What the myth of Faust can teach us

By Tamar SchwartzSeptember 27, 2017July 2, 2018 Books, Plays

Click Here to Read: What the myth of Faust can teach us: The legend of a man selling his soul to the devil ‘seems to have particular resonance at times of moral crisis’, writes Benjamin Ramm on the BBC Culter website on September 26, 2017.

Little is known of the actual Johann Georg Faust but there is some evidence of his magic tricks, that he studied at Heidelberg University and died in an explosion (Credit: Alamy)

September 23, Anniversary of Sigmund Freud’s Death

By Tamar SchwartzSeptember 24, 2017July 2, 2018 Books, Plays

Click Here to Read: The Unknown Freud: Five Plays and Five Essays-– Play V, “The Struggle is Not Yet Over”

Click Here to Purchase: The Unknown Freud: Five Plays and Five Essays by Robert Lippman on IPBooks.net

The Beasts Have Arrived, in a Yiddish ‘Rhinoceros’

By Tamar SchwartzSeptember 15, 2017July 2, 2018 Plays

Click Here to Read: The Beasts Have Arrived, in a Yiddish ‘Rhinoceros’ By Alexis Soloski in The New York Times on Septmmber 14, 2017.

From left in foreground, Luzer Twersky, Caraid O’Brien and Malky Goldman in New Yiddish Rep’s “Rhinoceros.” CreditPedro Hernandez

Exploring a Troubled Mind

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 11, 2017July 2, 2018 Books, Plays

Click Here to Read: Exploring a Troubled Mind by Dr. Siri Galhenage on the Island website on August 8, 2017.

Take it from an old friend, Bob, you just gotta see this

By Tamar SchwartzAugust 2, 2017July 2, 2018 Music, Plays

Click Here to Read: Take it from an old friend, Bob, you just gotta see this by Paul Levy on his Plain English blog on the Arts Journal website on August 1, 2017.

Democracy—Not Donald Trump—Dies Brutally in ‘Julius Caesar,’ Just as Shakespeare Intended

By Tamar SchwartzJune 16, 2017July 3, 2018 Plays

Click Here to Read: Democracy—Not Donald Trump—Dies Brutally in ‘Julius Caesar,’ Just as Shakespeare Intended: The Public Theater faced sponsors’ withdrawal and right-wing outrage over the assassination of a Trump-like Julius Caesar. That isn’t the most shocking thing you’ll see onstage by Tim Teeman on the Daily Beast.com on June 13, 2017.

Liesl Tommy’s Macbeth: An “updated” version, with pluses and minuses, of Shakespeare’s tragedy

By Tamar SchwartzMay 16, 2017July 3, 2018 Plays

Click Here to Read: Liesl Tommy’s Macbeth: An “updated” version, with pluses and minuses, of Shakespeare’s tragedy By Nick Barrickman on the World Socialist Web Site on May 16, 2017.