Monthly Archives: October 2013

LONDON 4: Ghosts, Chimerica, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, etc.

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Bill Rough

Ghosts: It’s Ibsen, of course, and one of my favorites: in my opinion a very difficult play to do for modern audiences, dealing as it does with the sins of the father and a very unscientific venereal disease without a … Continue reading →

Posted in Theatre | Tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, Almeida Theatre, chimera, Chimerica, Cripple of Inishmaan, Dame Judi Dench, Daniel Radcliffe, Donmar Warehouse, Drama Education, Frost/Nixon, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen, J. G. Ballard, Jude Law, Lucy Kirkwood, Michael Grandage, Mrs. Alving, National Theatre, Peter and Alice, Privates on Parade, Red, Richard Eyre, Royal Court Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare's The Globe, Simon Russell Beale, The Burning Man Festival, the power of imagination, The Tank Man, Tiananmen Square | Leave a comment

LONDON 3: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Much Ado About Nothing, and One Man Two Guvnors!

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Bill Rough

Home again, and cursed with chest colds regenerated on Virgin Atlantic! I’m going to briefly hit all six of these plays in two posts, just so I can remember what I saw and what they did or didn’t do for … Continue reading →

Posted in Theatre | Tagged Asperger Syndrome, Carlo Goldoni, Christopher Boone, Francis Henshall, Great White Hope, James Earl Jones, Kevin Spacey, Mark Haddon, Mark Rylance, Mike Noble, Nicholas Hytner, On Golden Pond, Owain Arthur, Richard Bean, Servant of Two Masters, Shakeespeare's The Globe, The Best Man, The Old Vic, Vanessa Redgrave | 2 Comments

LONDON 2: Music, Music, Music

Posted on October 21, 2013 by Bill Rough

Here we are again, now sitting in another departure Lounge, this one at Heathrow. Almost two weeks ago it was Dulles, with much to look forward to. Seems like yesterday … also a year ago. Tired and eager to get … Continue reading →

Posted in Musings, Other Arts, Theatre | Tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, Edvard Grieg, Fritz Weaver, Henrik Ibsen, Inga Swenson, John Landor, Michael Grandage, New York’s Phoenix Theatre, Peer Gynt, Peer Gynt Suite, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Wedding March | 1 Comment

LONDON 1: Welcome Back

Posted on October 20, 2013 by Bill Rough

Many years ago, Joan and I were living in northern Vermont, and I was in the early stages of my theatre binge trips to New York. Friends and early pre-internet research persuaded me there might actually be a cheaper way … Continue reading →

Posted in Musings, Rants | Tagged badger cull, BBC, Beatrix Potter, Downton Abbey, Hogwarts, House of Representatives, ITV, ITV Catch-up, Kenneth Grahame, London, National Public Radio, Oyster Card, PBS, Sky, Swift Cars, Tommy Brock, U.S. Shut down, Wind in the Willows | Leave a comment

The STEPPENWOLF Visits

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Bill Rough

1987? That’s a long time ago, and remains only in the dim recesses … etc. etc. (I had to look up dates and plays online to be sure of my own history). That was the year I last went … Continue reading →

Posted in Theatre | Tagged American Alliance for Theatre and Education, Amy Herzog, Aunt Dan and Lemon, Belleville, CSI, Dramatists Guild, Greg Pierce, Jim Cartwright, Remains Theatre Ensemble, Road, Slow Girl, Wallace Shawn, William Petersen, Yale Rep | Leave a comment

Side Tracking: Mom, the U.S.S. Intrepid, and the Freedom Tower,

Posted on October 17, 2013 by Bill Rough

Here’s a REAL side line. I just found this blog post among my drafts, originally written on April 13, 2012: a year and a half ago. I must have left it in draft form and forgotten to actually … Continue reading →

Posted in Musings | Tagged 1 World Trade Center, Freedom Tower, Helen MacCloskey, International Womens Air and Space Museum, Intrepid Museum, The High Line, WASPs | 1 Comment

On Arena Stage’s “THE VELOCITY OF AUTUMN”

Posted on October 16, 2013 by Bill Rough

Just in case anyone might want to run up to the Arena Stage in Washington to see The Velocity of Autumn, I want to talk briefly about it. It has only four more days to go, closing next Sunday. Being … Continue reading →

Posted in Theatre | Tagged Angels in America, Arena Stage, Eric Coble, Estelle Parsons, Molly Smith, Stephen Spinella | 1 Comment

Monthly Archives: October 2013

LONDON 4: Ghosts, Chimerica, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, etc.

LONDON 3: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Much Ado About Nothing, and One Man Two Guvnors!

LONDON 2: Music, Music, Music

LONDON 1: Welcome Back

The STEPPENWOLF Visits

Side Tracking: Mom, the U.S.S. Intrepid, and the Freedom Tower,

On Arena Stage’s “THE VELOCITY OF AUTUMN”

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