1950s TV Drama
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Playing With History
One of the things that theater is supposed to do is to give us a way to tell ourselves stories about ourselves. A bunch of us gather together in a public place with some other people who get up in front of us and show us behavior that, with luck, may help us understand better Continue reading
1776, A Hundred Circling Camps, Andrew Hamilton, Arthur Miller, Bonus Army, Caroline Sherman, Cole Escola, Dogteam Theatre Project, Donald M. Miller, Empire, Hamilton, Iphigenia in Aulis, Irve Tunick, John Peter Zenger, Lenny Bruce, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Marian Seldes, Mary!, Peter Stone, Rebecca Wear, Robert Hull, Sam Collier, Sherman Edwards, Sidney Kingsley, Studio One, Supreme City, The Crucible, The Patriots, The Trial of John Peter Zenger -
From “Crime in the Streets” to “West Side Story”
Watched a clumsy but fascinating film called Crime in the Streets. It started as a 1955 live TV play by Reginald Rose presented by the Elgin Hour, directed by Sidney Lumet. A young John Cassavetes starred as Frankie, a member of a street gang called the Hornets. Robert Preston was featured as an idealistic social Continue reading
Jeffrey Sweet--Making the Scene 