Critic Workshop
In early August, STC scheduled a private (closed) reading in New York of Jeffrey Hatcher’s new adaptation of The Critic. …
Author Archives: Drew
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 …
Corneille’s HORATIUS
Is Pierre Corneille (1606-1684) the most underrated playwright in dramatic literature? Prolific, poetically gifted and instinctively experimental, he architected neoclassicism …
The Classical Paradox (Julius Caesar: Spared Parts, Third World Bunfight’s Macbeth)
Every production of a Shakespearean text, no matter how antiquarian or heretical in approach, exhibits what I like to call …
The Hemingway Myth (THE SELECT)
[Written for Elevator Repair Service’s presentation of The Select, their adaptation of The Sun Also Rises.] When it comes to 20th-century authors, …
A Bit of Earth: Frances Burnett and the Secret Garden
When The Secret Garden first appeared, in 1910, it did not resemble the story that millions of children and …
Bartlett’s Bardolatry (King Charles III)
[Written for David Muse’s production of KC3, which went into rehearsal in San Francisco months before it got to Washington. -DL] …
The Birth of Modern Tragedy (ROMEO & JULIET)
[The long version of the program essay. Having taught the play the semester before at the New School, I had …
The Classical Paradox (Scholar Guide Intro)
[In which I once more stretch out at length, trying to come up with an all-encompassing narrative for the Shakespeare …
Drew Lichtenberg 