#Adam Immerwahr

[ashleybenlove]

@lifblogs asked me a few days ago if I was gonna share the list of books I read this year. So, I'm gonna do that.

Due to character limits, I had to separate the numbered lists, so first list goes up to 100 and then the second list is the rest.

Couple of notes, my list includes the date I finished reading and a couple of marks.

Their meanings:

Started in 2022: * This book is a reread: ** Did not write down the date but probably the date: *? (Basically I decided after I had started to include the date finished.) Special notation for Dracula and Dracula Daily: **!

Bold denotes favorites.

Eight Kinky Nights: An f/f Chanukah romance by Xan West* – Jan 1*?

Through the Moon: A Graphic Novel (The Dragon Prince Graphic Novel #1) by Peter Wartman – Jan 4

Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks by Ken Jennings – Jan 7

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Steve Brusatte – Jan 12

A Brother’s Price by Wen Spencer** - Jan 13

Gossie and Gertie by Olivier Dunrea – Jan 17

A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters by Andrew H. Knoll – Jan 18

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler – Jan 22

Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds by John Pickrell – Jan 25

Promised Land: a Revolutionary Romance by Rose Lerner – Jan 26

Bad Girls Never Say Die by Jennifer Mathieu – Jan 27

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr – Feb 2

Artemis by Andy Weir – Feb 4

Hunting Game by Helene Tursten – Feb 7

How the Earth Turned Green: A Brief 3.8-Billion-Year History of Plants by Joseph E. Armstrong – Feb 14

Fortuna by Kristyn Merbeth – Feb 16

After Hours on Milagro Street by Angelina M. Lopez – Feb 22

Dash & Lily's Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan – Feb 22

Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond by Robin George Andrews – Feb 28

Memoria by Kristyn Merbeth – Feb 28

American Revolution: A History From Beginning to End by Hourly History – Mar 5

Discordia by Kristyn Merbeth – Mar 6

A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley – Mar 17

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded by Simon Winchester – Mar 18

The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions by Peter Brannen – Mar 18

Big Chicas Don't Cry by Annette Chavez Macias – Mar 19

Innumerable Insects: The Story of the Most Diverse and Myriad Animals on Earth by Michael S. Engel – Mar 21

The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783 by Joseph J. Ellis – Mar 24

Eragon by Christopher Paolini – Mar 25

Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive by Philipp Dettmer – Mar 25

Locked in Time by Lois Duncan** – Mar 26

Written in the Stars by Alexandria Bellefleur – Mar 28

The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict – April 4

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham – April 7

Bisexually Stuffed By Our Living Christmas Stocking by Chuck Tingle – April 8

Bloodmoon Huntress: A Graphic Novel (The Dragon Prince Graphic Novel #2) by Nicole Andelfinger – April 9

The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell – April 11

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton – April 13

The Return of Martin Guerre by Natalie Zemon Davis – April 17

What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jimenez – April 19

Cinder by Marissa Meyer – April 20

The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson – April 20

Eldest by Christopher Paolini – April 22

The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan – April 23

The Sentient Lesbian Em Dash — My Favorite Punctuation Mark — Gets Me Off by Chuck Tingle – April 24

The Pleistocene Era: The History of the Ice Age and the Dawn of Modern Humans by Charles River Editors – April 26

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie – April 27

Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach – April 29

Absolution by Murder by Peter Tremayne – May 3

Matrix by Lauren Groff – May 6

The Color Purple by Alice Walker – May 7

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie – May 9

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume – May 11

The Dragon Prince Book One: Moon by Aaron Ehasz and Melanie McGanney Ehasz – May 13

Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan – May 15

Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez – May 15

Atlas of Unusual Borders: Discover Intriguing Boundaries, Territories and Geographical Curiosities by Zoran Nikolic – May 20

How the Mountains Grew: A New Geological History of North America by John Dvorak – May 20

The Guncle by Steven Rowley – May 21

Brisingr by Christopher Paolini – May 24

Reflection: A Twisted Tale by Elizabeth Lim – May 26

Sailor's Delight by Rose Lerner – May 26

The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World by Riley Black – May 28

Humans are Weird: I Have the Data by Betty Adams – June 3

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro – June 4

Scarlet by Marissa Meyer – June 8

Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut – June 9

A Tip for the Hangman by Allison Epstein – June 11

Cress by Marissa Meyer – June 20

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao – June 22

The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us by Steve Brusatte – June 24

