Travel Journal: Israel & Egypt, 1982 – Part 4
[My visit to Israel was chock-a-block full of amazing sights and experiences, including natural phenomena, biblical sites and ancient history, and modern accomplishments. This day, we caught a little...
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[This is the penultimate installment of the Israeli portion of my account of my travels in Israel and Egypt. It comprises a single day’s sightseeing and covers only modern-day Israeli sights in the...
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Actors' Equity's Open Access
[For decades, the only ways to gain membership in the professional stage actors’ and stage managers’ union in the United States has been to obtain work under an Actors’ Equity Association contract;...
View ArticleTravel Journal: Israel & Egypt, 1982 – Part 6
[As I observed at the end of Part 5 of “Travel Journal: Israel & Egypt, 1982” (23 July), this is the final installment of the Israeli portion of the account of my travels in Israel and Egypt. It...
View ArticleTravel Journal: Israel & Egypt, 1982 – Part 7
[After a brief hold-up to publish a timely post on an important announcement by Actors’ Equity Association (see “Actors' Equity's Open Access,” 28 July), I returned to the posting of my travel journal...
View ArticleTravel Journal: Israel & Egypt, 1982 – Part 8
[This is the second installment of the Egyptian portion of my chronicle of my travels in Israel and Egypt. The whole experience was quite different from the voyage around Israel. Israel is a bit...
View ArticleTravel Journal: Israel & Egypt, 1982 – Part 9
[It’s Christmas Day in Cairo, the last morning in the city before our departure for Upper Egypt (which, if you remember my note, is actually in the south because it’s up river from Alexandria and...
View ArticleTravel Journal: Israel & Egypt, 1982 – Part 10
[“Travel Journal: Israel & Egypt, 1982 – Part 10” begins my voyage down the River Nile. The rest of the journal is taken up by this cruise, which ends with a flight back to Cairo and a night in...
View ArticleTravel Journal: Israel & Egypt, 1982 – Part 11
[“Travel Journal: Israel & Egypt, 1982 – Part 11” covers my second and third days on the Nile River cruise, with visits to Aswan (which I missed, as you’ll read) and the temples at Kom Ombo, Edfu,...
View ArticleTravel Journal: Israel & Egypt, 1982 – Part 12
[“Travel Journal: Israel & Egypt, 1982 – Part 12,” posted below, is the final installment of my account of my journey around Israel and Egypt almost 39 years ago. Those ROTters who’ve read along...
View ArticleGerman News Clips About My Father
[In “Home Alone, Part 2” (posted on Rick On Theater on 15 June 2015), part of a three-part posting of letters my father wrote my mother from Germany in 1962, I included translations of two local...
View Article"On Your Side: Nurturing Your Professional Relationship with Casting Directors"
[As part of Rick On Theater’s occasional series on the work of professionals in show business with whose jobs most audience members are probably unfamiliar, I’m posting three related articles from...
View Article'Punch!' (Shaliko Company, 1987)
[I’ve written about a number of performances directed by Leonardo Shapiro, founder and artistic director of New York City’s Shaliko Company, since I started Rick On Theater—too many now to enumerate...
View Article"Design & Tech: The Magic Of Design," Introduction & Article 1
[About nine months after I established Rick On Theater, I wrote a post called "Theater and Computers" (5 December 2009). It was a bit of the history of the use of computers in theater and a...
View Article"Design & Tech: The Magic Of Design," Article 2
[This is the second installment of the AT special series on stage design and technology. The design arts, whether scenic, sound, lighting, costume, make-up, wigs and hair, or any other design...
View Article"Design & Tech: The Magic Of Design," Articles 3 & 4
[The third installment of “The Magic of Design” comprises two articles; one is on a New Orleans facility that focuses on productions of what author and critic Richard Kostelanetz calls the “theater of...
View Article"Design & Tech: The Magic Of Design," Articles 5 & 6
[There are two articles from American Theatre’s “Design & Tech” Special Section in the fourth installment on Rick On Theater. The first is a report on robots on stage and the second is a...
View Article"Design & Tech: The Magic Of Design," Article 7
[This is the penultimate installment of the American Theatre Special Section on theater tech and design. In Article 7, Tara Anderson writes about the technical problems of flying actors in the cast...
View Article"Design & Tech: The Magic Of Design," Articles 8 & 9
[The final two articles on the AT series on stage design and technology are largely about recognition and invisibility—and both use Broadway’s Tony Awards as the context in which to examine these...
View ArticleKenneth Tynan
by Kirk Woodward[For the serious theater student, especially those of us who came of intellectual age in the second half of the 20th century, the name Kenneth Tynan represented something important....
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