'The Cradle Will Rock'
Now and then, I get the impulse to see a show not because of the play, the plot, the writers, the company, the actors, the director, or even the theater. ‘ What’s left, then?’ you ask. The historical...
View ArticleDispatches from Israel 2
by Helen Kaye[When Helen Eleasari offered to send me the journal of her trip to Berlin (see ROT, 22 July), she also offered some recent reviews from her job at the Jerusalem Post. (Helen, as readers...
View Article“A Storyteller, from the Inside”
by Emily Wax[The article below, by Emily Wax, a staff reporter for the Washington Post’s “Style” sectionwho’soriginally from Queens, New York, was originally published in the Post on 8 June 2013 (sec....
View ArticleDavid Mamet On Acting & Directing
For a while I was on the mailing list for a magazine called LA Stage. (I don’t know how I got on the list, but I certainly never paid for a subscription—it just came. Subtitled “Southern California’s...
View Article'Romance' (2005)
[Having said my piece about “David Mamet on Acting & Directing” (16 August), I thought it would only be fair to post my 2005 report on the Atlantic Theater Company’s world première of the...
View ArticleRatner Museum
It’s been a long time since I wrote about an art exhibit as part of one of my periodic theater reports. (I think the last one was on Joan Miró: The Ladder of Escape at the National Gallery of Art in...
View ArticlePulling Wagons and Playing in Sand
My mother moved about 10 months ago and I went to help her. I actually arrived on the day she vacated her old apartment, the day before her possessions were loaded into her new one, so I wasn’t around...
View Article'Washington Art Matters'
The American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, a gallery my mom and I used to visit periodically because it’s right near where she used to live, spotlighted the art of my hometown this...
View ArticleThe Theater Experience
[While I was in the Washington area recently, I spotted a short article in the Washington Post that laid out the backstage process of mounting a stage production. Though aimed at children, the...
View Article"Strange Requests"
by Louis Phillips[Louis Phillips is a widely published poet, playwright, and short story writer who focuses extensively on works for children.This column was originally published in Playbill: The...
View ArticleMovicals
On 25 August 1980, the new stage musical 42nd Streetopened on Broadway, launching a frequently successful new trend in commercial musical theater: the stage-musical adaptation of films (some originally...
View ArticleActing: Testimony & Role vs. Character
[When I was shadowing Leonardo Shapiro, the late innovative and experimental theater director, while he was directing and teaching, and interviewing him about his work, I learned that among his...
View ArticleCreative Dramatics
by Kirk Woodward[My friend and frequent contributor to ROT, Kirk Woodward, is chiming again with a new consideration on an aspect of theater. Drawing on his long experience as a teacher of theater and...
View Article'Torch Song Trilogy'
I happened to be visiting my mother in Bethesda in September when she and a friend had tickets for the Studio Theatre revival of Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song Trilogy, so I joined them for the Saturday...
View Article'The Old Friends'
Billed as a world première, the Signature Theatre Company’s production of Horton Foote’s The Old Friends, which opened in the Irene Diamond Stage at the Pershing Square Signature Center on Theatre Row...
View Article'Julius Caesar' (Donmar Warehouse)
I hadn’t been to St. Ann’s Warehouse in DUMBO since March 2012 when I saw the Wooster Group-New York City Players collaboration, Eugene O’Neill’s Early Plays, but on Friday evening, 4 October, my...
View ArticleAn Interview with Eve Adamson (Part 1)
[On 3 April 2002, I conducted a telephone interview with the late Eve Adamson, then former artistic director of the Jean Cocteau Repertory Theatre of New York City. I’d been asked to do the interview...
View ArticleAn Interview with Eve Adamson (Part 2)
[Part 2 of my 2002 interview with the late Eve Adamson, former founding artistic director of the Jean Cocteau Repertory Theatre, picks up right where Part 1 left off. (If you haven’t read the first...
View Article“Exhibit Unravels Mysteries of Ancient Chinese Temples Through History, Science”
Reported by Jeffery Brown[An art exhibit at the Smithsonian in Washington brought together art, history and science to solve the mysteries of Chinese temples that date back to the 6th century. This...
View Article“Draft: The Essay, An Exercise In Doubt”
by Phillip Lopate [As Phillip Lopate says in the opening words of his article below, a column from the New York Times blog, “Opinionator” on 16 February, I’m an essayist. I can’t help it, I guess: I...
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