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Category Archives: 2014-15

Passion Play (Tartuffe)

April 30, 2015

As James Magruder writes elsewhere in this issue, “One suspects American audiences admire Molière more than they enjoy him.” And …

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The Autumn Garden

April 17, 2015

Often regarded as one of the most successful playwrights of the mid-twentieth century, Lillian Hellman also led one of the …

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The Impossible Musical (Man of La Mancha)

February 17, 2015

One of the first things to know about The Man of La Mancha, perhaps the most popular adaptation of Don …

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Big Night (Dawn Powell)

January 12, 2015

Despite authoring fifteen novels, a collection of short stories, and several plays, Dawn Powell (1896-1964) was mostly obscure in her …

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Lost Inside a Dream (The Metromaniacs)

January 6, 2015

Written for STC’s world premiere production of David Ives’s The Metromaniacs, a “transladaptation” of Alexis Piron’s La Métromanie (1738), a play heretofore …

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Susan And God

November 21, 2014

Though lesser known today, Rachel Crothers was America’s most successful woman playwright prior to World War II. From 1906 to …

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Brave New World (The Tempest)

November 21, 2014

Written in the fall of 2014 for Ethan McSweeny’s production of The Tempest at STC. I am including Albrecht Durer’s portrait of …

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Wanderlust (As You Like It)

November 3, 2014

Written for STC’s inaugural show of the 2014-2015 Season, As You Like It, in a beautifully intimate production, starring Zoe Waites …

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Chains of Dew

September 16, 2014

Written for a ReDiscovery Series reading with Garrett Anderson, the STC Artistic Fellow. The reading was directed by Holly Twyford …

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Escape to the Forest of Arden: Dramaturg’s Notes

September 11, 2014

When Teddy Rodger asked me to pull some of my favorite nature imagery from the Shakespeare canon for a podcast …

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