The Performance of Protest
Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about performance. Well…really all my life since I am a performer, but right now I’m thinking in more academic terms. The department where I work at Bates College is currently working through ideas and thoughts about the theory of performance and how it works with in our own pedagogical […]
Voices of BTM XXI: Cliff Odle
Tell us about your play. The play is about the relationship between a father and daughter. Although ten minutes, it covers several years of their lives in three stages using an annual trip to a National Park garnet mining site as a frame for showing how this relationship develops. What made you want to tell […]
‘Lost Tempo’ hits the right notes with critics
‘Lost Tempo’ hits the right notes
Review from The Boston Globe The tale of the self-destructive artist is as old as, well, art. And jazz has certainly contributed its own chapters to that grim story, from Bix Beiderbecke to Charlie Parker to Billie Holiday. It can’t be said that playwright Cliff Odle adds anything especially new or novel to that saga […]
A new beginning
Remember the stage in the front theatre? It’s gone. Jeffrey worked hard this summer transforming our signature venue into a more flexible space that (very soon!) will become the world of Cliff Odle’s Lost Tempo. It’s a big change, but we’re excited!
BTM XVIII’s Warm-Up Laps
Boston Theater Marathon Weekend kicks off on Saturday, May 7 with the Warm-Up Laps—readings of three full-length plays—presented in collaboration with the Boston Center for the Arts’ resident theatres in the BCA’s Deane Rehearsal Hall. The readings are FREE and open to the public. The Warm-Up Laps include: 12 noon Sponsored by […]
Alumni news, in brief:
Read (and listen) about Karen Zacarías’ new play, Just Like Us (based on Helen Thorpe’s book), which is playing to sold out houses in Denver… Check out Will Fancher’s new writing project — to write one new song each week for a year — and make a request (I’m going to!)… Cliff Odle is one […]
Alumni news, in brief:
Cliff Odle’s Our Girl in Trenton will be produced as part of the CFA’s New Play Initiative, opening on Oct. 17. The play is also the School of Theatre’s official 2014 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival entry… The Compass Rose by Ronan Noone was nominated for four awards at Origin Theatre’s 1st Irish Festival — Best Play, […]
Alumni news, in brief:
Cliff Odle is one of the producers (as well as director and actor in different installments) of The Emancipated Century: August Wilson’s 10-Play Cycle, presented by The Trotter Institute and the Performing Arts Department of the University of Massachusetts. The series — which wraps in January — includes FREE readings of all ten plays in […]
UMass festival features work by students of Lazarus, Odle
Go support playwriting students of BPT alums Ginger Lazarus and Cliff Odle this weekend in UMass Boston’s first-ever Student Playwrights Festival!