13 stories by "Gianfranco Lentini"
In 2015, Mike Leigh was honored with the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Fellowship, a lifetime achievement award and the highest honor bestowed by the organization. Learn more a…
When who we are and what we do has been reduced to a transaction, the receipt on our commercialized life is Mark Ravenhill's SHOPPING AND F***ING.
The post The Receipt on Our Commercialized …
In this comedy about absurdist marital affairs of novelistic proportions, Allen presents us with two casts of characters, one in Manhattan and one in Connecticut, battling their inner comedi…
Testing the limits of what it means to be a friend, a colleague, or just a human, this play serves as a very relatable, very truthful testament to the struggles we face everyday not just wit…
This week marks the most important week thus far for sophomores at Hofstra University: BFA Audition Week. About twenty performance and production BFA candidates rushed to and fro silently mo…
Now that both Hurricane Sandy and the 2012 Presidential Election are behind us, it's time for Hofstra University to look forward to opening night of their final production of the semester, M…
Following up on my earlier post about what I've learned working on Molière's The Learned Ladies, I turned my questions this time onto Hofstra University professor and director of The Learne…
Stage-managing any job means three things (plus one):
1) There will be sweat.
2) There will be tears.
3) There may be blood.
+1) The wealth of information you will gain while on the job will…
It's not a lie when it's said that Hofstra University in Long Island, NY has PRIDE! This past week, Hofstra University, for a second time since 2008, hosted the second 2012 Presidential Deba…
This past summer while I was interning with New York Classical Theatre, I asked the cast and crew working on the production what would be their one piece of advice they would give an actor/a…
It's well past midnight as I finally get to lie down with my chocolate chip and granola trail mix and try to put into words the past week. The words that first come to mind are: busy, hectic…
"We're drama students. We love drama," is a resoundingly smack-in-the-face comment that was made to me this week. As to the context of the comment, let me explain.To say drama students love …
Call it an accident or a Freudian slip, we've all had those teachers who've said something faster than their mind could have told them "No." Or maybe it was that signature expression or gest…
