Thursday, Nov. 1, at the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, 77 Forest Street, Hartford; 5:00 p.m. reception, 5:30 pm discussion. FREE event! To register, call 860-522-9258, Ext. 317.
Nook Farm Book Talk, a collaboration between The Mark Twain House & Museum and the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, continues with Poganuc People, Harriet Beecher Stowe's loosely based autobiographical work.
Stowe depicts the life and times of a small Puritan town, Poganuc, based on her childhood in Litchfield, Connecticut. It features colorful characters like Miss Dolly and Colonel Davenport, local politics, small town religiosity, and anecdotal recipes for life.
Friday, November 2, 7:00 p.m. reception, 8:00 p.m. conversation. Tickets are $25, and can be obtained by calling 860-280-3130 or 860-232-0050.
A conversation with six authors, "Come Out Writing: Queer Authors Tell All," will take place at The Mark Twain House & Museum on Friday, Nov. 2, and explore the particular problems and strengths that the fact of being gay brings to the writer's art.
All proceeds from the event benefit the museum and True Colors, the Hartford-based non-profit organization that provides support, education and advocacy for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth, adults and families.
Participants include novelist, actor and filmmaker James Lecesne; poet and journalist Bessy Reyna; playwright Jacques Lamarre; author Frank Anthony Polito; writer Tanisha McMillan; and novelist Jennifer Lavoie.
Deadline is Monday, Nov. 5, for six-week classes starting next week. Tuition is $500. Call 860-280-3130 to register.
Susan Campbell on Non-Fiction, Mary-Ann Tirone Smith on Fiction: We're extending the deadline for registering for our popular six-week fall writing classes: The new deadline is Monday, November 5.
Fundamentalism, Feminism and the American Girl; Smith is the similarly acclaimed author of Masters of Illusion and Girls of Tender Age.
The six sessions of each class will run at the same time in separate classrooms -- from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday evenings in the Mark Twain House Museum Center, beginning Nov. 7 and running to December 19 (no class Nov. 21).
Casting has been announced for Westport Country Playhouse's Script in Hand playreading of "Over the River and Through the Woods" by Tony Award-winning playwright Joe DiPietro, a comedy about a single, Italian-American guy who visits his beloved, though annoying, grandparents every Sunday for dinner.
Scheduled for one-night-only on Monday, Nov. 12 at 7 pm, the cast includes Matthew Amendt, Nicole Lowrance, David Marguiles, Frances Sternhagen, Maria Tucci, and Lenny Wolpe. Director is Anne Keefe, Playhouse artistic advisor.
Tickets to the Script in Hand playreading are $15. Tickets for the reading and post-performance dessert reception with the cast in the Playhouse's Sheffer Studio are $50 ($15 for reading plus a $35 donation for reception). The reception will include Italian desserts and Prosecco.
Playwright Joe DiPietro won two Tony Awards for co-writing "Memphis," which also received the 2010 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for Best Musical. He wrote the book of the current Broadway musical, "Nice Work If You Can Get It." His other plays and musicals include "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change" (the longest-running musical revue in Off-Broadway history); "The Toxic Avenger" and "The Thing About Men" (both winners of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway musical); the much-produced comedy "Over the River and Through the Woods"; "The Art of Murder" (Edgar Award winner for Best Mystery Play); and the Broadway musical "All Shook Up." His drama "Creating Claire" debuted at George Street Playhouse in 2010. His work has received thousands of productions across the country and around the world.
Director Anne Keefe served as artistic director of Westport Country Playhouse, with Joanne Woodward, in 2008 and as associate artistic director from 2000-2006, also with Ms. Woodward. She co-directed with Ms. Woodward the Westport Country Playhouse production of "David Copperfield," and directed many Script in Hand playreadings.
Upcoming Script in Hand playreadings include the romantic comedy, "The Philadelphia Story" by Philip Barry, on Monday, December 10, 7 p.m. "The Philadelphia Story" has been a play, a film, and, as "High Society" with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, a Broadway and movie musical as well. Other Script in Hand playreadings will take place on Mondays, February 11 and March 11, titles to be announced.
For more information or tickets, call the box office at (203) 227-4177, or toll-free at 1-888-927-7529, or visit Westport Country Playhouse, 25 Powers Court, off Route 1, Westport. Tickets are available online 24/7 at www.westportplayhouse.org. Stay connected to the Playhouse on Facebook (Westport Country Playhouse), follow on Twitter (@WCPlayhouse), view Playhouse videos on YouTube (WestportPlayhouse) or get an insider's peek on The Playhouse Blog (www.theplayhouseblog.org).
As of 2 pm, Metro-North will restore limited service on its Harlem Line between North White Plains and Grand Central Terminal. The service will operate every hour. Hudson and New Haven Line continue to be suspended.
See www.mta.info for full details. Off-peak fares will be in effect. Customers should hold onto their October monthly and weekly tickets; they will be valid for travel through Monday, Nov. 5.
I wasn't able to reschedule a performance of The Last Romance at Seven Angels Theatre following an injury that haulted the opening night performance at intermission, but colleague Bonnie Goldberg has forwarded a link to her review which you can read at http://bonniegoldberg.blogspot.com. Thanks Bonnie!
The show runs through Nov. 11.
For tickets and information: 203-757-4676 or online at www.sevenangelstheatre.org. Performances are Thursday at 2 pm, and 8 pm., Friday at 8 pm, Saturday at 2 pm and 8 pm and Sunday at 2 pm.
Esther Mills (Khetanya Henderson) with Mr. Marks (Harrison Howard Haney) in a scene from Connecticut Repertory Theatre's production of Intimate Apparel, by Lynn Nottage, playing now through Nov. 4 in the Studio Theatre, Storrs. For tickets and information, call 860-486-2113 and visit www.crt.uconn.edu. Photo by Gerry Goodstein.
CT Rep's preformance of Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparrel is on for tonight in the studio at 7:30 pm. Info: 860-486-2113 or http://crt.uconn.edu/.
Check here for the latest regarding cancellations, schedules due to the Hurricane Sandy storm.
IVORYTON PLAYHOUSE has cancelled the first two preview performances of THE KITCHEN WITCHES on Wednesday, Oct. 31. One preview performance on Thursday Nov. 1 still possible before opening on Friday, Nov. 2. Check back for update.
YALE REP cancels Monday's Preview Performance of Marie Antoinette. If you have tickets for Monday night, they will be honored for an alternate performance. Tickets exchanged without fees when the box office reopens on Tuesday or Wednesday.
--- METRO NORTH trains, NYC subway service and LIRR service will be shut down as of 7 p.m. Sunday. Additionally, final bus service end at 9 p.m.
Esther Mills (Khetanya Henderson) with Mr. Marks (Harrison Howard Haney) in a scene from Connecticut Repertory Theatre's production of Intimate Apparel, by Lynn Nottage, playing now through Nov. 4 in the Studio Theatre, Storrs. Photo by Gerry Goodstein.
Connecticut Repertory Theatre will present Intimate Apparel Oct. 25 – Nov. 4, as the first show in its Studio Works Series in the Studio Theatre on the Storrs campus. For tickets and information, call 860-486-2113 or visit www.crt.uconn.edu.
At 35, Esther is lonely. A skilled African-American seamstress in 1905 Manhattan, she makes exquisite undergarments for clients. Strong, practical and confident Esther resists her landlady's insistence on marriage for marriage's sake while cautiously allowing an unexpected friendship, filled with longing, to grow between her and her fabric merchant, an immigrant Jew.
