Rick On Theater

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

Showing posts with label Next Wave Festival. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Next Wave Festival. Show all posts

23 October 2020

Some Plays at the Brooklyn Academy of Music from the Archive

THE TEMPTATION OF ST. ANTHONY by Robert Wilson (based on Gustave Flaubert) 2004 Next Wave Festival (BAM) 21 October 2004 My first show i...

15 October 2012

'Rhinoceros'

In 1953, the world première of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot opened in Paris and Western theater changed forever. It was the heigh...

27 October 2011

'The Speaker’s Progress' (BAM)

When my friend Diana and I selected two shows in the Brooklyn Academy’s Next Wave Festival this fall, we chose two that overlapped and we en...

22 October 2011

'The Threepenny Opera' (BAM)

When the Brooklyn Academy of Music announced that it was hosting the Berliner Ensemble’s production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s Die D...

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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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