Rick On Theater
My unmediated impressions and thoughts on, especially, theater and other topics of interest to me.
04 June 2010
Kirk Woodward’s 'King Lear' Journal
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[I’ve asked others to contribute “guest posts” to ROT from time to time, and Kirk has previously been generous enough to contribute a fasci...
28 May 2010
Short Takes: Russian Jokes
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[Much Russian humor, both before and after the Communist take-over, is bleak and pessimistic. I heard many Russian jokes and humorous saying...
23 May 2010
Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass
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[Nineteen-year-old Samuel Clemens, not yet Mark Twain, moved to Keokuk, Iowa, in 1854 to join his older brother, Orion, who’d established hi...
18 May 2010
Samuel L. Clemens’s Letter to the Muscatine 'Journal'
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[In 1855, the 19-year-old Samuel L. Clemens, later to be known worldwide as Mark Twain, wrote a letter to a small paper in Muscatine, Iowa, ...
13 May 2010
'War Carnival'
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[The mid-1960s were a turbulent time in the United States. The civil rights movement was getting heated, women and other disenfranchised Ame...
08 May 2010
The First Amendment & The Arts
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On 29 March, the New York Times reported that a student production of Terrence McNally’s Corpus Christi , which depicts a gay character who...
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