"Eight Strategies for Breaking Out of a Performance Slump"
by Noa Kageyama, Ph.D[Last month, Allegro,the member magazine of Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians (vol. 119, no. 4 [April 2019],...
View ArticleLandmarks
by Kirk Woodward[Soon after his last two contributions toRick On Theater in March and April, my friend Kirk Woodward is back now with an article paying homage—he calls it a “valentine”—to a series of...
View ArticleTwo Art Fairs & Joan Miró at MoMA
My friend Diana and I caught a variety of art exhibits at the beginning of May. First up were two immense art fairs, Frieze on Randalls Island and Art New York at Pier 94; both fairs ran from...
View Article'HIgh Button Shoes' (Encores!)
In my recent report on some art shows I’d seen earlier this month (“Two Art Fairs & Joan Miró at MoMA,” 16 May), I recounted a discussion I had with the my graduate schoolmates back in the...
View ArticleTheatrical Intimacy Designer
“A growing theater trend: The art of staging love”by Matthew J. Palm[I’m an associate member of the American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA), the professional organization for theater reviewers in...
View ArticleJoan Acocella: Critic, Historian, or Critic-Historian
An Interview, 28 November 1988[In the fall of 1988, I took a Performance Studies class at New York University called Writing About Performance, taught by Marcia B. Siegel, herself a writer and dance...
View Article'Curse of the Starving Class' (Signaure Theatre Company)
Readers of Rick On Theater may know that I’m not a big fan of playwright Sam Shepard. After Curse of the Starving Class at Signature Theatre Company this month, I’ve seen eight stage productions of...
View Article'Octet'
On 5 June, I posted a performance report on Rick On Theater on a revival of Sam Shepard’s 1977 play Curse of the Starving Class. At the very beginning of the report, I confessed that I was not a...
View Article'Stendhal Syndrome' (2004)
[Last night, Friday, 14 June, WNET, the Public Broadcasting System outlet in New York City, aired Terrence McNally: Every Act of Life, a documentary about the life work of the playwright, as part of...
View Article'Ink'
[My play report on the current Broadway première of Inkis considerably longer than my usual reports. The extra length—over half the post—is attributable to the review survey I always include at the...
View ArticleDirectors You’d Rather Not Work With
by Kirk Woodward[As even occasional readers of Rick On Theater know, my friend Kirk Woodward is a thoughtful and longtime student of theater. This means he’s not only conversant with the many theories...
View ArticleFrieze Sculpture 2019
On 16 May 2019, I posted a report entitled “Two Art Fairs & Joan Miró at MoMA,” covering Art New York 2019 and Frieze New York 2019 (both 2-5 May), along with the Museum of Modern Art’s Joan Miró:...
View Article“Interviewing Sondheim: A Conversation With Mark Horowitz”
by Brad Hathaway[I’m an associate member of the American Theatre Critics Association (ATCA), the professional organization for theater reviewers in print, on line, and on electronic media. Each week,...
View ArticleSome Women Writers from the Archives
FRESHWATERWomen’s Project, Julia Miles Theater27 January 2009On Thursday, 22 January [2009], my friend Diana and I went uptown to the Julia Miles Theater on 55th Street, just west of 9th Avenue, to see...
View Article'Drill' (Park Avenue Armory)
On Saturday evening, 29 June, my friend Diana, the woman I often go to theater with, called me to ask if I was interested in seeing Drill, a video installation by German artist Hito Steyerl at the Park...
View ArticleShakespeare, Forgiveness, and 'Measure for Measure'
by Kirk Woodward[Following soon after his article on bad directors and directing practices, “Directors You’d Rather Not Work With,” posted on 25 June, frequent contributor Kirk Woodward’s back onRick...
View ArticleMoMA PS1
Diana called me on Saturday, 6 June, and asked if I was interested in going out to MoMA’s PS1 in Long Island City, Queens. I’d never been there, so I said yes. She picked me up at about quarter to...
View ArticleReconstructing Ballet
“GESTURES DANCE, AND DANCES TELL STORIES”by Marina Harss[This article first appeared in the “Arts” section of the New York Times of 30 May 2018. I saved it because it speaks of reconstructing a...
View ArticleTwo Pairs of Shakespeares from the Archives
[In the fall of 1988, I audited a course in New York University’s Department of Performance Studies, Writing about Performance, taught by Marcia B. Siegel. Marcia’s an accomplished dance critic and...
View ArticleSpy vs. Spy
[Almost 10 years ago, I posted a report on Rick On Theater about the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. (see “Spook Museum,” 25 March 2010). The other day, I read “Revealing Some Spy...
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