Slog - Comments on Intiman Finds a Managing Director http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/intiman_finds_a_managing_director Intiman has been looking around to replace the steely, capable Laura Penn for months now. The search ended a few days ago, when Intiman found Brian Colburn, the 35-year-old managing director of Pasadena Playhouse for the last four years. He seems like a good hire for a bunch of reasons: One. Colburn is young, and all regional theaters want to do these days is youth themselves up. Two. Pasadena Playhouse is a quality establishment, a lovely little Spanish mission-style building with a courtyard a nice fountain. It lives in a smart community—Caltech people, NASA people, the Jet Propulsion Lab people—that... Copyright 2008 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:30:56 -0800 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:16:34 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by it'smarkmitchell I like a lavish production of Private Lives or Hamlet as much as the next Thespian, but some young blood would certainly help out Seattle's main stages...

]]> it'smarkmitchell http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/intiman_finds_a_managing_director#c1109930 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/intiman_finds_a_managing_director#c1109930 Theater Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:52:21 -0800 Comment by mike I heard "Orson's Shadow" on KUOW, via the syndicated show "The Play's the Thing," last April, and - probably because it was a radio play, reminding me of this or that "Mercury Theater of the Air" thing I'd heard here and there - it fucking spellbound me.

http://www.publicradio.org/tools/media/player/kpcc/news/shows/latw/2007/04/20070428_latw?start=00:00:00:00.0&end=00:00:15:00.0

THAT horrible URL links to a first-15 minutes sample of the play. Apparently the cast heard here was the originating cast and they won some LA awards for the piece. As I recall, the dude doing Welles *nailed* the voice.

I feel like I should clarify, too: the +play's+ not a disaster, it's... OK. Well written. Not a raging fount of innovation. Introspective and backwards looking.

What's a disaster is the actual, true, story the play dramatizes, and it's the momentum of the egos barreling at one another across the boards that holds one's attention.

]]> mike http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/intiman_finds_a_managing_director#c1109940 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/intiman_finds_a_managing_director#c1109940 Theater Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:12:22 -0800 Comment by mike oops, my memory fails on the cast and origination thing. "The Play's The Thing" site made some fooraw about the cast and awards such that I had the impression that it had opened in LA in the mid-oughts, clearly not so according to wikipedia.

]]> mike http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/intiman_finds_a_managing_director#c1109942 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/08/intiman_finds_a_managing_director#c1109942 Theater Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:16:34 -0800