Chris Tracy

2 months ago

What a privilege to read the part of Paul to Matt Cole’s Christopher and Tracy Liz Miller & Killian Meehan’s Spirits One & Two in Gina Russell Tracy’s homage to William Shakespeare and the American Shakespeare Festival Theatre and Academy “Wild Thyme” with Jocelyn Beard’s TW Playwrights Workshop Group at Christine Pennisi Daley’s Theatreworks New Milford two years back. ... See moreSee less

Chris Tracy

3 months ago

A year ago we were reminiscing on Theatre we had seen and done already in 2020: James Rado in Mary Tierney’s “Love’n’Courage” at The Players; “An Evening Of One-Act Plays” by John Pielmeier, Steve Otfinoski, and David Masello at the National Arts Club; “Constellations” at Christine Pennisi Daley’s Theatreworks New Milford; “The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night” starring Tyler Nowakowski at the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts; Meghan Pratt as the younger titular character in Hartford Stage’s Jane Eyre”; Tandy Cronyn in Staged Readings at The Lamb’s Club; Michael Tracy Assisting Costume Designer Liz Prince in Sarah Lawrence College’s “Head Over Heels”; Gina Russell Tracy’s “Potters Wheel” at Crystal Fields’ Theater for the New City; and parts of the many diverse performances in that Off-Off-Broadway landmark in the four weeks while we were rehearsing and performing the latter (though enjoying a full show wad impossible due to our own production schedule through January).

A year later our theatre experiences range from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton” on Disney+; Robert Cuccioli & Kate Forbes in “A Touch Of The Poet” at Irish Repertory Theatre; Mary Tierney & Mary Ellen Ashley in “My Dinner With Mary” at Theater for the New City; the casts of “Avenue Q” featuring Rick Lyon, “The Wesf Wing” with Martin Sheen, and many others on Seth Rudetsky & James Wesley’s “Stars In The House”; New Play Readings at Karen Sternberg & David Ian Lee’s Pipeline-Collective Salon and Jocelyn Beard’s TW Playwrights Workshop Group; and many other virtual Zoom performances. And yet...

And yet the fabulous invalid of Broadway and its closest relatives Off- and Off-Off-Broadway and in National Tours and Regional Theatre along with dance, music and every other form of performance art will return - not all of it, sadly, as many shows and theatres have not survived a year in the wilderness, nor all of them, as many of those performers who had to leave will not or cannot return. But we will find a way to gather by that ancient fire to see a play, though our nights are dark, our days are cold, and our hopes seem frozen in underneath the snow. And if you will just assist us with your imagination, we’ll try to make this humble stage a place for celebration! ... See moreSee less