After exchanging letters with a West Indian laborer, Esther finally accepts his invitation and marries this man she has never met. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage stitches a tale of romance, greed and ambition – and also a tender story of seeking real friendship across the vast social gulf separating a seamstress and a socialite, the yearning of inter-racial as well as inter-faith love, and the persistence of spirit as Esther tries to craft a life as beautiful as one of her camisoles.
Intimate Apparel offers both a historical exploration into the black experience in America in the beginning of the 20th century, as well as a personal exploration into how societal constructs directly affect an individual's opportunities and choices.
Intimate Apparel won the 2004 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play, the American Theatre Critics/Steinberg New Play Award and the Outer Critics Circle Best Play Award. Nottage has received a MacArthur "Genius" Grant (2007), two NAACP Theatre Awards for performance and the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for a playwright in mid-career (2004). Nottage won the OBIE Award for Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Ruined in 2009. In 2010, she received the Distinguished Playwright Award.
For tickets and information, call 860-486-2113 and visit www.crt.uconn.edu.
The theme for Hartford Stage's 2012/13 season, "All the World," is being represented in the "map dress" made entirely out of paper, on display in the theater lobby.
Hartford Stage costume department's Susan Aziz and Barry Sellers collaborated on the map dress made entirely out of paper. Barry arrived at the idea after purchasing an oversized book of antique maps. Inspired by the colors and images, he brought the idea of a paper map dress to Costume Shop Manager Matt Smart.
Barry made a pattern for a practice dress out of white butcher paper and used various paper punches to simulate lace and detailed trim. He then teamed up with Susan to print map images from a large scale printer used for blueprints and then use those print-outs as "fabric" for a dress. Susan had the idea to wad up all the paper maps then smooth them out before sewing them together, which gave texture to the dress.
The paper map dress is on display in the Harford Stage lobby through December 2012.
"The Berenstain Bears LIVE in Family Matters, The Musical" will launch the 2012-13 Family Festivities Series at Westport Country Playhouse on Sunday, Nov. 11 at 1 and 4 pm.
Tickets are $18. The new musical is an adaptation of three of The Berenstain Bears' most beloved books: "The Berenstain Bears Learn about Strangers," "The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk Food," and "The Berenstain Bears' Trouble at School." Using the iconic stories and imagery of the original books, "The Berenstain Bears LIVE in Family Matters" stresses the importance of honesty, health, safety, and family. Adapted from the popular works by Stan and Jan Berenstain, and produced by Matt Murphy Productions, the presentation is recommended for ages 4 and up.
One hour before each performance, Westport's Wakeman Town Farm will host a pre-show activity focused on healthy food.
In conjunction with the Family Festivities Series, the Playhouse is hosting a book collection for Read to Grow, Inc., a statewide nonprofit organization that helps parents take an active role in their children's literacy development by providing free children's books to families with limited access and to community resources that serve them. At each Family Festivities performance, bins will be located in the Playhouse lobby for donations of gently used and new children's books which will be given to families and programs in the greater Fairfield County area through Read to Grow.
The Family Festivities Series will continue with "Angelina Ballerina, The Musical," on Sunday, Dec. 9, featuring a feisty little mouse with big dreams of becoming a prima ballerina. "Fancy Nancy, The Musical," on Sunday, Jan. 27, finds Fancy Nancy and her friends auditioning for their very first show, "Deep Sea Dances"; "Junie B. Jones," on Sunday, Feb. 10, stars outspoken, precocious, lovable Junie B. Jones in a new musical about new friends, new glasses, sugar cookies, and the annual kickball tournament; "How I Became a Pirate," on Sunday, March 3, is a musical adventure about young Jeremy Jacob, who is recruited by Captain Braid Beard and his mates to join the pirate crew on a quest to bury their treasure; and "The Little Engine That Could™ Earns Her Whistle," on Sunday, April 7, a new musical that portrays Watty Piper's timeless tale about hard work, self-confidence, friendship, and believing that anything is possible.
Everyone in the audience requires a ticket. For more information or tickets, call 203-227-4177, 1-888-927-7529, visit Westport Country Playhouse, 25 Powers Court, off Route 1, Westport; www.westportplayhouse.org.
Hartford Stage has announced the winners of the Annual Young Playwrights' Competition, Write On, for students in grades 9-12, and this year's winners are Abigail Kehoe, Alyssa Slotnick, Christopher Snow, Joe Buchek and Jonas Shivers.
Abby Kehoe is a senior at Classical Magnet School in Hartford, where she is taking a playwriting class and slowly warming to this dialogue-heavy literary medium. Flash fiction, poetry, and novels are her usual forte, but she is hopeful that this opportunity will expand her writing repertoire and make her a better-rounded thespian. Abby is currently stage-managing Classical's production of Iphigenia 2.0 and preparing for National Novel Writing Month in November, where she will be attempting her first complete novel.
Alyssa Slotnick is a senior at Lewis Mills High School in Burlington, CT. She has a love of both reading and writing, as well as an interest in photography. She is currently taking AP English at her high school as well as several other English classes. Throughout high school she has had an interest in writing short fiction, and though playwriting is a new genre for her, she is very excited to use Write On to its full potential in exploring and learning a new type of writing.
Christopher Snow was born in Hartford, CT, and has always been interested in art, film, media direction and production, acting, fashion, and interior design. He had the good idea of doing Write On because he sees it as good start in the art industry, starting with playwriting.
Joe Buchek is a junior at Hall High School. He has never written a play before this one and hopes to learn from this workshop.
Jonas Shivers is a senior at Hall High School in West Hartford. Jonas has a large background in technical theater working on a lot shows throughout his four years at Hall, including but not limited to, Moon over Buffalo, Romeo & Juliet, House of Blue Leaves, Our Town, The Children's Hour, Cheaper by the Dozen, and Under a Better Sky. He likes to write short stories. Jonas also is an actor, musician, DJ, and a freestyle skier in the winter.
Students were asked to submit an idea inspired by a topic that is important to them and relevant in their world and for these selected playwrights, Hartford Stage's Education Department will help with the rest. Winning playwrights sit in on rehearsals for Hartford Stage's Brand:NEW Fall Festival of New Works, participate in writing workshops lead by Hartford Stage's Aetna New Voices Fellow, and see their own plays performed for the public by professional actors and directors. This year, the writers in the Write On program will work with Aetna New Voices Fellow, Matthew Lopez (The Whipping Man).
Joyce Jeffrey will play the role of Carol in The Last Romance at Seven Angels Theatre, Waterbury, this week. She replaces Marie Wallace who was injured in a fall from the stage during Saturday night's opening.
Wallace fell off the the stage right front part of the stage during a blackout at the end of act one. The second act and Sunday's matinee performances were cancelled. Ticketholders to those shows can exchange for other performances running through Nov. 11. Call the box office at 203-757-4676.
Wallace is doing well, Seven Angels' PR and Marketing Director, reports.
Offering its first musical premiere since the 1996-97 season, Hartford Stage presents a tongue-in-cheek, Edwardian romp among the royals in A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder starring Tony-Award-Winner and Connecticut native Jefferson Mays (I Am My Own Wife) as eight different characters.
