Playbill.com |
Daniel Radcliffe Says Audience Can Email Him During Privacy
Playbill.com Privacy is delightful and chilling, incredibly friendly, and profoundly thoughtful,” says Public Theater artistic director Oskar Eustis in a statement. “James Graham is quietly becoming one of our bravest playwrights, and Josie Rourke is a director … |
Wall Street Journal |
Backstage Buzz: ‘Eclipsed’ to Shine Again in California
Wall Street Journal … but the run will hardly serve as encouragement to future investors hoping to shake up the Broadway mix. Oskar Eustis, who produced the play’s sold-out run at the Public Theater, said the bottom line isn’t financial: “Are we improving the cultural … |
The Epoch Times |
Theater Review: ‘The Taming of the Shrew’
The Epoch Times The problems are due to the work’s underlying themes regarding women. Indeed, the program notes from The Public’s artistic director, Oskar Eustis, explain his misgivings about the piece. Though Eustis expresses great faith in director Phyllida Lloyd … |
Playbill.com |
Fun Home Audience Gets an Unexpected “Unplugged” Version of the Show
Playbill.com “America is a nation created by refugees; and at our best we have welcomed immigrants from across the globe, many fleeing persecution and oppression in their homelands,” said artistic director Oskar Eustis in an earlier press statement. “The pilgrims … |
New York Times |
Theater|Is ‘Shrew’ Worth Taming? Female Directors Keep Trying
New York Times Open your program at the Delacorte, and you’ll find a prominent note from the Public Theater’s artistic director, Oskar Eustis. Shakespeare in the Park has done “Shrew” in the past — Meryl Streep played Kate opposite Raul Julia as Petruchio in 1978 … |
American Theatre |
Angela Paton: A Fierce Presence Onstage, a Modest One Off
American Theatre It also staged experimental music-theatre festivals and provided an early home for many young actors and designers, as well as such now noted directors as Tony Taccone and Oskar Eustis, long before they joined up to commission Tony Kushner’s Angels in … |
American Theatre |
Angela Paton: A Fierce Presence Onstage, a Modest One Off
American Theatre It also staged experimental music-theatre festivals and provided an early home for many young actors and designers, as well as such now noted directors as Tony Taccone and Oskar Eustis, long before they joined up to commission Tony Kushner’s Angels in … |
Jezebel |
The Taming of the Shrew, This Time Told By Shrews
Jezebel “One of the sad things we often encounter in the Park is the relative paucity of women’s roles: in Shakespeare’s theater, women couldn’t appear on stage, and were played by boys or young men,” the Public’s Artistic Director Oskar Eustis wrote of the … |
Huffington Post |
The Delacorte Tries ‘Taming the Shrew’ by Giving the Job to Women
Huffington Post In the Playbill’s opening note, Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis writes that Shrew “is the only major Shakespeare play which I have never produced or directed.” Why? “The reason is simple: I have never been able to get behind the central … The Taming of the Shrew, This Time Told By ShrewsJezebel |
Playbill.com |
Turning the Misogyny of Shakespeare’s Shrew on its Head
Playbill.com In Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis‘ program notes, he confesses why he never approached the show previously: “Because Shrew seemed to me to not only be about a misogynist world, but also asks us to celebrate the essential action of … Review of Shakespeare in the Park’s The Taming of the Shrew at the Public’s Delacorte TheaterNew York Theatre Guide Janet McTeer Discovers Her Masculine Side in The Taming of the ShrewTheaterMania.com |
