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 critique of tragedy 20
- A new history of postwar American drama?
- A report card for the arts
- American drama after 9/11
- Awake and Sing by Clifford Odets
- 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
- Friday video: William Gaddis
- Fuckin’ Davey, fuckin’ Davey, fuckin’ Davey …
- Grasses of a Thousand Colors (2009) by Wallace Shawn
- Infantilizing the American drama
- Interview: Arnold Wesker
- Jason Zinoman on the 2010 New York Fringe Festival
- Kriegsfibel
- Michael Billington puts up his dukes
- Notes on eros and performance
- Notes on Richard Foreman (2005-2007)
- Nothing doing
- Nothing happens, once
- Other places
- Our Town by Thornton Wilder
- Quotes: Erik Ehn
- Remembering All in the Family
- Richard Foreman speaks
- 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
- Update: The British are coming
- Video: Sam Shepard
- Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odets
- Work made for hire
American drama after 9/11
- American drama after 9/11
- Books: Outrageous Fortune
- Deep Trance Behavior in Potatoland (2008) by Richard Foreman
- Grasses of a Thousand Colors (2009) by Wallace Shawn
- Happy #newplay?
- Kriegsfibel
- Ruined (2008) by Lynn Nottage
- Ten years later
- The Break of Noon (2010) by Neil LaBute
- Upcoming: Christopher Shinn’s “Picked”
American drama: A personal history
- A new history of postwar American drama?
- 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
- Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odets
Archives
- Friday video/From the archives: Beckett/Wagner
- From the archives
- From the archives: Gordon Ramsay at the London
- From the archives: Knowledge and the art of theatre
- From the archives: Silence and withdrawal in these great times
- From the archives: The death of Agamemnon
Arnold Schoenberg
- Excerpt: Arnold Schoenberg’s Erwartung
- Friday Videos: Arnold Schoenberg’s Phantasy, Op. 47
- Monodramas
- New Expressionism: Prologue 2
- New Expressionism: Reading
- Upcoming: Monodramas
Art
- Art: A sacred place
- Avigdor Arikha, 1929-2010
- Crisis and melancholy
- De causis plantarum
- Erotic tragedy proposed: Section 5
- Fluxus
- 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
- A critique of tragedy 23
- A critique of tragedy 24
- Art as philosophy, philosophy as art
- Arthur Schopenhauer in 2010
- Beckett/Wagner
- 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
- 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 ascetic aesthetic
- Tragedy as propaedeutic
Asian drama
Australian drama
Bertolt Brecht
- A critique of tragedy 4
- Bertolt Brecht
- Friday Video: Bertolt Brecht
- Friday Video: Brecht on stage, part 2
- Friday Video: Brecht on stage, part 3
- Friday video: Life of Galileo
- Kriegsfibel
- Monday Video: Bertolt Brecht answers the question
- Notes on Bertolt Brecht
- Revolting
- Ruined (2008) by Lynn Nottage
- Upcoming and ongoing: Brecht, Beckett, Jelinek
Bill Talen
Books
- A Bloomsday note
- Against the world
- Aleks Sierz on new British drama
- Books received
- Books: “The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights”
- 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: Theatre by David Mamet
- Charles Spencer on David Mamet
- Distillation
- From the archives
- 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
- Proof positive
- Samuel Beckett: Fuck Life
- Summer reading
- The bookshelf
- Two William Gaddis novels return to print
- Update: The British are coming
- William Gaddis
Catch-22
Christopher Shinn
- Christopher Shinn, Down Under
- Dying City by Christopher Shinn
- Upcoming: Christopher Shinn’s “Picked”
Clifford Odets
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
- Art as philosophy, philosophy as art
- David Ian Rabey on Howard Barker
- 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 …
David Rudkin
- David Rudkin on John Whiting and Saint’s Day
- David Rudkin on the social function of the dramatist
- 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
- Jonathan Kalb on “Marathon Theater”
- Narrative authority
- Quotes: Eric Bentley
- Revolting
- The streets of London, the camps of Kenya
Drew Baker
Edward Albee
Edward Bond
Eric Bentley
Erik Ehn
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: 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
- Eugene O’Neill speaks
- Eugene O’Neill: Bound East for Cardiff (1914)
- Eugene O’Neill: In the Zone (1917)
- Friday video: The Gelbs on Eugene O’Neill
- 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
- Aleks Sierz on new British drama
- B is for Billington
- Books: “The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights”
- David Ian Rabey on Howard Barker
- Departures from a Position
- Friday video: Eugene Ionesco
- Friday video: Trevor Griffiths’ “Comedians”
- Harold Pinter
- Harold Pinter in Krapp’s Last Tape
- In conversation
- Interview: Adam Seelig, Director of “Ritter, Dene, Voss”
- Interview: Arnold Wesker
- 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
- Melancholia and the foot in Lars von Trier’s mouth
- The Bernie Madoff of Hazleton, PA
- The gospel of Arthur Jensen
- Upcoming: Hans-Juergen Syberberg, Richard Foreman
- Upcoming: Lars von Trier’s “Melancholia”
- We interrupt this program
Food
Friday Videos
- Friday Video, special edition: The critic as thinker
- Friday video: Adorno’s String Quartet
- 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: Eugene Ionesco
- Friday Video: Gould performs Webern
- Friday Video: Harold Pinter
- Friday video: Herbert Marcuse