After the Hurricane by Leah Franqui – June 24

Inheritance by Christopher Paolini – June 25

Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel García Márquez – June 26

Dark Room Etiquette by Robin Roe – June 30

The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking) by Katie Mack – July 4

Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains by Bethany Brookshire – July 5

Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin – July 7

Cosmos by Carl Sagan – July 10

1984 by George Orwell** -- July 11

What Once Was Mine: A Twisted Tale by Liz Braswell – July 17

Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work (Or Don't) by Alex Bezzerides – July 20

The Planet Factory: Exoplanets and the Search for a Second Earth Hardcover by Elizabeth Tasker – July 21

Witches by Brenda Lozano – July 24

Son of a Sailor: A Cozy Pirate Tale by Marshall J. Moore – July 29

Winter by Marissa Meyer – July 29

As Old As Time: A Twisted Tale by Liz Braswell – July 30

Baking Yesteryear: The Best Recipes from the 1900s to the 1980s by B. Dylan Hollis – August 4

Half Bad by Sally Green – August 7

The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time by John Kelly – August 14

Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley – August 18

Gory Details: Adventures From the Dark Side of Science by Erika Engelhaupt – August 22

The Last Karankawas by Kimberly Garza – August 25

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore – Sept 5

Oceans of Kansas, Second Edition: A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea by Michael J. Everhart – Sept 7

Corpus Christi: The History of a Texas Seaport by Bill Walraven – Sept 9

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury** – Sept 12

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia – Sept 18

The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera – Sept 20

The Grace Year by Kim Liggett – Sept 22

The Mammals of Texas by William B. Davis and David J. Schmidly – Sept 29

The Romance Recipe by Ruby Barrett – Oct 4

The 2024 Old Farmer’s Almanac edited by Janice Stillman – Oct 7

Half Wild by Sally Green – Oct 7

Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D. James – Oct 7

Verity by Colleen Hoover – Oct 10

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence – Oct 15

Archaeology: Unearthing the Mysteries of the Past by Kate Santon – Oct 16

100 Places to See After You Die: A Travel Guide to the Afterlife by Ken Jennings – Oct 22

The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie – Oct 22

Summer of the Mariposas by Guadalupe García McCall – Oct 22

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie – Oct 27

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler – Oct 28

The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found by Mary Beard – Oct 29

Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair by Sarah Schulman – Oct 31

The Great Texas Dragon Race by Kacy Ritter – Nov 6

Dracula by Bram Stoker**! – Nov 7/8

The Wives of Henry VIII by Antonia Fraser – Nov 9

Cascadia's Fault: The Coming Earthquake and Tsunami that Could Devastate North America by Jerry Thompson – Nov 10

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison – Nov 11

Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney – Nov 13

Untamed by Glennon Doyle – Nov 14

Nimona by ND Stevenson – Nov 18

Dracula Daily by Matt Kirkland**! – Nov 20

A Mother Would Know by Amber Garza – Nov 24

Five Little Pigs by Agatha Christie – Nov 25

How To Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell** – Nov 27

Hickory Dickory Dock by Agatha Christie – Dec 1

Murtagh by Christopher Paolini – Dec 8

The Labours of Hercules by Agatha Christie – Dec 8

Icehenge by Kim Stanley Robinson – Dec 9

These Holiday Movies With Bizarrely Similar Smiling Heterosexual Couples Dressed In Green And Red On Their Cover Get Me Off Bisexually by Chuck Tingle – Dec 9

The Domesday Book: England's Heritage, Then & Now edited by Thomas Hindle – Dec 10

You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation by Julissa Arce – Dec 13

Himawari House by Harmony Becker – Dec 13

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck** – Dec 18

Born Into It: A Fan’s Life by Jay Baruchel – Dec 18

The Dragon Prince Book Two: Sky by Aaron Ehasz and Melanie McGanney Ehasz – Dec 23

Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree – Dec 24

Half Lost by Sally Green – Dec 24

Understudies by Priya Sridhar – Dec 28

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir – Dec 28

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking – Dec 31

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I built this set for Familiar at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company

[Director] Adam Immerwahr  [Scenic Design] Paige Hathaway [Lighting Design] Colin K. Bills [Costume Design] Karen Perry [Sound Design] Justin Schmitz

[nealspaper]

