Mr. Dylan Gets Religion
by Kirk Woodward[This will be Kirk’s fourth post on Bob Dylan, of whom, ROTters will know, he’s a big fan (see “Bob Dylan, Performance Artist,” 8 January 2011; “Bob Dylan at Woodstock – And a New...
View Article"The Festival Where Being a Female Playwright Isn’t a Rarity"
by Jeffrey Brown[I recently posted a series of articles from the Theatre Communications Group’s American Theatre magazine that covered various aspects of theater by America’s indigenous...
View Article"Anna Deavere Smith Puts Herself Into Other People’s Words"
by Anna Deavere Smith[Last week, I posted a report from PBS’s NewsHour on Washington, D.C.’s Women’s Voices Theater Festival, a region-wide collaboration of 25 theaters producing plays by women...
View Article'Who's Who In CIA': A Cold War Relic
The year after my father left the Foreign Service and returned to the U.S., a little book was published in East Berlin. It was entitled Who’s Who in CIA and purported to name everyone who worked for...
View ArticleArt New York 2018
I haven’t been to many art fairs; gallery shows and museum exhibitions, sure—plenty and varied. Even the occasional artist’s studio. I’ve been to the odd county fair that included a sampling of art...
View ArticleMusic Theater Programs for Kids
[Two topics readers of Rick On Theater will know are of major interest to me are arts and theater education for school children and young adults and live music in the theater. I’ve written about them...
View Article'Summer and Smoke' (CSC)
I’m not a full-fledged authority on Tennessee Williams, but I do know good deal about him and some of his plays as the result of several years of work with and for some scholars who are TW experts....
View Article“Tony Season: Equity Is Fighting For #Everyoneonstage”
By Doug Strassler[Frequent readers ofRick On Theater will have noticed recently that I’ve reported on a number of plays which I labeled “ensemble productions.” Ensemble casts and ensemble acting is...
View Article'Paradise Blue'
One of the things I like about subscribing to the Signature Theatre Company’s season is that it’s an easy way to get to see multiple works by playwrights I don’t know. In past years, I’ve been...
View Article'Our Lady of 121st Street'
In my last play report, I wrote that I liked subscribing to the Signature Theatre’s seasons because it afforded me the opportunity to see plays by authors whose work I either didn’t know or hadn’t seen...
View Article'Where We Are: Selections from the Whitney’s Collection, 1900–1960'
My friend Diana, with whom I usually go to the theater, called me on the evening of Tuesday, 8 May, to tell me that the Whitney Museum of Art was holding a Member Night on Wednesday, the next...
View ArticleShort Takes: Some Art Shows
[I seem to be on something of an art jag onRick On Theater just now (“Akunnittinni: A Kinngait Family Portrait” on 15 January; “Art New York 2018” on 13 May; “Where We Are: Selections from the...
View Article“Glenda Jackson’s third act is a return to Broadway after decades in politics”
by Jeffrey Brown[Glenda Jackson is indubitably one of the best actors on the English-speaking stage and screen, with many iconic roles to her name. Currently, she’s appearing (through 24 June) in the...
View ArticleDispatches from Israel 15
by Helen Kaye[My generous Tel Aviv friend Helen Kaye has sent me another pair of her Jerusalem Post reviews from earlier this month. In this instance, both plays are by Israeli dramatists, Hillel...
View ArticleScience, Curiosity, and God
[I've watched the PBS NewsHour, as it’s now called, pretty much every night since it was the McNeil/Lehrer Report. In the last several years, the program’s introduced two regular features that are...
View ArticleGres Gallery, Part 1
[In my post “Washington Art Matters” (5 September 2013), I confessed that I’d considered writing about the Washington, D.C., art gallery of which my parents were part-owners in the 1950s and ’60s, Gres...
View ArticleGres Gallery, Part 2
[Welcome to the second part of “Gres Gallery,” my account of the history of the small modern-art gallery in Washington, D.C., of which my parents were part-owners in the late 1950s and early 1960s. (I...
View ArticleGres Gallery, Part 3
[Below is an appendix to “Gres Gallery” listing the names I mentioned in Parts 1 and 2 of the main article (July 7 and 10, respectively). I’ve separated them into two lists, one for the artists named...
View ArticleTwo on Musicals from 'Allegro'
[I’ve frequently republished articles about musical theater from Allegro, the member magazine of Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians. Local 802 is the union chapter that represents the...
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"Artist's massive birds to nest on Broadway"
by Mary Jo Dilonardo[On Thursday, 19 July, my attention was caught by a short report on CBS 2 News at 5 about an up-coming public-art project planned for upper Broadway. Artist Nicolas Holiber , a...
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