Charles Marowitz
Charles Marowitz (born 1934) is an American critic, theatre director, and playwright, regular columnist on Swans Commentary.[1] He is perhaps best known for being a "close collaborator" with Peter Brook[2] at the Royal Shakespeare Company and for founding and directing The Open Space Theatre, both in London.
He is also the co-founder of Encore Magazine, published between 1954 and 1965, and co-editor of The Encore Reader: A Chronicle of the New Drama (1965). He has been a regular contributor to publications such as The New York Times, The Times (London), TheaterWeek, and American Theatre and was the lead critic on the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner until its cessation ("Biography").
He is also the author of Murdering Marlowe, about an imagined rivalry between William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, which was selected as a finalist for the GLAAD Media Awards of 2002, and of the 1987 Broadway play Sherlock's Last Case starring Frank Langella.[3]
His free translations of Shakespeare have been collected in The Marowitz Shakespeare.
[edit] Selected bibliography
- Marowitz, Charles, ed. and trans. The Marowitz Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, and Measure for Measure. 1990. ISBN 9780714526515 (13).
- –––, Tom Milne, and Owen Hale, eds. The Encore Reader: A Chronice of the New Drama. London: Methuen, 1965. Reissued as New Theatre Voices of the Fifties and Sixties. London: Eyre Methuen, 1981.
[edit] References
- ^ Bio on swans.com
- ^ Albert Hunt, Geoffrey Reeves, Peter Brook, Cambridge University Press, 1995, p.51
- ^ Frank Rich, "Stage: Langella In 'Sherlock's Last.' ", The New York Times, August 21, 1987, accessed October 11, 2007.
[edit] External links
- "Biography: Charles Marowitz" on Marowitz Theatre.
- Charles Marowitz on Internet Broadway Database.
- "Commentary: Charles Marowitz" – Contributor page at Swans.com.
- Marowitz Theatre Marowitz's website.
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