Rachel was a luminous artist and beautiful person inside and out. So grateful to have known her and been able to commune on this plane. And heartbroken that she's no longer with us. We miss her dearly.
“All my characters are crying out against the universe they can’t alter,” the playwright Ronald Ribman said. “They are battling against an unseen and always victorious enemy, and they go on battling.” He has died at 92. https://t.co/wGxymCKVkp
Farewell to the playwright Richard Greenberg, of "Take Me Out," "The Assembled Parties" and "Three Days of Rain." A lyrical chronicler of the mysteries that are human beings, he understood that the past, far from being another country, is forever a pulsing part of our present.
I started writing my newsletter Nothing for the Group five years ago (?!) Wrote about ambition and art and attention (and the obligatory once-a-year subs push). You can read the whole thing at nothingforthegroup dot com:
in my latest reporting for @AmericanTheatre magazine, I cover @SouthCoastRep's annual play-development gathering which showcased moving works about loss and reupped the theatre’s long-standing commitment to emerging writers