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JOE CALARCO |
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Nationality: n/a Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Sendroff & Baruch LP |
Joe Calarco is the adaptor/director ofShakespeare's R&J which ran for a year in New York and earned him a Lucille Lortel Award. He also directed the play's premieres in Chicago (5 Jeff Award nominations including Best Play and Best Director) and Washington, D.C. (Helen Hayes Award nominations for Best Play and Best Director).R&J completed a celebrated run on London's West End in late 2003. He directed the critically acclaimed world premiere of the musical Sarah, Plain and Tall at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in New York. He also directed Julia Jordan's The Summer of the Swans at the Lucille Lortel, and directed Ms. Jordan's play Boy at Primary Stages. He is an Artistic Associate at Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, where he directed the world premiere of Norman Allen's Nijinsky's Last Dance (4 Helen Hayes Awards including Best Play and Best Director), Side Show (4 Helen Hayes Awards including Best Musical and Best Director), and the world premiere of . . .in the absence of spring. . ., which premiered in New York at Second Stage under his own direction. Other regional directing credits include: The Last Five Years (Philadelphia Theatre Company, Barrymore nomination),A Midsummer Night's Dream (The Shakespeare Theatre), My Fair Lady, Edward II, Suddenly Last Summer, To Kill A Mockingbird, Keely & Du, Educating Rita, How I Got That Story, Goodnight Desdemona, Goodmorning Juliet, Babes In Arms, and Godspell. He served as resident playwright at Expanded Arts, Inc. for two years. He is one of New York Theatre Workshop's "usual suspects," a Drama League directing fellow, and has been a Joseph Papp artist in residence at Second Stage. He is a graduate of Ithaca College.
Plays by Joe Calarco
Holding Pattern | ||
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Synopsis: | The lives of various people at an airport bar. | |||||
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in the absence of spring | ||
| 1st Produced: | Signature Theatre (Arlington, VA, United States) | 2000 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Playscripts, Inc - New York | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #50043 | |||
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Genre: | 115-125 min Play/Drama. - - Gay, theme/character full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | 3 males, 4 females | |||||
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Synopsis: | On the seventh anniversary of the bombing of an airliner, the loved ones of the victims are still trying to move on with their lives. Throughout a 24-hour period on a frigid spring day in New York, these strangers' lives interconnect and finally collide, taking them on a phantasmagoric journey toward closure. | |||||
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Isolated Incidents | ||
| 1st Produced: | Duality Playhouse, New York | - - - | ||||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #65862 | |||
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Jason and Marty Get Laid | ||
| 1st Produced: | Duality Playhouse, New York | - - - | ||||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #65863 | |||
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Last Days Of Cleopatra, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Page to Stage Festival. John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, DC, USA >>> | 2008 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #88683 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
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Notes: | Original Book, Music, And Lyrics By Charlie Barnett, Reworked Book By Joe Calarco | |||||
Synopsis: | This New Musical Details The Infamous Love Affair Between Elizabeth Taylor And Richard Burton On The Set Of The '60S Film Fiasco. The Stuff That Scripts Are Made Of--As Liz And Dick Curse And Caress Their Way Into History. . . | |||||
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Party Talk | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #65864 | |||
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School Daze | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #65865 | |||
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Shakespeare's R & J | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theatre Royal Bath, London | 2003 | ||||
Company: | The Splinter Group (New York) | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #5684 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation. - - Gay, theme/character, full length | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Shakespeare - Romeo And Juliet | |||||
Synopsis: | Four young prep school students, tired of going through the usual drill of conjugating Latin and other tedious school routines, decide to vary their very governed lives. After school, one breaks out a copy of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juiliet and they all take turns reading the play aloud. The Bard's words and the story itself are thrilling to the boys and they become swept away, enmeshed in the emotion so much so that they break school rules in order to continue their readings. The rigidity of their lives begins to parallel the lives of the characters in the play: roles in the family, roles in society and the roles played by men and women soon seem to make all the sense in the world, and then, suddenly, they seem to make no sense at all. Although they had been taking turns playing all the parts, two eventually emerge playing Romeo and Juliet exclusively, bringing a whole new dimension to the proceedings. Perceptions and understanding are turned upside down as the fun of play acting turns serious and th | |||||
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Walter Crokite Is Dead | ||
| 1st Produced: | Oct 2010 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-8222-2552-2 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #120994 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | n a world that seems to be spinning beyond their control, two women find themselves sharing a table, stuck in an airport by a storm. Representing two sides of the culture wars one red state, the other blue state - Margaret and Patty reluctantly strike up a conversation that encourages them to open up, challenge their preconceived notions, and find common ground. | |||||
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