by Anne Cattaneo | Aug 25, 2021 | Interesting Plays, Images, Ideas
While reading and researching all things Langston while we were doing the run-up to our production of “Mule Bone” I was astonished that the tradition of performing “Black Nativity” had languished as a Christmas entertainment. It’s not...
by Anne Cattaneo | Aug 19, 2021 | Interesting Plays, Images, Ideas
The universe is grateful to Max Brod, author, friend and editor of many writers in pre-WWII Prague and best known as the disobedient executor of the work of Franz Kafka. Instead of following Kafka’s instructions to burn all his writings after his death from...
by Anne Cattaneo | Aug 19, 2021 | Interesting Plays, Images, Ideas
In 1972, | was a grad student, aged 22, and| was a script reader at the lowest rung of the ladder for the Yale Repertory Theater. | had just come to the East Coast for the first time in the fall of 1971. When I graduated in 1973, took a teaching job to support myself....
by Anne Cattaneo | Aug 26, 2021 | Interesting Plays, Images, Ideas
This is an appendix from an interesting book entitled “The Popular Image of the Black man in English drama, 1550-1688” by Elliot H. Tokson. I copied it and kept it in my “interesting things” file folder. There are some very good writers on...
by Anne Cattaneo | Aug 26, 2021 | Interesting Plays, Images, Ideas
The New Yorker Jan 13. 2020 Tabula Rasa – Personal History by John McPhee Thornton Wilder at the Century At Time: The Weekly Newsmagazine, my editor’s name was Alfred Thorton Baker, and he was related in some way to the playwright and novelist Thornton...