Giant promotional poster I wasn’t sure what I was going to think of Mark Rosenblatt’s Giant, performed at the Harold Pinter Theatre under the direction of Nicholas Hytner. It was the play selected by this year’s Comparative Drama Conference, and I attended on a ticket through the conference. Since I don’t know much about Roald …
Tag: History Play
Arthur Miller’s The Crucible—28 June 2025
Program for The Crucible Arthur Miller’s classic anti-McCarthyite play The Crucible is widely regarded as one of the most important plays of the twentieth century, taking a stand against the injustice that comes with authoritarian injustice and religious fanaticism. But it’s also a deeply problematic play. And the choice by Shakespeare’s Globe to put it …
Bonnets: How Ladies of Good Breeding are Induced to Murder, by Jen Silverman—1 Dec. 2023
The cover of the program for Bonnets Jen Silverman’s Bonnets: How Ladies of Good Breeding are Induced to Murder was written as part of a Big Ten initiative to produce more plays by women and with strong roles for college age female actors. This is a really good initiative, not only for getting the work …
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