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A Drama Desk-, Lucille Lortel-, and BAFTA-nominated director and writer of works for stage and screen, Erica Schmidt has an impressive track record of bringing historical works to bear on their ...

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Do you know the story of Orpheus, the Greek myth about a guy with a god-like gift for music? He was so talented that his songs tamed wild beasts and made stones weep. And when his wife died from a ...

In “A Streetcar Named Desire,” Blanche DuBois leaves her secret past in small town Mississippi and arrives in New Orleans, a place full of temptation. In “Orpheus Descending,” which premiered on ...

“Orpheus Descending,” a great big louche mess of a play by Tennessee Williams, from 1957—revived at Theatre for a New Audience’s Polonsky Shakespeare Center, directed by Erica Schmidt—kicks into gear ...

John Mellencamp will release his 25th album, Orpheus Descending, on June 2. The singer and songwriter is previewing the 11-song set with album opener "Hey God." The nervy, slide guitar-driven song ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Erica Schmidt’s revival of this Tennessee Williams play for Theater for a New Audience downplays the melodrama. By Elisabeth Vincentelli Clad in a ...

With a guitar and a smirk, Val Xavier brings a sexy, hip-swaying energy to a rigidly conservative small Southern town. After spending a night in jail, he looks for work at a store run by Lady Torrance ...