Rick On Theater

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

12 July 2013

Paraprosdokians

According to Wikipedia , paraprosdokian refers to “a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or...

07 July 2013

The Hays Code

A few weeks ago, I watched an old movie on cable, Alfred E. Green’s Baby Face of 1933. In it, the character played by Barbara Stanwy...

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About Me

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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