A reader
- Erotic tragedy, a reader: The status of tragedy in literature; the only thing essential to tragedy
- Erotic tragedy, a reader: The sublime and knowledge
- First texts
Aeschylus
Alphonso Lingis
American drama
- “The booking of the play” …
- A brief Wallace Shawn primer
- A critique of tragedy 20
- A new history of postwar American drama?
- A report card for the arts
- American drama after 9/11
- American drama after 9/11
- Awake and Sing by Clifford Odets
- Beyond the Horizon and the struggle towards Expressionism
- Books received
- Books: Essays by Wallace Shawn
- Books: Theatre by David Mamet
- Charles Spencer on David Mamet
- Christopher Shinn, Down Under
- Dying City by Christopher Shinn
- Eugene O’Neill speaks
- Eugene O’Neill: The Emperor Jones (1920)
- Ezra Pound’s anti-theatrical prejudice
- Friday video: William Gaddis
- Fuckin’ Davey, fuckin’ Davey, fuckin’ Davey …
- Fuckin’ Davey, fuckin’ Davey, fuckin’ Davey …
- Grasses of a Thousand Colors (2009) by Wallace Shawn
- Infantilizing the American drama
- Interview: Arnold Wesker
- Is the avant-garde on the sidelines?
- Jason Zinoman on the 2010 New York Fringe Festival
- Kriegsfibel
- Letters, he sent letters
- Michael Billington puts up his dukes
- Notes on eros and performance
- Notes on Richard Foreman (2005-2007)
- Nothing doing
- Nothing happens, once
- Now playing: Karen Malpede’s “Another Life”
- Other places
- Our Town by Thornton Wilder
- Political theatre in dark times
- Quotes: Erik Ehn
- Remembering All in the Family
- Richard Foreman speaks
- The art of theatre: Why bother?
- The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
- The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O’Neill
- Theatre and “the collapse of globalization”
- Transparency in the strangest places
- Under the sun
- Upcoming: Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal
- Upcoming: Wallace Shawn’s Grasses of a Thousand Colors
- Update: The British are coming
- Video: Sam Shepard
- Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odets
- Work made for hire
American drama after 9/11
- A new manifest destiny
- American drama after 9/11
- American drama after 9/11
- American drama after 9/11: Background bibliography
- American drama after 9/11: On the road
- Books: Outrageous Fortune
- Christopher Shinn on art, drama and madness
- Deep Trance Behavior in Potatoland (2008) by Richard Foreman
- Eugene O’Neill: The Emperor Jones (1920)
- Grasses of a Thousand Colors (2009) by Wallace Shawn
- Happy #newplay?
- In the intersection or in the crosshairs?
- In the intersection: What they want
- Kriegsfibel
- New stages and John Whiting
- Now playing: Karen Malpede’s “Another Life”
- Richard Foreman on 9/11
- Ruined (2008) by Lynn Nottage
- Something completely different
- Ten years later
- The bomb in the mind
- The Break of Noon (2010) by Neil LaBute
- Upcoming: Christopher Shinn’s “Picked”
- Upcoming: Wallace Shawn’s Grasses of a Thousand Colors
- What time is it?
- With Robert Brustein as Thomas Stockmann
American drama: A personal history
- A new history of postwar American drama?
- American drama after 9/11
- American drama after 9/11
- Awake and Sing by Clifford Odets
- Condemned to repeat the past
- Deep Trance Behavior in Potatoland (2008) by Richard Foreman
- Eugene O’Neill: Bound East for Cardiff (1914)
- Eugene O’Neill: In the Zone (1917)
- Getting personal
- Grasses of a Thousand Colors (2009) by Wallace Shawn
- Notes on Richard Foreman (2005-2007)
- Our Town by Thornton Wilder
- Ruined (2008) by Lynn Nottage
- The Break of Noon (2010) by Neil LaBute
- The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
- The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O’Neill
- Upcoming: Wallace Shawn’s Grasses of a Thousand Colors
- Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odets
Archives
- A note to my readers
- American drama after 9/11
- Archives: David Ian Rabey on Howard Barker
- Archives: Readings in New Expressionism and Neue Sachlichkeit
- Friday video/From the archives: Beckett/Wagner
- From the archives
- From the archives: A few notes on the subject
- From the archives: A report card for the arts
- From the archives: Büchner, Schopenhauer, and contemporary tragedy
- From the archives: Crisis and melancholy
- From the archives: Gordon Ramsay at the London
- From the archives: Jonathan Kalb’s advice to the young critic
- From the archives: Knowledge and the art of theatre
- From the archives: Metaphysics and drama
- From the archives: Politics and a critique of tragedy
- From the archives: Revolting
- From the archives: Samuel Beckett: Fuck life
- From the archives: Schoenberg and the New Expressionism
- From the archives: Schopenhauer: A Biography by David E. Cartwright
- From the archives: Sex, philosophy, and theatre
- From the archives: Silence and withdrawal in these great times
- From the archives: Staging the tragic consciousness
- From the archives: The death of Agamemnon
- From the archives: The drama as a liturgy of mourning
- From the archives: The subterranean history of Europe and the martyrs of love
- From the archives: The sunless garden of the unconsoled
- From the archives: Tragedy and contemplation
Arnold Schoenberg
- Christmas music from 1911 Vienna: Friede auf Erden
- Excerpt: Arnold Schoenberg’s Erwartung
- Friday Videos: Arnold Schoenberg’s Phantasy, Op. 47
- Monodramas
- New Expressionism: Prologue 2
- New Expressionism: Reading
- Upcoming: Monodramas
Arnold Wesker
Art
- Across the pond
- Art: A sacred place
- Avigdor Arikha, 1929-2010
- Christ and the Children
- Crisis and melancholy
- De causis plantarum
- Erotic tragedy proposed: Section 5
- Fluxus
- From the archives: Crisis and melancholy
- Grünewald’s Crucifixion: “The Lockjaw Christ”
- Hyperion
- Meissen in Winter
- New Expressionism and Neue Sachlichkeit: Readings
- Rothko Chapel
- Silence and withdrawal in these great times
- Upcoming: Birth of the Modern
- Upcoming: Paul Cava
Arthur Schopenhauer
- “Optimism is not only false but pernicious”
- A critique of tragedy 23
- A critique of tragedy 24
- Art as philosophy, philosophy as art
- Arthur Schopenhauer in 2010
- Beckett/Wagner
- Books: Arthur Schopenhauer by Peter B. Lewis
- Books: Schopenhauer: A Biography by David E. Cartwright
- Erotic tragedy and New Expressionism: An annotated bibliography
- First texts
