Rick On Theater

My unmediated impressions and thoughts on, especially, theater and other topics of interest to me.

Showing posts with label Ben Brantley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ben Brantley. Show all posts
03 December 2025

Tom Stoppard Remembered, Part 1

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  [Tom Stoppard (1937-2025) is one of my favorite playwrights.   Ever since I first saw one of his plays, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are D...
25 May 2013

'The Trip to Bountiful' (2005)

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[At the end of his New York Times review of the current revival of Horton Foote’s The Trip to Bountiful at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre o...
13 February 2012

“Revealing Glimpses Into Minds Most Mad”

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By Ben Brantley [In this article from the New York Times ’s arts section (on 11 July 2011), Times theater reviewer Ben Brantley describes s...
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Rick
After college and the army, I studied acting and theater; I have an MFA in Acting and uncompleted Ph.D. in Performance Studies (ABD). I have worked as an actor, director, dramaturg/literary advisor, critic/reviewer, essayist, editor, and teacher of theater and acting (studio/conservatory, college, high school, and middle school). Several years ago, some theater friends who don't live in New York anymore asked me to keep them informed about what I see and I began sending them detailed, opinionated e-mails.
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