I interview Naomi Iizuka about her translation of Shakespeare's Richard II for Play On Shakespeare—how she kept the poetry while making it accessible for modern audiences.
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My friend Stuart Bousel and I discuss liberals, conservatives, generational archetypes, and other reasons we find Heroes of the Fourth Turning such an intriguing play.
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A record of the theater and opera I streamed, Zoomed, and even saw live in the chaos and confusion of 2020.
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My traditional round-up of the plays, musicals, staged readings, and operas I saw in the past year. Or as we now call it, “the Before times.”
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I was a big fan of the Magic Theatre’s world premiere of Oedipus el Rey in 2010 and its revival this year showed that it is still a powerful play.
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Bay Area Musicals’ production of Violet is nicely cast, staged, and sung, but I never got pulled in emotionally to this story of a Southern girl with a scarred face.
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My traditional round-up of the plays, musicals, & staged readings I saw in the past year. New for 2018: opera & live music lists as well!
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Having just seen Timon of Athens for the first time, I calculate how close I am to being a Shakespeare completist.
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Having just seen Sondheim rarity Saturday Night, I had to calculate how close I am to being a Sondheim completist.
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This is more than a curiosity for Sondheim fans. Its central premise – that young men come up with a lot of hare-brained schemes to pick up chicks and get rich quick – still rings true today.
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