- Friday video/From the archives: Beckett/Wagner
- Friday video: Sea of Faith
- From the archives: New Expressionism
- From the archives: Schopenhauer: A Biography by David E. Cartwright
- Introductory readings
- Magee and Copleston on Schopenhauer
- New edition of The Fourfold Root from Cambridge
- New Expressionism: Prologue 1
- Quotes: Arthur Schopenhauer
- Quotes: Arthur Schopenhauer
- Schopenhauer, Beckett and the Sottisier notebook
- The antipodes
- The ascetic aesthetic
- Tragedy as propaedeutic
Asian drama
August Strindberg
Australian drama
Bertolt Brecht
- A critique of tragedy 4
- Bertolt Brecht
- Eroticising Brecht’s Lehrstücke
- Friday Video: Bertolt Brecht
- Friday Video: Brecht on stage, part 2
- Friday Video: Brecht on stage, part 3
- Friday video: Life of Galileo
- Friday video: Mysteries of a Barber Shop (1923)
- From the archives: Revolting
- Kriegsfibel
- Monday Video: Bertolt Brecht answers the question
- Next season at the Public Theater
- Notes on Bertolt Brecht
- Other places: Beckett’s TV work, a “new” Churchill play, Brecht’s Galileo in Stratford-upon-Avon
- Reading Bertolt Brecht’s The Good Person of Szechwan
- Review: Good Person of Szechwan
- Revolting
- Ruined (2008) by Lynn Nottage
- The antipodes
- Upcoming and ongoing: Brecht, Beckett, Jelinek
- Upcoming: The Foundry Theatre’s Good Person of Szechwan
Bill Talen
- “What didn’t kill us made us watch”
- Reverend Billy: Why America Slept
- Upcoming: The Reverend Billy anoints St. Christopher (Hedges)
Books
- “The pleasure billows off his pages like waves of vanilla-scented body lotion from a lap dancer bombed on Ecstasy”
- “What didn’t kill us made us watch”
- A Bloomsday note
- Against the world
- Aleks Sierz on new British drama
- Available now: The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary English Tragedy
- Barney Rosset (1922-2012)
- Books received
- Books received: The Fourfold Root …
- Books: “The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights”
- Books: Arthur Schopenhauer by Peter B. Lewis
- Books: Five by Barker
- Books: Outrageous Fortune
- Books: Plays Six by Howard Barker
- Books: Popular Forms for a Radical Theatre
- Books: Rewriting the Nation
- Books: Schopenhauer: A Biography by David E. Cartwright
- Books: The Age of American Unreason
- Books: Theatre by David Mamet
- Books: What Ever Happened to Modernism?
- Charles Spencer on David Mamet
- Distillation
- Friday video: “Walken” reads Sendak
- From the archives
- From the archives: Jan Kott
- From the archives: Samuel Beckett: Fuck life
- From the archives: Schopenhauer: A Biography by David E. Cartwright
- Gilgamesh
- Hanshe and Bernhard in The Brooklyn Rail
- Happy #newplay?
- Jan Kott
- Jonathan Kalb on “Marathon Theater”
- Looking back, looking ahead
- Magee and Copleston on Schopenhauer
- New books from Rudkin and Barker
- On the morning doorstep
- Out of the inkwell
- Pre-birth of tragedy
- Proof positive
- Richard Foreman: Plays with Films
- Ron Rosenbaum’s theatre problem, and ours
- Samuel Beckett: Fuck Life
- Summer reading
- Surface tensions
- The bookshelf
- The Viennese Modernists and the science of the mind
- Two William Gaddis novels return to print
- Upcoming: Letters of William Gaddis
- Update: The British are coming
- William Gaddis
Caryl Churchill
- Caryl Churchill: Owners (1972)
- Caryl Churchill: Traps (1977)
- Costa and Barker uncut
- Other places: Beckett’s TV work, a “new” Churchill play, Brecht’s Galileo in Stratford-upon-Avon
- Other places: The New York Times, Foreman, and Churchill
- Upcoming: “Serious Money” and “Monster” from PTP/NYC
Catch-22
Christopher Shinn
- Christopher Shinn, Down Under
- Dying City by Christopher Shinn
- Power, publishing, David Mamet, and Christopher Shinn
- Upcoming: Christopher Shinn’s “Picked”
Clifford Odets
Contemporary Theatre Review
Critique of tragedy
- A critique of tragedy 1
- A critique of tragedy 10
- A critique of tragedy 11
- A critique of tragedy 12
- A critique of tragedy 13
- A critique of tragedy 14
- A critique of tragedy 15
- A critique of tragedy 16
- A critique of tragedy 17
- A critique of tragedy 18
- A critique of tragedy 19
- A critique of tragedy 2
- A critique of tragedy 20
- A critique of tragedy 21
- A critique of tragedy 22
- A critique of tragedy 23
- A critique of tragedy 24
- A critique of tragedy 25
- A critique of tragedy 26
- A critique of tragedy 3
- A critique of tragedy 4
- A critique of tragedy 5
- A critique of tragedy 6
- A critique of tragedy 7
- A critique of tragedy 8
- A critique of tragedy 9
- Marginalia to critique 23
- Perspectives: The spoken body
- Quotes: Antonin Artaud
- Quotes: Sex and philosophy (and theatre)
Daniel Keene
David Ian Rabey
- Archives: David Ian Rabey on Howard Barker
- Art as philosophy, philosophy as art
- David Ian Rabey on Howard Barker
- From the archives: New Expressionism
- From the archives: Politics and a critique of tragedy
- New Expressionism and Neue Sachlichkeit: Readings
- New Expressionism: Prologue 1
- On the necessity and futility of preaching to the unconverted
- Quotes: Howard Barker on love and the individual
- The ascetic aesthetic
- Video: Blok/Eko
David Mamet
- Books: Theatre by David Mamet
- Charles Spencer on David Mamet
- Friday video: The Critic; and Truthdig on Mamet
- Fuckin’ Davey, fuckin’ Davey, fuckin’ Davey …
- Fuckin’ Davey, fuckin’ Davey, fuckin’ Davey …
David Rudkin
- David Rudkin on John Whiting and Saint’s Day
- David Rudkin on the social function of the dramatist
- From the archives: New Expressionism
- New books from Rudkin and Barker
- New Expressionism and Neue Sachlichkeit: Readings
- New Expressionism: Prologue 1
Drama
- A decent paycheck
- An update on new British drama from Aleks Sierz
- Athol Fugard, Tony Award non-person
- David Rudkin on the social function of the dramatist
- From the archives: Narrative authority
- From the archives: Revolting
- Jonathan Kalb on “Marathon Theater”
- Narrative authority
- Quotes: Eric Bentley
- Revolting
- The streets of London, the camps of Kenya
Drama and erotics
Drew Baker
Edward Albee
Edward Bond
- A short interview with Edward Bond
- In London, Edward Bond’s Saved
- Other places: Edward Bond, Tony Kushner, Vivocraft and more
- Saved
Elfriede Jelinek
Eric Bentley
Erik Ehn
Erlkönig
- “Optimism is not only false but pernicious”
- A note to my readers
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925-2012)
