By 1709, the year that Susanna Centlivre’s The Busy Body had its premiere and run of 13 performances, the fortunes of Restoration comedy had come, gone, and come again. The audience interest in comedic salaciousness and sexual intrigue that typified the…
CBT’s ‘The Busy Body’ – The Force of Necessity
Not entirely by accident, I recently stumbled upon an 1808 printing of Susanna Centlivre’s The Busy Body (1709) in a volume drawn from productions of that play by the Drury Lane and Covent Garden Theatres. The printing, coming roughly 100 years after the play was first produced in 1709, drew me in with scholarly fascination.
Review: Clarence Brown Theatre’s ‘Violet’
‘Violet’ — a musical by Jeanine Tesori and Brian Crawley–opens the Clarence Brown Theatre’s 2016-17 season.
Review: Rob Caisley’s ‘The Open Hand’ at CBT
REVIEW: The premiere of Rob Caisley’s ‘The Open Hand’ at the Lab Theatre of Clarence Brown Theatre
Review in the Knoxville Mercury: CBT’s ‘Titus Andronicus’
Read my review of Clarence Brown Theatre’s production of ‘Titus Andronicus’ in the Knoxville Mercury.
In the Knoxville Mercury: Review of CBT’s ‘The Santaland Diaries’
In this week’s Knoxville Mercury, read my review of Clarence Brown Theatre’s The Santaland Diaries. Online here. Thanks for reading!
‘A Shayna Maidel’ at CBT Lab Theatre 3/26-4/12
Barbara Lebow’s drama of a post-war family relationship following the Holocaust, A Shayna Maidel, runs in the Clarence Brown Theatre’s Lab Theatre from March 26 until April 12. The run is sold-out, but a first-come first-served waiting list will be established 45…