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Holland in Texas

by Rob Weinert-Kendt

in American Theatre magazine

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(Pictured: Holland Taylor. Photo by: Linda Matlow) Ann, Holland Taylor’s one-woman show about late Texas governor Ann Richards, opened recently at Chicago’s Bank of America Theatre. American Theatre wrote about the show in its first iteration in Richards’s home state, when it had a more colorful title, in our May/June issue. After our recent post [...]

Shanley Remembers Tennessee Williams

by Rob Weinert-Kendt

in Playwrights

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Next month marks the centennial of Tennessee Williams’ birth, but the whole year is his, with revivals of his work all over the country, including one of Sweet Bird of Youth on Broadway in the fall with Nicole Kidman and James Franco. American Theatre will cover this theatrical giant’s 100 years in various ways throughout [...]

Update On Belarus Free Theatre

by Rob Weinert-Kendt January 18, 2011 Advocacy

UPDATE: In a turnaround as dramatic as any that fiction could imagine, the Belarus Free Theatre just announced over the weekend that after it leaves New York, it will go to a place that’s safe from the repression back home in Minsk—namely, to Chicago, where Being Harold Pinter will play at the Goodman Theatre, Feb. [...]

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BFD About BFT

by Rob Weinert-Kendt January 14, 2011 Advocacy
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(Photo of Belarus Free Theatre from May/June 2009 issue of American Theatre.) When members of the Belarus Free Theater head back to Minsk next week, it won’t be an ordinary homecoming. For one thing, they’ll have a trunk full of rave-review clippings for the New York run of Being Harold Pinter, their searing testament to life [...]

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Baby Dreams

by Rob Weinert-Kendt November 22, 2010 Theatre for Young Audiences
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(Photo by: Rob Weinert-Kendt. Pictured: Oliver Weinert-Kendt) Last fall, I attended a “Scottish festival” at the New Victory Theater in New York City, and was intrigued in particular by a piece I saw there, Andy Manley’s My House, which was created for very, very young audiences—as young as one-year-old, in fact. As a new father [...]

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Condition:Critical

by Rob Weinert-Kendt November 11, 2010 Critics & Reviews
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I was recently invited to speak on the panel “Condition: Critical,” Monday, Oct. 25 at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, The Graduate Center, CUNY. Present at this wide-ranging discussion among my colleagues and myself was avid theatergoer Martha Wade Steketee, who wrote a version of this post on her blog. We’re reprinting it here [...]

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