Uranium Madhouse Blog

Uranium Madhouse announces auditions for Conversation Storm, by Rick Burkhardt. Burkhardt is the co-creator of Three Pianos, which recently ran to great acclaim at New York Theater Workshop. Wall Street Journal Review of Three Pianos New York Times Review of Three Pianos Conversation Storm was awarded the Best New Play award at the San Francisco […]

Look what my UM 9 Muse-tracking Google Alert dragged in today, from Yahoo Answers: My daughter is OBSESSED with this band called ‘ Blink 182…? ‘. Is this bad? I don’t know if this is an unhealthy obsession. Her obsessiveness includes the 100 posters on her wall of these guys ( Yes I counted ). […]

Uranium Madhouse Advisory Board Member Elisa Carlson was interviewed at length about her work as a speech coach on a film called Ana’s Playground. Not only did she coach speech on the film, but she actually created a language, as the director did not want the characters to be tied to a specific locale. The […]

Uranium Madhouse Muse Miranda July wowed us with her first feature, “Me and You and Everyone We Know”, and she wowed the film world too, taking home an award at the Cannes Film Festival. Her new movie “The Future” just opened at the Sundance Film Festival, it sounds indietastic: The story of a mid-30s couple […]

I am very excited to announce the latest addition to the Uranium Madhouse Advisory Board, Matthew McCray, artistic director of the acclaimed Son of Semele Ensemble here in Los Angeles. Matthew McCray is the Founding Artistic Director of Son of Semele Ensemble. A multi-faceted artist in many theatrical disciplines, Matthew enjoys working professionally throughout the […]

In light of our upcoming production of Conversation Storm, which deals with torture and America’s involvement with it, we are keeping an eye on major stories that have a torture angle. And it doesn’t get any more major than Egypt. The distinguished investigative journalist Jane Mayer, in her 2009 book, The Dark Side: The Inside […]

Uranium Madhouse Muse Thomas Bernhard expresses himself with characteristic acerbity on his vocation and his mother tongue: Whatever you write it’s always a catastrophe. That’s the depressing thing about the fate of a writer. One can never put on paper what one thought of or imagined. That gets lost when it is put onto paper. […]