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Robert Scanlan

Theater Interview: “Mistero Buffo” — Seriously Funny

Socialism is no longer a discredited word, and Fo brings an impish sense of divine comedy to the clash between the haves and the have nots.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Ben Evett, Dario Fo, Debra Wise, Mistero Buffo, Modern Theatre, Remo Airaldi, Robert Scanlan, The Poets' Theatre

Stage Interview: Robert Scanlan on Samuel Beckett’s Women

“When we turn so crass and commercial that we have lost our way, Samuel Beckett will be rediscovered as the way back.”

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Theater Tagged: Amanda Gann, Beckett Women: Ceremonies of Departure, Carmel O'Reilly, Come and Go, Footfalls, Not I, Robert Scanlan, Rockaby, samuel-beckett, Sarah Newhouse, The Poets' Theatre

Theater Review: “Albatross” — A Return to Theater as Poetry

Albatross is terrific — a powerful script, vital performance, and imaginative stage design.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Benjamin Evett, Matthew Spangler, Robert Scanlan, S.T. Coleridge, The Poets' Theatre, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Poetry Review: “The Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett” — Castings

Have we been missing a major poet while we celebrated a great dramatist and the most influential fiction writer of the second half of the twentieth century?

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: English poetry, French poetry, Robert Scanlan, samuel-beckett, The Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett, translations

Theater Interview: Wordsmiths Strike Back — The Poets’ Theatre Redux

We intend to stage work by all the living American poets we can lure into our sphere: starting right here in Cambridge.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Interview, Theater Tagged: Aidan Parkinson, Alvin Epstein, Benjamin Evett, Cherry Jones, Christopher Lydon, David Gullette, Dylan Thomas, Erica Funkhouser, Karen MacDonald, Lawrence Senelick, Lloyd Schwartz, Poets' Theatre, Robert Scanlan, Thomas Derrah, Under Milk Wood

Book Review: Samuel Beckett’s “Echo’s Bones” — Anticipation of Masterpieces to Come

Echo’s Bones is a fascinating immersion, somewhat inept in its means, but sincere and gravely serious, in a subject that Samuel Beckett made increasingly his own.

By: Robert Scanlan Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Echo's Bones, Grove-Press, Robert Scanlan, samuel-beckett, Theater II

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