The story appears to be an adaptation of the movie "Kind Hearts & Coronets" by Robert Hamer and the 1907 novel "Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal by Roy Horniman" on which that was based. Neither of these works are credited in the program. Tresnjak does write notes there, however, about some of the process of development (some eight years) for Freedman, who also wrote lyrics, and collaborator, composer Steven Lutvak. Plot points and other details are changed (in the movie, it's a Dukedom and the name is Chalfont) and the ways the family members meet their maker are different, so it's not exactly the same, but star Alec Guinness plays the multiple roles there too in what is pretty much the same story. The musical, receiving its world premiere at Hartford Stage, was developed in part at the 2006 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab and is presented in association with the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego which will present the show next spring.
Meanwhile, complicating Monty's plans to take his royal seat are romances with his feeling torn between adulterous lust for the beautiful Sibella (Lisa O'Hare), who spurned him to marry a wealthy rival, and his cousin Phoebe (Chilina Kennedy, who delights with a beautiful operatic soprano). All of the action takes place on an ornate proscenium stage designed by Alexander Dodge to accommodate among other things, a beautiful garden where bees attack and a winter wonderland pond where ice-skating turns deadly (and where corny choreography by Peggy Hickey makes a smile – and the ice -- crack). Linda Cho designs costumes that aren't quite true to the period, but which accommodate the choreography.
Ayers shines as Lady Eugenia, the other half of a marriage-from-hell pairing with Mays as well.
The cast, musically directed by Paul Staroba, who conducts a six-member man in a pit beneath the stage (made possible by last season's renovations), is strong vocally – though Barnett struggles at the very high end of his register.
Nice orchestrations are provided by Jonathan Tunick, but Lutvak's repetitive sounding music is not memorable and many of the individual tunes continue way too long. The show's more-than-two-and-a-half-hour run time could be tightened considerably with some needed trimming and elimination. Prime candidates for the cutting block are the opening number titled "A Warning to the Audience" which seemed more like a place holder for "insert opening number here" than as a set up for the show, and the second-act opener "Why Are All the D'Ysquiths Dying?," an unnecessary recapitulation of everything that has happened so far. Lutvak and Freedman's many-syllabled, exposition-filled lyrics are far more complicated than the plot. Trust me.
Tresjnak brings the actors out into the house a couple of times via a horse-shoe extension around the back of those seated on floor level in front of the stage. It's a nice touch and he adds some comedic panache to staging a scene where a trapped Monty keeps both love interests from seeing each other with opposite doors.
It's fun theater, if not exactly new. And seeing a musical at Hartford Stage is almost as likely as eight members in the line to the earldom kicking off, so enjoy it while you can through Nov. 11 at Hartford Stage, 50 Church St., Hartford. Matinee performances are Sundays and selected Wednesdays and Saturdays at 2 pm. Evening performances are Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday at 7:30 pm; Friday and Saturday at 8 pm; Stay/Play Performance at 6:30 pm Oct. 31. Tickets range $26.50-$93.50 (860) 527-5151; www.hartfordstage.org.
Casting is set for readings at the Brand:NEW Fall Festival of New Works Oct. 25 - 28 at Hartford Stage.
The Festival will include readings of five new plays by Octavio Solis, Bess Wohl, Dan O'Brien, Matthew Lopez andJanine Nabers, as well as a playwrights' panel Oct. 28 at 4:30 pm. Se Llama Cristina, by Octavio Solis and directed by Loretta Greco, will feature William Zielinski (The Lovely Bones, film), Nancy Rodriguez (The Tempest, Oregon Shakespeare Festival) and Felix Solis (Havana is Waiting, Cherry Lane Theatre).
Oak Dale, by Dan O'Brien and directed by Elizabeth Williamson, will feature Michael Cullen (Cobb, Falcon Theatre). Reverberation, by Matthew Lopez and directed by Maxwell Williams, will feature Nick Westrate (the North American premiereof Tribes,) and Chris Perfetti (Sons of the Prophet, Roundabout Theatre Company).
Brand:NEW readings will be at Hartford Stage's Rehearsal Studio 2 at 942 Main St., Hartford (the Residence Inn building). See all five readings for $25 ($20 for Hartford Stage subscribers) or individual readings for $10 each. Tickets are available by calling the Hartford Stage box office at 860-527-5151 or by visiting www.hartfordstage.org.
The Little Sisters of Hoboken have gone Hollywood in the highly anticipated, latest installment of Dan Goggin's international smash-hit Nunsense franchise, Nunset Boulevard: The Nunsense Hollywood Bowl Show, which will be presented at the Palace Theater in Waterbury on Thursday, Nov. 8, at 7:30 pm.
The tour stars Cindy Williams (Shirley of "Laverne & Shirley" fame), who will reprise her role as "Mother Superior" from the Meadow Brook Theatre presentation of the original Nunsense. Tickets are $75 and $45 and can be purchased by phone at 203-346-2000, online atwww.palacetheaterct.org, or in person at the Box Office, 100 East Main St., Waterbury.
Nunset Boulevard follows the latest exploits of The Little Sisters of Hoboken, who have been invited to perform at the Hollywood Bowl. They are thrilled at the prospect until they arrive and realize that they are booked into the Hollywood Bowl-A-Rama - a bowling alley with a cabaret lounge - and not the famed "Bowl" they imagined. Things do not go as planned until The Sisters catch wind of the fact that Movie Producer James Todd is across the street auditioning for roles in his new movie musical about the life of Dolores Hart, the famous movie star who became a nun. The Sisters, thinking they are naturals for parts, race off to audition during their show's intermission. Could this be their big break?
As part of a special fundraiser for the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, CT, where Sister Dolores Hart currently resides, a portion of ticket proceeds from the Palace's presentation of Nunset Boulevard will benefit the Abbey's New Horizons Fund. Before the show, Sister Dolores will meet and greet patrons in the orchestra lobby, and after the show, patrons who purchased a $75 ticket will be invited to attend a post-show reception meet-and-greet in the mezzanine lobby with star Cindy Williams, director Dan Goggin and other members of the cast.
At 5:30 pm, Emily's Catering Group will prepare a preshow dinner in the Palace's Poli Club, located on the Mezzanine level of the theater. The dinner is $40 per member and $50 per non-member, which includes tax, service fees, coffee, and tea. A cash bar is also available. Seating is limited, and reservations can be made when purchasing tickets through the Box Office.
Nunsense, the creation of Catholic-school-educated author/composer Dan Goggin, premiered in New York City at the Cherry Lane Theater in 1985, where it won four Outer Critics' Circle Awards, including "Best Off-Broadway Musical." It then transferred to the Douglas Fairbanks Theater on 42nd Street, where it ran for over 10 years, and has been presented all over the world in over 8,000 productions, grossing more than $500,000,000. During its New York run,Nunsense became the second longest running musical in Off Broadway history, eclipsed only byThe Fantasticks. For more information, visit www.nunsense.com.
The HSO will join with trumpeter Brain Lynch in a tribute to this 1971 album, considered to be a modern classic.
Grab your "King of Swing" and "Go Daddy O" to see the HSO and guest artists Big Bad Voodoo Daddy take a New Orleans-style twist on the legendary big bands and swing orchestras as part of their Rattle Them Bones Tour. "Retro hep-cat cool." – Rolling Stone. "The music picks up a beat and doesn't let go." – Everett Daily Herald.
