CMDA @ LSU: December 2010

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Adam Rapp workshops new play at LSU Dept. of Theatre

Adam Rapp workshopped a new play at LSU that will be staged by the Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival of New American Plays.

The Edge of Our Bodies
written and directed by Adam Rapp
March 22 – April 3, 2011
Victor Jory Theatre

Adam Rapp is an Obie-Award-winning playwright and director. He is the author of numerous plays, which include Nocturne (A.R.T.; New York Theatre Workshop), Faster (Rattlestick), Finer Noble Gases(26^th Humana Festival; Rattlestick), Stone Cold Dead Serious (A.R.T., Edge Theatre), Blackbird (The Bush; Edge Theatre), Essential Self-Defense (Playwrights Horizons), American Sligo (Rattlestick),Kindness (Playwrights Horizons), and Red Light Winter (Steppenwolf; Barrow Street Theatre), which was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Most recently he directed the world premiere of his play, The Metal Children, which starred Billy Crudup, at The Vineyard Theatre. His playwriting honors include The Helen Merrill Award, The 2006 Princess Grace Statue, and The Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Developed for the Humana Festival of New American Plays by Actors Theatre of Louisville through a partnership with Louisiana State University

Marc Masterson, Actors Theatre’s Artistic Director, was at LSU for a workshop reading of this play, along with the playwright and the actress Ms. Catherine Combs.

Adam Rapp

Catherine Combs

Short promo trailer for LPB's Broadcast of Robert Grayson's 25th Anniversary Concert--Live at LSU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCnAGnpSIQ0

Live on LPB on Sunday, December 12, 2010 at 5pm tthe broadcast of Tenor Robert Grayson's September 25th Anniversary Concert, which
features, Paul Groves, Chad Shelton, and Matt Morgan, with Michael Borowitz at the piano.

Groves, Shelton and Morgan are all LSU alums of Robert Grayson's Studio and LSU's renown opera program.