Rick On Theater

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

Showing posts with label guerrilla theater. Show all posts

Showing posts with label guerrilla theater. Show all posts

22 April 2023

A Biography of Leonardo Shapiro, Part 3

[This installment of “A Biography of Leonardo Shapiro” starts with the young directing student enrolling at NYU in its newly formed School o...

12 October 2021

Two Reports On New York Theater Activities (Post-Pandemic)

[At the end of last month, two television news programs aired reports on different aspects of the performing arts in New York City in the ...

07 May 2011

“Two Thousand Years of Stony Sleep”

by Leonardo Shapiro [In 1969, Leonardo Shapiro, about whom I’ve written before on ROT , went to New Mexico and started a guerrilla theater...

04 April 2010

New York Free Theater

[Thirty-two years ago this month, a little band of pacifist theater artists in their early 20’s launched a street theater intended to comba...

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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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