Thursday, January 10, 2013 │ 7:30 p.m.
Friday, January 11, 2013 │ 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, January 12, 2013 │ 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, January 13, 2013 │ 3:00 p.m.
Rachmaninoff's Vocalise is one of the most romantic classical pieces ever written. Symphonie Fantastique changed the musical world and takes listeners to a place just as vivid, obsessive and passionate as it was in Berlioz's day. Barber's Violin Concerto is lyrically indulgent, from the composer who also wrote the beautiful Adagio for Strings. Join HSO and world-renowned violinist Alexander Kerr on this amorous musical adventure.
-Tickets to Handel's Messiah are $35 for general admission. Student tickets are available for $15.
-Student tickets, available for Masterworks, Pops, and Jazz and Strings concerts, are $10.
The Hartford Symphony Orchestra's 2012-2013 season is sponsored by Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center. The Hartford Symphony Orchestra receives major support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council, the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, and the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism. The 2012-2013 Masterworks Series is sponsored by MetLife Foundation and The Edward C. and Ann T. Roberts Foundation, with additional concert support from Cigna, Hartford Hospital, and the Katharine K. McLane and Henry R. McLane Charitable Trust. The HSO 2012-2013 POPS! Series is presented by United Technologies Corporation, with additional concert support from Hartford Hospital and Prudential Retirement. The 2012-2013 Sunday Serenades Series is sponsored in part by The Saunders Foundation Music Endowment at the Wadsworth Atheneum.
Tribute to John Denver featuring Ted Vigil with special guest Steve Weisberg, Denver's lead guitar player, plays Bridgeport's Downtown Cabaret Theatre for two performances only Saturday, Oct. 27 at 5:30 and 8 pm.
The 75-minute show will be performed without an intermission at the Downtown Cabaret Theatre, 263 Golden Hill St., Bridgeport. Doors will open 30 minutes prior to each scheduled performance. All Reserved tickets are: $33: 203-576-1636; downtowncabaret.org; Box Office Hours: 11am to 4:30pm – Sundays thru Saturdays, open 90 minutes prior to scheduled performance times.
Goodspeed has announced the lineup for its 50th anniversary season.
Good News (Words and Music by B.G. DeSylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson) will run from April 12 – June 22; Jerry Herman's Hello, Dolly! will run from June 28 – Sept.8; and Frank Loesser's The Most Happy Fella will run from Sept. 20 – Dec. 1. on Broadway.
Advance season subscriptions are now on sale (860-873-8668). Single tickets go on public sale beginning Feb. 17, 2013.
Dance-theater artist Judy Dworin's new work "Meditations from a Garden Seat," will have its premiere at Charter Oak Cultural Center, Nov. 1-3. It is intended to "challenge common perceptions of the incarcerated by depicting their questing spirit, permanent sorrows, and joyous transformations within the barren confines of prison." General admission is $25, $15 for seniors and GHAC Let's Go! members, and $10 for students. For more information, visit www.charteroakcenter.org or call 860-249-1207.
Caveman, a play by Richard Maxwell, directed by Roy Faudree will be presented in Garmany Hall at Trinity College's Austin Arts Center, Thursday, Nov. 15 at 7:30 pm and Friday and Saturday, Nov. 16 and 17 at 4:30 and 8:30 pm. Running time is one hour, with no intermission. Admission is free; seating is limited, however, so reservations are strongly recommended. 860-297-2199.
Due to illness, last Friday's Navaratri Festival concert, "B. Balasubrahmaniyan: Vocal Music of South India", was postponed until Friday, Nov. 2 at 8 pm in Crowell Concert Hall at Wesleyan University. The Box Office is contacting all ticket holders; tickets for the postponed concert will be honored at the rescheduled concert.
FOCUS NEXT, is a juried show presented by TheaterWorks and Paper New England. Faculty from the Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, Central Connecticut State University, Wesleyan University, Trinity College and the University of Connecticut were invited to submit the work of BFA / BA students who best represented the strength of their programs. The artists included in FOCUS NEXT are either recent graduates or about to graduate: Hartford Art School - Sandy Chase, Akino Fukawa and Kaitlin Lennon; from Trinity College - Katherine Crescenzo,; from Wesleyan Uniiversity - Cordelia Blanchard; from UCONN - Katie Wild; Matthew Comeau and Taylor Lynch; and from CCSU - Alexa Fermeglia. Also on view throughout TheaterWorks first floor - large works by New Haven artist JD Richey. Now Through Nov. 11. Gallery Hours: Monday through Friday 9 - 3 pm. By appointment - and 90 minutes pre-show.
Ron Crawford and Marie Wallace. Photo courtesy of Seven Angels Theatre.
Actress Marie Wallace was injured in a fall from the stage at the Opening Night performance of The Last Romance, a play by Joe DiPietro, at Seven Angels Theatre last night.
Today's matinee (Oct 21) has been cancelled. Ticket holders for both performances may exchange tickets for a different date.
The first act of the comedy/romance had just finished when, in the blackout into intermission, Wallace fell off the front stage right portion of the stage. Houselights came back up and theater staff rushed to her aid. An ambulance was called and the stunned audience was asked to exit into the lobby for intermission.
After about 10 minutes, personnel started setting up food service for what was supposed to be the post-show party. An announcement was made saying that Wallace was in "good spirits" and was being taken to the hospital. The second act was cancelled and the aidience invited to enjoy the food. Later the theater announced that today's matinee also would be cancelled.
Updates on Wallace's condition and any additional schedule changes will be posted here at The CT Arts Connection as they become available. The Seven Angels Box Office is located at 1 Plank Rd., Waterbury. For information call 203-757-4676.
A Raisin n the Sun has been a classic, telling of the American African experience at the dawn of the Civil Rights movement on Chicago's South Side, since it first debuted on Broadway in 1959 (the first play by an African-American woman to be produced on the Great White Way). While some plays that broke ground in the mid 20th century have seemed sleepy and a mere rehash of old concerns when they have been revived recently, that's not the case for Westport County Playhouse's neat production directed by Phylicia Rashad.
A focus on characters -- whose future legacy is the premise of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize winning play Clybourne Park -- makes this production of Lorraine Hansberry's work feel like a visit to old friends, or a smile-filled time of flipping the memories in a family photo album because we know how it all turned out. Rashad herself brings memories to the show: she won the 2004 Tony Award for best Actress for her portrayal of Ruth in the Broadway revival.
Hansberry was inspired to write A Raisin in the Sun by her family's battle against racial segregation in Chicago. The Younger family is awaiting the arrival of an insurance check that could change their lives and get them out of the "rat trap" they rent. It's crowded. Sharing the apartment are matriarch Lena (Lynda Gravátt), daughter Beneatha (Edena Hines), son Walter Lee (Billy Eugene Jones) and his wife, Ruth (Susan Kelchi Watson), their son, Travis (Luka Kain) who has to make his bed on the living room couch. Each has a different idea of how the $10,000 left after the death of Lena's husband should be used, but most vocal is Walter Lee. He wants to leave behind his job of a "yes, sir," "no, sir," chauffeur it to invest in a liquor store with a couple of buddies.
Lena, making plain to Walter Lee that she is the head of the family, decrees that part of the money wil be used to finance Beneatha's dream to be a doctor and another part will finance a dream she shares with Ruth: a home of their own. Walter Lee's drinking hasn't helped the growing estrangement between him and his wife and she has plans to abort the baby. Moving up might just keep the family together. The dream almost turns into a nightmare, however, when Lena puts a down payment on a house in the all-white neighborhood of Clybourne Park.
