The Russian Molière
Written in the Fall of 2012 for a reading of Ostrovsky’s Crazy Money, a truly unique play that combines a Restoration, …
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Putting Russia Onstage: Nikolai Gogol’s National Comedy
When Nikolai Gogol wrote The Government Inspector in 1836, there was no such thing as a Russian drama. Tsar Nicholas …
Shakespeare’s English Comedy (THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR)
As Samuel Johnson once observed, The Merry Wives of Windsor “is remarkable for the variety and number of the personages, …
The Comedy of Art
Written in the Spring of 2011 for a production of The Servant of Two Masters, directed by Chris Bayes. -DL The …
The American Dollhouse
Written in the Winter of 2011 for Michael Kahn’s production of Strange Interlude at the Shakespeare Theatre. The first …
Mysteries & Metamorphoses (TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA)
We can never know for sure what Elizabethan audiences would have made of The Two Gentlemen of Verona, but they …
Regnard Resurgent
Written in the Fall of 2011 for the publication of The Heir Apparent, David Ives’s “transladaptation” of La Légataire Universel, …
2 notes on Much Ado About Nothing
Written, respectively, in the Spring and Fall of 2011 for two very different productions, one at Yale School of Drama …
Drew Lichtenberg 