Six Characters in Search of an Author

...he used it. He had a history with City Opera and wrote more successful earlier operas, including a very good one based on Pirandello's "Six Characters in Search of an Author" for the company in 1959. "Esther" sounds, on the surface,...

In this article: Esther, Hugo Weisgall, New York City Opera, Gerard Mortier, Lincoln Center, Purim, and Stock market crash

...the program of one-night-only staged readings is devoted to the works of Nobel Prize-winning writer Luigi Pirandello. The classic Six Characters in Search of an Author is explored on Nov. 16. Acclaimed actor John Turturro will perform the...

In this article: Luigi Pirandello, Troilus and Cressida, Henry IV, Thomas Heywood, William Shakespeare, and John Turturro

PREVIEW: Six Characters in Search of an Author Controversial play Six Characters In Search Of An Author certainly packs an emotive punch. But as actor Jack Shepherd tells Matt Thomas, there's more to Pirandello's Modernist classic than...

In this article: Luigi Pirandello, Jack Shepherd, Rupert Goold, Cardiff, New Theatre, Waiting for Godot, and William Blake

...provocative rewrites, including the insertion of the Chapman brothers into Marlowe's Dr Faustus, and a version of Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author set in a reality TV studio. His debut Royal Shakespeare Company...

In this article: William Shakespeare, Kathryn Hunter, Royal Shakespeare Company, Juliet, Suicide, King Lear, Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet

...Louvre: not the sort of stuff that one usually associates with early 20th-century Italian dramas. But Luigi Pirandello's 1921 play Six Characters in Search of an Author -- one of the great works of modernism -- gets a radical makeover at the...

In this article: Rupert Goold, Luigi Pirandello, Royal Shakespeare Company, Enron, London, Ian McDiarmid, and Patrick Stewart

...Halloween special ARKADELPHIA Ouachita Baptist Universitya s School of Fine Arts Department of Theatre Arts will present the play Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello today through Monday with show times at 7:30...

In this article: Daniel Inouye, Halloween, All rights reserved, and Luigi Pirandello

Also, few people have asked what he is actually trying to do in his innovative Turandot. Just as in his current Headlong production of Six Characters in Search of an Author, Goold is clearly exploring the tension between art and reality; what...

In this article: Rupert Goold, Turandot, Katie Mitchell, Jonathan Miller, Wedding cake, Falstaff, Tin, Macbeth, and Don Giovanni

...to Broadway. His joyous staging of Oliver! continues to cram them in at the Palladium. Meanwhile, his reimagining of Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author is off on tour. But more than anything, it's Enron, now utterly sold...

In this article: Rupert Goold, Enron, Macbeth, Turandot, Patrick Stewart, and Trevor Nunn

Ideas and astonishing stagecraft ... Catherine McCormack, Clare Louise Connolly and Jack Shepherd in Six Characters in Search of an Author. Photograph: Tristram Kenton Can Pirandello's ground-breaking 1921 comi-tragedy ever be made to...

In this article: Rupert Goold, Suicide, Luigi Pirandello, and Blair Witch

...the Chichester Festival Theatre in July. Enron is the second Headlong Theatre commission to move to the West End in a year, following Six Characters in Search of an Author. Goold, artistic director of Headlong, has also announced he will...

In this article: Enron, Rupert Goold, Turandot, Jeffrey Skilling, Ken Lay, and Jonathan Swift