The Bread and Puppet Theater
[Bob Morris’s article on Peter Schumann and his Bread and Puppet Theater ran in the New York Times’ “Arts and Leisure” section on 20 August 2023; it was reported from Glover, Vermont, Bread and...
View ArticleThe Regional Theater: Change or Die
[Last 13 September, Rick On Theater ran a post called “A Crisis In America’s Theaters” which comprised a pair of New York Times reports on the declining prospects of the regional theater in the United...
View ArticleRegional Theater: History
[Recently, I’ve posted articles on the plight of America’s regional repertory theaters and some of the measures those companies have devised to combat their existential problems. (See “A Crisis In...
View ArticleA Directing Experience, Part 1
by Kirk Woodward [Last 8 March, my longtime friend Kirk Woodward e-mailed me, “It looks like the St. James Players will do ‘Antigone’ and I volunteered to be associate director if the dir[ector] would...
View ArticleA Directing Experience, Part 2
by Kirk Woodward[Welcome back to the concluding instalment of Kirk Woodward’s “A Directing Experience,” his account of serving as associate director for Upper Montclair, New Jersey’s Saint James...
View Article"Patrick Stewart reflects on his life and legendary career in new memoir,...
by Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport, and Alison Thoet [On the PBS NewsHour of13 October 2023, Jeffrey Brown, the program’s arts correspondent, interviewed English actor Patrick Stewart (born 1940 in...
View Article"The Future of the Past"
by Evan Moffitt [Some years ago, I published three posts on Rick On Theater that touch on an issue that last weekend appeared again, this time in an article in the New York Times about high-tech...
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"It Looks Like Us"
by Joshua Glass [On 16 January 2021, I published a post on Rick On Theater called “Hyperreal Theater,” which I noted was “little known, and had a short life in the 1980s and then largely passed from...
View ArticleA History of the National Endowment for the Arts: Introduction & Chapter 1
A Supplement to the Regional Theater Series [I’ve recently published several articles concerning the state and background of the regional theater in the United States: “A Crisis In America’s Theaters”...
View ArticleA History of the National Endowment for the Arts: Chapter 2
A Supplement to the Regional Theater Series[Below is Chapter 2 of Mark Bauerlein and Ellen Grantham’s “National Endowment for the Arts: A History, 1965-2008.” It covers the pre-history of the agency...
View ArticleA History of the National Endowment for the Arts: Chapter 3
A Supplement to the Regional Theater Series[The third chapter of the NEA’s own account of its history, covering the period of Nancy Hanks’s (1927-83) chairmanship of the NEA (1969-77), chronicles the...
View ArticleA History of the National Endowment for the Arts: Chapter 4
A Supplement to the Regional Theater Series[Welcome back to Rick On Theater and the continuation of “National Endowment for the Arts: A History, 1965-2008.” Chapter 4 chronicles the administration...
View ArticleA History of the National Endowment for the Arts: Chapter 5
A Supplement to the Regional Theater Series[With the chairmanship of Frank Hodsoll (1938-2016) from 1981 to 1989, recounted here, the Arts Endowment struck some turbulence during the presidency of...
View ArticleA History of the National Endowment for the Arts: Chapter 6
A Supplement to the Regional Theater Series [Thank you for returning to Rick On Theater for the sixth installment of “A History of the National Endowment for the Arts,” a serialization of the NEA’s...
View Article'Great Directors at Work'
by Kirk Woodward [Kirk, who, ROTterswill know, is a longtime friend, has been a prolific contributor to Rick On Theater since its inception in 2009. He’s written on many topics, mostly theatrical and...
View ArticleA History of the National Endowment for the Arts: Chapter 7
A Supplement to the Regional Theater Series[Welcome back to Rick On Theater’s “A History of the National Endowment for the Arts” after the pause to post Kirk Woodward’s “Great Directors at Work,”...
View ArticleA History of the National Endowment for the Arts: Chapters 8 & 9
A Supplement to the Regional Theater Series [Thank you for coming back to Rick On Theater’s “A History of the National Endowment for the Arts” for Chapters 8 and 9 of the NEA report, “National...
View Article"Now and Then"
by Kirk Woodward [As veteran ROTters know by now, Kirk Woodward’s been a generous contributor to this blog since it began over 14½ years ago. That’s probably largely because I started Rick On Theater...
View ArticleA History of the National Endowment for the Arts: Chapter 10 & Epilogue
A Supplement to the Regional Theater Series[Welcome back to the concluding installments of “A History of the National Endowment for the Arts” after a pause on 8 December for Kirk Woodward’s discussion...
View ArticleA History of the National Endowment for the Arts: Impact on Theater
A Supplement to the Regional Theater Series[This installment of “A History of the National Endowment for the Arts,” the last section of Bauerlein and Grantham’s “National Endowment for the Arts: A...
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