- Friday video: Life of Galileo
- Friday video: Medieval helpdesk
- Friday video: Michael Ritchie’s “Smile”
- Friday Video: Müller’s Tristan
- Friday video: Pinter on Beckett
- Friday video: Richard Foreman
- Friday video: Samuel Beckett’s “Ohio Impromptu” (1980)
- Friday Video: Samuel Beckett’s Was Wo
- Friday video: Sea of Faith
- Friday Video: Syberberg’s Hitler: A Film from Germany
- Friday video: The Critic; and Truthdig on Mamet
- Friday video: The Gelbs on Eugene O’Neill
- 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
- Monday Video: Bertolt Brecht answers the question
George Bernard Shaw
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
Hans-Jurgen Syberberg
Harold Pinter
- Friday Video: Celebrating Harold Pinter
- Friday Video: Harold Pinter
- Friday video: Pinter on Beckett
- 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
- Alexander McQueen, dramatist
- Art: A sacred place
- Books: Plays Six by Howard Barker
- Books: Schopenhauer: A Biography by David E. Cartwright
- David Ian Rabey on Howard Barker
- Departures from a Position
- From the archives
- Howard Barker
- 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
- 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
- Review: Howard Barker’s Victory at PTP/NYC
- Something more than rumor
- Staging the tragic consciousness
- The effect of dancers on poets
- Tony nominations for Jan Maxwell
- 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
Interviews
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
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”
Lynn Nottage
Marilyn Nonken
- “Spellbinding”
- In Houston: Nonken and Rothenberg play Kurtág
- Interview with Marilyn Nonken
- Marilyn Nonken at Le Poisson Rouge tomorrow night
- New York, stad med ständig Klang!
- Stress Position
- Stress Position
- Upcoming: Marilyn Nonken Plays Triadic Memories
- 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
- Visions de l’Amen at (Le) Poisson Rouge
Mark Rothko
- A new history of postwar American drama?
- Rothko Chapel
- Samuel Beckett, Mark Rothko and the courage of pessimism
- Upcoming: Monodramas
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
- Excerpt: Arnold Schoenberg’s Erwartung
- Friday video/From the archives: Beckett/Wagner
- Friday video: Adorno’s String Quartet
- Friday Video: Gould performs Webern
- Friday Videos: Arnold Schoenberg’s Phantasy, Op. 47
- From the archives
- In Houston: Nonken and Rothenberg play Kurtág
- Interview with Marilyn Nonken
- 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
- The Ring that never was
- Upcoming: Marilyn Nonken Plays Triadic Memories
- 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: 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
- Crisis and melancholy
- Erotic tragedy and New Expressionism: An annotated bibliography
- Excerpt: Arnold Schoenberg’s Erwartung
- From the archives: King Lear and the theatre of ignorance
- 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
- Theatrical Expressionism in the Guardian
- To begin a discussion
New York Times
- A comfortable night at the theatre with the New York Times
- Jason Zinoman on the 2010 New York Fringe Festival
- Openings: Ben Brantley on That Face
Obituaries
- Daniel Gerould (1928-2012)
- Ellen Stewart: 1919-2011
- Kazuo Ohno, 1906-2010
- Ruby Cohn (1922-2011)
- Vaclav Havel (1936-2011)
Off-Off-Broadway
On criticism
- “The only civilised form of autobiography”
- “Why Jill Dolan’s theatre critic award matters”
- A comfortable night at the theatre with the New York Times
- 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
- Bloomsday on WBAI, and other reading
- Bonnie Marranca and PAJ 100
- Books: “The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights”
- Books: Rewriting the Nation
- Criticism dies, again
- Down under and up over
- Eight
- Following the hand that writes
- Fool’s gold
- Friday Video, special edition: The critic as thinker
- Friday video: The Critic; and Truthdig on Mamet
- Getting personal
- Good housekeeping
- Hunkeanea: A Schimpflexikon
- In the den
- Jan Kott
- Jason Zinoman on the 2010 New York Fringe Festival
- Jill Dolan Wins Nathan Award
- John Whiting on the art of the dramatist
- Jonathan Kalb on “Marathon Theater”
- Jonathan Kalb’s advice to the young critic
- On difficulty and ideas in the theatre
- Openings: Ben Brantley on That Face
- Other places
- Other places
- Other places
- Other places: Weekend reading
- Peter Marks and Howard Sherman on the new critical landscape
- Quotes: Eric Bentley
- Recommended Reading: Exeunt
- Revolting
- Ruby Cohn (1922-2011)
- The early winter of their discontent
- The two traditions of modern drama
- Theatre, criticism and the public intellectual
- 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
Other places
- Flat against the sky
- Good housekeeping
- Other places
- Other places
- Other places
- Other places
- Other places: Edward Bond, Tony Kushner, Vivocraft and more
- Recommended Reading: Exeunt
Paul Cava
- A word from the photographer
- De causis plantarum
- Desire and erotic transformation
- Portrait
- Upcoming: Paul Cava
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
- Magee and Copleston on Schopenhauer
Politics
- Authority and the critic
- Fuckin’ Davey, fuckin’ Davey, fuckin’ Davey …
- More on L’Affaire Kushner
- No CUNY honors for Tony Kushner
- Revolting
- Saving Venice — and Political Theatre
- The takeaway: Five years ago …
- Until Monday …
- Upcoming: The Reverend Billy anoints St. Christopher (Hedges)
Prologue
Publications
- “Are plays proper literature?”
