Rick On Theater

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

Showing posts with label comedy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comedy. Show all posts
10 August 2026

Subway Newsstand Art Project

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  A Special Installment of “A Helluva Town”      [I’ve posted several reports on art in the New York City subways; see, for instance, “ To...
01 January 2021

Parody and Its Companions

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  by Kirk Woodward [Kirk Woodward’s latest contribution to Rick On Theater can be seen as a sort of companion piece to his “Max Beerbohm’s...
10 January 2017

'How to be the Greatest Improviser on Earth'

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I’ve never done improvisation as a performance except occasionally as a mime a long time ago.  The closest I’ve come to the kind of improv ...
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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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