- Erlkönig notebook
- Erlkönig notebook
- Erlkönig notebook: A distance from the world
- Erlkönig notebook: Salvaging a false start
- Erlkönig notebook: Schiele, Klimt, Expressionism
- Erlkönig notebook: Terry Eagleton
- Erlkönig notebook: The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens
- From the “Elf King” notebook
- From the “Elf King” notebook
- From the “Elf King” notebook: Anne Sofie von Otter sings “Erlkönig”
- From the “Elf King” notebook: Burns and Allen
- From the “Elf King” notebook: Emily Rapp on NPR
- From the “Elf King” notebook: John Whiting’s “Statement for a play”
- From the “Elf King” notebook: Lars von Trier’s “Melancholia”
- From the “Elf King” notebook: The metaphysics of sexual love
- From the “Elf King” notebook: Two by Arthur Schopenhauer
- From the “Elf King” notebook: Two by Samuel Beckett
- From the Elf King notebook: The Undertaking
- From the Elf King notebook: There is a monster at the end of this book
- From the Erlkönig notebook
- From the Erlkönig notebook
- In memoriam: Ronan Christopher Louis
- Knowledge and suffering
- The very extraordinariness of the ordinary
Erotic tragedy
- Alexander McQueen, dramatist
- Crisis and melancholy
- Desire and erotic transformation
- Eros as repudiation, renunciation, resignation
- Erotic tragedy and New Expressionism: An annotated bibliography
- Erotic tragedy proposed: Section 1
- Erotic tragedy proposed: Section 2
- Erotic tragedy proposed: Section 3: The drama as a liturgy of mourning
- Erotic tragedy proposed: Section 4
- Erotic tragedy proposed: Section 5
- Erotic tragedy, a reader: The status of tragedy in literature; the only thing essential to tragedy
- Erotic tragedy, a reader: The sublime and knowledge
- First texts
- From the archives: Crisis and melancholy
- From the archives: The death of Agamemnon
- Grünewald’s Crucifixion: “The Lockjaw Christ”
- In the mailbox
- New Expressionism and Neue Sachlichkeit: Readings
- Portrait
- Quotes: Herbert Marcuse
- Quotes: Tadeusz Kantor
- Resexualizing the theatre
- Silence and withdrawal in these great times
- The streets of London, the camps of Kenya
- To begin a discussion
Erotic tragedy proposed
- Erotic tragedy proposed: Section 1
- Erotic tragedy proposed: Section 2
- Erotic tragedy proposed: Section 3: The drama as a liturgy of mourning
- Erotic tragedy proposed: Section 4
- Erotic tragedy proposed: Section 5
- Grünewald’s Crucifixion: “The Lockjaw Christ”
Eugene O'Neill
- A critique of tragedy 20
- Beyond the Horizon and the struggle towards Expressionism
- Eugene O’Neill speaks
- Eugene O’Neill: Bound East for Cardiff (1914)
- Eugene O’Neill: In the Zone (1917)
- Eugene O’Neill: The Emperor Jones (1920)
- Ezra Pound’s anti-theatrical prejudice
- Friday video: The Gelbs on Eugene O’Neill
- From the archives: The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O’Neill
- In the mailbox
- Letters, he sent letters
- Nothing happens, once
- The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O’Neill
European drama
- 21 for 21
- A critique of tragedy 17
- A critique of tragedy 4
- Across the pond
- Aleks Sierz on new British drama
- Archives: David Ian Rabey on Howard Barker
- B is for Billington
- Books: “The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights”
- David Ian Rabey on Howard Barker
- Departures from a Position
- Elfriede Jelinek: “I don’t think of the audience for one second”
- Friday video: Eugene Ionesco
- Friday video: Trevor Griffiths’ “Comedians”
- From the archives: B is for Billington
- From the archives: John Whiting on the art of the dramatist
- Harold Pinter
- Harold Pinter in Krapp’s Last Tape
- In conversation
- Interview: Adam Seelig, Director of “Ritter, Dene, Voss”
- Interview: Arnold Wesker
- Is the avant-garde on the sidelines?
- Je suis sang
- John Whiting on the art of the dramatist
- Michael Billington puts up his dukes
- Notes on Bertolt Brecht
- Notes on eros and performance
- Notes on Samuel Beckett (2003-2008)
- Notes on Sarah Kane, 2006-2008
- On difficulty and ideas in the theatre
- Openings: Ben Brantley on That Face
- Plays of Howard Barker: Cheek (1970)
- Plays of Samuel Beckett: Come and Go (1965)
- Plays of Samuel Beckett: Play (1962)
- Private Passions
- Repeat season: Harold Pinter in Krapp’s Last Tape
- Saint Oedipus
- Something more than rumor
- Theatre photographs: Waiting for Godot world premiere
- Upcoming: That Face
- Upcoming: Thomas Bernhard’s Ritter, Dene, Voss
- Vaclav Havel (1936-2011)
European literature
Fashion
- Alexander McQueen, dramatist
- In the mailbox
- The fashion photograph as erotic event
- Transgressions and transformations in the erotic tragedy
- Upcoming: Birth of the Modern
Film
- Friday video: Michael Ritchie’s “Smile”
- Friday Video: Syberberg’s Hitler: A Film from Germany
- Friday videos: Visionary film
- Melancholia and the foot in Lars von Trier’s mouth
- The Bernie Madoff of Hazleton, PA
- The doofus documentarian
- The gospel of Arthur Jensen
- Top of the hops
- Upcoming: Hans-Juergen Syberberg, Richard Foreman
- Upcoming: Lars von Trier’s “Melancholia”
- We interrupt this program
Fin-de-siècle Vienna
Food
- A little bit of Austrian gemütlichkeit on the Lower East Side
- Cafe Katja’s triumphant return
- Food and theatre: Gordon Ramsay at the London
- Food and theatre: Gordon Ramsay at the London
- From the archives: Gordon Ramsay at the London
- Top of the hops
George Bernard Shaw
Georges Bataille
- Erotic tragedy and New Expressionism: An annotated bibliography
- Friday video: Radical elegance and Georges Bataille
Grand Hotel Abyss
Guardian
- “Are plays proper literature?”
- Bloomsday on WBAI, and other reading
- Michael Billington puts up his dukes
- Money matters
- On difficulty and ideas in the theatre
- Theatrical Expressionism in the Guardian
H.L. Mencken
- Books: The Collected Drama of H.L. Mencken
- De Civitate Dei
- Follow-up and Fridays with Henry: Part 2
- Fridays with Henry: Part 1
- Hunkeanea: A Schimpflexikon
Hans-Jurgen Syberberg
Harold Pinter
- Friday Video: Celebrating Harold Pinter
- Friday Video: Harold Pinter
- Friday video: Pinter on Beckett
- Friday video: The Caretaker
- Friday video: The Room by Harold Pinter
- Harold Pinter
- Harold Pinter
- Harold Pinter in Krapp’s Last Tape
- Repeat season: Harold Pinter in Krapp’s Last Tape
- What do they know of theatre who only theatre know?