2020 Philadelphia Theater Critic's Awards -- The Nominees

2020 Philadelphia Theater Critic’s Awards — The Nominees

 From the beginning of the abbreviated 2020 theater year in Philadelphia, sterling performances were seen in several shows.       I noted some of them when posting nominees and recipients of the 2019 Philadelphia Theater Critic’s Awards.       Thirty-four shows turned out to be plenty to make choosing five nominees in each of six categories a chore.  The labor may have been increased from…

[kaylor]

maddy what books are you reading!!!!!!! (or trying to?)

my approach is: just tell yourself youre gonna read the first chapter and before you know it you are sucked in. efficient and low stakes.

okay so i have the night circus by erin morgenstern (my best friend from home gave it to me for my birthday, i've just started it and it's very fun!), alone in berlin by hans fallada, netherland by joseph o'neill (given by a friend of my partner), the waves by virginia woolf, lady chatterley's lover by d.h. lawrence, watership down by richard adams (in dutch, my dad gave me his copy when i was like 6 and i've still not read it), war and peace by leo tolstoy

and non fiction are the silk roads by peter frankopan (have started this), the highly sensitive person by elaine n. aron (present from my dad lol), and how to hide an empire, a short history of the greater united states by daniel immerwahr (started this too)

[readreadbookblog]

Books That I’ve Read

Here is all the new movies that I consumed in the year of 2021. I only put here the new items that I previously never have experienced before. Listed in the order that I saw them in. Lets hope that 2022’s list is greater.

Books

The Last Stone by Mark Bowden REVIEW

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr REVIEW

A Brief History of Nakedness by Philip Carr-Gomm

Alien: Out of the Shadows by Tim Lebbon REVIEW

Alien III by William Gibson REVIEW

The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800 by Conor Cruise O’Brien REVIEW

You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington by Alexis Coe REVIEW

John Adams Under Fire: The Founding Father’s Fight for Justice in the Boston Massacre Murder Trial by Dan Abrams and David Fisher REVIEW

Call Waiting by R.L. Stine REVIEW

Fear Street: Fear Hall: The Beginning by R.L. Stine REVIEW

Goosebumps Horrorland The Wizard of Ooze by R.L. Stine REVIEW

Goosebumps Horrorland The Streets of Panic Park by R.L. Stine REVIEW

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson REVIEW

Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II by Robert Matzen REVIEW

2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke REVIEW

Caffeine by Michael Pollan REVIEW

A Boob’s Life: How America’s Obsession Shaped Me...And You by Leslie Lehr  REVIEW

A Cool Breeze on the Underground by Don Winslow REVIEW

The Minuteman: The Forgotten Legacy of Nat Arno and the Fight Against Newark’s Nazis by Greg Donahue REVIEW

Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America by Steven J. Ross REVIEW

A Cool Breeze on the Underground by Don Winslow REVIEW

To Hell and Back by Audie Murphy REVIEW

Nights of the Living Dead Anthology edited by Jonathan Maberry and George A. Romero REVIEW

A Narco History: How the United States And Mexico Jointly Created the “Mexican Drug War” by Carmen Boulllosa and Mike Wallace REVIEW

Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix REVIEW

Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel by Dan Ephron REVIEW

Napoleon’s Hemorrhoids and Other Small Events That Changed History by Phil Manson REVIEW

Yocandra in the Paradise of Nada by Zoe Valdes REVIEW

When Books Went to War by Molly Guptill Manning REVIEW

My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix REVIEW

Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis REVIEW

Empire of Mud: The Secret History of Washington, DC by J.D. Dickey REVIEW

The China Mission: George Marshall’s Unfinished War, 1945-1947 by Daniel Kurtz-Phelan REVIEW

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata REVIEW

The Egg and Other Stories by Andy Weir REVIEW

The Incredible Shrinking Man by Richard Matheson REVIEW

Perelandra by C.S. Lewis REVIEW

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown REVIEW

[thedanwich]

Top 10 Books of 2019

10. Little Weirds - Jenny Slate

9. Face It - Debbie Harry

8. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body - Roxane Gay

7. Imagine Me Gone - Adam Haslett

6. What Belongs To You - Garth Greenwell

5. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong

4. The North Water - Ian McGuire

3. Meet Me In The Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011 - Lizzy Goodman

2. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States - Daniel Immerwahr

1. Lost City of the Monkey God - Douglas Preston

Honorable mentions:

Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find - and Keep - Love - Amir Levine Dancer From The Dance - David Holleran Dead Astronauts - Jeff VanderMeer The Day It Finally Happens: Alien Contact, Dinosaur Parks, Immortal Humans - and Other Possible Phenomena - Mike Pearl Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart of Sky: Myths of Mexico - David Bowles Halsey Street - Naima Coster A People’s History of American Empire - Howard Zinn Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail - Cheryl Strayed

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Last of the Red Hot Lovers by Walnut Street Theatre at Stockton Performing Arts Center in Galloway, NJ

By: R. S. Young

Fifty years ago Neil Simon’s Last of the Red Hot Lovers hit the world. But Walnut Street Theatre’s production, directed by Adam Immerwahr still assaulted the funny bone of audiences last night at Stockton University's Performing Arts Center.

One man asks three women up to his mother's apartment over the course of a year to find something “beautiful and decent” in an affair. Even though it's the swinging sixties not everyone had their minds opened by the sexual revolution overnight. And for some people like Barney that mental closet door stayed firmly closed until very recently.

And so he asks them up to his mother’s studio apartment. Just a sofa bed, coffee table, and small table and chairs. The windows have curtains that Barney would like to have welded shut so not one scrap of light squeezes through. He even brings his own glasses and scotch so that there is no trace that he and a woman have been there. Everything screams that this is a woman's apartment. Doilies everywhere, nic knacks and bric a brac on the tables. A picture of Barney at his Christening wouldn't have been out of place. He feels like he has no other place to go. Barney is having a midlife crisis and he feels after one hot fling he’ll be able to go back to his boring life and bland wife. But each of the women bring their own baggage and quirks into the mix and Barney soon learns more about himself than he thought he could. And each encounter with these women slowly changes him in some way.

  Pictured: Fran Prisco and Karen Peakes in Last of the Red Hot Lovers

Picture Credit: Walnut Street Theater

Now I said one man and three women. That's a bit misleading. There are only two actors in the cast. Fran Prisco plays Barney. Karen Peakes plays three different “other women” throughout the play.

She plays Elaine, a customer who Barney picks up in his own fish restaurant. Elaine is a conversational blunt force object from the New York streets, a veteran at affairs, minces no words and takes no prisoners.

Then she is Bobbie, an aspiring actress/singer who he meets in a park. She's a Californian who's attention span is just as short as short as her mini-skirt, she takes to paranoia like a fish takes to water, and doesn't get into affairs so much as she stumbles into them.

And finally you have Jeannette, his wife’s friend, and also the wife of his friend Mel. She has been thrown headlong into depression, is as romantic as a wet blanket, and has a firmer grip on her pocketbook than she has on her wits.

Barney, seems to learn more about having an affair with each woman. When he interacts with Elaine he is a novice at cheating. His fires of passion are barely a spark. When he is with Bobbie, he thinks he is prepared and tries to be smooth and suave with more alcohol and cigarettes. Still as he tries to get a flame going awkwardness and surprises persist in dumping water over it. Finally, with Jeannette, Barney is more honest and open. He's learned to be emotionally responsive to another person. And soon he sees a fire building inside, just not from the place he thought it would come from. It's never the romantic afternoon tryst that he planned but you see a man who becomes less concerned if the neighbors can hear or in following a rom-com script in his head. He came to cheat but he learns that it was never a game at all. You find a man who learned how to connect to someone.

Prisco expertly plays Barney. He shows a marvelous range as he goes on Barney’s journey. He made something so approachable and honest that I feel we got to take the journey with him.

I can only say one thing of Karen Peakes’ acting and that one thing is that I was so grateful just to be in the same room with talent like that. Her interpretation of these three women was just as honest as Fran’s but each interpretation was as unique as a fingerprint. I literally saw her transform in such a way that I heard audience members doubting that she was the same actress and even though I had the program in my hand I don't know if I believed it myself. She created three distinct characters with their own wants and nuances; employing superb voice work and skill to give each woman a different accent and speech pattern. She wore each character like a new skin to make them move and breathe in their own way. Again a true talent. If you get a chance go and see her performance before it's too late.

Adam Immerwahr’s direction was masterful in making best use of the stage space and the actors. In this play you only have the two actors and nothing else. I feel Immerwahr used all of his resources of space, dialogue, timing and movement to make sure that we were getting the best of everything. I assume that this was a labor of love building the characters and action with the actors. I can tell that the actors had fun performing the play and that means there was even more fun had in the rehearsal studio crafting it.

