#moises kaufman

[moonkattinator]

does anyone know if a recording of the 1997 production (either the off-broadway, san francisco, or LA Mark Taper Forum ones) of the play gross indecency: the three trials of oscar wilde by moisés kaufman exists anywhere? there's a video of michael emerson performing a monologue from the LA production on youtube but nothing else seems to be online

[d-criss-news]

tectonictheaterproject: The stars are aligning for our 2022 Benefit, "A Tectonic Cabaret" on Monday, October 3, 2022. Directed by @timothy_koch under the Artistic Direction of @ moises.kaufman and hosted by the fabulous @ theebillyporter, the evening will feature performances by Tony Award-winner @joaquinakalukango, @ michaelurielikesit, @ benjamin.freemantle, and @ darrencriss! Stay tuned for more exciting cast announcements & get your 🎟 at the #linkinbio! You won't want to miss this night!

[yourdailyqueer]

Moisés Kaufman

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: 21 November 1963

Ethnicity: Romanian, Ukrainian Jewish

Nationality: Venezuelan

Occupation: Theatre director, playwright, entrepreneur 

Note: First Venezuelan to be awarded the National Medal of Arts and Humanities

[onebluebookworm]

June Book Club Picks

- George by Alex Gino: An adorable middle grade novel about a trans girl who still goes by her birth name, George, as she tries to come to get comfortable with her identity, how to tell the ones she loves, and how to play Charlotte in their school’s production of Charlotte’s Web

- The Laramie Project and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later by Moises Kaufman: A play made up of interviews of the citizens of Laramie, Colorado in the direct aftermath of the Killing of Matthew Shepard, and a play following up on many of those same interviewees a decade later

- The 57 Bus: The True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater: An in-depth look at the key players and the events leading up to an assault on an Oakland bus, when a teenage boy set a nonbinary passenger's skirt on fire. 

- Queer, There and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World by Sarah Prager: Amazingly well-researched accounts of LGBT+ historical figures, some famous, some more obscure

- Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan: Told by a Greek chorus of gay men who died during the AIDS crisis as they watch a group of young men, one desperate for help, one trying to find new love, two trying to rekindle old love, and two setting a record for the world’s longest kiss. 

[demidemilitclub]

You know, I may be one of those people who read super above their level as a kid and just devoured books but now I can’t read anything longer than three sentences, but I at least make up for it by being able to demolish scripts. I read I Hate Hamlet over one lunch break back in January. I read 1776 AND The Last Days of Judas Iscariot AND Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde over the course of like, 2.5 days *while* I was working on a set.

[its-michael-emerson]

Michael Emerson, Danny Burstein, and More Join LARAMIE: A LEGACY

Sep. 13, 2018

Tectonic Theater Project announced today that Michael Emerson, Danny Burstein, Purva Bedi and Andrew Keenan-Bolger have joined the cast of LARAMIE: A LEGACY, a reading of The Laramie Project honoring the life and legacy of Matthew Shepard for the 20th anniversary of his death, on Monday, September 24th at 7pm at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College.

More info on Broadway World 

Tickets are available now by visiting www.laramiealegacy.org

[andrewsmoviereviews]

The Laramie Project (2002)

Plot: After the vicious murder of a young gay man by two of Laramie, Wyoming’s inhabitants, a theatre group descend on the town with a view to telling peoples stories in their own words, to show how the events affected everyone.

Review: In 1998, an American man called Matthew Shepard was taken to a remote field and beaten to death by two men, simply for being gay. The crime led to wider shock and outrage, and a great deal of soul-searching in the city where it took place: Laramie, Wyoming.

This made for TV movie is based on the play of the same name, where Moises Kaufman - writer and director of the film - and his colleagues in a theatre group give voice to the ordinary people of Laramie. To their shock, their anger, their existential angst, all resulting from Shepards murder. It’s quite powerful stuff, made even more powerful by a strong cast, including Steve Buscemi and Christine Ricci amongst many other recognizable faces and names. And it is incredible to see so many people struggle to come to terms with events.

Of course the film asks many meaningful questions about treatment of homosexual people in a town such as Laramie, and indeed the wider United States. But what it also shows is just how much hatred is spread by various forms of the church. That once people begin to question things for themselves, when confronted with something so horrific, they feel empathy and reject that hatred. It’s something which people still have to deal with today, twenty years after the events in Laramie.

The phrase ‘TV movie’ gives a bad impression, but this is actually a pretty strong piece of filmmaking that should have been given a larger stage - and would be today. Hopefully we can all learn from it.

[caroleditosti]

'Here There Are Blueberries,' No Evil. Just Ordinary, Enjoyable Routines.

What happens when a US Lieutenant Colonel turns over a photograph album compiled by an SS administrator at Auschwitz to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum? See 'Here There Are Blueberries' to find out.

The cast of Here There Are Blueberries (Matthew Murphy) Here There Are Blueberries, now in its third extension at New York Theatre Workshop, is a many-layered, superb production running until June 30. Stylized and theatricalized as a quasi-documentary that travels back and forth from present to past to present by enlivening characters in various settings, the play unravels the mysteries centered…

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