Rick's Guide to New York, Part 3
A Special Installment of “A Helluva Town” [This section of “Rick’s Guide to New York” covers mostly various “sites of interest” in Manhattan—a tourist guide, so to speak. They’re largely places that...
View Article"How Do You Manage?"
by Angie Ahlgren [Angie Ahlgren’s article on stage managers appeared in the Fall 2024 issue (volume 41, number 1) of American Theatre; it was posted on the AT website on 2 December 2024. AT has...
View ArticlePerformance Diary: 'Follies,' Part 1
by Kirk Woodward [In a continuation of his August posts on Rick On Theater, “Performance Diary, Part 1” (25 August 2024) and “Performance Diary, Part 2” (28 August 2024), Kirk Woodward, a prolific...
View ArticlePerformance Diary: 'Follies,' Part 2
by Kirk Woodward[In his account of the work on the Gas Lamp Players’ production of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman’s Follies, Kirk picks up where he left off in Part 1 of his “Performance Diary”: in...
View ArticleGo-Won-Go Mohawk (1859-1924), Part 1
[When I read the long-delayed obituary of Go-won-go Mohawk in the New York Times last month, I was immediately interested. I thought I’d never heard of her, an indigenous actress who became a...
View ArticleGo-Won-Go Mohawk (1859-1924), Part 2
[Go-won-go Mohawk’s life and career was so interesting that I couldn’t even sketch it in in a single post. I’ve therefore split my attempt to fill in some of the gaps in the New York Times obituary...
View ArticleGo-Won-Go Mohawk (1859-1924), Part 3
GO-WON-GO MOHAWK: SUPPLEMENTAL BIOGRAPHY(Continued) [This is the conclusion of my supplemental biography of Go-won-go Mohawk, the Native American actress and playwright. Readers who haven’t read Part...
View ArticleHere Comes Santa Claus
[On 24 December, I watched PBS News Hour with a segment called “On Christmas Eve, a special look at the origins of NORAD’s Santa tracker.” It was a story narrated by three children of one of the...
View ArticleArtistic Scientific Method
“ENGINEERING AN ARTISTIC SCIENTIFIC METHOD”by Martine Kei Green-Rogers [The following article was published in American Theatre, vol. 40, no. 4 (Summer 2024) as part of the Theatre Futures series...
View ArticleBombast to Beckett
by Kirk Woodward[Kirk Woodward has contributed many posts to Rick On Theater since I launched it in March 2009—122, including several multi-parters. Most of Kirk’s pieces have been on theater or other...
View ArticleKwame Alexander on 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert'
[I watched The Late Show, the CBS late-night talk show with Stephen Colbert as host, on Monday night, 13 January 2025. One of Colbert’s guests was poet and writer of children’s fiction Kwame...
View ArticleTheater Odds & Ends
[Soon after I started Rick On Theater, I began collecting and stashing articles from various sources for possible future use as posts for the blog. Items of interest or curiosity or practical use or...
View ArticleMore Odds & Ends
[I enjoyed putting together “Theater Odds & Ends,” posted on Rick On Theater on 23 January, so much that I decided to do another compilation of short pieces from various sources. This time, I’ve...
View ArticleTheater Odds & Ends (continued)
[Continuing with the theme of “Odds & Ends,” this time returning to short articles on theater, I have collected four pieces from American Theatre. Some of the articles were published in the print...
View Article"'Wicked' costume designer Paul Tazewell on the vision behind his...
by Jeffrey BrownandSimon Epstein [The PBS News Hour segment on Oscar-nominated Wicked costume designer Paul Tazewell aired on3 February 2025, part of News Hour’s regular arts feature “CANVAS.” (PBS...
View ArticleOdds & Ends About Musicals
[These short, random articles from various sources have been such fun to gather and post that I’m doing it again. This time, the selection is again all about theater, but the pieces are all devoted...
View ArticleMore Theater Odds & Ends
[Here’s another compilation of short pieces from various outlets—this time, two Washington Posts and a New York Times—all about some aspect of theater. Some of these—most of them, really—I filed away...
View Article"Don’t Say 'Macbeth' . . . And other superstitions, traditions and secrets of...
by Juan A. Ramírez[On 14, 17, 20, and 23 August 2020, I posted a four-part series called “Ghosts, Curses, & Charms: Theater Superstitions” on Rick On Theater (the link is to the first installment)....
View ArticleShakespeare's Development as a Dramatist (Part 1)
by Kirk Woodward [A little over two weeks ago, my friend and a generous contributor to Rick On Theater, Kirk Woodward, e-mailed me. “I’m working on another piece for [the blog],” he wrote. “It...
View ArticleShakespeare's Development as a Dramatist (Part 2)
by Kirk Woodward [In the conclusion of“Shakespeare’s Development as a Dramatist,” below, Kirk Woodward continues his explication of George Pierce Baker’s analysis of the Bard’s growth as a playwright...
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