Travel Journal: People's Republic of China, 1980 – Part 4
[Below is the penultimate installment of “Travel Journal: People’s Republic of China, 1980”; it’s also the first post onRick On Theater of the new year. I’ll be covering our visit to Nanking (now...
View ArticleTravel Journal: People's Republic of China, 1980 – Part 5
[This is the conclusion of the transcription of my travel journal of my trip to the People’s Republic of China in December 1980 and January 1981. Aside from concluding my visit to Peking (now called...
View Article'Immersive Van Gogh,' Part 1
[It’s been a long time since I posted a report on anything live and in person. Over the New Year’s weekend, my frequent theater companion, Diana, and I went down to the Lower East Side to see one of...
View Article'Immersive Van Gogh,' Part 2
[This is the second and concluding part of my report on Immersive Van Gogh as it was seen here in New York City. I went down to Pier 36 on the Lower East Side on Friday afternoon, 31 December, and...
View ArticleMore Script Reports V: Classics (Continued)
[On 14 December last, I posted the latest collection of script reports. It was devoted to plays from the classical era rather than new scripts. Now I’ve assembled another group of classic plays,...
View Article"As Attendance Falls, Now Is the Winter of Broadway’s Discontent"
by Michael Paulson [As most theatergoers know, Broadway shut down on 19 March 2020. Other theaters and entertainment venues followed suit. They began to reopen in September of last year, but the...
View Article'Alexander Calder: Modern from the Start' (MoMA, 2021-22)
On 1 January 2020, I posted a report called “The ‘New’ MoMA, 2019.” It was my account of the last visit I made to an art museum, on 19 December 2019, before the pandemic shut-down. (New York City’s...
View Article"Immersive Van Gogh exhibits paint a new way of experiencing art"
by Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport, and Alison Thoet[On 10 and 13 January, I posted “Immersive Van Gogh,” my report on the digital video show of Vincent van Gogh’s work I saw on New York City’s...
View Article'Annie Live!' (NBC, 2 December 2021) – Part 1
[In December 2021, I watched the live television broadcast of the musical Annie with the intention of writing a report on the performance for Rick On Theater. I didn’t anticipate that the report...
View Article'Annie Live!' (NBC, 2 December 2021) – Part 2
[In the second part of my report on NBC’s Annie Live!, I cover the rest of my assessment of the performance, focusing on the physical production, and then report on my survey of the published critical...
View ArticleIs 'Star Trek' Founded on Jewish Principles?
“JEWISH ROOTS OF ‘STAR TREK’ ARE EXPLORED BY EXHIBITION”by Adam Nagourney [The following article appeared in the “Arts” section of the New York Times on 5 January 2022. In it, Adam Nagourney explains...
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Gail Halvorsen, The 'Candy Bomber' (1920-2022)
[The man whose name appears in the title of this post, Gail Halvorsen, was a hero. He was a veteran of World War II, but his moment in the spotlight of history came three years after VE Day and he...
View ArticleHow I Write
Back in the fall of 1984, when writing was still an evolving process for me, I took a course in New York University’s School of Education, Health, Nursing, and Arts Professions (SEHNAP) called...
View Article"Prisoners in Nazi concentration camps made music; now it’s being discovered...
by Jon Wertheim [The report below, from the CBS News magazine show 60 Minutes of 15 December 2019...
View Article"Performing for Survival – Cultural Life and the Theatre In Terezin"
by Bahar Akpinar [The two-part article below, Bahar Akpinar’s “Performing for Survival – Cultural Life and the Theatre in Terezin,” was published on 18 and 26 June 2019 in Salom...
View Article'The Method'– a Review
by Kirk Woodward[I’ve published many articles on Rick On Theater on the subjects of acting and actor-training. Some were by me—I trained as an actor and have an MFA degree in acting—and some have...
View ArticleCivilian
The new hotel that opened in Hell’s Kitchen on 24 November 2021 is special in many ways (as you’ll shortly see). Nothing about this enterprise, owned by hotelier Jason Pomeranc (b. 1971), designed by...
View ArticleEdward Hopper
by Kirk Woodward [I commenced my art report on Edward Hopper at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., in 2007 by confessing, “I’m not really a fan of . . . Hopper.” In his article on the...
View ArticleThe Singing Voice of the Stars: Marni Nixon – Part 1
[I watched an old movie about two weeks ago. I’d DVR’d it off cable some time ago to watch at my convenience, and its turn came up. [It was a movie whose title I knew, but had never seen—though I...
View ArticleThe Singing Voice of the Stars: Marni Nixon – Part 2
[Welcome back to Rick On Theater for the second part of my profile of Marni Nixon, Ghost Singer to the Stars. As I wrote in the introduction to Part 1 of “The Singing Voice of the Stars,” Nixon was...
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