by Bryan Waterman | Sep 29, 2011 | City on Stage, Teaching, Writing New York
Following on yesterday’s Q&A with Alex Roe, who directed The Contrast for the Metropolitan Playhouse in 2009, today we’re happy to host a Q&A with Professor Cynthia Kierner of George Mason University, who edited the play with a substantial...
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 | Sep 26, 2011 | City on Stage, Complete, Writing New York
Cyrus’s discussion of Irving’s History over the last week or so lays the foundation for one of the big trajectories we trace in Writing New York: the idea of constructed histories — the literariness of the city’s history — and the very...
by Bryan Waterman | Jan 26, 2011 | City on Stage, Writing New York |
We’ve written here before about Royall Tyler’s 1787 play The Contrast, which was the first American play to be professionally staged. Set in Manhattan following the Revolution, the play takes Sheridan’s comedies of manners as a model for its send-up...
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...
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