The Common Air
One-person shows are a risky business that generally feel more like a showcase for the artist rather than a play for the audience. The Common Air is a one-man show that rises above this common pitfall, delivering a commentary on America through a selection of engaging characters brought together in conversation while being held under what turns out to be a false alarm.
Alex Lyras (the one-man) deftly creates six separate characters: an optimistic, immigrant cabdriver, an art dealer battling with a life-changing decision, a quick-talking lawyer, a hapless DJ, a Texas professor with son in tow, and an American of Iraqi descent who has just returned from his first journey to the country of his birth.
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One-person shows are a risky business that generally feel more like a showcase for the artist rather than a play for the audience. The Common Air is a one-man show that rises above this common pitfall, delivering a commentary on America through a selection of engaging characters brought together in conversation while being held under what turns out to be a false alarm.
Alex Lyras (the one-man) deftly creates six separate characters: an optimistic, immigrant cabdriver, an art dealer battling with a life-changing decision, a quick-talking lawyer, a hapless DJ, a Texas professor with son in tow, and an American of Iraqi descent who has just returned from his first journey to the country of his birth.
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- 6/18/2010
- by C. Jefferson Thom
- www.culturecatch.com
The Common Air, written by Alex Lyras and Robert McCaskill, features Alex Lyras portraying 6 diverse characters caught in an airport delay. The comedy, with an original score and sound design composed by Ken Rich, opens Friday, November 6th at 8 Pm at 45 Bleecker Street Theatre and plays every Friday at 8 pm through December 18th (with an additional performance on Wednesday, December 30 at 8 Pm).
- 10/20/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
New York -- Tribeca Film Institute is giving the daughter of Sundance Institute founder Robert Redford and others a handout, all in the name of science.
Amy Redford's Hedy Lamarr biopic, "Face Value," and the homemade-nuke tale "The Radioactive Boy Scout" from director Greg Harrison ("Groove") and producer William Horberg took home $40,000 each toward their development from the inaugural Tfi Sloan Filmmaker Fund.
Three biopics also received $10,000 awards supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for work that projects science into cinema. Profiles of Thomas Edison ("Alva" from screenwriters Alex Lyras and Michael Dorian), Marie Curie ("A Noble Affair," from producer Anil Baral and screenwriter Kathryn Maughan) and the Wright Bros. (Tim Kirkman's "Kitty Hawk," with producers including Gill Holland) will each be supported.
Selection committee members included Darren Aronofsky, Steven Shainberg, Caroline Baron, Ann Druyan ("Contact"), Columbia University's Darcy B. Kelley and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center CEO Harold Varmus.
Amy Redford's Hedy Lamarr biopic, "Face Value," and the homemade-nuke tale "The Radioactive Boy Scout" from director Greg Harrison ("Groove") and producer William Horberg took home $40,000 each toward their development from the inaugural Tfi Sloan Filmmaker Fund.
Three biopics also received $10,000 awards supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for work that projects science into cinema. Profiles of Thomas Edison ("Alva" from screenwriters Alex Lyras and Michael Dorian), Marie Curie ("A Noble Affair," from producer Anil Baral and screenwriter Kathryn Maughan) and the Wright Bros. (Tim Kirkman's "Kitty Hawk," with producers including Gill Holland) will each be supported.
Selection committee members included Darren Aronofsky, Steven Shainberg, Caroline Baron, Ann Druyan ("Contact"), Columbia University's Darcy B. Kelley and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center CEO Harold Varmus.
- 10/28/2008
- by By Gregg Goldstein
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- A little cash can go a long way when developing a screenplay, and if you happen to be working on anything related to “stories about science and technology or portray scientists, engineers and mathematicians as major characters” then a hand over from the Tribeca Film Institute’s Tfi Sloan Filmmaker Fund should be among your priorities. Today a jury comprised of Darren Aronofsky, Steven Shainberg, producer Caroline Baron, producer/writer Ann Druyan and a couple of profs and doctors selected the recipients of some financial and creative support. Among the project we find some familiar names including Amy Redford who has The Guitar coming out in November, and speaking of in November, Greg Harrison directed Courtney Cox in a film going by just that title and finally Tim Kirkman last directed Loggerheads for a very small theatrical run in 2005. The five selected projects selected received a sum of either
- 10/28/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
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