Going to a Swiss International School, Part 1
[The account below, of my two years as an international-school student in Switzerland, is drawn from my memory. Except for one trip I took in April 1965, during which I kept a journal, I had no help...
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[“Going to a Swiss International School, Part 2,” the continuation of my memoir of being an international schoolboy in Switzerland in 1963-1965, picks up where I left of in Part 1: describing some of...
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[I ended the second part of “Going to a Swiss International School” with a description of our after-school snack at the Collège du Léman: pain au chocolat. I was getting into some of the pleasures of...
View ArticleGoing to a Swiss International School, Part 4
[In “Going to a Swiss International School, Part 4,” I start with some of the things we did when we were set free in downtown Geneva. Included in this is a description of a holiday that’s unique to...
View ArticleGoing to a Swiss International School, Part 5
[In “Going to a Swiss International School, Part 4,” I wrote about some of what Ecolint interns got up to when we hit downtown Geneva during free time from school. I’m devoting Part 5 exclusively to...
View ArticleGoing to a Swiss International School, Part 6
[This is the sixth and final installment of my memoir about being a student in Switzerland at two international schools, the Collège du Léman and the International School of Geneva. If you’ve been...
View Article"Ritchie Boys: The Secret U.S. Unit Bolstered by German-Born Jews that Helped...
reported by Jon Wertheim [On 24 April, I posted “Latter-Day Esthers & Women Maccabees,” a collection of three articles that tell the stories of Jewish women who fought the Nazis in World War II or...
View ArticleYet More Vintage Reviews from the Archive
[As I affirmed in “More Vintage Reviews from the Archive” (19 April 2021), in the late 1980s and early 1990s, I reviewed theater for the New York Native, a biweekly gay newspaper published in New York...
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"Broadway's Dirty Secret: How to Turn Costumes From Riches to Rags"
by Erik Piepenburg [From time to time, I post articles onRick On Theater that illuminate work in the theater about which most theatergoers don’t know. In the past, I’ve republished articles on stage...
View Article"'Great Performances': The Arts Interrupted"– Part 1
Produced and directed byAkisa Omulepu[The Great Performances presentation of “The Arts Interrupted,” a look at the toll taken on the performing arts in New York City and around the country by the...
View Article"'Great Performances': The Arts Interrupted"– Part 2
Produced and directed byAkisa Omulepu [This is the second (and final) part of the transcript of “The Arts Interrupted,” the PBS program first aired on Great Performances on 14 May. If you have just...
View ArticleDrama Book Shop: The Revival
In 2017, the famous and beloved—especially among stage folk and fans of the theater—Drama Book Shop celebrated its 100th birthday. (Some newspaper accounts found during the run-up to the centennial...
View ArticleFaye Schulman (1919-2021)
[In my recent post “Latter-Day Esthers & Women Maccabees” (Rick On Theater, 24 April 2021), one if the articles in the compilation mentioned in passing that “a 19-year-old photographer named Faye...
View Article'The Misanthrope'– The Musical
[I’ve written several times on Rick On Theater about Leonardo Shapiro and his Shaliko Company, an experimental theater troupe based on the East Village. I got to know Leo Shapiro in 1986, when I...
View ArticleEven More Vintage Reviews from the Archive
[As I wrote in the introduction to “Yet More Vintage Reviews from the Archive” (24 May 2021), I reviewed plays in the late 1980s and early 1990s for the New York Native, a biweekly gay newspaper...
View ArticleActors On Their Work
[The backstory of “Brief But Spectacular,” a weekly series that premièred on NewsHour in 2015, begins with creator Steve Goldbloom, the creator and host of the original comedy news show for PBS,...
View ArticleThe Real-Time Event
[I’ve written a number of articles based on the theater ideas of Leonardo Shapiro, whom readers ofRick On Theater will probably know by now was a “downtown” experimental theater director whom I knew...
View ArticleTravel Journal: Israel & Egypt, 1982 – Part 1
[In my recent post recounting my time in Switzerland for my last two years in high school (“Going to a Swiss International School,” six parts: 29 April and 2, 5, 8, 11. and 14 May), I wrote about a...
View ArticleTravel Journal: Israel & Egypt, 1982 – Part 2
[Here’s Part 2 of the transcription of my travel journal from my 1982 visit to Israel and Egypt. This will actually conclude the chronicle I wrote during the trip; starting with Part 3 (to be posted...
View ArticleTravel Journal: Israel & Egypt, 1982 – Part 3
[The entry for Haifa on Wednesday, 15 December (the last entry of Part 2, posted on 14 July), was the last one in my journal for this trip to Israel and Egypt. As I stated in my general introduction...
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