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Helene Weigel in Bertolt Brecht’s “Mother Courage” (opens the original)
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To my astonishment, the entire famous production of Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children became available on YouTube four years ago! If I were still teaching Modern Drama, I’d take as much class time as needed to show this to the students before they read the play, or any of Brecht’s essays on Epic Theatre. Weigel’s performance is astonishing — what an amazing actor.<div class="yo
BAM Crash (opens the original)
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I happened to find this draft I wrote three years ago and never published. In the wake of Oskar Eustis’s declaration about the regional theater movement being over, it seems prescient.BAM CrashYesterday, the New York Times published an article entitled “Brooklyn Academy of Music Lays Off 13 Percent of Its Staff.” A little
Dance, and Keep Dancing (opens the original)
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This is how things change:First, there's one guy dancing, and people think, "He's kinda weird." They walk right by, pretending not to see him. The dancing guy could stop, but he doesn't...until a second guy joins him, and the ball starts rolling. It takes vision to be the first one, and also determination, but it also takes courage to be the second. [Be sure to watch to the end]I know this is an oft-referenced video in business books, but nevertheless very few people, in business or otherwise, s
Robert Edmond Jones: The Dramatic Imagination (opens the original)
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Sara Farrington's "The Lost Conversation" (opens the original)
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