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Joe Calarco

Joe Calarco 

SIGNATURE: Walter Cronkite is Dead. (writer/director), Assassins (Helen Hayes Award), Urinetown (Helen Hayes Award), Sideshow (Helen Hayes Award), Nijinsky's Last Dance (Helen Hayes Award), NestThe Boy Detective Fails, writer of eight Signature in the Schools plays.

OFF-BROADWAY: Playwrights Horizons: The Burnt Part Boys, Floyd and Clea Under the Western Sky; Primary Stages: In Transit (Drama Desk Award nomination), Boy; Second Stage: in the absence of spring (writer/director); The Transport Group: Bury The Dead, The Audience (contributing book writer), Shakespeare's R&J (adaptor/director, Lucille Lortel Award).

NATIONAL TOUR: Ring of Fire. REGIONAL: The Old Globe: LincolnesqueThe Glass Menagerie; Barrington Stage Company: The Mysteries of Harris Burdick (book writer/director), The Memory Show; 11th Hour Theatre Company: Ordinary Days (Barrymore Award)Philadelphia Theatre Co.:The Light in the Piazza (Barrymore Award), The Last Five Years, ElegiesM. Butterfly. Executive Board SDC. Associate Artistic Director Breaking Bread Theatre.

The letters R & J painted on a brick sidewalk.
Essay

Eroticizing Gender in Shakespeare’s R&J

An Interview with Joe Calarco

27 February 2013

A conversation about the implications and discoveries made when putting Romeo and Juliet in the frame of a same-sex relationship.

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