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Today's dramatists struggle to define the terms of contemporary drama for an audience that seems as uncertain about what constitutes a good play as they are.Sitting through a succession of n…
More female playwrights have come to Broadway, but at least one of them, Theresa Rebeck, seems to accept a glass ceiling in "Seminar."
Pondering the best and brightest and bombs of the theatrical year made me realize how many flat-out wonderful folks I’ve gotten to interview on this best-of-all-possible beats recently…
Novelist Nicholas Sparks announces his romantic novel, already a hit film starring Ryan Gosling, is heading for BroadwayThe soggiest kiss since Andie MacDowell forgot her umbrella in Four We…
"The Notebook" will open a new chapter on Broadway. Romance novelist Nicolas Sparks, who wrote the novel on which the hit 2004 feature film was based, broke the news on CBS's "The Early Show…
The Notebook, the bestselling Nicolas Sparks novel which became a 2004 tearjerker film of the same name, may become a Broadway musical, the author said on CBS' The Early Show.
After d…
Nicholas Sparks says his most famous work, The Notebook, is headed to Broadway as a musical.
According to NY Magazine, author Nicholas Sparks recently revealed in an interview that a stage adaptation of his 1996 novel, 'The Notebook' is in the works. The musical is currently in dev…
One of the paths from Romanticism to Modernism, which I identified as a facet of a reconceived Theatre of Revolt, is a new form of an urban making-strange. It leads to a post-catastrophic wo…
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch troupe gives energetic performance of 'Danzón.' Too bad that, in light of its founder's death in 2009, its future is hardly secure.Tanztheater Wuppertal …
In 'Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway,' he alternates between rugged movie star pinup and fey song-and-dance man. Fans don't seem to mind the split personality.In 'Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadwa…
Why would a dramatist who is the parent of two healthy young children write a play like The Elf King, which follows two parents as they raise a child who will die before reaching her third b…
Roland Emmerich's film "Anonymous" has added fuel to the Shakespeare authorship debate, but what are the Shakespeare debunkers and defenders both leaving out?
Yesterday brought the second installment of dramatist Steve Waters‘ series “Secret Diary of a Playwright” at the Guardian, a pointed reminder that, more than the creation o…
In the collection of John Whiting‘s essays At Ease in a Bright Red Tie: Writings on Theatre from Oberon Books, there is an undated note called “Statement for a Play,” which…
On the other hand, when writing a play, I find it important to stay quite clear of some other plays and writings that have addressed the same issues. Given the themes of The Elf King, I am k…
While The Elf King is not an erotic tragedy as I’ve explored that idea over the past several years, its theme does partake somewhat of the metaphysical qualities of sexuality and human…
The poem “Erlkönig” by Goethe has been set to music several times (you can find Sir Walter Scott’s translation of the poem at this earlier post). Below, in a performance i…
After completing the first third (30+ pages) of The Elf King this weekend, I take a short breather so that speed does not overwhelm craft. This is always a challenge, this balancing act: one…
What is the best new American drama of the first decade of this century? I would make the case for Kenneth Lonergan's "Lobby Hero."
And then of course there are still commonplace entries in the Elf King notebook of good old text. Below two excerpts from Beckett, particularly germane to the circumstances of the play: Oh I…
One of the structural and estranging devices that I’m using in The Elf King is the form of the vaudeville show — not dissimilar to the way it was used in the Peter Nichols’…
When I began to write plays in the 1970s, I used to keep random thoughts and notes about plays both planned and underway in a spiral-bound notebook. At that time, I found most of my creative…
The New York Musical Theater Festival has attracted some bigger names than usual, with mixed results.