- “The booking of the play” …
- Notes on eros and performance
- Upcoming: Word made flesh
Readings
Reviews
- “Theatre’s impossible promise”: David Kilpatrick reviews The Void
- Authority and the critic
- Review: Howard Barker’s Victory at PTP/NYC
- Saving Venice — and Political Theatre
Richard Foreman
- Deep Trance Behavior in Potatoland (2008) by Richard Foreman
- Doctor Selavy’s Magic Theatre
- Friday video: Richard Foreman
- Narrative authority
- New issue of Hyperion now on line
- Notes on Richard Foreman (2005-2007)
- Richard Foreman
- Richard Foreman speaks
- Richard Foreman, at his ease
- 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
- 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
- First texts
- 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 Was Wo
- Friday Video: Waiting for Godot (1953)
- Friday Video: What Where (1983) by Samuel Beckett
- Harold Pinter in Krapp’s Last Tape
- Monodramas
- Mr. Brook and Mr. Beckett
- New Expressionism: Prologue 1
- New issue of Hyperion now on line
- Notes on Samuel Beckett (2003-2008)
- 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, Mark Rothko and the courage of pessimism
- Samuel Beckett: Fuck Life
- Schopenhauer, Beckett and the Sottisier notebook
- The ascetic aesthetic
- Theatre photographs: Waiting for Godot world premiere
- Thoughts of winter
- Upcoming and ongoing: Brecht, Beckett, Jelinek
- Upcoming: Monodramas
- Video: Beginning to End
Sarah Kane
- A comfortable night at the theatre with the New York Times
- 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
Science
Tadeusz Kantor
Television
Tennessee Williams
The Elf King
- 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
Theatre of Revolt
- Bertolt Brecht
- Edward Albee
- 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
- New Expressionism: Reading
- Quotes: Adorno on black art; Hullot-Kentor on disconnecting
- The gospel of Arthur Jensen
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
- Friday Video: King Lear
- From the archives: King Lear and the theatre of ignorance
- 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
- Quotes: George Steiner
- Quotes: Howard Barker on love and the individual
- Saint Oedipus
- Staging the tragic consciousness
- Theatre as sanctuary
- Tragedy and the postdramatic theatre
- Tragedy as propaedeutic
- Tragic consciousness
- Transgressions and transformations in the erotic tragedy
- Upcoming: Jan Fabre’s Prometheus–Landscape II
Uncategorized
- A playwright walks into a bar …
- Appreciation
- Bildungsroman
- Congratulations
- Constriction
- Eudaemonics in an age of decline
- Guardian of the realm
- Having a go
- Hyperion
- In memoriam
- In memoriam
- Index
- More on Dan Gerould
- Past posts
- Primary texts
- Saying farewell to 2011 — and an invitation to subscribe to 2012
- Stocktaking
- superfluitiesredux.com
- Through a glass, darkly
- Troubling news from Hungary
- Under the sun
- Unpopular culture
Upcoming
- Against the world
- Christopher Shinn, Down Under
- Design team announced for What She Knew
- Discount Code for What She Knew
- EyeCorner Press book release party
- 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
- Opening tonight: Howard Barker’s The Forty
- Proof positive
- Richard Foreman, at his ease
- Tickets now on sale for What She Knew
- Upcoming and ongoing: Brecht, Beckett, Jelinek
- Upcoming: “Blok/Eko” by Howard Barker
- Upcoming: A cultural conversation on the citizen critic at Under the Radar
- Upcoming: Birth of the Modern
- Upcoming: Christopher Shinn’s “Picked”
- 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: 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: Morton Feldman in Philadelphia
- 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: Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal
- 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
Wallace Shawn
- A comfortable night at the theatre with the New York Times
- Books: Essays by Wallace Shawn
- Grasses of a Thousand Colors (2009) by Wallace Shawn
- Upcoming: Marie and Bruce at The New Group
William Gaddis
- Friday video: William Gaddis
- Looking back, looking ahead
- Two William Gaddis novels return to print
- William Gaddis
William Shakespeare
- “… and good luck with your future projects, Mr. Shakespeare”
- 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
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 now available
- Word Made Flesh: “Precise, philosophical and provocative”
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
- 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