'Measure for Measure' (Acting Company)
“This season’s repertory continues our recent practice of pairing plays that use the past to address pressing social and political issues of the present.” That’s what the note from The Acting Company...
View ArticleTwo Foreign Language Shows from the Archives
FABLES DE LA FONTAINEJean de la FontaineAdapted by Robert WilsonComédie-Française (Paris)Lincoln Center Festival 2007On Friday, 13 July [2007], my friend Diana and I went to the Gerald W. Lynch Theater...
View Article'Native Son' (Acting Company)
Nambi E. Kelley’s adaptation of Native Son from the 1939 novel by Richard Wright is currently having its New York début at the hands of The Acting Company. The play has a historical connection,...
View ArticleMore On Theatrical Intimacy
[On 26 May, I posted an article on Rick On Theater entitled“A growing theater trend: The art of staging love” by Matthew J. Palm of the Orlando Sentinel. When I first saw the article, it was the first...
View ArticleTwo Stage Adaptations of Prose Works from the Archives
[On 24 August, I posted my report on The Acting Company’s production of an adaptation of the Richard Wright novel Native Son. In addition to my critique of the performance, I made some remarks about...
View Article"With Newly Expanded Campus, Kennedy Center Aims to Make Art an Experience...
by Jeffrey Brown[On 5 December 2014, I posted “The Kennedy Center Expands” (https://rickontheater.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-kennedy-center-expands.html) on Rick On Theater. It’s a report on the plans,...
View ArticleFriday the Thirteenth
[I’m currently working on a prospective new post—nearing its completion, I hope—and one of the subject’s most traumatic experiences happened to him on Friday the 13th (April 1934). There are from one...
View Article"Observations: A New Deal for the Arts"
by Paul Goodman[I’ve occasionally republished on Rick On Theater old essays from periodicals that I found significant or interesting. Probably, the most prominent of these posts is Robert Brustein’s...
View ArticleDispatches from Israel 18
by Helen Kaye[Helen Kaye, a theater reviewer and cultural reporter for the Jerusalem Post, has been a contributor toRick On Theater for many years now; her last contribution was posted on 26 March...
View Article"The Wickedest Man in the World": Aleister Crowley, Part 1
[On 20 January, I posted “Rudolf Steiner, Spiritual Scientist” onRick On Theater. It was supposed to be the first of three personality profiles I was planning to write for this blog; the second...
View Article"The Wickedest Man in the World": Aleister Crowley, Part 2
[Welcome back to Rick On Theater for Part 2 of “‘The Wickedest Man in the World’: Aleister Crowley,” which picks up right where I left off with Part 1. (If you haven’t read the first section of this...
View Article"The Wickedest Man in the World": Aleister Crowley, Part 3
[Below is “‘The Wickedest Man in the World’: Aleister Crowley, Part 3,” the continuation of my six-part profile of the infamous British occultist and magician of the late 19th and early 20th centuries....
View Article"The Wickedest Man In The World": Aleister Crowley, Part 4
[In the continuing, six-part saga of “‘The Wickedest Man in the World’: Aleister Crowley,” we’ve crossed the half-way mark. Rather than coasting down the mountain of the infamous British occultist’s...
View Article"The Wickedest Man in the World": Aleister Crowley, Part 5
[“‘The Wickedest Man in the World’: Aleister Crowley” is nearly at an end; there’s only one more section to go. But don’t take too big a sigh of relief because there’s lots more shenanigans to come in...
View Article"The Wickedest Man In The World": Aleister Crowley, Part 6
[Well, we made it to the final segment of “‘The Wickedest Man In The World’: Aleister Crowley.” When I was composing the post, I wondered if I’d ever get here—and I wonder if you felt the same thing...
View ArticleDispatches from Israel 19
[Helen Kaye, my friend in Tel Aviv, sent me a pair of new reviews from her gig at the Jerusalem Post. As usual, I’m putting them together to post as “Dispatches from Israel 19,” but this installment...
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"Winning On Stage: The secret weapon for winning auditions: 'Periodization'"
by Dr. Don Greene[On 6 May, I republished an article from Allegro, the member’s magazine of Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians,called “Eight Strategies for Breaking Out of a Performance...
View Article"A groundbreaking exhibition finally tells the stories of Native women artists"
by Jeffrey Brown[I’ve occasionally covered Native American arts and culture on Rick On Theater and also women in the arts. Now comes Jeffrey Brown’s “Canvas” report on the PBS NewsHour of18 October...
View ArticleMichael Chekhov, Part 1
[Back in January, I started on a series of three profiles of figures I thought would make interesting posts for Rick On Theater. The first was Rudolf Steiner, an Austrian esotericist and spiritualist,...
View ArticleMichael Chekhov, Part 2
[“Michael Chekhov, Part 2” picks up right where “Part 1” left off, with the young actor (now 30) at the start of preparing one of his most significant performances at the world-renowned Moscow Art...
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