Karl Linder (John Hemphill), president of the neighborhood's "welcoming committee," pays a visit and makes it clear that the Clybourne Park folks don't want any of "you people" bringing down the values of their homes. He offers to buy the Youngers out of their agreement -- a proposition that first angers the family, but later might be necessary when Walter Lee makes a huge mistake and invests some funds in a scheme with sidekick Bobo (Alvin Crawford).
Meanwhile, Benny struggles to find an identity, the extremes of which are represented in the two men she dates: Joseph Asagai (Hubert Point-Du Jour), a fellow student from Nigeria who encourages her to embrace her roots and George Murchison (Gabriel Brown), a sort of nerdy guy who has assimilated himself into the white culture.
The decisions they make and the effect give the play its name, taken from the poem "Harlem" by Langston Hughes, which includes the lines: "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris is a response to A Raisin in the Sun and reprises the Linder character. (You can see Clybourne Park here in Connecticut May 8- June 2 at Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven).
Performances are good (David Blackwell associate directs), with actors clothed in period (and African) garb by costume designer Esosa on Edward Burbridge's detailed set that show a worse-for-wear apartment. Gravátt propels the show as the wise, faith-grounded matriarch who wants something better for her children and Watson delivers a layered Ruth full of warmth and depth.
A Raisin in The Sun plays through Nov. 3 at the Playhouse, 25 Powers Court, Westport. Ticket and performance information: 203-227-4177; www.westportplayhouse.org.
Westport Country Playhouse will present "A Day for Community," on Sunday, Oct. 28, when all tickets will be $15 for the 3 pm matinee performance. Following the performance, there will be a "Post-Show Conversation: A Day for Community" centered on the theme of community as reflected in Hansberry's play, featuring David J. Dent, professor of journalism at New York University, and Larri Mazon, chair of the Bridge Building Ministry at the Council of Churches of Greater Bridgeport. Additional guests to be announced. Before the performance, there will be a reception in the Playhouse lobby.


Aces guard Simon Enciso apologized to the Barangay Ginebra, particularly to coach Tim Cone, after sinking a 3-point shot in the dying seconds of Alaska's lopsided 104-78 victory over the Kings last Sunday in Antipolo.
That shot didn't sit well with Cone, who expressed his disappointment by refusing to shake the hand of Alaska mentor Alex Compton after the game.
"I wanna truly apologize from my end because in the States that's pretty much showboating and I'm not about that. So I wanna apologize to everybody for doing that," Enciso said.
The Fil-Am guard stressed that he was just following his coaches' instruction.
"I was just abiding to what the coaches were telling me. I was already dribbling it out, the seconds were already gone, and then coach told me to shoot so I shot it and it went in," he said.
Enciso, who finished with 23 points, also said he understands where Cone is coming from and claimed that the late shot was meant no disrepect for the Gin Kings.
"I understand it from both ways," he said.
"They're yelling quotient on my end — I guess Alaska didn't make it to the playoffs one time off just one point so coach Alex wanted me to shoot and unfortunately it went in.


This week's episode is guaranteed to inspire. My guest is the one and only Padma Lakshmi. I was lucky enough to record with her last week at Soho House in New York to celebrate her memoir "Love, Loss, and What We Ate." In it she recalls her (sometimes fraught) childhood going back and forth between India and The United States, how her relationship with her body (and discovering she had endometriosis) shaped her life, and so much more. She also candidly reveals much about her relationships with Salman Rushdie and Teddy Forstmann. Now, add some of her secret family recipes to the book and you have the most delicious read imaginable. Ultimately, I got a sense that Padma is a fiercely independent (and damn amazing) woman whose forged her own path, turning the obstacles in her way into opportunities. I took so much away from this conversation and I hope you do too.
In person, Padma's presence is undeniable; and her grace and beauty could be totally overwhelming were she not so warm and cheeky — you'll hear how funny and witty she is in this interview from the get-go. Do let us know what you think of the show on Twitter and Instagram @litupshow. I'm sure this week's show will bring up a lot for people and we'd love to hear how it affected you.
Buy Love, Loss, and What We Ate on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or at your local independent bookstore.
Photos courtesy Vincent Razzi Jr. for Soho House.
Emmy-nominated Padma Lakshmi is known internationally as an actress, food expert, model and award-winning author. Lakshmi recently wrapped her twelfth season as the host of Bravo's Emmy award-winning Top Chef. she is also the author of the best-selling cookbook Easy Exotic, for which she won the International Versailles Event for best cookbook by a first time writer. Lakshmi followed this success with the publication of her second cookbook, Tangy, Tart, Hot & Sweet, released by Weinstein Books, which has over 150 recipes from around the world alongside intriguing personal memoirs.
In addition to these current projects, Lakshmi is a savvy businesswoman with multiple companies of her own. Her debut home décor line, The Padma Collection, hit floors in Bloomingdale's stores nationwide with tabletop dishware, stemware and hand-blown glass décor pieces. She has also created Padma's Easy Exotic, a collection of culinary products including frozen organic foods, fine teas, natural spice blends, as well as hard goods.
For The Food Network, Lakshmi hosted Padma's Passport where she cooked diverse cuisine from around the world. Lakshmi has also hosted Planet Food, a documentary series broadcast on The Food Network and worldwide on the Discovery Channel where she journeyed to countries such as Spain and India. Lakshmi is Emmy nominated for her role as host and judge on Bravo's Top Chef which has recently been awarded an Emmy for Outstanding Reality Competition Show. Other television credits include co-hosting Rai Television's Domenica In, Italy's highest rated program.
Lakshmi is also an accomplished writer. In addition to her food writing, she has contributed to such magazines as Vogue, Gourmet and British and American Harper's Bazaar as well as had a syndicated column on fashion and food for The New York Times.
Originally known as the first internationally successful Indian supermodel and often noted as a global style icon, Lakshmi has been featured as People magazine's 100 Most Beautiful People and 25 Most Intriguing People, AOL's Top 20 Style Influencers, Gotham magazine's Best Dressed New Yorkers, and part of The Elle 25.
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History of Theater: 1890 - 1920
History of Theater: 1890 – 1920
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"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. " – William Shakespeare The theatre has been a part of entertainment since ancient Greece, around 4th century BC or thereabouts. The theatre grew out of festivals in honor of the god Dionysus. Aeschylus created the first play in her honor. The first Greek plays were all tragedies but eventually comedy made its way and these plays were performed at festivals all over Greece.
Through the centuries theater played the main role of entertainment from noble and royalty to the common person in any city or village, and as we move into the twenties century, theater was still a huge part of the entertainment for the masses. At the start of the 20th Century, America was in full glory of its cultural adolescence, bursting with energy.
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London was still the theatrical center of the world, but New York was gaining its own form of sophistication and acknowledgement. By 1900 most of the signs on Broadway had gone electric, and New York City's famous theater district soon became know as "The Great White Way. It was known as the Mecca of the American theatrical world: the rest of the country was referred to by people in show business as "the road. " In 1904, the city opened its first underground subway system, and thanks to this system, tens of thousands living far from the theatre district could catch a Broadway show and still be home the same evening. With this increase of commuters and the ever growing number of tourist to New York, Broadway theatres' audiences more than tripled in less that one year. Thus the productions had longer running times than ever before.
