In the wake of PS AND QS: THE ABCS OF MANNERS winning Best Original Theater Show from the Houston Press, comes this little gem of an article from the New York Post.
Apparently, even New York audiences still need a lesson in how to turn their cell phone off when entering a Broadway theater. Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig stop the show to allow an audience member the opportunity to answer the phone.
Click here to read the New York Post article and see video!
Where is Mike Hardline when you need him!
BTW - Daniel Craig was in the original cast of A NUMBER when it premiered in London in 2002!
A NUMBER / MACHINAL plays our Rice Village location February 18 - March 14, 2010. Tickets go on sale October 31st.
And that's the word on the street!
: Begun in 1981 as an imaginary letter to Isabel Allende’s dying grandfather, this is the epic that inspired Caridad Svich’s stage adaptation. At the time, Allende was living in Venezuela, where she had fled the reach of Pinochet’s government. Through the fortunes of four generations of the fictional Trueba and del Valle families, Allende traces the history of Chile through the violent events of 1973, when her relative, Salvador Allende, Chile’s president, was overthrown by a military coup led by Augusto Pinochet. The book contains elements of magical realism, such as the hereditary clairvoyance of the book’s female characters, the algae-green hair of Rosa the Beautiful, and the mysterious devotion of the dog Barrabas. However, several characters in the novel have real-world counterparts: the character called “The Candidate” and “The President” is said to represent Salvador Allende; “The Poet” represents Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda, and Pedro Tercero Garcia is said to represent folk/protest singer Victor Jara.
: Gabriel García Márquez called Neruda, the great Chilean poet and 1971 Nobel Prize laureate in literature, “the greatest poet of the twentieth century in any language.” When Isabel Allende was working as a journalist in Chile, she sought an interview with Neruda. He declined the interview and told her she should consider being a novelist rather than a journalist. Neruda’s poems encompass a range of subjects including love and sensuality, history, and politics. Not quite two weeks after Pinochet seized power, Neruda died of heart failure (he had been hospitalized for cancer). Though the military dictatorship tried to prevent Neruda’s funeral from spurring unrest, thousands of Chileans attended in defiance of curfew and in protest of the new regime. This book is a bilingual edition.
: Throughout Latin America, Víctor Jara is regarded as a symbol for the struggle for human rights because of his political activism, prominently expressed in his songs with themes of love, peace, and equality. 
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: Just as September 11, 2001, is a defining moment in American history, remembered by all those who were old enough to understand what was happening, so was September 11, 1973, a defining moment in Chilean history. It was the day Salvador Allende (Chile’s president, leader of the Socialist Popular Unity coalition, and a relative [tío] of Isabel Allende) was forced to resign by the advancing forces of Augusto Pinochet. This was followed by purges of leftists and anyone suspected of socialist sympathies. While Pinochet succeeded in ruling the country from 1973 to 1988, a complex struggle continued for control of how the coup would be viewed. In looking back on this moment, how did people on each side of the conflict define it? Through interviews, archives, Truth Commission documents, radio addresses, and written and oral histories, Stern explores the struggles over resolving individual “loose” memories and experiences with the collective mythologizing of Allende’s ouster and Pinochet’s rule. Playwright Caridad Svich recommends this book for exploring the world of 
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: In 1998, ten years after his rule as dictator of Chile ended, Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London (where he had traveled for medical care) and charged with crimes against humanity. His ensuing 16-month detention led to questions about relations between Pinochet’s government, Margaret Thatcher’s Britain, and Tony Blair, who authorized the arrest. Playwright Caridad Svich recommends this book for exploring the world of 
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