The prime of Craig Lucas: penning plays, directing movies--now he's writing the book for a major musical. Is there anything Craig Lucas can't do?"I hate breaking the law," moans New York-based writer Craig Lucas about talking to Noun 1. talking to - a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" lecture, speech rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to The Advocate on his cell phone while driving to a film premiere. Nobody catches him in the act, though. Lately his life is too charmed for that sort of thing. Lucas, who turns 54 on April 30, has enjoyed wide success with plays like the recently revived Reckless and screenplays like the Oscar-nominated Longtime Companion. His personal life is in fine shape too, thanks to a happy six-year relationship. But with all that life behind him, Lucas is peaking only now. He made his film directorial debut at Sundance with The Dying Gaul The Dying Gaul (in Italian: Galata Morente) is an ancient Roman marble copy of a lost ancient Greek statue, thought to have been executed in bronze, that was commissioned some time between 230 BC and 220 BC by Attalos I of Pergamon to honor his victory over the , which he adapted from his own play. His hugely ambitious drama Singing Forest--a 210-minute opus involving Freud, Nazis, gay love, and redemption--was a tilt at the Long Wharf Long Wharf may refer to:
At the moment, all eyes are on The Light in the Piazza, Lucas's first original musical, opening April 18 at Lincoln Center Lincoln Center New York’s modern theater complex. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 1586] See : Theater . A collaboration with lyricist-composer Adam Guettel--a New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of critical favorite who also happens to be the grandson of Richard Rodgers--Piazza stands in stark contrast to this season's broad musical comedies like Spamalot and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Based on a novella novella: see novel. novella Story with a compact and pointed plot, often realistic and satiric in tone. Originating in Italy during the Middle Ages, it was often based on local events; individual tales often were gathered into collections. by Elizabeth Spencer, Piazza tells the delicate story of a mother and daughter vacationing in Florence. The daughter falls for a well-born local Italian boy; the mother wavers between support and resistance; a heartbreaking secret spins the story. Says Lucas: "It seems the perfect paradigm for what all parents and children go through. Letting go, accepting the otherness of who your parents are and who your children are, recognizing that you can't keep them safe and cannot live through their lives. [The story] spoke to me. I felt like I fell into a pot of jam." Lucas is just as enthusiastic about Guettel. "I've always wanted to write something with Stephen Sondheim; we've bounced a few ideas around but never found anything," he says. "But I feel I've found an ideal collaborator in Adam. He's an absolutely meticulous, almost maniacally concentrated, focused, brilliant, adaptable colleague." What happens after Piazza opens? More theater projects, of course. And Lucas also plans to direct another film. Soon. "I loved it, I loved it, I loved it," says Lucas about directing. "I would do it again in a second. I have not always taken the best care of myself or others. I think I've had a reckless life in a way. But since I started directing movies, I have to take better care of myself because you can't help support other people who are having crises if you're not healthy and centered. It's like I found a whole different part of myself, and thank God--I'm 53, almost 54. It's about time It's About Time may refer to:
Read an interview with Peter Sarsgaard, star of Craig Lucas's The Dying Gaul, at www.advocate.com. Giltz is a regular contributor to several periodicals, including the New York Post The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily.[3] Since 1976, it has been owned by Australian-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation and is one of the 10 . |
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