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LOCAL BOY GOES TO BIG CITY, MAKES GOOD
THE SONGS OF ROBERT wins "Outstanding Solo Show" at FringeNYC 2009
This past August, John Crutchfield took his quirkily poetic one-man show, The Songs of Robert, to the 2009 New York International Fringe Festival. The show ran for five performances at the Milagro Theatre on Suffolk Street in Manhattan's Lower East Side, garnered two very positive reviews (click on the links below), and won the Festival's Overall Excellence Award for "Outstanding Solo Show." For the New York production, Crutchfield worked closely with director Steve Samuels (Artistic Director of The Magnetic Theatre in Asheville) and producer Chall Gray. The playscript will soon appear in the anthology, Plays and Playwrights 2010, edited by Martin Denton. For more information, click here: http://www.nytheatre-i.com |
UPCOMING EVENTS
THE BARS OF ATLANTIS: Selected Essays of Durs Grünbein
Edited by Michale Eskin; Translated from the German by John Crutchfield, Michael Hofmann, and Andrew Shields. Available from Farrar, Straus and Giroux starting April 13, 2010. For more information, click here: The Bars of Atlantis
RUTH, a lyric drama by John Crutchfield
July 1 - July 10, 2010. Presented as part of the Catalyst Series at NCStage in downtown Asheville. Produced by The Magnetic Theatre. Directed by Steve Samuels. Lighting and Set Design by Jason Williams. Starring: Kathryn Temple, C.J. Breland, Peter Brezny, Erik Moellering, Kelley Hinman, and John Crutchfield. More details forthcoming.
A new version of the verse play that premiered in a Blue Shift Theatre Ensemble production directed by Eric Johnson and designed by Adam Larsen at Lenoir-Rhyne College in 2002. In John Crutchfield's RUTH, the eponymous biblical story is re-imagined in a contemporary Southern Appalachian setting. The production combines original verse, choreography, and live music.
SOLSTICE, a new play by John Crutchfield
Premier planned for fall/winter, 2010 at The Magnetic Theatre in Asheville's River Arts District. Details forthcoming.
An intense realistic drama about the turning point in a friendship. A young man goes to visit his childhood friend, and finds him living in dangerous circumstances.
ONGOING PROJECTS
RedDust, by Mathew Rosenblum. For the past year, John Crutchfield has been collaborating with composer Mathew Rosenblum on the libretto for RedDust, an experimental opera comissioned by NYC-based new music ensemble Sequitur. The piece combines text from a variety of sources to tell the story of a young Asian-American writer who must write 10,000 words about a stone that becomes a boy.
Addictions Project. Asheville's Scapegoat Theatre Collective has brought together three writers (John Crutchfield, Lucia Del Vecchio, and Julian Vorus), along with a flexible ensemble of actors under the direction of Hope Spragg, to create a program of new works dealing with the theme of addiction. Two one-acts by Crutchfield, My Best Friend and A Day in the Life, are currently in development for an eventual production (tentatively planned for winter, 2010 at The Magnetic Theatre in Asheville, NC).