Monthly Archives: January 2014

Luna Gale: A Broken Icon of the Nativity

The premiere of a new play by Rebecca Gillman is an important occasion in American theater. Unlike too many of her contemporaries, Gillman’s plays are not propaganda for one side of a social issue. Rather like George Bernard Shaw, Gillman uses issues to spark debate. Her previous plays, especially Spinning into Butter, present major social […]

FUN WITH THOMAS HEYWOOD

Today we visited the Newberry Library, opened in 1893, and home of a world famous Renaissance Studies Center, including not only a First Folio of Shakespeare, but an extensive collection of first editions of plays by Thomas Heywood (1574-1641), whose play The Fair Maid of the West Part 1 we intended to see. (We doubted […]