Tuesday, May 14, 2013
(This post is a part of the Artistic Innovation blog salon curated by Caridad Svich for the 2013 TCG National Conference: Learn Do Teach in Dallas). In 1978 the National Lampoon released…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:42AMSunday, April 21, 2013
If a thing is worth doing, goes the saying, it is worth doing well, and this is as true of theatre blogs like this one as it is of everything ...
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 09:06PMFriday, April 19, 2013
Unlike the situation in continental Europe, the relationship between Modernism and the English-language stage has always been uneasy. Several “High Modernists” wrote for the stag…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:49AMThursday, April 18, 2013
As part of the “Tracing Our Roots” series of discussions at NYU Steinhardt’s Piano Studies program, Marilyn Nonken will offer a unique program focusing on her own career an…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:23AMWednesday, April 17, 2013
Ah, youth. In 1978, at the green age of 16, I first visited the Public Theater on Lafayette Street on a short weekend trip from my home of Hazleton, PA, for a day of theatregoing that could …
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:47AMTuesday, April 16, 2013
Celan began a long poem in which “what’s real happens.” It was his follow-up to “Todesfuge” and moved deeper into inaccessible terrain. “Engführung”…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 01:24PMMonday, April 15, 2013
I know I’m late to the party, but recently I’ve been enjoying the writings of Ron Rosenbaum, the writer of “narrative nonfiction and essays,” as he describes them, an…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 09:04AMFriday, April 12, 2013
According to John Felstiner, Theodor Adorno considered Paul Celan “the only authentic postwar writer to stand with Samuel Beckett.” [1] (Adorno, Beckett, Celan: there’…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:57AMThursday, April 11, 2013
This Saturday at 8.00pm, Marilyn Nonken and Sarah Rothenberg will perform a two-piano version of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring (1913) and Olivier Messiaen’s Visions de l’Ame…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:31AMWednesday, April 10, 2013
On Friday 3 May and Saturday 4 May at London’s Print Room, members of Howard Barker’s Wrestling School will present readings of four new plays by the dramatist — Concentrat…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 03:00PMTuesday, April 9, 2013
Paul Cava’s recent photographs demonstrate the tension between the vulnerable flesh and the solid object, between the body’s freedom and its restraint and encasement in hard pose…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 12:44PMMonday, April 8, 2013
A diversion for Monday: Our friend Izzy Morgana Rabey has recently begun working with Welsh jazz pianist Bill Sutton, and just last month they recorded this version of “God Bless the C…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 12:58PMFriday, April 5, 2013
Well, the series on criticism at Howlround has finally wound its way to the end of its weary week; you’ll find essays by Rob Weinert-Kendt (American Theatre and the New York Times), Ja…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:53AMThursday, April 4, 2013
Originally posted on 18 February 2011.
Though he wrote more extensively about it in his English Drama Since 1940, David Ian Rabey first suggested a “New Expressionism” as one of…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:37AMWednesday, April 3, 2013
As part of the “Tracing Our Roots” series of discussions at NYU Steinhardt’s Piano Studies program, Marilyn Nonken will offer a unique program focusing on her own career an…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 03:42PMTuesday, April 2, 2013
Originally published 1 May 2012:
Beneath the known history of Europe there runs a subterranean one. It consists of the fate of the human instincts and passions repressed and distorted by ...
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 09:08AMMonday, April 1, 2013
Plays with Films, a collection of three of Richard Foreman’s recent theater texts, is forthcoming from Contra Mundum Press on 30 April, just in time for the opening of Foreman’s …
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 03:39PMFriday, March 29, 2013
Perhaps one of the more obvious traits about a few recent non-events in the critical community is that they display what might best be called un-gentlemanliness–that is, they cross the…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 11:26AMWednesday, March 27, 2013
Susan Jacoby, The Age of American Unreason. New York: Vintage Books, 2009 (an update of the original hardcover edition published by Pantheon Books in 2008). 357 pages. In 1963, Knopf publish…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 12:21PMFriday, March 22, 2013
Otto Dix. New-Born Baby in Hands (Ursus Dix) (1927). Mixed media on wood.
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SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 06:26AMThursday, March 21, 2013
Originally posted on 19 October 2010. In his monograph on the music of Arnold Schoenberg [1], Charles Rosen describes one of the composer’s major achievements as “emancipati…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:21AMWednesday, March 20, 2013
Originally posted on 18 October 2010. In Schopenhauer’s conception of knowledge and the world, mankind is phenomenon par excellence, the object through which subjectivity can be known …
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:50AMTuesday, March 19, 2013
Originally posted on 23 March 2012. One of the responsibilities of criticism in this century is the reclamation of the individual subject, a subject who has been susceptible to undermining a…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 11:09AMWednesday, March 13, 2013
As his work has provided inspiration to me before, so is it now; above a montage by Paul Cava, whose work is being celebrated in For Love, an exhibition at the jdc Fine Art gallery this mont…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 10:56AMMonday, March 11, 2013
… Nothingness is a profoundly political notion. It is an implicit critique of a social order obscenely bulging with matter. In Beckett’s case, of course, it has a more particular…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 09:43AMThursday, March 7, 2013
One of the most promising books about drama and theatre on the spring list is Sean Carney‘s The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary English Tragedy, published a few weeks ago by the U…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 04:00PMWhen the 1 March sequester went into effect, the budget of the National Endowment for the Arts was cut by 8.2%, from $148 million to about $136 million, according to this report (this $148 m…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:24AMWednesday, March 6, 2013
If you’re in Houston next Wednesday, don’t miss Diagilev’s Paris, a concert presented by Da Camera and featuring Sarah Rothenberg and my wife Marilyn Nonken. They’ll …
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:23AMTuesday, March 5, 2013
Earlier today I posted my review of Elfriede Jelinek’s Jackie at the Women’s Project Theatre; for those who want to know more, you couldn’t do better than the discussion, &…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 04:52PMJackie by Elfriede Jelinek, translated by Gitta Honegger. Directed by Tea Alagic. With Tina Benko. Scenic design: Marsha Ginsberg; costume design: Susan Hilferty; lighting design: Brian H Sc…
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 09:17AMMonday, March 4, 2013
I am rarely tempted to offer suggestions as to the improvement of drama criticism and reviews in the mainstream media. As some of the responses to John Lahr’s recent essay suggest, how…
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