At this time the majority of Broadway shows came from London, with English actors, producers, and directors. Then in 1903, Frank L. Baum's children's novel The Wizard of Oz was the first-ever all American musical to be performed on Broadway. The story of Dorothy and her pet cow Imogene (the cow was easier to see from the balcony than a small dog named Toto) took audiences to a magical land call Oz. The production included lavish costumes and fantastic fantasy sets and a state-of-the-art cyclone. This production had several hit songs but due to the fantastic MGM's 1939 film, these songs faded from the general public's memory.
After a very long run on Broadway, The Wizard of Oz enjoyed a long running national tour, and thanks to the improvements of the railway system, the show was able to take a full scale Broadway production set and costumes on the road. By 1904 it is believed that over 400 different shows where touring the United States with full Broadway production values. The only snag in some of these performances is having theaters in different cities that are able to hold such a production. With this need, the boom of grand theaters around the country began. Many of these theatres are still in operation today.
As the theatre business was booming, the need for new shows was increasing the opportunity for new playwrights were wide open. People like George M. Cohan, Victor Herbert, and Florenz Ziegfeld stepped up to the call. George M. Cohan was a writer, director, choreographer, and producer and stared in several of his own shows. He was famous for his jingoistic musical comedies that celebrated the triumph of the American know-how and New York style street smarts. Though most of his productions had short runs on Broadway, the musicals that toured the United States were met by packed houses several years.
His most memorable hit was Little Johnny Jones, where Cohan played an American jockey who loses the English Derby, clears himself of false charges that he threw the race, and wins the girl he loves. The songs "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and "Give My Regards to Broadway" from this show made Cohan a nationwide household name. Cohn's pro-American shows had little appeal outside the United States and are perhaps too simplistic to be revived in their original version, but his songs are still familiar today, including the wartime hit "Over There. Cohn is most famous for his curtain call speeches where he always ended with the statement "My mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I assure you, I thank you. " One of Broadway's most respected composers at the start of the 20th Century was Victory Herbert, a classically trained musician who turned out musicals that were considered much more sophisticated than Cohan's but equally as popular. Though trained in Europe, his scores had a distinctly American sound.
He was the first American songwriter to successfully insist that no changes be made to his scores without his permission. His musicals involved simple American goodness triumphing over Old World ways. He is known for his musical Babes in Toyland that is best remembered for its title song "March of the Toys. " Trying to copy the success of The Wizard of Oz, Hebert's fantasy had a far better score and continued to be revived until the mid 1940s. Naughty Marietta was a production about a French noblewoman who leaves her husband for an American Solder and moves to New Orleans.
The score included the hit song "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life" and was designed for operatic voices. It is one of the few Herbert musicals still performed today. When it comes to show stoppers on Broadway, Florenz Ziegfeld was known as the Ultimate Broadway Showman. Boasting his own theatre, Ziegfeld showcased glamorous Parisian reviews that used skits and song to spook the social and political "follies" of the day. Thus the Ziegfeld Follies were born. The productions included over the top sets, extravagant costumes and "The Ziegfeld Girls," a chorus of attractive females.
Out of consideration for the sensibilities of theatergoers, the tone of his productions was sexy but never trashy. Ziegfeld considered thirteen his lucky number and thus gave his revue the thirteen letter name Follies of the Day taken from the title of a popular newspaper column penned by librettist Harry B. Smith, who Ziegfeld hired to write the libretto. By 1900, there were currently thirty-three legitimate Broadway theatres, and many more would be built over the next couple of decades to meet the demand of the growing audiences.
The productions included those of drama, comedy and musicals, but legitimate theatre was not the only theatrical entertainment of this time. During this time a large group of entertainers travels from one small theater to the next, entertaining thousands with their simple song and dance, mini-comical skits, and different acts of entertainment. These people were known as Vaudevillians and their theatre circuit was known as Vaudeville. Vaudeville was a theatrical paradigm in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s.
Each performance consisted of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill. Types of acts included popular and classical musicians, dancers, comedians, trained animals, magicians, female and male impersonators, acrobats, illustrated songs, jugglers, one-act plays or scenes from plays, athletes, lecturing celebrities, minstrels, and movies. Vaudeville developed from many sources, including the concert saloon, minstrelsy, freak shows, dime museums, and literary burlesque. Called "the heart of American show business," vaudeville was one of the most popular types of ntertainment in North America for several decades until the start of the movie age. Vaudeville original started in the mid 1850s but thanks to the increase of number of theaters and improvement of transportation via railway, the popularity grew in the late 19th century into the early 20th century. Vaudeville opened the door of entertainment to thousands who had some form of special act. It was also one of the few avenues that opened for African-American mobility in a white world. African-American musicians achieved financial success while carving their niche for future artist.
One of the most famous African-American acts was that of Bert Williams and George Walker, a ragtime song and dance team that toured the Vaudeville theaters with Williams playing a well-dressed conniver and Walker as a limbering stooge. Harry Houdini, the famous escape artist was a very popular entertainer in the early 1900s. After a tour in Europe he came back to America with thunderous applause and recognition. Houdini was able to perform his difficult feats by remaining in excellent physical and mental condition. He pushed himself relentlessly.
To develop his capacity for holding his breath, Houdini installed an oversize bathtub in his house so that he could practice regularly. Through extensive training, he was able use his left hand nearly as well as his right. While casually chatting with friends, he would perform card and coin tricks without looking at his hands, or tie and untie knots in pieces of rope with his feet. Determined to stay on top of the entertainment field, Houdini refined techniques he had already mastered and continually developed new and more daring escapes.
Though known to be friendly and warm, Houdini had a large ego, could be touchy and petty at times, and frequently displayed a volatile tempter to his assistants. One of the most fascinating acts that I found in my research was that of Evelyn Nesbit. In 1893 Nesbit started her career as an artist model in Pittsburg, PA. In 1901 Nesbit, age 16, with her mother moved to New Your City were Nesbit modeling career grew to such a point that she was one of the highest paid artist and photography models in New York.
At the time she was being paid $5 for half a day and $10 for a full day of work. During this time Nesbit was also performing as a chorus girl on Broadway. Nesbit's real story stated when her husband, Harry Thaw shot her lover, Stanley White on the night of June 26, 1906. Thaw knew that Nesbit has been seeing White for years even before their marriage. On the night of the 25th, at the production of "Mam'zelle Champagne" at the dining theater on the roof of Madison Square Gardens, Thaw saw White sitting several seats away from him and Nesbit.
He calmly got out of his seat, walked over to White, pulled out a revolver and shot White three times in the face. The incident became known and "The Crime of The Century. " Thaw was tried and committee to life on an insanity plea. Thaw's mother offered Nesbit a huge some of money if she would divorce her son before the conclusion of the trial. Nesbit did but never received any of the money; but Nesbit's popularity soared, and from this she created an acts known as "The Girl on the Velvet Swing" where all she did was sit on a sing in the middle of the stage and tell her tragic story.
Nesbit's act lasted for a few years, but as most stories, once you've heard it once or twice, interests started going astray. She eventually tried her hand at movies with little success. In 1926 she gave an interview to the New York Times about her dramatic life story which she eventually published as a memoir. The list of famous Vaudeville acts is endless, and many of these actors and entertainers took their talents west to Hollywood to become movie starts. One of these most successful stories of this is that act of Abbott and Costello.
