The Beast With Two Backs (Othello)
In August of 1600, a 42-year-old man named Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud sailed to London. An ambassador from the court …
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Taming of the Screwball (KISS ME, KATE)
The success of Kiss Me Kate in 1948 could not have been more unexpected. Cole Porter, who had experienced a …
Toni Morrison’s DESDEMONA
[Me and Ayanna Thompson during the postshow talkback] Toni Morrison (1931-) is the greatest American novelist of the last 100 …
Bond’s Bingo (BINGO)
Edward Bond (b. July 18, 1934) is among the most influential and intellectual of modern British playwrights. Following George Bernard …
The Stories Not Told (SALOMÉ)
The world of Salomé, Yaël Farber’s reimagining of the biblical tale, is one shrouded in mystery. It is a place …
Bottomless Dream (2015)
[Updating of my old Midsummer note for the 2015-16 Free For All production] There’s a famous proverbial saying about music criticism, that …
Passion Play (Tartuffe)
As James Magruder writes elsewhere in this issue, “One suspects American audiences admire Molière more than they enjoy him.” And …
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 …
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 …
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