Seasons Change
Ahh, the season. So many events in our lives, as worker bees in the humdrum hivemind of the American regional …
Monthly Archives: February 2017
Slys and Sheiks
The process of preparing the text of Taming of the Shrew with Ed Sylvanus Iskandar was a unique one in …
Sheer Cloudy Vagueness
One of the weird quirks about our season model at Shakespeare Theatre is the “international presentation.” Over the past five …
Of Critics and Hounds
One of my favorite movies of all time is Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan. A minimal masterpiece about bored young preppies (the …
ReDiscovery
Imagine if you can: it’s a Monday night, theatres all over America are “dark” as the actors, stage managers and …
The Drew Lichtenberg Bucket List
100 (MOSTLY OBSCURE) PLAYS YOU HAVE TO SEE BEFORE YOU DIE Ground rules: can’t be a play that STC has …
Critic Workshop
In early August, STC scheduled a private (closed) reading in New York of Jeffrey Hatcher’s new adaptation of The Critic. …
Omaha
This past Memorial Day, I was invited to be a guest dramaturg at the Great Plains Theatre Conference. If you’ve …
Critics on Parade (The Critic/The Real Inspector Hound)
Why is bad theatre so bad? And why is it everywhere? Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Critic (1779) and Tom Stoppard’s …
Drew Lichtenberg 