A History of the National Endowment for the Arts: Update (2008-2023)
A Supplement to the Regional Theater Series [I was able to put together a facsimile of an update to the history of the National Endowment for the Arts from 2008, when Mark Bauerlein and Ellen Grantham...
View ArticleSphere, Part 1
[When the new Las Vegas entertainment venue Sphere opened on 29 September, I’d never even heard of it. I obviously missed the memo. I had a look on the ’Net and saw that there’d been major coverage...
View ArticleSphere, Part 2
[Welcome to the second and concluding installment of my report on Sphere Las Vegas, the new high-tech performance venue conceived and built on the Strip by Madison Square Garden. It took years in the...
View ArticleKeeping Up with Mr. Dylan
by Kirk Woodward [My friend, and prolific guest-blogger on Rick On Theater, Kirk Woodward is about as big a fan of singer-songwriter—and Nobel Laureate—Bob Dylan as he is of the Beatles (see his last...
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Dreidel
[The eight-day Jewish holiday of Hanukkah (or, less commonly, Chanukah), often called the Festival of Lights, just passed in the middle of last month. (In 2023, the celebration went from sunset on...
View ArticleActors On Their Craft
[For Rick On Theater, I collect published pieces from various news outlets that present something I find interesting or pertinent. I take extra note of articles or essays on aspects of theater and...
View ArticleThe People's Theatre Project
[When I first heard CBS2 News reporter Dave Carlin, who covers breaking news stories and major events in the Tri-State Area, broadcast a story about the People’s Theatre Project on WCBS-Channel 2’s...
View Article"Superheroes on Native Land," Part I
by Todd London[In 2018, I reposted a series of articles about Native American theater from the Theatre Communications Group’s American Theatre magazine. I explained at that time that I’d been...
View Article"Superheroes on Native Land," Part 2
by Todd London [Welcome to Rick On Theater for the second part of “‘Superheroes on Native Land.'” In the first installment, posted on 21 January, readers met Lakota playwright Larissa FastHorse, the...
View Article"Superheroes on Native Land," Part 3
by Todd London [In the first installment of “‘Superheroes on Native Land,’” posted on 21 January, ROTters met Lakota playwright Larissa FastHorse, the Cornerstone Theater Ensemble, and the Oyate—that...
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Biography of Larissa FastHorse [After “‘Superheroes on Native Land,’” Part 3 on 27 January, I promised to compose a biographical sketch of Larissa FastHorse, the Native American writer who created...
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History of Native American Theater[In my introduction to “‘Staging Our Native Nation’” on 24 March 2018, the start of a series of articles from American Theatre I reposted, I said that I was introduced...
View Article'Playbill': A History of "The National Theatre Magazine"
[When I caught WABC’s 22 October 2023 broadcast of BroadwayBackstage Fall Preview, I was delighted to see the brief feature on the printing of Playbill, which happens in a plant in Woodside, Queens....
View Article'El Otro Oz,' Atlantic for Kids
[El Otro Oz (The other Oz), a bilingual reimagining of L. Frank Baum’s classic 1900 children’s adventure fantasy, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, presented by the Atlantic Theater Company’s Atlantic for...
View Article"Minneapolis chamber group performs music written by Polish prisoners at...
by Fred de Sam LazaroandSimeon Lancaster [On Sunday, 15 October 2023 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. at the Lake of the Isles Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, The Isles Ensemble, a chamber music ensemble who...
View Article'Greenwood Pond: Double Site'
Supplement to “Conserving Modern Art”[On 11 December 2018, I published "Conserving Modern Art" on Rick On Theater (Rick On Theater: Conserving Modern Art). It was a post about the conservation and...
View Article"Cillian Murphy said yes to ‘Oppenheimer’ before reading one of Christopher...
by Scott Pelley, Aliza Chasan, Nicole Young, and Kristin Steve[On 18 February 2024, Irish actor Cillian (pronounced KILL-ee-ən) Murphy (b. 1976) was interviewed on the CBS News magazine show 60 Minutes...
View ArticleThe Arts & Health
[Here are two reports from PBS NewsHour on the confluence of the performing arts and matters of health. The first report concerns the beneficial effect of music on the health, particularly mental...
View Article"Austin theater company works to preserve Latin American culture"
by Journey Love Taylor, Marcos Sanchez, Natalie Erzal, Tara Bordeaux and Gil Garcia[The following report on the Latino theater troupe Proyecto Teatro of Austin, Texas, was aired on...
View ArticleMusic Has Charms
[On 3 March 2024, I posted “The Arts & Health” on Rick On Theater. It comprised two reposted transcripts from PBS NewsHour, both dealing with the convergence of the performing arts and matters of...
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