Dramaturg, etc. Shakespeare, theater, history, opera, new work. Pardon gentles - all - opinions are mine own. Seek me in the other place: katepitt.bsky.social

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13 Jul 2019
Shakespeare Plays as Corporate Slogans: Othello - Don’t Be Evil. Macbeth - Fail Better, Fail Faster. Cymbeline - Impossible is Nothing. Titus - Eat Fresh. Hamlet - Just Do It. Others?
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What is a dramaturg? @playshakespeare finally, helpfully, defines "the holy grail of American theater titles." playonshakespeare.org/what-i…

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23 May 2024
Juliet: The orchard walls are high and hard to climb Romeo:
Fan early access tickets are available NOW. Sign up at romeoandjulietnyc.com for immediate access. First look at Kit Connor Rachel Zegler as Broadway’s Romeo Juliet, featuring the song “Tiny Moves” by Jack Antonoff.
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20 May 2024
"So what does Shakespeare teach us? Nothing. His tragic theater is not a classroom. It is a fairground wall of death in which the characters are being pushed outward by the centrifugal force of the action but held in place by the friction of the language."
Fintan O’Toole (@fotoole) on the meanings of tragedy for Shakespeare go.nybooks.com/3QOuMw9
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10 May 2024
"...we keep you in one piece so that you can get up and work tomorrow." -Jacqueline Goldfinger: Also @martinekei:
New this week from Teaching Theatre: Dramaturgs serve productions in a variety of ways, dictated by needs of the play and the playwright. Jacqueline Goldfinger, and Martine Kei Green-Rogers, join the conversation to discuss the role of the dramaturg. howlround.com/teaching-drama…
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28 Apr 2024
"I once said that I thought that the two most painful things two human beings can do together are a double-ax murder or an artistic collaboration."
I interviewed John Adams (!) about learning Spanish, the pains of collaboration, and his attempt to write his own "Messiah" theparisreview.org/blog/2024…
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28 Apr 2024
"...that's the nature of opera. It has all the problems that a play would have, and then it has all the problems that a piece of music would have..."
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Today marks the official opening of RICHARD II, HENRY IV and HENRY V. Congratulations to the cast, crew and creative team for making this historical feat possible. Special thanks to The Roy Cockrum Foundation and Ameriprise Financial for their generous support.
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20 Mar 2024
“'There’s probably a Venn diagram of people who play GTA and people who like Shakespeare,'” Oosterveen admits, “'and the crossover is very small.'”
I wrote about the struggle to make cinema out of life when life has become resolutely uncinematic slate.com/culture/2024/03/sx…
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15 Feb 2024
"We may never have heard the word “enseamed,” but when we hear an actor—wild with distress, disgusted to the point of nausea—stretch and hiss its syllables as if retching poison, then we learn something by feeling it..."
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5 Feb 2024
My favorite Shakespeare artist and my favorite dramaturg?? Fantastic!
Words, words, words... and also a lot of pictures! "A Stick-Figure Hamlet" is FINALLY available for purchase! goodticklebrain.com/home/202…
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22 Jan 2024
"The opera’s first words drew Cohen’s professional attention: 'Matter can be neither created nor destroyed, but only altered in form...' The text did not reflect scientists’ knowledge in 1945. Oppenheimer would have known better." via @librarycongress blogs.loc.gov/loc/2024/01/dr…
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22 Jan 2024
"We sincerely apologize in advance to any inconvenience this may cause you..."
I wrote a story for @washingtonpost on the strange letter sent by Jan. 6 insurrectionists to @FolgerLibrary — and the long history of Shakespeare's cooptation by white nationalists washingtonpost.com/history/2…
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What does it mean to be a Shakespeare company in 2024? What if Shakespeare isn't an origin story, but a synthesis moment — one we can try to recreate? On the exciting doings at @MarinShakes: datebook.sfchronicle.com/the…
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15 Nov 2023
"As the Shakespearian scholar Jonathan Bate has observed, “ecclesiastical law as shaped by the Bible says nothing about the clubbing of baby seals.” We have yet to see a conservationist production of Hamlet take advantage of this variant (although its time will surely come). "
This November marks 400 years since the publication of William Shakespeare's First Folio, the posthumous anthology with which his friends established his legacy For @prospect_uk, I had a ball writing this long feature on how it shaped theatre history prospectmagazine.co.uk/cultu…
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14 Nov 2023
.@bkadams on Richard II: "The play sharply examines fundamental questions we all have about nations: who has the right to lead; who is considered a legitimate citizen; and who we are willing to stand by in a time of political crisis and social upheaval."
13 Nov 2023
Six scholars on the 400th anniversary of the first folio. lithub.com/why-we-should-cel…
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In 1710, Queen Anne of England feted four Native American dignitaries—would-be political allies. Their presence at a performance of Macbeth caused a stir. bit.ly/3srO80U #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
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18 Oct 2023
“...the role of stage director is critical, as the gender profile of directors has a snowball effect on the gender breakdown of creative teams. By hiring more women directors, companies are likely to see an increase in women designers across productions."
New Study Finds Gender Inequality & Non-Standard Work in US Opera Production bit.ly/3ZY1eiM
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16 Oct 2023
"I realized that the job of dramaturgy isn’t to identify what’s wrong with plays & help fix them; rather the work was to encourage or inspire writers back to their desks, to embolden them to go the rest of the way..." –Todd London via @HowlRound bit.ly/3FhtMdE
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What a joy to learn that @SantaCruzShakes is thriving enough to *grow* and talk to its incoming and outgoing leaders about some theories re: why it might be bucking nationwide trends. datebook.sfchronicle.com/the…
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