‘The Torch-Bearers’ plays up the laughs Aug 5, 2009
The point was proven again by Michael Frayn s Noises Off and Christopher Guest s 1996 film Waiting for Guffman. George Kelly s 1922 light comedy The Torch-Bearers, a Broadway hit in its day that is now being revived at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, is in this delicious line of plays and films that take as their premise the notion that people are never so much themselves as when they are acting, or trying to. (Boston Globe)
The nuclear perils of the 21st century Jul 23, 2009
But three decades later, in 2002, after public pressure brought on by Michael Frayn s immensely successful play Copenhagen, the Niels Bohr archive in Copenhagen was forced to open its files - despite Bohr s will forbidding the release of his letters until 10 years later - and the true picture emerged. From these released documents, as well as the transcripts of secretly recorded conversations among 10 captured Nazi scientists, including Heisenberg, held captive on an English country estate after... (Boston Globe)
At Palm Canyon Theatre Noises Off! highlights the hysteria of theater (3) Jul 5, 2009
to Shakespeare s Midsummer Night s Dream have succeeded in showing the horror and magic that comes from bringing a show to life but nothing in theatrical literature can compare to the comedic triumph that is Michael Frayn s Noises Off. As a story, the show is simple: a group of actors and their director are attempting to tour a show called Nothing On. (Desert Entertainer, CA)
Behind the scenes (33) May 16, 2009
Both of them are extremely talented, said longtime South Albany theater director Beth Bentley, who is directing Audience, a satire by Michael Frayn. The one-acts will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Monday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the South Albany Theater. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Portsmouth area community calendar Apr 7, 2009
n "COPENHAGEN:" (READER'S THEATER): 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 17 and 1:30 p.m. Saturday, April 18, with discussion following, award winning play by Michael Frayn about the meeting in wartime Denmark between Niels Bohr, Europe's leading quantum theorist, and Werner Heisenberg, his ex-colleague working on the German atomic bomb project, at York Public Library, 15 Long Sands Road, York, Maine. (207) 363-2818. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
MCC spring production, "Noises Off" is play within a play Mar 20, 2009
Palagi also takes a turn dropping his drawers in the MCC production of Tony award-winning author Michael Frayn s farce, Noises Off, from April 2-5 at the Bob Roach Little Theatre in Strahan Hall. At one point or another, half of the cast is without pants and one actress spends most of the play running around in lingerie, said director Jason Larche. (Muscatine Journal, IO)