- When Harold met Ellen
Heiner Müller
Henrik Ibsen
Herbert Marcuse
History
- A new history of postwar American drama?
- Awake and Sing by Clifford Odets
- Our Town by Thornton Wilder
- The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
- The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O’Neill
- Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odets
Howard Barker
- 21 for 21
- A critique of tragedy 22
- A critique of tragedy 23
- A critique of tragedy 24
- A front row seat next to Howard Barker
- A Tony-related post
- Alexander McQueen, dramatist
- Archives: David Ian Rabey on Howard Barker
- Art: A sacred place
- Barker in Wales and in verse
- Books: Five by Barker
- Books: Plays Six by Howard Barker
- Books: Schopenhauer: A Biography by David E. Cartwright
- Costa and Barker uncut
- Critics’ choice
- David Ian Rabey on Howard Barker
- Departures from a Position
- Division
- Drama of new consciousness
- Friday video: Made
- From the archives
- From the archives: Narrative authority
- From the archives: New Expressionism
- From the archives: Politics and a critique of tragedy
- From the archives: Staging the tragic consciousness
- From the archives: The sunless garden of the unconsoled
- Howard Barker
- Howard Barker at the National Theatre
- Howard Barker on elitism and pessimism in the drama
- Howard Barker’s Found in the Ground
- Howard Barker’s Hated Nightfall
- Howard Barker’s I Saw Myself
- Howard Barker’s notes on The Hang of the Gaol
- Howard Barker’s notes on The Loud Boy’s Life
- Howard Barker’s notes on The Love of a Good Man
- Howard Barker’s The Fence
- Howard Barker’s Ursula
- Howard Barker: All Bleeding (1976)
- Howard Barker: Credentials of a Sympathiser (First produced in 1979)
- Howard Barker: Plethora and bare sufficiency
- Howard Barker: Scenes from an Execution
- Howard Barker: That Good Between Us (1977)
- Howard Barker: The Love of a Good Man (1978)
- In conversation
- In the mailbox
- Narrative authority
- New books from Rudkin and Barker
- New Expressionism: Prologue 1
- New issue of Hyperion now on line
- Notes on eros and performance
- Nothing doing
- On difficulty and ideas in the theatre
- On the necessity and futility of preaching to the unconverted
- Opening tonight: Howard Barker’s The Forty
- Perspectives: The spoken body
- Photo gallery: Sarah Kane in Victory
- Plays of Howard Barker: Cheek (1970)
- Plays of Howard Barker: Claw (1975)
- Plays of Howard Barker: Fair Slaughter (1977)
- Plays of Howard Barker: Found in the Ground (2009)
- Plays of Howard Barker: Stripwell (1975)
- Plays of Howard Barker: Victory (1983)
- Private Passions
- Quotes: Howard Barker on love and the individual
- Radical elegance and drama
- Review: Howard Barker’s Victory at PTP/NYC
- Scenes from an Execution at the National Theatre
- Something more than rumor
- Staging the tragic consciousness
- The effect of dancers on poets
- The subterranean history of Europe and the martyrs of love
- Tony nominations for Jan Maxwell
- Upcoming in London: Screaming in Advance
- Upcoming: “Blok/Eko” by Howard Barker
- Upcoming: Gary the Thief and Plevna: Meditations on Hatred
- Upcoming: Howard Barker’s Gertrude at the Red Bull Theater
- Upcoming: Howard Barker’s The Forty
- Upcoming: Howard Barker’s Victory
- Upcoming: Howard Barker’s Victory at PTP/NYC
- Upcoming: Julia Jarcho, Howard Barker, Matthew Freeman
- Upcoming: Olivier Messiaen, 31 Down, Howard Barker
- Upcoming: PTP/NYC Summer 2010 Season
- Upcoming: Red Bull Theater Revelation Readings
- Victory victorious
- Video: Blok/Eko
In the Intersection
- American drama after 9/11: On the road
- In the intersection or in the crosshairs?
- In the intersection: What they want
- With Robert Brustein as Thomas Stockmann
Interviews
Jacques Lacan
James Joyce
James Purdy
Jan Fabre
- Alexander McQueen, dramatist
- In the mailbox
- Jan Fabre’s Olympian Gotterdammerung
- Je suis sang
- Upcoming: Jan Fabre’s Prometheus–Landscape II
Joe Orton
John Whiting
- David Rudkin on John Whiting and Saint’s Day
- From the archives: John Whiting on the art of the dramatist
- John Whiting on the art of the dramatist
- Money matters
- New stages and John Whiting
Jonathan Swift
Joseph Heller
Karl Kraus
Lars von Trier
- Melancholia and the foot in Lars von Trier’s mouth
- The Ring that never was
- Upcoming: Lars von Trier’s “Melancholia”
Lower East Side
- A little bit of Austrian gemütlichkeit on the Lower East Side
- Cafe Katja’s triumphant return
- Top of the hops
- Upcoming: Shakespeare in the Parking Lot
Lynn Nottage
Manuscript Remains
Marilyn Nonken
- “Spellbinding”
- Give the gift of new music
- In Houston: Nonken and Rothenberg play Kurtág
- Interview with Marilyn Nonken
- Marilyn Nonken at Le Poisson Rouge tomorrow night
- Marilyn Nonken traces her roots
- New York, stad med ständig Klang!
- Stress Position
- Stress Position
- This Sunday, Marilyn Nonken traces her pianistic roots
- Upcoming: Diagilev’s Paris
- Upcoming: Marilyn Nonken Plays Triadic Memories
- Upcoming: Marilyn Nonken’s Voix Voilées
- Upcoming: Morton Feldman in Philadelphia
- Upcoming: Nonken plays Nauert, Fineberg and Dufourt
- Upcoming: Nonken plays Rzewski and Chuaqui at (le) Poisson Rouge
- Upcoming: Olivier Messiaen, 31 Down, Howard Barker
- Upcoming: The Grand Gesture
- Visions de l’Amen at (Le) Poisson Rouge
Mark Rothko
- A new history of postwar American drama?
