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Published in Lantern Theater Company: Searchlight

·Feb 28

Artist Interview: Playwrights Jeremy Kareken and David Murrell

The LIFESPAN OF A FACT writers talk about collaboration, play development, and the power of theater — The Lifespan of a Fact by Jeremy Kareken, David Murrell, and Gordon Farrell — onstage at Lantern Theater Company February 2 through March 5, 2023 — was several years in the making — or several decades, depending upon your definition. Longtime collaborators David Murrell and Jeremy Kareken began writing the…

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Artist Interview: Playwrights Jeremy Kareken and David Murrell
Artist Interview: Playwrights Jeremy Kareken and David Murrell
Theatre

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Published in Lantern Theater Company: Searchlight

·Feb 21

Artist Interview: Actors Ian Merrill Peakes and Trevor William Fayle

A conversation with the sparring partners at the center of THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT — In The Lifespan of a Fact by Jeremy Kareken, David Murrell, and Gordon Farrell — onstage at Lantern Theater Company February 2 through March 5, 2023 — an essayist and a fact checker go head-to-head over the nature of truth in art. Lantern dramaturg Meghan Winch sat down with the…

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Artist Interview: Actors Ian Merrill Peakes and Trevor William Fayle
Artist Interview: Actors Ian Merrill Peakes and Trevor William Fayle
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Published in Lantern Theater Company: Searchlight

·Feb 15

“The ones that are left”: The Decline of Traditional Media

For magazine editor Emily Penrose, the stakes of THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT could be a publication’s life or death — “The whole industry is falling down around me,” laments Emily Penrose, the beleaguered magazine editor at the center of the debate in Jeremy Kareken, David Murrell, and Gordon Farrell’s The Lifespan of a Fact, onstage at Lantern Theater Company February 2 through March 5, 2023. While essayist John D’Agata and…

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“The ones that are left”: The Decline of Traditional Media
“The ones that are left”: The Decline of Traditional Media
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Published in Lantern Theater Company: Searchlight

·Feb 8

QUIZ: Stretching the Truth

How much do you know about writers who have blurred fact and fiction? Take our quiz and find out! — The Lifespan of a Fact by Jeremy Kareken, David Murrell, and Gordon Farrell — onstage at Lantern Theater Company February 2 through March 5, 2023 — is a semi-true story inspired by the actual debate between John D’Agata, an essayist, and Jim Fingal, the fact checker assigned to verify his…

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QUIZ: Stretching the Truth
QUIZ: Stretching the Truth
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Published in Lantern Theater Company: Searchlight

·Jan 31

“I’m not interested in accuracy; I’m interested in truth”: Facts or fiction?

From the dawn of recorded history, we have debated about what truths to tell, and how — “I want you preoccupied with art in this book, not with facts for the sake of facts.” Essayist John D’Agata draws that line in the sand between facts and art in the preface to The Next American Essay (A New History of the Essay), the first book in his three-volume…

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“I’m not interested in accuracy; I’m interested in truth”: Facts or fiction?
“I’m not interested in accuracy; I’m interested in truth”: Facts or fiction?
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Published in Lantern Theater Company: Searchlight

·Jan 26

“I will tell you the facts to the best of my ability”: Fact Checking in THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT

Exploring the facts-first side of the play’s central debate — Here are the facts: In The Lifespan of a Fact by Jeremy Kareken, David Murrell, and Gordon Farrell — onstage at Lantern Theater Company February 2 through March 5, 2023 — an essayist and a fact checker do battle over truth and authenticity, art and information, transcendence and honesty. They…

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“I will tell you the facts to the best of my ability”: Fact Checking in THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT
“I will tell you the facts to the best of my ability”: Fact Checking in THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT
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Published in Lantern Theater Company: Searchlight

·Dec 6, 2022

Artist Interview: Director Zuhairah McGill

The director of THE ROYALE talks about the play and the history that inspired it — Marco Ramirez’s The Royale — onstage at Lantern Theater Company now through December 11, 2022 — is a play that resonates with the percussive rhythms of the boxing ring and the syncopation of jazz. To bring it to vibrant life, the Lantern turned to Zuhairah McGill, an award-winning director, actor…

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Artist Interview: Director Zuhairah McGill
Artist Interview: Director Zuhairah McGill
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Published in Lantern Theater Company: Searchlight

·Nov 30, 2022

Reconstruction, Segregation, and Racial Violence at the Turn of the 20th Century

THE ROYALE is set in a time when hard-won progress was being violently undone — Marco Ramirez’s The Royale — onstage at Lantern Theater Company now through December 11, 2022 — is set in the earliest years of the 1900s. While a new century was beginning, the reverberations of the previous one were rumbling through the U.S. While Jack Johnson was boxing his way to…

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Reconstruction, Segregation, and Racial Violence at the Turn of the 20th Century
Reconstruction, Segregation, and Racial Violence at the Turn of the 20th Century
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Published in Lantern Theater Company: Searchlight

·Nov 22, 2022

Artist Interview: Actor Phillip Brown

THE ROYALE actor on the joys, challenges, and opportunities of this unique and moving production — “To be a good actor, I believe it’s the most sacrificial art form. You have to give all of your mind, body, soul, and spirit,” says Phillip Brown, star of Marco Ramirez’s The Royale — onstage at Lantern Theater Company now through December 11, 2022. And according to Brown, the…

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Artist Interview: Actor Phillip Brown
Artist Interview: Actor Phillip Brown
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Published in Lantern Theater Company: Searchlight

·Nov 16, 2022

Meet the Playwright: Marco Ramirez

The award-winning writer who brought Jay Jackson’s story to life in THE ROYALE — In an interview with Stay Thirsty Magazine, playwright Marco Ramirez said, “For me, the magic of theater is in the imagined space between audience and performance. I’m not impressed when an actor sits on a fancy throne on a stage. I’m impressed when an actor sits on a stool and…

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Meet the Playwright: Marco Ramirez
Meet the Playwright: Marco Ramirez
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