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 …
Tag Archives: Shakespeare Theatre Company
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 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 …
Lee Blessing’s FORTINBRAS
[In which, for a ReDiscovery reading, I try to figure out just what Lee Blessing is up to with FORTINBRAS, …
Shrewd Ambiguities (THE TAMING OF THE SHREW)
[Written for Ed Sylvanus Iskandar’s production, which employed an immersive frame and frequently disrupted Shakespeare’s text via Duncan Sheik pop …
DOGG’S HAMLET/CAHOOT’S MACBETH
In a more than 50-year career, Tom Stoppard (1937-) has established himself as perhaps England’s greatest living playwright. The funny …
Drew Lichtenberg 