- A note to my readers
- Rothko Chapel
- Samuel Beckett, Mark Rothko and the courage of pessimism
- Upcoming: Beckett in New York
- Upcoming: Monodramas
Martin Crimp
Media
- Chris Hedges
- Kriegsfibel
- The death of Osama bin Laden
- Upcoming: The Reverend Billy anoints St. Christopher (Hedges)
- We interrupt this program
- Where privacy ends
Mike Leigh
Morton Feldman
- Monodramas
- Mr. Brook and Mr. Beckett
- Upcoming: Marilyn Nonken Plays Triadic Memories
- Upcoming: Monodramas
- Upcoming: Morton Feldman in Philadelphia
Music
- “Spellbinding”
- Beckett/Wagner
- Christmas music from 1911 Vienna: Friede auf Erden
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925-2012)
- Excerpt: Arnold Schoenberg’s Erwartung
- Friday video/From the archives: Beckett/Wagner
- Friday video: Adorno’s String Quartet
- Friday Video: Gould performs Webern
- Friday video: Hugues Dufourt
- Friday video: Janis Joplin
- Friday video: Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima
- Friday Videos: Arnold Schoenberg’s Phantasy, Op. 47
- From the archives
- Give the gift of new music
- God bless the child
- In Houston: Nonken and Rothenberg play Kurtág
- In memoriam: Jonathan Harvey
- Interview with Marilyn Nonken
- Jonathan Harvey: Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco
- Marilyn Nonken at Le Poisson Rouge tomorrow night
- Music: Furtwaengler Conducts Beethoven
- New Expressionism: Prologue 2
- New York, stad med ständig Klang!
- Once more, with “feeling”
- Stress Position
- Stress Position
- Surrounded by Stockhausen
- The art of theatre: Why bother?
- The Ring that never was
- Upcoming: Diagilev’s Paris
- Upcoming: Marilyn Nonken Plays Triadic Memories
- Upcoming: Marilyn Nonken’s Voix Voilées
- Upcoming: Monodramas
- Upcoming: Morton Feldman in Philadelphia
- Upcoming: Nonken plays Nauert, Fineberg and Dufourt
- Upcoming: Object Collection’s “Innova”
- Upcoming: Object Collection’s Innova
- Upcoming: Olivier Messiaen, 31 Down, Howard Barker
- Upcoming: The Grand Gesture
- Upcoming: You My Mother
- Visions de l’Amen at (Le) Poisson Rouge
Neil LaBute
- Friday video: The Gelbs on Eugene O’Neill
- Ten years later
- The Break of Noon (2010) by Neil LaBute
- Work made for hire
New Expressionism
- A word from the photographer
- Alexander McQueen, dramatist
- Archives: Readings in New Expressionism and Neue Sachlichkeit
- Crisis and melancholy
- Erlkönig notebook: Schiele, Klimt, Expressionism
- Erlkönig notebook: Terry Eagleton
- Erotic tragedy and New Expressionism: An annotated bibliography
- Excerpt: Arnold Schoenberg’s Erwartung
- Friday video: Mysteries of a Barber Shop (1923)
- From the archives: Crisis and melancholy
- From the archives: King Lear and the theatre of ignorance
- From the archives: New Expressionism
- Grünewald’s Crucifixion: “The Lockjaw Christ”
- In the mailbox
- King Lear and the theatre of ignorance: 1
- King Lear and the theatre of ignorance: 2
- Knowledge and the art of theatre
- New Expressionism and Neue Sachlichkeit: Readings
- New Expressionism: Prologue 1
- New Expressionism: Prologue 2
- New Expressionism: Reading
- Quotes: Tadeusz Kantor
- Silence and withdrawal in these great times
- The two traditions of modern drama
- The two traditions of modern drama
- Theatrical Expressionism in the Guardian
- To begin a discussion
New York Times
- A comfortable night at the theatre with the New York Times
- Elsewhere
- From the archives: A comfortable night at the theatre with the New York Times
- Jason Zinoman on the 2010 New York Fringe Festival
- Letters, he sent letters
- On the morning doorstep
- Openings: Ben Brantley on That Face
- Other places: The New York Times, Foreman, and Churchill
Obituaries
- Barney Rosset (1922-2012)
- Daniel Gerould (1928-2012)
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925-2012)
- Ellen Stewart: 1919-2011
- In memoriam: Jonathan Harvey
- Kazuo Ohno, 1906-2010
- Martin E. Segal (1916-2012)
- Ruby Cohn (1922-2011)
- Vaclav Havel (1936-2011)
Off-Off-Broadway
- Condemned to repeat the past
- Ellen Stewart: 1919-2011
- Fifteen hours
- Keep the Living Theatre alive and well
- More on OOB and “The Other Joe”
- Quotes: Al Carmines
- Upcoming: Celebrating two American theatre pioneers
- When Harold met Ellen
On criticism
- “The only civilised form of autobiography”
- “Why Jill Dolan’s theatre critic award matters”
- 21 asides on theatre criticism
- A comfortable night at the theatre with the New York Times
- A few notes on the subject
- A fond farewell to Theatre Notes
- A modest proposal
- A new history of postwar American drama?
- Alison Croggon on criticism and the Internet
- An update on new British drama from Aleks Sierz
- Archaeology of American drama criticism
- Art matters
- Authority and the critic
- B is for Billington
- Ben Brantley raises his fist
- Bloomsday on WBAI, and other reading
- Bonnie Marranca and PAJ 100
- Books: “The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights”
- Books: Rewriting the Nation
- Books: The Age of American Unreason
- Books: The Collected Drama of H.L. Mencken
- Criticism dies, again
- Down under and up over
- Eight
- Elsewhere
- Following the hand that writes
- Fool’s gold
- Friday Video, special edition: The critic as thinker
- Friday video: The Critic; and Truthdig on Mamet
- From the archives: A comfortable night at the theatre with the New York Times
- From the archives: A few notes on the subject
- From the archives: B is for Billington
- From the archives: Jan Kott
- From the archives: John Whiting on the art of the dramatist
- From the archives: Jonathan Kalb’s advice to the young critic
- From the archives: Revolting
- From the archives: The critic as thinker
- Getting personal
- Good housekeeping
- Hunkeanea: A Schimpflexikon
- If a critic ran a theatre …
- In the den
- It’s getting cloudy in Philadelphia
- Jan Kott
- Jason Zinoman on the 2010 New York Fringe Festival
- Jill Dolan Wins Nathan Award
- John Lahr v. Charles McNulty: Round 1
- John Whiting on the art of the dramatist
- Jonathan Kalb on “Marathon Theater”
- Jonathan Kalb’s advice to the young critic
- Language and form
- Letters, he sent letters
- Make big money now! Be a theatre critic!
- More on OOB and “The Other Joe”
- On difficulty and ideas in the theatre
- Openings: Ben Brantley on That Face
- Other places
- Other places
- Other places
- Other places
- Other places: Weekend reading
- Peter Marks and Howard Sherman on the new critical landscape
- Philadelphia theatre critic to gracefully step out
- Quotes: Eric Bentley
- Recommended Reading: Exeunt
- Revolting
- Ruby Cohn (1922-2011)
- Terry Teachout, David Cote, and the anti-tragic prejudice
- The complete critic’s qualifications
- The critic, re-framed
- The early winter of their discontent
- The two traditions of modern drama
- The two traditions of modern drama
- Theatre, criticism and the public intellectual
- Tragic, innit?
