Tag Archives: Eric Tucker
Homeless, Lizzie Borden and Three Plays With Brooklyn Connections
A few days ago, as I was leaving the Upper West Side building where my wife and I live, I ran into one of our neighbors, a former state Supreme Court judge. She knows I’m a playwright and a theater … Continue reading
Posted in drama, film adaptation, New York, off-Broadway, playwriting, Pulitzer Prize, theater, Uncategorized
Tagged A Doll's House, A Raisin in the Sun, Alexander Zelden, Anne Kauffman, August Wilson, Becomes a Woman, Betty Smith, Brooklyn, Crumbs From the Table of Joy, David Mamet, Eric Tucker, Fall River Fishing, Frederick Wiseman, Herman D. Farrell III, Jamie Lloyd, L:loyd Richards, Lorraine Hansberry, Love, Lynn Nottage, Mint Theater, National Theater of Great Britain, Oscar Isaac, Rachel Brosnahan, The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
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Shakespeare as Springboard
“Shakespeare lied.When Juliet died,Romeo didn’t take poison just because he’d lost his bride.What did he do?He got over it.He went back to junior high, and he got over it.And so will you.You’ll get over it.” A lyric by Carolyn Leigh … Continue reading
Posted in Chekhov, Shakespeare
Tagged AR Gurney, Bedlam Theater, Chimes at Midnight, Eric Tucker, Falstaff, Fat Ham, Hamlet, Henry IV, How Now Dow Jones, James Ijames, Jay O. Sanders, Keith Baxter, King Lear, Lanford Wilson, Love and Let Love, Margaret Thatcher, Merchant of Venice, Moira Buffini, Orson welles, Peter Ustinov, Queen Elizabeth II, Saint Flashlight, Shakespeare, The Will of the City, Theatre for a New Audience, Tom Stoppard, Twelfth Night, Your Own Thing
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Chasing Stories
If you took a census of all of the characters who are alive in my mind, it wouldn’t surprise me if the number reached into the thousands. Sherlock Holmes and Mama Rose, Clytemnestra and Walter Lee Younger, Jackie Brown and … Continue reading
Posted in Broadway, drama, New York, off-Broadway, playwriting, theater
Tagged Bedlam Theater, Chris Chibnall, Christopher Walken, Doctor Who, Eric Tucker, Henrik Ibsen, Jennifer Westfeldt, Jodie Whitaker, Liba Vaynberg, Mike Birbiglia, Othello, Pygmalion, Rattlestick Theater, Saint Joan, Sense and Sensibility, Shakespeare, Susannah Millonzi, The Gett, The Old Man and the Pool, The Winter's Tale
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Jeffrey Sweet--Making the Scene 