by Bryan Waterman | Sep 28, 2011 | City on Stage, Writing New York |
Two seasons ago our friends at the Metropolitan Playhouse put on a fantastic staging of Royall Tyler’s The Contrast (1787). At the time I wrote a couple posts about it. Since we’re spending a week with the play here for #vWNY I thought this might be a good...
by Bryan Waterman | Nov 24, 2009 | City on Stage
Here are three reasons New York history buffs should be rejoicing that Metropolitan Playhouse is reviving Augustin Daly’s sensational melodrama Under the Gaslight (1867): 1. It’s the play that defined “sensation” for the New York stage. The...
by Bryan Waterman | Oct 12, 2009 | City on Stage, Writing New York |
Royall Tyler’s The Contrast (1787), currently on stage at Metropolitan Playhouse in the East Village, is best known to literary historians and theater buffs as the first play by an American writer to be professionally staged. Written by a young New Englander who...
by Bryan Waterman | Jan 23, 2009 | Events |
Only three days left in the Metropolitan Playhouse’s Melvillapalooza fest, which has been going on for the last few weeks: original plays, poetry readings, and general Melville-inspired mayhem on E. 4th St.Several of the remaining events are free (though they...
by Bryan Waterman | Oct 27, 2008 | City on Stage
In the spring of 1914, a few months before the beginning of what would be called the Great War, Emma Goldman set out on a national lecture tour, speaking to crowds on various “radical” topics, from birth control and unemployment to something that had come,...
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