- Tuesday video, special edition: The critic as thinker
- Upcoming: A cultural conversation on the citizen critic at Under the Radar
- Update: The British are coming
- What do they know of theatre who only theatre know?
- Wheeler Centre panel discussion on theatre, drama and criticism
On the contrary
Opinion
Other places
- American Theatre debut
- Elsewhere
- Elsewhere
- Flat against the sky
- Good housekeeping
- Here and there
- Links here and there
- Other places
- Other places
- Other places
- Other places
- Other places
- Other places
- Other places: Beckett’s TV work, a “new” Churchill play, Brecht’s Galileo in Stratford-upon-Avon
- Other places: Edward Bond, Tony Kushner, Vivocraft and more
- Other places: The tears of a critic
- Recommended Reading: Exeunt
Paul Cava
- A word from the photographer
- De causis plantarum
- Desire and erotic transformation
- Erlkönig notebook
- On some photographs by Paul Cava
- Portrait
- Upcoming: Paul Cava
Paul Celan
Perspectives
Peter Barnes
Philosophy
- A critique of tragedy 26
- Books: Schopenhauer: A Biography by David E. Cartwright
- Friday video: Herbert Marcuse
- Friday video: Sea of Faith
- From the archives: Schopenhauer: A Biography by David E. Cartwright
- Magee and Copleston on Schopenhauer
- Pre-birth of tragedy
- The tragic and its limits
Politics
- “What didn’t kill us made us watch”
- Artists banning artists in London?
- Authority and the critic
- Daisey responds
- Eroticising Brecht’s Lehrstücke
- Friday video: Art, truth, and politics
- From the archives: Politics and a critique of tragedy
- From the archives: Revolting
- Fuckin’ Davey, fuckin’ Davey, fuckin’ Davey …
- Fuckin’ Davey, fuckin’ Davey, fuckin’ Davey …
- Hell and Dr. House
- Howard Brenton on the Freedom Theatre
- Mike Daisey at Georgetown
- More on l’affaire Daisey
- More on L’Affaire Kushner
- No CUNY honors for Tony Kushner
- Now playing: Karen Malpede’s “Another Life”
- One for the good guys
- Political theatre and wasting time
- Political theatre in dark times
- Revolting
- Saving Venice — and Political Theatre
- Suspension of belief
- The takeaway: Five years ago …
- The two theatres
- Throwing away my vote
- Truth and lies at the Public Theater
- Until Monday …
- Upcoming: Another Life
- Upcoming: The Reverend Billy anoints St. Christopher (Hedges)
- When political theatre is dangerous
Post-dramatic theatre and post-theatrical drama
- A few notes on the subject
- Ben Brantley raises his fist
- From the archives: A few notes on the subject
- From the archives: Jan Kott
- Reading: Post-dramatic theatre and the bleeding heart
- The classics, slapified
Prologue
Publications
- “Are plays proper literature?”
- “The booking of the play” …
- In the mailbox
- In the mailbox
- Notes on eros and performance
- Upcoming: Word made flesh
Radical elegance
- Friday video: Radical elegance and Georges Bataille
- Radical elegance
- Radical elegance and drama
- Radical elegance and form
Reading plays
Readings
Reviews
- “Theatre’s impossible promise”: David Kilpatrick reviews The Void
- Authority and the critic
- Review: Good Person of Szechwan
- Review: Howard Barker’s Victory at PTP/NYC
- Review: Iphigenia in Aulis
- Review: Jackie
- Review: The Fever
- Saving Venice — and Political Theatre
Richard Foreman
- A “Kickstart” for Richard Foreman’s Old-Fashioned Prostitutes
- Deep Trance Behavior in Potatoland (2008) by Richard Foreman
- Doctor Selavy’s Magic Theatre
- Drama of new consciousness
- Friday video: Richard Foreman
- Friday videos: Visionary film
- From the archives: Narrative authority
- Narrative authority
- New issue of Hyperion now on line
- Notes on Richard Foreman (2005-2007)
- Old Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Romance)
- Other places: The New York Times, Foreman, and Churchill
- Richard Foreman
- Richard Foreman on 9/11
- Richard Foreman speaks
- Richard Foreman, at his ease
- Richard Foreman: Plays with Films
- Upcoming: Hans-Juergen Syberberg, Richard Foreman
Richard Wagner
- “The dark is in reality my most precious ally”
- Art as philosophy, philosophy as art
- Arthur Schopenhauer in 2010
- Bayreuth, inside and out
- Beckett/Wagner
- Friday video/From the archives: Beckett/Wagner
- The ascetic aesthetic
- The Ring that never was
Sam Shepard
Samuel Beckett
- “The dark is in reality my most precious ally”
- A critique of tragedy 23
- A note to my readers
- Art as philosophy, philosophy as art
- Avigdor Arikha, 1929-2010
- Beckett/Wagner
- Books: Schopenhauer: A Biography by David E. Cartwright
- Brook Brings Beckett to Baryshnikov
- Celan and Beckett
- Christ and the Children
- First texts
- Follow-up and Fridays with Henry: Part 2
- Following the hand that writes
- Friday video/From the archives: Beckett/Wagner
- Friday Video: Blau and Esslin on Waiting for Godot
- Friday video: Krapp’s vision on the jetty and the farewell to love
- Friday video: Pinter on Beckett
- Friday video: Samuel Beckett’s “Ohio Impromptu” (1980)
- Friday video: Samuel Beckett’s Nacht und Träume (1982)
- Friday Video: Samuel Beckett’s Was Wo
- Friday Video: Waiting for Godot (1953)
- Friday Video: What Where (1983) by Samuel Beckett
- From the archives: New Expressionism
- From the archives: Revolting
- From the archives: Samuel Beckett: Fuck life
- Harold Pinter in Krapp’s Last Tape
- Introductory readings
- Monodramas
- Mr. Brook and Mr. Beckett
- New Expressionism: Prologue 1
- New issue of Hyperion now on line
- Notes on Samuel Beckett (2003-2008)
- Other places: Beckett’s TV work, a “new” Churchill play, Brecht’s Galileo in Stratford-upon-Avon
- Plays of Samuel Beckett: Come and Go (1965)
- Plays of Samuel Beckett: Play (1962)
- Quotes: Arthur Schopenhauer
- Quotes: Arthur Schopenhauer
- Repeat season: Harold Pinter in Krapp’s Last Tape
- Revolting
- Ruby Cohn (1922-2011)
- Samuel Beckett
- Samuel Beckett’s “The Vulture”
- Samuel Beckett, bookworm
- Samuel Beckett, Mark Rothko and the courage of pessimism
- Samuel Beckett: Fuck Life
- Schopenhauer, Beckett and the Sottisier notebook
- The antipodes
- The ascetic aesthetic
- The Beckett Circle
- The very extraordinariness of the ordinary
- Theatre photographs: Waiting for Godot world premiere
