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RICHARD SCHECHNER WINS 2010 THALIA AWARD
Broadway World
Monday, February 1, 2010
New York University professor and professor of performance studies in
the department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts
Richard Schechner has been awarded the 2010 Thalia Award. The award
is presented annually by the International Association of Theatre
Critics and will be given to Schechner at a ceremony in Yerevan,
Armenia June 16th to 20th.
The Thalia Award was presented to Schechner for his work as editor
of The Drama Review, one of the world's leading theatre related
publications and his work on a number of published books that
contributed to the theatre. Schechner has been editor of the journal
since 1986.
Richard Schechner directs both new and classical plays around the
world. In New York, he founded The Performance Group and East Coast
Artists. With TPG, Schechner directed Spalding Gray in six productions
from 1970 to 1979: Makbeth (after Shakespeare), Commune (group
devised), Sam Shepard's The Tooth of Crime, Bertolt Brecht's Mother
Courage, Terry Curtis Fox's Cops, and Jean Genet's The Balcony. With
ECA and in India, China, and South Africa, Schechner directed Chekhov's
Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard, Aeschylus's Oresteia, Seneca's
Oedipus, Shakespeare's Hamlet, August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black
Bottom, and Saviana Stanescu's and Schechner's Yokastas Redux.
In addition to his directing, Schechner is University Professor of
Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, NYU and editor of
TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies. He is the author of many books
including Environmental Theater, Between Theater and Anthropology,
The End of Humanism, Performance Theory, The Future of Ritual, and
Performance Studies-An Introduction.
The IATC draws together more than two thousand theatre critics,
through some fifty National Sections. Founded in Paris in 1956, the
IATC is a non-profit, Non-Governmental Organization benefitting under
statute B of UNESCO.
The purpose of the IATC is to bring together theatre critics in
order to promote internationAl Cooperation. Its principal aims are
to foster theatre criticism as a discipline and to contribute to the
development of its methodological bases; to protect the ethical and
professional interests of theatre critics and to promote The Common
rights of all its members; and to contribute to reciprocal awareness
and understanding between cultures by encouraging international
meetings and exchanges in the field of theatre in general.
The IATC holds a world congress every two years, seminars for young
critics twice a year, as well as symposiums, and contributes to jurys.
English and French are the association's two official languages,
and its place of incorporation is Paris.
Photo Credit: Humanities Institute
Broadway World
Monday, February 1, 2010
New York University professor and professor of performance studies in
the department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts
Richard Schechner has been awarded the 2010 Thalia Award. The award
is presented annually by the International Association of Theatre
Critics and will be given to Schechner at a ceremony in Yerevan,
Armenia June 16th to 20th.
The Thalia Award was presented to Schechner for his work as editor
of The Drama Review, one of the world's leading theatre related
publications and his work on a number of published books that
contributed to the theatre. Schechner has been editor of the journal
since 1986.
Richard Schechner directs both new and classical plays around the
world. In New York, he founded The Performance Group and East Coast
Artists. With TPG, Schechner directed Spalding Gray in six productions
from 1970 to 1979: Makbeth (after Shakespeare), Commune (group
devised), Sam Shepard's The Tooth of Crime, Bertolt Brecht's Mother
Courage, Terry Curtis Fox's Cops, and Jean Genet's The Balcony. With
ECA and in India, China, and South Africa, Schechner directed Chekhov's
Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard, Aeschylus's Oresteia, Seneca's
Oedipus, Shakespeare's Hamlet, August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black
Bottom, and Saviana Stanescu's and Schechner's Yokastas Redux.
In addition to his directing, Schechner is University Professor of
Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, NYU and editor of
TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies. He is the author of many books
including Environmental Theater, Between Theater and Anthropology,
The End of Humanism, Performance Theory, The Future of Ritual, and
Performance Studies-An Introduction.
The IATC draws together more than two thousand theatre critics,
through some fifty National Sections. Founded in Paris in 1956, the
IATC is a non-profit, Non-Governmental Organization benefitting under
statute B of UNESCO.
The purpose of the IATC is to bring together theatre critics in
order to promote internationAl Cooperation. Its principal aims are
to foster theatre criticism as a discipline and to contribute to the
development of its methodological bases; to protect the ethical and
professional interests of theatre critics and to promote The Common
rights of all its members; and to contribute to reciprocal awareness
and understanding between cultures by encouraging international
meetings and exchanges in the field of theatre in general.
The IATC holds a world congress every two years, seminars for young
critics twice a year, as well as symposiums, and contributes to jurys.
English and French are the association's two official languages,
and its place of incorporation is Paris.
Photo Credit: Humanities Institute