Email Author Peter Szatmary

1996 Stories by Peter Szatmary

• A Different Desire

  published April 11, 1996

  When a venerable professor I studied playwrighting under in college described what it was like to be at New York's Barrymore Theatre on the night... More >>

• Shards of Ideas

  published April 4, 1996

  Imagine a Jewish woman in Brooklyn, 1938, who's seemingly so paralyzed with fear by what she reads in the papers about Nazi Germany that, even... More >>

• Puzzling Out Mamet

  published March 28, 1996

  Not all 296 seats of the Alley Theatre's Neuhaus Arena Stage were filled for the opening night of David Mamet's The Cryptogram. Some that were... More >>

• On the Fringe

  published March 21, 1996

  The parking lot of a suburban convenience store in the wee hours of the morning is nothing short of a study in vacuous earnestness. That's the... More >>

• Lost in the Heavens

  published March 14, 1996

  As an apocalyptic urban fantasy, Jose Rivera's Marisol is too unrealized to be what it obviously wants to be: a theatrical equivalent of the... More >>

• Friends and Family

  published March 7, 1996

  Whenever I see a play or movie written by Horton Foote, I think I should be sitting on a rustic front porch. Foote grew up an hour's drive... More >>

• Austen, Done Admirably

  published February 29, 1996

  Perhaps it's just something in the air, but for reasons uncertain, Jane Austen, dead lo these 179 years, has suddenly become the author of the... More >>

• A Ride to Remember

  published February 15, 1996

  A recent revival of Carousel, Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic but problematic musical about Billy Bigelow, a strapping young barker for a... More >>

• Cliche Positive

  published February 8, 1996

  When a bisexual man tests positive for the HIV virus, who should he tell first -- the man in his life, or the woman? This is one of the... More >>

• Sterling Siblings

  published February 1, 1996

  It's almost a foregone conclusion that Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra would be two of the crown jewels of Alley artistic director Gregory... More >>

• Well Constructed

  published January 25, 1996

  Sometimes, one element in a production is so far superior to all others that it throws everything out of whack. The playwright might outdistance... More >>

• It's a Fearful Life

  published January 18, 1996

  What a wrenching workout Stages gives to Edward Albee's searing Pulitzer Prize-winner, A Delicate Balance. With a withering grace, an overwhelming... More >>

• Theater Play

  published January 11, 1996

  For Box Office of the Damned, a musical send-up of all those who sell and buy tickets to the theater, Theater LaB paints its walls bright, happy... More >>