“Between me and the ape pacing over there, which one of us is actually thinking about THIS PLAY?” – Geoffrey
Archives for October 9, 2013
Shaw’s You Never Can Tell
What a nice surprise to be able to welcome back the lesser known Bernard Shaw play You Never Can Tell. Even its light hearted title suggests that immediately after Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Shaw opted to try something less inflamed. What emerged was clearly an homage (or a satire of) his friend Oscar Wilde’s The Importance […]
Arena Stage featured in An Ideal Theater
Todd London, artistic director of New Dramatists, has compiled a family Bible for the modern American theater. In the letters, speeches, and reflections collected in An Ideal Theater: Founding Visions for a New American Art, American drama’s founding spirits share their visions for 50 theaters from Los Angeles to the Lower East Side. This book […]