  Pictured: Fran Prisco and Karen Peaks

Photo Credit: Walnut Street Theater

Costume Designer Mark Mariani put the work in to make sure for each character Peakes is transformed on the outside as much as she is on the inside. With wigs and makeup she goes from brunette to blonde to dishwater. And with the dresses she goes from urbanite to surfbunny to reserved. I feel it was a master collaboration between actor and designer. I didn't know where actor ended and design began. That's rare nowadays.

The set and lighting by John Hoey was a different story. When you first see the apartment you are transported back in time. There are countless props and sounds that people my age are aware of but remind us that this is a different time. A rotary phone? Ancient history! We’re reminded through design that this is not the Ashley Madison age. These are the days where casual cheating was just starting out and way more personal. The sofa bed and the fixings of the house also scream everything Barney is not, clean and orderly and exactly the opposite of someone who has to sniff their fingers because they smell of clams.

I do feel that the set ended at the walls and somehow they got in the way. The production tours with a box set, meaning that there are three walls that define the space and walls of the apartment. I'm very sure that in Philadelphia the set fit the stage very well. But as it fit in the Stockton Performing Arts Center it became more of an obstacle. From where I sat anything the actors did by the window was lost and I couldn't see them. I found myself wishing that there were no walls hiding such a brilliant performance by such great actors and hiding the rest of such a good set. I understand not all theaters are the same and that's the occupational hazard of a touring show. I just hope that in future productions from this company the oyster of the set doesn't hide the pearl of the performers.

The sound design by John Kolbinski was amazing because I didn't notice it. Who really notices old cars honking outside? But the design sought not to make us aware of it but to center is in a time that's not our own. Sound is the ocean we swim in and if we don't notice it it means that it worked and we're fully at home in the world. All the design collaborated to make us comfortable in a world that we don't know anymore.

 And this is exactly why I think everyone should come out and see this show. We live in a digital age where you can meet a new person from around the globe as easily as going out to get the mail. Meeting new people in this era was hard and getting out there meant physically leaving your house. New relationships were very up front and personal tasks. Barney is engaging in a timeless endeavor but using methods that have way more personal risk than we would think. In fact today we would look at what he does in the same category as a daredevil driving through a ring of fire. There's a real chance that he can get burned and that is weird at least to the younger of us in the audience who grew up with cell phones and Tinder.

This fact makes Last of the Red Hot Lovers a powerful show that serves to remind us of the weight that personal relationships have and that romance is not a “game”. The people we come in contact with affect us and we should affect them. Come prepared to watch two acting powerhouses knock your socks off and be prepared to laugh your head off!

Last of the Red Hot Lovers is a touring production of the Walnut Street Theatre. You can find out about touring dates in your area here.

[mccartertheatrecenter]

Meet the 16-17 Interns: Emily Zetterberg

Hey there, my name is Emily Zetterberg and I am the 2016-2017 Directing/Producing Intern at McCarter Theatre Center. If you’re interested in the internship program here, or just really like following random blogs, read about my experience below:

Where are you from?

I grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, admiring McCarter and taking classes there. (I also taught some classes too!)

 Where did you graduate from and what was your major?

 I graduated from UCLA with a BA in Theater and an emphasis in Musical Theater. 

What attracted you to McCarter’s internship program?

 McCarter was the only internship program of those I was looking into that had an internship with a dual focus in Producing and Directing. I am interested in becoming a Producing Director, so this was the ideal internship for me!

What projects are you currently working on in your position?

 A large variety of things! Right now I am in the midst AD-ing Hamlet/Saint. Joan, which Bedlam will be performing in rotating repertory as our third mainstage show of the season. I also just wrapped up working on A Christmas Carol as a Directing Assistant, which was a fantastic learning opportunity. Whenever I have a free moment, I jump in on whatever project the producing team is working on. And, of course, we all have to collaborate on various other internship duties like staffing student matinees, coordinating readings, and assisting with special events and meetings in the building. 

What’s your favorite thing about your department?

 My favorite thing about the Artistic Department is that it’s full of incredibly intelligent and driven individuals who are all about collaboration and balancing administrative and creative roles.

How has the McCarter staff inspired you?

McCarter has some powerful women on staff (there are also awesome men! But who runs the world am I right?), who have inspired me to aspire to the highest levels of success.

What is your favorite project that you have worked on so far?

