
Akerlind; Sound by Darron L West; Associate Lighting Design by Brian H Scott     

Harvested from a lifetime of Virginia Woolf’s writing, Room traces the movement of a creative spirit in exquisite crisis, an artist in a pressure cooker of articulation who seeks room to move, room to breathe, and room to imagine. The New York Times calls it “a theatrical representation of the writer’s mind, an abstraction painted with theater’s animated tools.” And the L.A. Times raves “Ellen Lauren’s masterly economy of movement, combined with Anne Bogart’s unerring compositional sense, is breathtaking.”

 “Women’s Project was founded in 1978 by Julia Miles to address the significant under-representation of women in the American theater. Since then, countless artists have launched their careers and achieved substantial recognition at WP, including Anne Bogart, Eve Ensler, Emily Mann, Lynn Nottage, Maria Irene Fornes, Leigh Silverman, Suzan-Lori Parks, Katori Hall, Diane Paulus, Paula Vogel, and Anna Deavere Smith, among the many.

Throughout its luminous history, WP has staged over 600 mainstage productions and developmental projects, and published eleven anthologies of plays by women.”

(photos and text via www.womensproject.org)

Some fun photos of Derric Harris and Veanne Cox from the cast of A FREE MAN OF COLOR - now playing at Lincoln Center.

I haven’t had a chance to see the show yet, but I hope to very soon!

Some of my photos were published recently on WNYC and Backstage!

Siti Company’s “Radio Macbeth” - a few more of my shots.

There was one other photographer at Tuesday’s performance - she was taking pictures for the Times.  While I tried to play it cool and not gush we actually ended up chatting! We empathized over the extremely low light and how difficult it was to shoot and when a part in the play came up where there was an ear piercing BANG! we looked at each other in shock and laughed a bit at how creepy (creepy- WONDERFUL!) this play is.

And as we were leaving I got the courage up to talk to her a bit more.  I asked her if she was staff or freelance for the Times (A: freelance) and also if she had any advice for me to move my career ahead (seriously, I am a lot more SHY than most people realize so that took courage!!) and she told me I just need to keep developing my portfolio and that it’s also all about gaining access.

Then she smiled and took my card and I told her I would be looking out for her photos in the paper.  It was fun working alongside and talking shop with someone who’s doing the kind of work I hope to be doing and I appreciated her taking a few moments to give me a little encouragement - it made my day!

On Tuesday my nonprofit job had me photographing the tech run of Siti Company’s new show, “Radio Macbeth,” which opened Tuesday night and runs until the 16th. 

While taking pictures of the the performance I discovered something that I kind of already knew, but haven’t had much opportunity for just yet - I absolutely LOVE to photograph theater and stage performances!!! I really love it so much.  I mean, this show in particular is a creepy play about actors performing in an ABANDONED THEATER (love!!!) but also everything else about the stage - the actors, the costumes, the lighting, the drama - my camera and I are big, big fans.  I really hope to do more of this in the future!!!

All my photos from the performance are on flickr !

And info. about the show from Siti.org in case you are interested:

“Late at night in the guts of an abandoned Theater, actors gather to rehearse a radio
play. Darkness plays tricks on their minds making the imagination churn, and the
ghosts that have haunted the story since the play’s inception flicker and glow.”