Starting in the early 1920s, the act of Lou Abbott and Bud Costello was known for the quick one liners and fast repartee. Most famous for their "Who's on First" routine, Abbott and Costello's acts moved from stage to radio to movies, becoming one of the most famous dues in American entertainment. As we look back at theatre in the early 1900s we see the birth of a new age, one of theatre productions written, produced and directed by Americans, with American themes. Theatre changed as the times changed.
It gave to the people what the people wanted and what they needed. From the large Broadway productions to the simple song and dance routines of Vaudeville, theatre was one of the main source of entertainment; allowing people to escape from their everyday world into a world of song, laughter and enjoyment. From the hearts of the actors and entertainers to the hearts of the theatergoer, life on a stage is one of true imagination and continues to allow us to go to that place where our true selves can wander, wonder and enjoy.
History of Theater: 1890 - 1920. (2018, Oct 01). Retrieved July 17, 2019, from https://phdessay.com/history-of-theater-1890-1920/.
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What was your relationship status at the time? In a relationship (monogamous)
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How/where did the hookup BEGIN? What led to it? Was planning involved? Who instigated it? We were separately trying to gain access to a late night club in my hometown in Ireland. She was English and was just visiting in holidays. Neither of us was let in along with some other people so she looked at me and asked, "where do we go now?" I said I knew one other place we could try, so the two of us walked together to a hotel. On the way, she leaned in to hold my arm as if she was cold and I reached around her to hold her. I then offered my jacket but she refused. When we got to the other hotel it was too late to get in there so now I knew it was either keep going with this girl or face a long walk home. She said the place she was staying was only a few hundred meters and she had some drinks at the house. She reluctantly took my jacket this time and as I put it on her I kissed her gently on the lips. We walked slowly to the house and we kissed along the way. I touched her ass gently and she said not to be so shy when we got back to the house. She had told me that she was staying with 3 female friends so I didn't really know what to think and were they sharing rooms.
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What happened AFTER the hookup? How did you feel about it the next day? What are/were your expectations/hopes for the future with this person? How do you feel about them now? I felt guilty as it was the first time being unfaithful. I didn't feel anything towards the girl other than she was hot but I will never forget the sex that night.
What precautions did you take to prevent STIs and pregnancy? (Check all that apply) Withdrawal, Birth control pill / patch / ring / injection / implant
What were your motives for this hookup? Fun, pleasure, horniness, Just happened, I don't know why, just went along with it
How intoxicated were you? Drunk/high but not wasted
How intoxicated was your partner? Drunk/high but not wasted
How wanted was this hookup for you at the time? Somewhat
How wanted was this hookup for your partner at the time? I don't know / I'm not sure
To whom did you talk about the hookup? How did they react? Nobody
Did your partner get emotionally hurt as a result of this hookup? I don't know / I'm not sure
Do you regret this hookup? A little bit
Why do you regret this hookup? I regretted it a bit at the time but looking back now it made me realize how good the relationship I had was and it was two years before I had another one night stand, much less impressive!
What was the BEST thing about this hookup? The horniness of both of us, it was incredible.
What was the WORST thing about this hookup? Knowing it wouldn't happen again.
Has this hookup changed the way you think about casual sex, sexuality, or yourself in general? Yes. I think casual sex can be good for a relationship. Having sex with the same person for 30 years can't keep both people happy all of the time. Being committed to a person and being faithful to a person need to be separated more.
All things considered, how POSITIVE was this experience? Fairly positive
What are your thoughts on casual sex more generally, the role it has played in your life, and/or its role in society? What would you like to see changed in that regard? As above
What do you think about the Casual Sex Project? Excellent idea, it is great to be able to share the stories anonymously that you can't tell your friends about.
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48 foreground recordings and 0 background recordings of Dysithamnus occidentalis . Total recording duration 34:32.
Foraging bird in the rain. Humid-wet forest. Reference: CXXXIIIB 508-526, 564-567 (Dysocc5). Krabbe & Nilsson (2003) (ISBN 90-75838-06-9). Filtered version on Moore et al. (2013) (http://johnvmoorenaturerecordings.com/pubs/ECUAD/main.htm).


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Ginger is a popular seasoning for foods in many different cuisines.
In China and Southeast Asia where it probably originated, it has also been put to a range of medicinal purposes. It is considered good for the digestion and beneficial against congestion.
One of our favorite home remedies for colds is a cup of ginger tea: Peel a piece of fresh ginger root about the size of your thumb and grate it into a cup.
Pour boiling water over it and steep for five minutes. Strain the liquid into another cup, sweeten to taste with honey, and enjoy the spicy flavor. It does make one feel better, at least for an hour or two.
More research has been conducted on the ability of ginger to prevent motion sickness than on any other aspect of its use. The part of the plant used is the rhizome ("root").
The primary active ingredients in ginger are the "pungent principles" that give the plant its special aroma and flavor. These are gingerols and shogaols, gingerdiones and zingerone.
The composition of the volatile oil differs in roots from different locations, however. Zingiberene, ar-curcumene, and bisabolene usually predominate, but gingers from Australia and Japan contain more geranial (citral a) and neral (citral b), with the Australian ginger also carrying camphor and b-phellandrene.
Chinese fishermen have known for centuries that ginger can stave off seasickness. In the last few decades, this has been confirmed by scientific studies.
In one, ginger (administered in capsules of 940 mg), Dramamine (100 mg), and a placebo (chickweed) were compared for their ability to keep susceptible subjects from becoming nauseated while seated on a spinning chair.
Ginger did better than Dramamine, surprising many physicians. Not all of the subsequent research has led to the same conclusions, but several investigations support these findings.
Another study took place on a passenger cruise ship on rough seas. In this double-blind study, ginger (500 mg every four hours) was equally effective as Dramamine (100 mg every four hours).
Ginger proved significantly better than placebo for a group of naval cadets on a sailing ship in heavy seas and also proved its value in a test conducted among tourist volunteers on a whale-watching cruise.
It is believed that ginger exerts its antinausea properties directly on the gastrointestinal tract, rather than through the central nervous system as most of the familiar motion-sickness medications do.
Ginger has been studied for its ability to prevent nausea and vomiting in other situations.
In two separate investigations of women undergoing gynecological surgery, ginger given before the operation reduced postoperative nausea significantly compared to placebo. The prescription drug metoclopramide (Reglan) was equivalent to ginger in effectiveness.
This property may explain the popularity of ginger ale as a home remedy for nausea in America decades ago, when the beverage actually contained more than trace amounts of ginger. If you can find real ginger ale, 12 ounces is enough to prevent motion sickness and presumably may help ease nausea from other causes as well.
Ginger has also been used in folk medicine for indigestion and to pep up the appetite and get saliva flowing.
It is reputed to prevent flatulence if included in a meal, such as beans, that might cause gas.
In animal studies, shogaol increases the activity of the digestive tract when it is given by mouth.
Extracts containing shogaol and the gingerols can make animal's hearts beat more strongly (cardiotonic) and reduce pain and fever.
Animal studies also show that these compounds can suppress coughs.
Ginger is known to block to some extent the manufacture of prostaglandins in the body. It is reputed to lower cholesterol and keep blood platelets from clumping together.
