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What do these celebrated stage plays and films have in common: A Man for All Seasons, Under Milk Wood, Alfie, The Mousetrap, Voyage Round My Father and Wings? All of them began life as radio dramas for the BBC. American playwrights should take a cue from their British counterparts and be more bold about marketing…

The play’s an absolute roller-coaster ride–like riding squalls coming across the sea. If we get it right, it should make the audience’s hair stand on end.” That’s actor Sam Waterston’s judgment about Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Robert Sherwood’s Pulitzer-winning play of 1938. Waterston plays the eponymous role at New York’s Lincoln Center Theater through Jan….

This ode is a song to Autumn, and is a classic English poem, with that ‘old authentic’ feel to it. In it Keats manages to create a beautiful picture of what autumn is for him. Unfortunately Keats died from consumption in 1821, and so this was one of his last poems, written in 1819/20, after…

Interviewing Anna Deavere Smith is intimidating. The 42-year-old African-American playwright and actor faces a journalist’s taperecorder armed with a casual confidence learned from conducting literally hundreds of interviews. No doubt she’s heard and asked every conceivable question. Aristocratic in posture, a relatively tall 5’9″, with a Medusa head of curls, Smith also has the grace…

‘An Inspector Calls’ is a political play written by J. B Priestly in 1945. Set it 1912, it unravels the mystery of a working class girl’s suicide and how her death was entwined with a family from a middle class background. The Birling family are Capitalists and believe that every man should look after himself,…

For Perloff and ACT, it was out of the ethnic frying pan and into the theological fire You couldn’t imagine a pair of less conspicuous protesters. Stationed at the narrow entryway of the Marine’s Memorial Theatre in San Francisco, the two middle-aged men in suits and ties politely, almost shyly, handed out pamphlets to patrons…

Henry Woronicz is all wet. Literally. He’s sitting in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s open-air theatre in the middle of a summer thunderstorm, getting drenched, watching a dozen soggy actors slosh through the opening scenes of As You Like It. It is opening night and the seats around him are full; the heavy drone of raindrops…

The line between sea and sky is erased in the blinding white light of the Gulf of Cadiz. Five hundred years ago Christopher Columbus gazed across these horizonless waters, plotting his voyage to the Canary Islands and then west, on to the fabled golden citadels of Asia – or so he believed. When he finally…

“This night of all nights!” and “You go alone,” suggests that there are deeper perils than what the man expects, the woman effectively saying that he cant count on them because he’s made his own bed and has to lie in it. This suggests to the reader that many dangers lie ahead for the man….

Pip feels very blank and confused about becoming apprenticed to be a black smith because it was his childhood dreams of becoming a blacksmith but now as he crew up and had a ‘Great Expectation’ of becoming a gentleman he changed his mind and didn’t want to become a blacksmith any more and he felt…