I’ve been heartily enjoying a read of Martin Esslin’s landmark book The Theatre of the Absurd. It’s a bit embarrassing that I haven’t read it before, actually. (Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that when I was studying theater in college, my theater history professor believed that the only post-Shakespearean theater worth [...]
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That’s absurd.
Posted in theory on April 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Build-up
Posted in reviews and responses on April 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In my little corner of the NY performing arts community there has been much consternation over an article, which finally appeared in yesterday’s NY Times. The article exposes to the general public (or at least to the general public which includes readers of the Times Arts Section) that NYC’s massive capital boom ate a few [...]