Juniper Tree, Written by Joshua Nathaniel Reid Ollswang

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 3, 2012 Plays

Our friend Brenda Bauer brought this exciting original opera, “Juniper Tree,” to our attention and we would love to share the details with you all as well! As an additional bonus the opera was written and produced by 10,000 Minds Undergraduate Advisory Board Member Joshua Nathaniel Reid Ollswang.

The recruitment and formation of an APsaA Undergraduate Advisory Board (UAB) comprised of undergraduate students came out of an IPA grant aimed to study the most effective ways in which to reach the 10,000 Best Minds of the next generation.

“Juniper Tree” will be performed at Jan Hus Theatre, 351 E. 74th Street, New York, New York on December 12, 14 and 15, at 8pm. Donations will be accepted at the door.

For more information about the Opera, like the cast and a teaser video, please see more below!

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Smile and Be a Villain; Despair and Be One, Too

By Tamar SchwartzSeptember 24, 2012 Plays

Click here to read “Smile and Be a Villain; Despair and Be One, Too” by Patrick Healy from The New York Times on September 20, 2012.

Psychoanalysis meets surrealism in American Stage production

By Tamar SchwartzSeptember 14, 2012 Plays

Click here to read “Psychoanalysis meets surrealism in American Stage production” by Kathy L. Greenberg from Tampa Bay Online on September 14, 2012, which provides a review of Terry Johnson’s play, “Hysteria: Or Fragments of an Analysis of an Obsessional Neurosis.”

Hysteria: Oxford Playhouse

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 30, 2012 Plays

Click here to read “Hysteria: Oxford Playhouse” by Christopher Gray from The Oxford Times on August 29, 2012, which provides a review of Terry Johnson’s Hysteria.

Max Ophuls’s Caught and Edgar Ulmer’s Ruthless: Remarkable postwar films about wealth and power

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 29, 2012 Plays

Click here to read “Max Ophuls’s Caught and Edgar Ulmer’s Ruthless: Remarkable postwar films about wealth and power” by Joanne Laurier from World Socialist Web Site on August 29, 2012.

Tantalising take on Oedipus

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 16, 2012 Plays

Click here to read “Tantalising take on Oedipus” by Chris Boyd from The Australian on August 16, 2012.

Freud, Dali and a truly barmy farce

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 14, 2012 Plays

Click here to read “Freud, Dali and a truly barmy farce” by Quentin Letts from The Daily Mail on August 9, 2012.

Audiences Can Now Analyze Dr. Ruth

By Tamar SchwartzJune 22, 2012 Plays

Click here to read “Audiences Can Now Analyze Dr. Ruth” by Jennifer Schuessler from The New York Times on June 21, 2012.

When Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the sex therapist, met Sigmund Freud on a fateful night in midtown Manhattan, she probably should have known what might happen nine months later. The encounter took place last fall at the New World Stages theater complex, where Dr. Westheimer had just seen “Freud’s Last Session,” the word-of-mouth Off Broadway hit by Mark St. Germain. Afterward she found herself chatting with Martin Rayner, the actor who plays Freud.