This web-site is devoted to rare and unique material relating to the theatre and its allied arts. It contains a wide variety of work written by CHARLES MAROWITZ, a leading critic, playwright and director whose reputation has been firmly established in England, the Continent and the USA. MAROWITZ, who was a close collaborator with Peter Brook at the ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY and the founder & director of The OPEN SPACE THEATRE in London, is one of the few people to successfully combine drama-criticism, playwriting and a career in stage-direction. In the late 80s, his play SHERLOCK'S LAST CASE, after winning the Louis B. Mayer Playwriting Award, was presented on Broadway starring Frank Langella. His free adaptations of Shakespeare collected in THE MAROWITZ SHAKESPEARE are performed world-wide. He is currently a regular columnist on SWANS.com, the Cultural-Political bi-weekly. Co-founder of Encore Magazine and a regular contributor to publications such as The NEW YORK TIMES, THE LONDON TIMES, THEATRE WEEK MAGAZINE and AMERICAN THEATRE MAGAZINE, Marowitz was the lead critic on THE L.A. HERALD EXAMINER until that paper's demise in the late '80s. He has over two dozen books to his credit, the most recent being HOW TO STAGE A PLAY, MAKE A FORTUNE, WIN A TONY & BECOME A THEATRICAL ICON (Amadeus Books) and THE OTHER CHEKHOV, the first English-language biography of the legendary actor & theorist, Michael Chekhov. Other works include STAGE DUST: A CRITIC'S CULTURAL SCRAPBOOK OF THE 1990s (Scarecrow Press) and ROAR OF THE CANON: KOTT & MAROWITZ ON SHAKESPEARE (Applause Books), a challenging exploration of Shakespearean production-theory utilizing first-hand material from the renowned classical scholar, Jan Kott. His two most recent works for the stage are SILENT PARTNERS, Marowitz's dramatization of Eric Bentley's A BRECHT MEMOIR which premiered at the Scena Thetre in Washington D.C. in mid-April 2006 and MURDERING MARLOWE, an Elizabethan murder-mystery about an imagined rivalry between William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe originally premiered at Malibu Stage Company. The play was selected as a finalist for the GLAAD Awards of 2002 and has recently been published by Dramatists Play Service and Drama Books in Denmark. Apart from Marowitz's own writing, this website specializes in qualitative books on a wide variety of theatre-subjects, collector items and hard-to-come by publications of intellectual interest. |
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