Charles Marowitz

Charles Marowitz (born 1934) is an American critic, theatre director, and playwright who has been a regular columnist on Swans Commentary—a cultural-political bi-weekly—since 2004 ("Biography", Marowitz Theatre; "Commentary", Swans.com). He is perhaps best known for being "a close collaborator with Peter Brook at the Royal Shakespeare Company" and for founding and directing The Open Space Theatre, both in London ("Biography").

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 ("Biography"), and of the 1987 Broadway play Sherlock's Last Case starring Frank Langella.^[1]

His free translations of Shakespeare have been collected in The Marowitz Shakespeare.

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.

References

1. ^ Frank Rich, "Stage: Langella In 'Sherlock's Last.' ", The New York Times, August 21, 1987, accessed October 11, 2007.

External links

• "Biography: Charles Marowitz" – at Marowitz Theatre.
• Charles Marowitz at Internet Broadway Database.
• "Commentary: Charles Marowitz" – Contributor page at Swans.com.
• Marowitz Theatre – Home page of Marowitz's official commercial website. Sections include "Biography", "Books", "Plays", directorial projects, and other publications by himself and others.

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