- Thoughts of winter
- Upcoming and ongoing: Brecht, Beckett, Jelinek
- Upcoming: Beckett in New York
- Upcoming: Monodramas
- Video: Beginning to End
Sarah Kane
- A comfortable night at the theatre with the New York Times
- From the archives: A comfortable night at the theatre with the New York Times
- From the archives: New Expressionism
- From the archives: Politics and a critique of tragedy
- New Expressionism: Prologue 1
- Notes on eros and performance
- Notes on Sarah Kane, 2006-2008
- Photo gallery: Sarah Kane in Victory
- Sarah Kane
- Upcoming: Howard Barker’s Victory
Scenes from an Execution
Science
Tadeusz Kantor
Television
- Athol Fugard, Tony Award non-person
- In the mailbox
- Remembering All in the Family
- Remembering Jacob Bronowski
Tennessee Williams
The Recognitions
Theatre of Revolt
- Bertolt Brecht
- Edward Albee
- From the archives: Revolting
- Harold Pinter
- Heiner Müller
- Howard Barker
- Revolting
- Richard Foreman
- Samuel Beckett
- Sarah Kane
- Those left out
Theatre photographs
Theodor Adorno
- Adorno on Nietzsche and amorality
- Friday video: Adorno’s String Quartet
- From the archives: Politics and a critique of tragedy
- From the archives: The subterranean history of Europe and the martyrs of love
- Josefina Ayerza on Lacan’s “Woman Does Not Exist”
- New Expressionism: Reading
- Quotes: Adorno on black art; Hullot-Kentor on disconnecting
- The gospel of Arthur Jensen
- The subterranean history of Europe and the martyrs of love
Thomas Bernhard
- Hanshe and Bernhard in The Brooklyn Rail
- Interview: Adam Seelig, Director of “Ritter, Dene, Voss”
- Upcoming: Thomas Bernhard’s Ritter, Dene, Voss
Thornton Wilder
Tony Kushner
- More on L’Affaire Kushner
- No CUNY honors for Tony Kushner
- Teachout on Kushner
- The takeaway: Five years ago …
- Until Monday …
Tragedy
- “Optimism is not only false but pernicious”
- Friday Video: King Lear
- From the archives: King Lear and the theatre of ignorance
- From the archives: Staging the tragic consciousness
- Jan Fabre’s Olympian Gotterdammerung
- Jean-Pierre Vernant on tragedy
- King Lear and the theatre of ignorance: 1
- King Lear and the theatre of ignorance: 2
- On the necessity and futility of preaching to the unconverted
- Pre-birth of tragedy
- Quotes: George Steiner
- Quotes: Howard Barker on love and the individual
- Saint Oedipus
- Staging the tragic consciousness
- Terry Teachout, David Cote, and the anti-tragic prejudice
- The tragic and its limits
- The very extraordinariness of the ordinary
- Theatre as sanctuary
- Theatre as sanctuary
- Tragedy and the postdramatic theatre
- Tragedy as propaedeutic
- Tragic consciousness
- Tragic, innit?
- Transgressions and transformations in the erotic tragedy
- Upcoming: Iphigenia in Aulis
- Upcoming: Jan Fabre’s Prometheus–Landscape II
Uncategorized
- “When civilizations start to die they go insane”
- A few words in praise of gentlemen
- A few words in praise of words
- A playwright walks into a bar …
- Appreciation
- As went the orchestra, so will the theatre go?
- Beancounters for sale
- Bildungsroman
- Congratulations
- Constriction
- De Civitate Dei
- Elsewhere
- End of week marginalia
- Eudaemonics in an age of decline
- Experiment and the avant-garde
- Friday video: Culturebot Citizen Critic Project
- Going dark
- Guardian of the realm
- Having a go
- Hyperion
- In memoriam
- In memoriam
- In memoriam
- In memoriam: Ronan Christopher Louis
- Index
- Just the facts
- La valse
- Last stop, everybody off
- Longer, louder, faster: A manifesto of sorts
- Modernism against the world
- More from Drew McManus on theatre and orchestras
- More on Dan Gerould
- Notes from here and there
- Old writers festival
- One click, no waiting
- Paralysis
- Past posts
- Pottery or leather?
- Primary texts
- Resignation and happiness
- Saying farewell to 2011 — and an invitation to subscribe to 2012
- Semicolonoscopy
- Smart people
- Stocktaking
- superfluitiesredux.com
- The new play scene in the UK
- Theatre blogosphere dead; no services planned
- Theatre roundup: Playwrights dead and alive
- Through a glass, darkly
- Thursday video: Supermarketing
- Top 10
- Troubling news from Hungary
- Two at La MaMa
- Under the sun
- Unpopular culture
- Various voices
- While you were out
Upcoming
- Against the world
- Barker in Wales and in verse
- Christopher Shinn, Down Under
- Design team announced for What She Knew
- Discount Code for What She Knew
- EyeCorner Press book release party
- Genocide: Coming soon to a theatre near you
- In Houston: Nonken and Rothenberg play Kurtág
- Interview: Adam Seelig, Director of “Ritter, Dene, Voss”
- Knowledge and the art of theatre
- Marilyn Nonken at Le Poisson Rouge tomorrow night
- Marilyn Nonken traces her roots
- Next season at the Public Theater
- Opening tonight: Howard Barker’s The Forty
- Proof positive
- Reading Bertolt Brecht’s The Good Person of Szechwan
- Richard Foreman, at his ease
- Scenes from an Execution at the National Theatre
- This Sunday, Marilyn Nonken traces her pianistic roots
- Tickets now on sale for What She Knew
- Upcoming and ongoing: Brecht, Beckett, Jelinek
- Upcoming in London: Screaming in Advance
- Upcoming: “Blok/Eko” by Howard Barker
- Upcoming: “Serious Money” and “Monster” from PTP/NYC
- Upcoming: A cultural conversation on the citizen critic at Under the Radar
- Upcoming: Additional Daisey performance, Kristen Kosmas in Queens
- Upcoming: Another Life
- Upcoming: Birth of the Modern
- Upcoming: Celebrating two American theatre pioneers
- Upcoming: Christopher Shinn’s “Picked”
- Upcoming: Diagilev’s Paris
- Upcoming: Extreme Whether
- Upcoming: Field 309
- Upcoming: Gary the Thief and Plevna: Meditations on Hatred
- Upcoming: Hans-Juergen Syberberg, Richard Foreman
- Upcoming: Howard Barker’s Gertrude at the Red Bull Theater
- Upcoming: Howard Barker’s The Forty
- Upcoming: Howard Barker’s Victory
- Upcoming: Iphigenia in Aulis
- Upcoming: Jackie
- Upcoming: Jan Fabre’s Prometheus–Landscape II
- Upcoming: Julia Jarcho, Howard Barker, Matthew Freeman
- Upcoming: Lars von Trier’s “Melancholia”
- Upcoming: Marie and Bruce at The New Group
