February '01
Life in the Theatre: Mary Lathrop is Operating without a
'Net
The Play's the Thing: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly -
Updating Shakespearean Plays (with apologies to the Bard and Clint Eastwood)
Voices in Contemporary Theatre: Black History Month-
In the Footsteps of Moses and it's author Willis Whyte celebrate Harriet Tubman
as an American Heroine
CyberTheatre Monthly: And speaking of women...
Antigone, The IRS Guide to Entertainment, Starbound: A Performer's Site, Movie
Musicals from Stage to Screen
Letter from London - What we're looking forward to in 2001 and
the Olivier Awards
Enter Laughing - Posted backstage, Tribute to a great showbiz
personality, The Best of Playbill's Goofy Titles
Rubin's Corner - West End musical: The Beautiful Game.
Meanwhile, back across the pond, what's new with David Mamet at the Atlantic and
Noel Coward at the Roundabout
March '01
The Play's the Thing: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly:
Part Two - The Bad
CyberTheatre Monthly: American Theatre recently
commented on Theatre-Related Websites. TRE responds. StageSpecs.com,
Heldover: IRS Guides to Entertainment Industry Returns
Voices in Contemporary Theatre: Forbidden Broadway
re5-visited, National Conference on Masks of the Theatre, An Exchange That
Really Never Took Place Or At Least Not As Far As I could Tell -- And If It Did,
So What!, The Piano Lesson
Enter Laughing - The gremlins intercepted last month's column.
It's back.
Letter from London: Mapp and Lucia, Adrian Noble reacts
to Olivier Flap, RSC News on This England, Clippings Clippings Clippings
Techie's Corner: Platforms: the complete series in
review. (not reprinted here, see archive of previous issues)
April '01
The Play's the Thing: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: Part
Three And a new musical based on Love's Labour Lost (really)
CyberTheatre Monthly: BestPlaysOnline.com, Moondance Festival Website
Letter from London: Hollywood on Avon, Cold War Thriller, Almeida Premieres Neil
Labute's The Shape of Things, London gets RSC's This England while Boston gets
National Theatre's Hamlet
Voices in Contemporary Theatre: Cider House Rules at Trinity Rep, Perishable
proves a woman's place is in the theatre, Casper the Musical
Rubin's Corner: BatBoy, The Musical, and Around Town: Lipstick Traces, The
Garden of Frau Hess, Music from a Sparkling Planet, Major Barbara, and Wonder of
the World
Enter Laughing: Daily Moment of Zen, E-mail of the Month
Broadway on the Air: Bravo brings Broadway into America's Homes, Schools
and Communities with groundbreaking effort, Ford Center Radio
May '01
The Play's the Thing: While the cat's away...Caprice is
rehearsing this month, so Rebecca is solo. The rest you'll dope out for
yourselves.
Voices in Contemporary Theatre: TCI's Theatre Physical,
Cider House Rules Part II, From the MailBag: What's Wrong (and Right) with
Broadway, A rant
Letter from London: It's the Shakespeare Report, I've
accepted that. RNT and RSC won't give me anything else to write about
Enter Laughing: Seen Backstage
Rubin's Corner: Robert offers a few of the vital stats
on Tony-nom recordbreaker: The Producers, Easter Bonnet Competition smashes BC/EFA
record
CyberTheatre Monthly: High School Tech,
BestPlaysOnline.com, Moondance Festival Website
Summer '01
Enter Laughing: Mel Brooks vs the Tonys Orchestra
The Play's the Thing: To Update or Not to Update: That is the Cinematic Question
The Best Plays of 2000-2001
Voices in Contemporary Theatre: A Woman's Voice is indeed unique, Women's Playwrights Festival at Perishable Theatre; Theatre Snobs rebuttal to last month's "From the Mailbag", Art at Trinity Rep
Letter from London: Noises Off, a Shakespeare-free zone
CyberTheatre Monthly: Tick Tick Boom, What's New on The Rialto, Casper the Musical
Rubin's Corner: The Woman in Black
What happened to Techie's Corner?
TC-Writer Michael Powers is on medical leave. The column will return when he
does. Our thoughts are with you, Michael. Take care.
August '01
The Play's the Thing
“To split the ears of the groundlings…” or How Many More Times Can Shakespeare Roll In His Grave???
Voices in Contemporary Theatre
Everybody Wins As Trinity Rep And Brown University Form A Consortium For Graduate Study In Theater Arts
Letter from America
From the west end smash The Puppetry of the Penis to casting for Mamma Mia to Assassins, all the news is breaking on this side of the pond this month
CyberTheatre Monthly
Finally a few theatre sites with a little showbiz savvy
Rubin's Corner
Summer and Beyond
Enter Laughing
Lightbulbs, 'cause it's hard to be funny after Shakespeare World and the dumbing it down awards.
September '01
Broadway Reacts to the Tragedy
The Play's the Thing:
Something is Rotten in the State of North Dakota
Letter from London:
Kent and McDiarmid Resign from the Almeida
Voices in Contemporary Theatre:
Willis White turns her attention to Rhode Island's Celebration of Women in Playwriting,
Full Casting Announced for Hedda Gabler
Rubin's Corner:
Urinetown the Musical. Really. Called "Better than the Producers" and named Entertainment Weekly's "IT" show.
CyberTheatre Monthly
October '01
The Play's the Thing: What better Trick-or-Treat subject for the scariest holiday than a look at that cursed Scottish Play
Voices in Contemporary Theatre: Pray, Love, Remember and a Week of Free Theatre + World Premiere of Women Playwrights' Winner at RI's Perishable Theatre
Enter Laughing: Captain Footlights
CyberTheatre Monthly: Alice in Analysis, Pro Dance Ireland
Rubin's Corner: Spitfire Grill, Reefer Madness, Six Dance Lessons
Heldover: Letter from London
Winter '01-02
The Play's the Thing: Faustus as Victim and Villain
2002 NY Theatre Preview
Letter from London: The play "What I wrote" breaking West End records, and Times Preview: Benedict Nightingale's annual look at what's planned across the pond
Voices in Contemporary Theatre: The Beard of Avon... Willis White looks at staging the unstagable at Perishable Theatre, RI...Moondance 2002 Finalists...in depth: TACT and Look Homeward Angel
Rubin's Corner: Status of tickets during the annual winter downturn and a Trio that rounded out 2001
CyberTheatre Monthly: 2002 Richard Rodgers Centennial Year and Introducing Stone Soup Theatre
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