In addition, a closely related herb, Z. capitatum, which is sometimes used in place of ginger, contains an interferon-like compound that can stimulate immune system activity.
Minimum dose for an adult is 250 mg. Doses of 500 mg and 940 mg have been used in clinical trials for motion sickness.
For motion sickness, ginger should be taken at least half an hour before departure. It is most effective at preventing nausea and does not work well at calming it once it has begun.
The dose may be repeated every four hours, to a maximum adult dose of approximately 4 gm a day. Candied or fresh ginger might be substituted, but the dose could be difficult to calculate.
German authorities recommend that pregnant women avoid ginger. Despite its ability to prevent nausea, they state that the herb should not be used for morning sickness.
Components of ginger triggered mutations in bacteria in some tests. In addition, ginger's ability to prevent prostaglandin synthesis and possibly increase bleeding could make it a dangerous drug for a woman in labor.
Ginger is said to increase bile acid secretion. This is the reason people with gallstones or gallbladder disease are advised to avoid the herb unless supervised by a doctor.
Like many commonly used culinary herbs, ginger has very few side effects. In clinical trials, heartburn was reported rarely. A few people may develop an allergy to ginger, but this is uncommon.
Ginger is said to increase the absorption of other drugs taken with it, but this property does not appear to have been studied extensively, if at all.
Ginger can prolong the amount of time an animal sleeps when given a barbiturate. Because the herb has no detectable effects on the central nervous system itself, the most logical explanation is that it increases the absorption of the sleeping pill.
Because ginger inhibits prostaglandin synthesis and reduces platelet aggregation, caution should be exercised in combining it with other medications that prevent clotting, such as Coumadin, aspirin, Plavix, or Ticlid. The combination could result in unexpected bleeding.
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Recently had gallblatter removed will ginger help bile production in liver?
I appreciate the in depth and detailed information given about the usage and dosage of the different forms of Ginger. I have Gallstones of which a sonagram exposes a several months back but I've been one of the lucky ones not to have been bothered by their presence … I like Ginger and was considering purchasing some to make a tea but the study on Ginger, revealed it could increase problems with the Gallbladder, especially if Gallstones were already present. Keep up the good work! Thank you!


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I got to sleep pretty early last night, definitely before 9. I was incredibly warm and comfortable in my quilt, socks, balaclava, and thin liner gloves. It was a cold night, so I put on the extra layers, and shoved my other clothes into the foot box of my quilt to keep them warm and dry. I did ditch the gloves halfway through the night as it was getting a little too warm, but otherwise I was very cozy. I had to get up first thing though as I really needed to go to the bathroom. It was barely light out, even though I knew the sun was rising, because of the clouds. After finishing business, I hopped back into my tent and got ready carefully, trying not to shake off any of the condensation inside onto my things.
When I got back out of my tent, I saw some blue sky in the distance and light pink clouds. My tent was also much drier on the outside than I anticipated. It must have stopped raining well before the sun rose. I packed the tent up, and walked back to the trail. I was hiking in most of my layers, like I had been the last 2 days. My shirt, thermal layer with my hood pulled up, rain jacket, shorts, and rain pants on top of those. Plus, my liner gloves and waterproof mitts over them. Even though the sun was starting to come out, the foliage lining the trail was dripping wet, and the rain pants and jacket kept me from getting wet when I brushed up against them. I got pretty warm though as the morning went on since the sun was out and I was climbing. At one point, I shed all my layers except for shirt & thermal top. It felt freeing to finally have my legs move normally and not hear the swishing noise of the rain pants with every step.
The weather was pretty erratic however, and eventually I needed to put my rain layers back on because it started raining again. Of course, the rain came to a halt when I reached a wide open area, and found 2 other hikers there: McGuyver (different than the desert one), and Windy. I briefly met them when I arrived at the cabin yesterday, but they left shortly after I got there. We chatted for a bit, and I seized on the opportunity of intermittent sun to pull my tent out and let it dry completely, and took off my shoes & socks to see if they could dry at all too. I cooked up a packet of ramen for lunch and sat enjoying the warmth of the sun, and glowering every time the clouds moved back over it. Once my tent was fully dry, I packed up again and got moving, which was a good idea too, since it started raining again within 10 minutes of me leaving my lunch spot. I donned all of my rain gear again and went off.
I reached a spring and filtered some water, only what I needed though, as it was raining pretty hard at this point. It's not exactly fun sitting in the rain while filtering water. The whole experience is just very wet. It didn't help that the place the spring was in was a muddy, trampled meadow. My feet got even more wet. After some more steep up & downs and a few more miles of hiking, I came upon a large gravel road and saw Windy on the other side. I went over to take cover from the weirdly sunny drizzle to check guthooks to see where I was and how far I needed to keep going to camp, when a truck with huge UW stickers on it rolled up. 2 people hopped out and asked us if we'd seen Moses, another hiker. I'd never met him, but they told us they were going to do trail magic! And to think I almost walked away.
Little Rabbit and Codex were their names. They'd been hiking on the trail this year, but had to get off due to injuries. They'd been hiking with Moses, and wanted to do some trail magic for him. The more hikers that showed up in the meantime, the better! They were incredible. I chatted with Little Rabbit about UW (she's an alumnae as well) in the warm truck, while Codex cooked up grilled cheeses and coffee in the back. It was raining pretty hard during this time, and Windy & McGuyver sat in the car w me and Little Rabbit. All of us were talking about the trail, getting warm and dry while eating grilled cheese and drinking coffee. This was a pretty incredible surprise!
After an hour of hanging out, the clouds seemed to part and the rain stopped. I seized this clearing as an opportunity to start hiking again, but not before trying to ascertain whether my shoes had been delivered. Knowing I had done all I could with REI, I called the hotel I'll be staying at, where they were supposed to be delivered to, to see if they could look for me. I was met with a very unhelpful man, who claimed to have "800 hiker boxes" in their back room, and who would not look to see if my package was there. I explained that I believed the package was lost, and was trying to check, but he firmly stated he wouldn't look until I arrived tomorrow. I asked if he could tell me which post office was the local one so I could call to see if the package had been delivered to their P.O. Box, and he said "there is no local post office. The hotel is the P.O. box". Realizing I was not going to be getting anywhere with this unhelpful man, who was now flat out lying to me, I thanked him and told him I'd see him tomorrow. I'd heard this hotel has mixed reviews about friendliness towards hikers, but I knew that when I got there tomorrow, I'd have to "kill them with kindness" so to speak. I also knew that my package from REI had no more scans today, so hoped they'd keep to their word and overnight shoes like they said they would. If not, I can probably squeeze a few more miles out of them and have them sent to Steven's Pass, where things seem a bit more organized and helpful.
After thanking my wonderful trail angels, I left the road at 5, with 5 more miles to hike to my hopeful campsite. I had a bit of a climb after leaving the road, but after that, it was mostly flat and downhill to the creek where I'd be camping by. It started raining lightly again during my hike, and I hustled to get to camp before it really started raining. Luckily, I was successful, and got my tent set up within minutes, carefully pulling things inside, making sure to keep essentials dry. I made my dinner from the tent, and got ready for bed. It doesn't sound like it's raining anymore. It doesn't really matter if it does or not, because I'll be getting to the pass tomorrow, and will be able to dry out all of my things when I get into my room. Hopefully, all of my packages will be there and I'll be able to check in early, but I won't be holding my breath!


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