In January, I'll be directing a wonderful one-act play by Marc Castle called Into the Light  for American Renaissance Theater Company . The ...

As I previously wrote, my play After an Earlier Incident  has been getting a lot of attention lately. It was supposed to have a reading this...

Last night, I saw Theatre for a New Audience 's production of Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck . If you haven't seen it yet, the show is definit...

The latest issue of The Shavian  has a fascinating article by Michel Pharand about links between the dramatists Bernard Shaw and Jean Coctea...

When I found out that Hudson Classical Theater Company would be performing an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's The Lady From the Sea , I knew I...

Everyone knows that during the Jacobean period all actors were male and women never ever appeared on stage... except when they did. I'm not...

Molière 's final play, The Imaginary Invalid , is difficult to perform as written. Prior to last night, the only time I'd seen the piece on ...

One provision currently in Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" would strip states of the right to regulate Artificial Intelligence f...

Not long ago, I received an email asking me if I'd written a play about Delia Bacon. The person had heard about it through the website  Acad...

I'm very excited that my play After an Earlier Incident  is being workshopped May 1st through 4th at the Theatre of Western Springs outside...

(Un)Silent Film presents Safety Last! - an American silent romantic-comedy film from 1923 starring Harold Lloyd, and produced by Hal Roach, and Kid Auto Races [at Venice], also known as The Pest, a 1914 American film starring Charlie Chaplin. Come join us to see the iconic shot of Lloyd hanging from the clock (Safety Last!), and the pivotal moment in cinema where the camera breaks the fourth wall as Chaplin plays spectator at a "pushcar" race in Venice (Kid Auto Races)! Mannes' UnSilent orchestra brings these scores to life in live performances as the audience can marvel at both film and music in real-time. With extra attention being paid to phrase structure, articulation, and temporal coordination, the music leaps off the page in ecstatic delight as it meets the exuberance and humor of the film screen. The scores are exquisitely composed by Carl Davis, a dear long-time friend of The New School. Conducted by David Fulmer.The (Un)Silent Film series has been critical in advancing the resurgence of film screenings with live music and has been hosted by Matthew Broderick, Bill Irwin, Rob Bartlett, Ed Rothstein, and Michael Bacon. (Un)Silent Film nights have presented the world premieres of works composed for The Birds and The Immigrant (by Nathan Kamal and Alexis Cuadrado respectively), a New York premiere of a score by Hollywood composer Craig Marks for the film Sherlock, Jr., and Charlie Chaplin's original scores for Gold Rush and other Chaplin classics. The most recent (Un)Silent presented the world premiere of a new score to the iconic film, METROPOLIS, composed by Mannes student, Amir Sanjari.Free with registration.

Arthur Miller's 1968 play The Price  isn't performed very often, so when it does get a production, you're going to want to see it. The Price...

Yesterday, I saw the Mint Theater Company's production of Garside's Career , Harold Brighthouse's political drama first produced in 1914. Da...