My favorite project so far has been A Christmas Carol. Director Adam Immerwahr was incredible to observe and he worked hard to create creative opportunities for his assistants. I got to spend a lot of time working directly with actors. It was also just cool to be part of the cultivation of a new production of a classic.

If you were to give advice to the next intern in your position what would it be?

Be honest with yourself about your strengths and weaknesses and don’t be prideful, but strive to make your skills known to your supervisors.

[mushonga]

The Convert, 2013

The show that made me grow.

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This is Adam Immerwahr. He's a wunderkind. 

As one of the Directing/Producing interns last year at McCarter Theatre in Princeton, NJ, I had the good fortune lto witness first hand Adam's intense work ethic, creative vision, and overall bad-assery. Just recently he was named Associate Artistic Director. Eight short years ago, he was a lowly Directing/Producing intern just like me. Beyond his remarkable producorial skills he's a damn good director. Check out his website here: http://www.adamimmerwahr.com/

Many thanks to Adam for letting me capture him in this exciting new time in his life. Also, thanks to him for the all-access pass to shoot in and outside of the theatre.

By the way, go see Fiasco Theatre Company's Into the Woods at McCarter, and thank Adam for being a huge part of it. I saw the show last week and it resonated in a whole new way for me. It'a a truly beautiful production. You can get tickets here: http://www.mccarter.org/IntoTheWoods/

[kevintumbles]

Theatre News: Theater J Announces New Managing Director

Theater J, the nation’s pre-eminent professional Jewish theater, is delighted to announce that Jojo Ruf will become its new Managing Director on January 28, 2019.  Ruf joins Artistic Director Adam Immerwahr in the leadership of the theater, which is a program of the Edlavitch DC Jewish Community Center (EDCJCC). Ruf comes to Theater J from The Laboratory for Global Performance […] See original article at: https://mdtheatreguide.com/2019/01/theatre-news-theater-j-announces-new-managing-director/

[kevintumbles]

Theatre Review: ‘Familiar’ at Woolly Mammoth Theatre

What makes up an individual’s identity? Where someone’s family is from? Where one is born? One’s name? These topics and more are explored in Danai Gurira’s newest play ‘Familiar.’ This is the fourth piece of hers that Woolly Mammoth has produced. Adam Immerwahr, Artistic Director of Theatre J, directed this triumphant exploration of identity. Tendi […] See original article at: https://mdtheatreguide.com/2018/02/theatre-review-familiar-at-woolly-mammoth-theatre/

[kevintumbles]

Theater Review: ‘The How and the Why’ at Theater J

A play about the biological origins of menstruation? When he first heard about it, even Theatre J’s esteemed artistic director, Adam Immerwahr, remembers being skeptical. But as he worked on the project, he became captivated. It’s inescapable how relevant it is, “On the heels of an extraordinary set of marches for women’s rights all over […] See original article at: http://mdtheatreguide.com/2017/02/theater-review-the-how-and-the-why-at-theater-j/

[nealspaper]

Four Truly Fast Takes -- As You Like It, The Mousetrap, Nureyev's Eyes, The Sound of Music

Four Truly Fast Takes — As You Like It, The Mousetrap, Nureyev’s Eyes, The Sound of Music

AS YOU LIKE IT, Lantern Theater, 10th and Ludlow Streets, Philadelphia, through Sunday, April 17 —Ultimately entertaining, Charles McMahon’s production of Shakespeare’s wise comedy is a hodge-podge that not only hits and misses between and during scenes but has high points and low points within individual performances. Diction and tone are the usual culprits when matters go awry. Dialogue is…

[nealspaper]

The Language Archive -- Bristol Riverside Theatre

The Language Archive — Bristol Riverside Theatre

While language, its history, and its components are a preoccupation of several characters, talk is practically a pastime in Julia Cho’s “The Language Archive.” A passive, casual pastime.

People trade words a lot, but they rarely have conversations. The most substantial points any character makes might be called teaching moments, occasions in which someone with experience, an older person met by…

[mushonga]

Video from Danai Gurira’s Zimbabwean run of the Convert.Harare 2013

This was one of the hardest shows I have ever done. I jumped onto the project as an unprepared lighting designer and then took over as yet an unprepared set designer when for some reason, the original set designer pulled out.

I had a great team of producers, director and fellow designers who helped me push until the final product came out, Although it was a painful experience for everyone involved in it, it pushed me to relearn integrity, the value of hard work and separating creativity and practicality. Harare