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Last news: July 6, 2008 21:43:51

This letter came to us from Brent Stansell, a graduate student in Dramaturgy at Brooklyn College. With his permission, we are posting it here so that Brent’s proposal to create a new Queer Theatre Collective can reach as many ears as possible. Brent’s contact information is included below. *** To New York Queer Theatre Artists: Are you concerned [...]

NYTheatre.com has posted its FringeNYC Previews; among them is a new interview with Alex DeFazio, author of To Be Loved. Check out the transcript below and be sure to visit NYTheatre.com for more previews! NYTHEATRE: What is your show about and what can audiences expect when they see it? ALEX: To Be Loved is a tragedy about [...]

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Matt Schicker speaks with Jody and Alex about the trials and joys of heading an independent theatre company. Hear what they have to say. Also available as a streaming flash video file.

In addition to directing all of Elixir’s shows and heading the Theatre and Dance Programs at Mercer County Community College, Jody also finds time to take pictures and experiment with video art. Here are six in a series of photographs taken last summer, Abraham and the Webcam.

The Villager’s Jennifer O’Reilly compiled a list of “premium Fringe viewing” by some of NY’s hottest actors, producers, and artistic directors, and Kevin Doyle, playwright and Artistic Director of Sponsored By Nobody, chose To Be Loved! In Kevin’s words: “Alex and (director) Jody are alumnus of Purchase College. Alex is an amazing playwright - I admired [...]

To mark its debut on DVD, Entertainment Weekly’s Mark Harris reflects on the significance of William Friedkin’s Cruising and the firestorm of gay protest surrounding its production and 1980 theatrical release. Harris’ article, “‘Cruising’ For Another Bruising,” can be found at EW.com.

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Everything you want to know about Elixir Productions Theatre Company - all on a single sheet of paper! And now it’s prettier!

It saddens us to report that Richard M. Wood, father of Elixir company actor Michelle Wood, passed away on Sunday. A service will be held this Wednesday from 6:00 - 8:00pm at the Huber-Moore Funeral Home (517 Farnsworth Avenue in Bordentown, NJ). Our thoughts are with Michelle and her family.

This horrifying article comes to us from our friend Queer John. These are sad and infuriating times.

This summer, Elixir company member Nick Chase and comedy partner Roslyn Hart are unleashing their mad creation, Shells, once again in a superbly entertaining show at Joe’s Pub. Michelle “Shells” Haylie Hoffman, the ball-busting J.P. Morgan senior analyst turned downtown darling, returns to Joe’s Pub with a new set of songs, stories, and drop-ins from special [...]

Here are some pictures from the Mercer County Community College production of 7 Sins, produced by Elixir co-founder Jody P. Person and featuring the combined talent of Mercer’s Theatre, Dance, and Entertainment Technology Programs.

Hello All! Below is an updated version of our “official” FAQ. Do you hold auditions? Yes. We prefer to know who we’re auditioning, be it through a previous production of ours, a production of somebody else’s, or by recommendation. But we also do hold open calls - so, if you’re an actor, be on the lookout for bulletins [...]

…to everyone who came out for To Be Loved (Version 2) at the 11th Annual New York International Fringe Festival! The stars truly lined up for this production: We had a dedicated and fabulous company, amazing support from FringeNYC volunteers and staff (special thanks to Elena Holy and Alexa Shaughnessy), a deluge of press (thanks to [...]

Elixir Productions co-founder Jody P. Person and his students in the Theatre Program at Mercer County Community College are featured in the Summer 2007 issue of The Viking, Mercer’s own campus quarterly. Check out the article, “MCCC Theatre Students Challenged to Create Performance ‘Anywhere.’”

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Gay Hollywood: Out of sight?: Almost two years after Brokeback Mountain raked in $178 million worldwide, no major studio has greenlit a single gay film. What is keeping movies in the closet - and what should Hollywood be learning from TV? Dumbledore: A Lovely Outing: Why J.K. Rowling’s revelation is a rare positive sign at a [...]

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It’s been two months since our last production, To Be Loved (Version 1), ended its 4-week run at chashama in NY, and all of us at Elixir are still in recovery. (Thankfully we never ended up in Britney-ville, but there were still plenty of moments when we sat in front of a mirror with hair [...]

Variety editor and reporter Robert Hofler looks at the brief Broadway run of Douglas Carter Beane’s The Little Dog Laughed, which, despite two raves from the Times, closed after only 112 performances. According to Hofler, “the business minds behind Beane’s stage comedy about an in-the-closet movie star clearly were blindsided by the sea change in [...]

Why polaroids in our website’s new headers? Because, like theatre, they’re instant. Because they have a certain roughness, a homemade quality. Because they can be used to invoke the past as well as the present. (The polaroid “frames” harken back to a pre-digital age, even as our use of them is obviously digital). Because, when you pull a polaroid [...]