Rick On Theater

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

Showing posts with label non-traditional casting. Show all posts

Showing posts with label non-traditional casting. Show all posts

04 August 2022

"Who Can Play the King? A Casting Debate Goes Beyond Color."

by Marc Tracy [Three productions this summer of William Shakespeare’s Richard III took different approaches to the title role: Colm ...

26 October 2015

'Cloud Nine'

While I was watching Caryl Churchill’s Cloud Nine , I began to try to imagine what it would have been like to see it in 1981 (when it déb...

15 October 2013

'Julius Caesar' (Donmar Warehouse)

I hadn’t been to St. Ann’s Warehouse in DUMBO since March 2012 when I saw the Wooster Group-New York City Players collaboration, Eugene ...

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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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