Passion Play (Tartuffe)
As James Magruder writes elsewhere in this issue, “One suspects American audiences admire Molière more than they enjoy him.” And …
Category Archives: 2014-15
The Autumn Garden
Often regarded as one of the most successful playwrights of the mid-twentieth century, Lillian Hellman also led one of the …
The Impossible Musical (Man of La Mancha)
One of the first things to know about The Man of La Mancha, perhaps the most popular adaptation of Don …
Big Night (Dawn Powell)
Despite authoring fifteen novels, a collection of short stories, and several plays, Dawn Powell (1896-1964) was mostly obscure in her …
Lost Inside a Dream (The Metromaniacs)
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 …
Susan And God
Though lesser known today, Rachel Crothers was America’s most successful woman playwright prior to World War II. From 1906 to …
Brave New World (The Tempest)
Written in the fall of 2014 for Ethan McSweeny’s production of The Tempest at STC. I am including Albrecht Durer’s portrait of …
Wanderlust (As You Like It)
Written for STC’s inaugural show of the 2014-2015 Season, As You Like It, in a beautifully intimate production, starring Zoe Waites …
Chains of Dew
Written for a ReDiscovery Series reading with Garrett Anderson, the STC Artistic Fellow. The reading was directed by Holly Twyford …
Escape to the Forest of Arden: Dramaturg’s Notes
When Teddy Rodger asked me to pull some of my favorite nature imagery from the Shakespeare canon for a podcast …
