Archives for October 3, 2012

Here’s a how-de-do! Satchmo at the Waldorf got written up in the San Francisco Chronicle:

One of the differences between his book and his play, Teachout said, is that while “Pops” makes it clear that Armstrong’s critics were short-sighted, “Satchmo at the Waldorf” is meant to allow audiences to draw their own conclusions about the controversy that raged around the musician.
“If you want to know what I think, you can find that in the book. At the end of the play, I would like the audience to draw their own conclusions–to be thoughtful about what they’ve seen,” he said….

Read the whole thing here.

The first public preview of Satchmo at the Waldorf is tonight at seven p.m. at New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre. Preview performances run through Tuesday, followed by the official press opening next Wednesday.
For more information, go here.

David Ives talks about becoming a playwright:

(This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday and Wednesday.)

“The stage is an actors’ medium. When the curtain goes up, there are those crazy actors. The story comes through them. The director can pull his hair in the back of the house and the producer and the playwright can cry on each other’s shoulders. But there go those galloping actors.”
Pat Hingle (quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 5, 2009)