499 stories by "ROB WEINERT-KENDT"
On musical theater writing, from my February feature on multifacted playwright Laura Eason:I once got this incredibly sweet email from Charles Strouse; he saw an adaptation of mine at 59E59 …
I'm not a big Sarah Silverman fan, but this is good stuff. It's clear she'll make a great Joanne in Company one day.
There goes the neighborhood. (Seriously: Welcome, Chloe.)Playwrights blog their process: Matthew Freeman and George Hunka.Don Shirley drops some serious Gil Cates knowledge, from nude Quills…
Maybe I over-research as a reporter, but I almost always end up with a lot, lot more material than I can put into any given story. Case in point, my preview piece on the L.A. run of Bring It…
I didn't know Gil Cates personally"I think I must have met him at least once during my time on the L.A. theater scene, and one of Back Stage West's best Garland awards shows (hosted by Chris…
Wow. Just wow.
A subject of David Cote's critics' roundup in American Theatre speaks up.Phantom Limb's next project sounds even better than 69°S.One of my most-hit posts, obviously because of the title,…
Schoenberg + Teletubbies = early Halloween fear candy. (via Daniel Capo on Vimeo.)
Did you miss his readings-and-chat evening with Young Jean Lee, Tarell Alvin McCraney, and David Adjmi? Good news, it's all here.
The above was our half-joking working title at American Theatre for this great new feature by David Cote, which surveys 12 of the nation's most influential theater critics about the state of…
Playgoer throws down the gauntlet to the Oxfordians, gets a reading list.Matthew Freeman gets precisely one response to a bleg for critics people like.Alexis Denisof and Amy Acker are almost…
"If a reviewer should deem a production a failure, so be it. But at least start from the presumption of purpose; discuss the ideas. And this has been the revelation for me, as a relative lud…
"I'm always looking for sounds that are pleasing at the time. The sound of a helicopter is really annoying until you're drowning, and it's there to rescue you. Then it sounds like music."-To…
Ian David Moss has a blockbuster post today proposing that arts funding advocates stop shouting and e-blasting, and instead start doing business the way every other major industry lobby does…
You'd expect that Mike Daisey's The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs would be controversial for its entirely coincidental timing (in the works for some while, the show had been performed …
Who is the audience for this?
Dog Day cable box.The Good Book on stage.Lots of Sarah Ruhl on this rainy-day-play list.A tribute to Mike Daisey from his director.Speaking of Daisey, these comments are getting ugly.
I mostly agree with Terry Teachout's rave for Mike Daisey's new Steve Jobs show, an opinion shared by most critics. Daisey's assault on the blissful ignorance in which we enjoy our electroni…
Sully waxes Shakespearean, including a gratifying shout-out to D.C.'s theatrical riches.
Back in the 1990s in L.A., I got to know a brilliant singer/songwriter, Kevin Ray, at several open mikes, chiefly Highland Grounds' "Open Mind" Wednesdays; we who plied our tunes on piano, a…
Michael Feingold, on Robert Wilson's Threepenny:Although the installation-like works of his creative years, long since past, employ live performers and move through time, Wilson has never re…
As a member of the press, I'm typically shielded from the ticketing headaches of the average theatergoer, but occasionally I opt to pay for my tickets through the usual channels and receive …
I don't have much to add to Isherwoodgate (Isaac has been on the case), but I wanted to pass along this comment on the American Theatre Facebook page. It's a point of view you don't hear ver…
A blast from the past, from David Ng's Oct. 2007 profile of Adam Rapp in American Theatre (as quoted in this space):Criticism is really unevenly distributed in this town. Obviously the power…