- Upcoming: Mark Ravenhill at the Segal Center
- Upcoming: Mike Daisey and Ayn Rand
- Upcoming: Morton Feldman in Philadelphia
- Upcoming: No Passport Conference
- Upcoming: Nonken plays Nauert, Fineberg and Dufourt
- Upcoming: Nonken plays Rzewski and Chuaqui at (le) Poisson Rouge
- Upcoming: Object Collection’s “Innova”
- Upcoming: Object Collection’s Innova
- Upcoming: Olivier Messiaen, 31 Down, Howard Barker
- Upcoming: Paul Cava
- Upcoming: PTP/NYC Summer 2010 Season
- Upcoming: Red Bull Theater Revelation Readings
- Upcoming: Reza Abdoh, John Osborne, Camille O’Sullivan
- Upcoming: Shakespeare in the Parking Lot
- Upcoming: Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal
- Upcoming: Steve Burns in Matt Freeman’s “Confess Your Bubble”
- Upcoming: The Dance of Death
- Upcoming: The Fever
- Upcoming: The Foundry Theatre’s Good Person of Szechwan
- Upcoming: The Grand Gesture
- Upcoming: The Last Story
- Upcoming: The Plague
- Upcoming: The Reverend Billy anoints St. Christopher (Hedges)
- Upcoming: The Void
- Upcoming: Thomas Bernhard’s Ritter, Dene, Voss
- Upcoming: What She Knew
- Upcoming: What She Knew
- Upcoming: Word made flesh
- Upcoming: You My Mother
- What She Knew opens on Wednesday
Videos
- Follow-up and Fridays with Henry: Part 2
- Friday Video, special edition: The critic as thinker
- Friday video: “Walken” reads Sendak
- Friday video: Adorno’s String Quartet
- Friday video: An American salesman in Vienna
- Friday video: Another interview with Martin Crimp
- Friday video: Art, truth, and politics
- Friday Video: Bertolt Brecht
- Friday Video: Blau and Esslin on Waiting for Godot
- Friday Video: Brecht on stage, part 2
- Friday Video: Brecht on stage, part 3
- Friday Video: Celebrating Harold Pinter
- Friday video: Cheese shop
- Friday video: Eugene Ionesco
- Friday Video: Gould performs Webern
- Friday video: Hamlet
- Friday Video: Harold Pinter
- Friday video: Herbert Marcuse
- Friday video: Janis Joplin
- Friday video: Life of Galileo
- Friday video: Made
- Friday video: Medieval helpdesk
- Friday video: Michael Ritchie’s “Smile”
- Friday video: Mikey and Nicky
- Friday Video: Müller’s Tristan
- Friday video: Mysteries of a Barber Shop (1923)
- Friday video: Pandora’s Box
- Friday video: Pinter on Beckett
- Friday video: Radical elegance and Georges Bataille
- Friday video: Richard Foreman
- Friday video: Samuel Beckett’s “Ohio Impromptu” (1980)
- Friday video: Samuel Beckett’s Nacht und Träume (1982)
- Friday Video: Samuel Beckett’s Was Wo
- Friday video: Sea of Faith
- Friday video: Stardust Memories
- Friday Video: Syberberg’s Hitler: A Film from Germany
- Friday video: Talk about nothing
- Friday video: The Caretaker
- Friday video: The Critic; and Truthdig on Mamet
- Friday video: The Gelbs on Eugene O’Neill
- Friday video: The Room by Harold Pinter
- Friday video: Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima
- Friday Video: Topsy-Turvy (1999) by Mike Leigh
- Friday video: Trevor Griffiths’ “Comedians”
- Friday Video: Waiting for Godot (1953)
- Friday video: William Gaddis
- Friday Videos: Arnold Schoenberg’s Phantasy, Op. 47
- Friday videos: Visionary film
- From the archives: The critic as thinker
- Monday Video: Bertolt Brecht answers the question
- Other places: The New York Times, Foreman, and Churchill
- Upcoming: Steve Burns in Matt Freeman’s “Confess Your Bubble”
- Video: Elfriede Jelinek’s Jackie at the Segal Center
Wallace Shawn
- A brief Wallace Shawn primer
- A comfortable night at the theatre with the New York Times
- Books: Essays by Wallace Shawn
- Drama of new consciousness
- Follow-up and Fridays with Henry: Part 2
- From the archives: A comfortable night at the theatre with the New York Times
- Grasses of a Thousand Colors (2009) by Wallace Shawn
- Next season at the Public Theater
- Reading Wallace Shawn’s The Fever
- Review: The Fever
- Upcoming: Marie and Bruce at The New Group
- Upcoming: The Fever
- Upcoming: Wallace Shawn’s Grasses of a Thousand Colors
William Gaddis
- “Nobody grew but the business”
- Esme tries to write a poem
- Friday video: William Gaddis
- Gaddis speaks
- Looking back, looking ahead
- Reading William Gaddis
- Two William Gaddis novels return to print
- William Gaddis
- William Gaddis: Bibliography of critical literature
- William Gaddis: The last American modernist?
William Shakespeare
- “… and good luck with your future projects, Mr. Shakespeare”
- Friday video: Hamlet
- Friday Video: King Lear
- From the archives: King Lear and the theatre of ignorance
- King Lear and the theatre of ignorance: 1
- King Lear and the theatre of ignorance: 2
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Upcoming: Shakespeare in the Parking Lot
Word Made Flesh
- A word from the photographer
- New books from Rudkin and Barker
- Proof positive
- Summer reading
- Talking about “Word Made Flesh”
- Word Made Flesh
- Word Made Flesh now available
- Word Made Flesh: “Precise, philosophical and provocative”
Writing as mourning
theatre minima
- A critique of tragedy 1
- A critique of tragedy 10
- A critique of tragedy 11
- A critique of tragedy 12
- A critique of tragedy 13
- A critique of tragedy 14
- A critique of tragedy 15
- A critique of tragedy 16
- A critique of tragedy 17
- A critique of tragedy 18
- A critique of tragedy 19
- A critique of tragedy 2
- A critique of tragedy 26
- A critique of tragedy 3
- A critique of tragedy 4
- A critique of tragedy 5
- A critique of tragedy 6
- A critique of tragedy 7
- A critique of tragedy 8
- A critique of tragedy 9
- Adorno on Nietzsche and amorality
- Celan and Beckett
- Design team announced for What She Knew
- Discount Code for What She Knew
- Four more performances
- Knowledge and the art of theatre
- Production photographs from What She Knew
- Quotes: Sex and philosophy (and theatre)
- Something more than rumor
- Striking the set and restoring the plot
- The fashion photograph as erotic event
- Theatre as sanctuary
- Tickets now on sale for What She Knew
- Trav S.D. on “The first of the red hot mamas”
- Upcoming: What She Knew
- Upcoming: What She Knew
- What She Knew
- What She Knew opens on Wednesday
- What She Knew: Final two performances