The Chinese-built ship is 567 feet long and equipped with four towering hydraulic cranes. And, apparently, it’s the sort of thing that really makes an impression when you see it up close. Composer Michael Friedman and playwright Steven Cosson saw it...

Immensity, at Kansas City Repertory Theatre’s Copaken Stage, February 17-March 18. The Great Immensity is presented by Kansas City Rep and The Civilians, the center for investigative theatre led by Founding Artistic Director Steve Cosson. Written and...

Directed by Mark Rucker on a simple yet stunningly effective unit set designed by Erik Flatmo, Perloff's play revolves around the following characters: Michael Friedman is a very aggressive architectural celebrity, the kind of workaholic who is...

Mark Rucker's taut direction and graceful performances by Andrew Polk as celeb architect Michael Friedman and René Augesen as his tremulous rival and lover Elena show off the play's good bones, although the ensemble is less successful at finding the...

"Overdoses involving prescription painkillers are at epidemic levels and now kill more Americans than heroin and cocaine combined," according to Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).[1] Although some...

Mason St. Lucerne was represented by Darien-based Signature Group, with the building owner’s negotiations handled by Tedesco Realty Associates. More than four years after being slapped with a massive penalty in a high-profile pharmaceutical marketing...

For more insights on the process of the play and the company, I turned yesterday to the show's 36-year-old composer, Michael Friedman. A Chestnut Hill native (and Germantown Friends grad) who didn't go to Penn but "has friends who went and teach...

However, there was also a recognition that good teaching is not just test scores, but student work throughout the year. Michael Friedman Manhattan: In 1984, I shared the maternity ward in Lenox Hill Hospital with Mick and Bianca Jagger. There was no...

by Trowbridge H. Ford When the 'shock and awe' campaign against Saddam Hussein started in Iraq, all kinds of security services knew that there would be devastating blowback because of all the propaganda that had been used to justify it, especially that h

A love for labor drove American theater in the 1930s (a la playwright Clifford Odets) and the Brits of the 1950s (think John Osborne) with scripts devoted to hardball union discussions, social woes and wages. Making it musical is now the job of The...

We hear from some of the key players on both sides of the fight, passionately discussing topics like gentrification, what makes a neighborhood, change, affordable housing, and more. This week features Jennifer R. Morris as Jezra Kaye, a member of...

People living with Alzheimer's or other dementias often have mental health problems -- especially depression and anxiety disorders -- as well as dementia. Memories they have always relied on become hazy and uncertain. Knowledge and skills cultivated...

The piece will feature monologues and songs by Michael Friedman crafted from Civilians' artists interviews with demonstrators about the movement's recent events, including the mass police action that cleared the protests out of Zuccotti Park and what...

The weekend was like a sleepover edition of Emeril Live where, in between sets, audience members enjoy cucumber vodka spritzers by the pool and make friendship bracelets. Wilson and Benjamin also organized a few low-key workshops: Michael Friedman,...

Ashby Jones Back in 2007, three executives at Purdue Pharma were convicted of a criminal misdemeanor for serving as “responsible corporate officers” of a company that misbranded Oxycontin, an addictive painkiller. Former CEO Michael Friedman, general...

20 prominent speakers, including Dr Raymond Choy, co-founder and Honorary Treasurer, Asian Licensing, and keynote luncheon speaker Dr Mao Jinsheng, Director-General, Intellectual Property Development & Research Centre, in the mainland's State IP...

court a friend of the Doherty family, who requested not to be named, said the tragic outcome of the shooting was more the result of a rampant drug culture. ‘‘It was one big set of tragic circumstances,’’ she said. ‘‘It’s the result of the drug culture - this is just a typical example.’’ Michael Friedman said the shooting has shattered his family, but his thoughts were with the Doherty family. ‘‘There’s a family who’s lost a son,’’ he said. ‘‘I beat myself up about it every day.’’ Of the drug culture, Mr Friedman said it amounts to nothing more than death. ‘‘They were in already shocking circumstances