Oh babies, it’s that time of the year…
Time for our Annual TEAM Spring Benefit! It’s in the evening of May 5th – and feast your eyes on what we have in store for… Read More »Oh babies, it’s that time of the year…
Time for our Annual TEAM Spring Benefit! It’s in the evening of May 5th – and feast your eyes on what we have in store for… Read More »Oh babies, it’s that time of the year…
“The TEAM are theatrical excavators of American culture, American dreams and the American psyche, understanding the intimate connection between past and present, celluloid and reality…… Read More »Architecting: “★★★★★” – The Scotsman
“Enthralling and infuriating, funny and tragic, intelligent and downright lunatic – it is impossible to have a simple response to this extraordinary production… One leaves the theatre thrilled by a company so determined to push the boundaries of theatrical possibility.”
–Telegraph, London
“We are constantly told that theatre is the medium of the present tense, but this company refines that notion with terrific insight and flair. What emerges in this marvelous show underlines how sharply TEAM understand that theatre is like a magnified version of the eye of the needle through which this complex weave of consciousness is threaded. And they demonstrate this wisdom in the wit, verve and pained insight with which they bring past, present, and future in a glorious mélange of jumble and judicious ordering onto the stage at the same time…Visionary in concept and execution, this show reminds you of Tony (Angels in America) Kushner and sometimes of Robert (The Dragons’ Trilogy) Lepage.”
–The Independent, London
“Explosive youthful energy…sheer intelligence…sense of history…radical theatricalvision…the TEAM are not afraid to invoke the values and ideas that make the liberal dream of America worth fighting for: and it’s that willingness to express idealism and hope, as well as cynicism and despair, that gives their work its special richness, and its political edge…the current American crisis has driven the TEAM to new heights of controlled madness.”
– The Scotsman
“For anyone who has had it up to their Fox-scarred eyeballs with faith-based politics…Director Rachel Chavkin has a prescription…Particularly in the Heartland wants you to love thy frickin’ neighbor… the spirited TEAM soon explodes into the unexpected: They create people real enough to sustain an in-character audience Q&A and compassionate enough to infect a blasé public with their openheart- edness. Simultaneously intelligent, rueful, celebratory, delightful and devastatingly sad,the show actually lives up to its ambitions. If after Heartland we can’t put the “us” back in “U.S.,” we’ll no longer have Kansas to blame.”
– Time Out New York
I walked through the financial district on my way to rehearsal this morning. I was struck by the architecture of risk taking: massive overhangs supported by… Read More »Governor’s Island/LMCC Residency
Some things we’ve seen outside of the rehearsal room: Casinos and missiles Timeshare tours Million dollar watches The Grand Canyon (which is not in Las… Read More »Two lists to describe our first 13 days in Vegas
The house is still beautiful this morning. We’re trying to make the place our own. One of the first things everyone did was take pictures of the three foreclosure notices on the front door, as if each of us owning the image gave us some stake in the legally-limboed property we’re sleeping in. Read More »Las Vegas: Moving in
We’ve been rehearsing for Heartland at ART’s Emerging America Festival. Watching the video of the piece from Toronto I was struck by how different we… Read More »And now it’s on to Boston!
I almost spelled the name of the location correctly without looking (this title is correct – at least, from an Irish woman!) So I am… Read More »Sitting at a table in Annaghmakerring
In a bus from Dublin, 2 hours to Tyrone Guthrie’s estate, by way of London and New Orleans. Hearing we’ll be jumping another (bloody) hour… Read More »From Jess on travels in Ireland