USTheater, Opera, and Performance
TABLE OF CONTENTS
(alphabetical by playwright)
John Adams and Peter Sellars (USA)
"Unrighteous Deaths" (on Goodmans' and Adams' The Death of Klinghoffer) by Douglas Messerli
"Unaltered Images of Movement" (on Adams', Lucinda Childs, and Frank Gehry's Available Light) by Douglas Messerli
Richard Alder and Jerry Ross (USA)
"Hey There" (from The Pajama Game) My Favorite Musical Theater Songs by Douglas Messerli
songs "I've Never Be Jealous Again" and "7 1/2 Cents) [from movie version, link]
"Unaltered Images of Movement" (on Adams', Lucinda Childs, and Frank Gehry's Available Light) by Douglas Messerli
Richard Alder and Jerry Ross (USA)
"Hey There" (from The Pajama Game) My Favorite Musical Theater Songs by Douglas Messerli
songs "I've Never Be Jealous Again" and "7 1/2 Cents) [from movie version, link]
Aeschylus (Ancient Greece)
Ilse Aichinger (Austria)
Edward Albee (USA)
"Explaining Things" (on Albee's At Home at the Zoo) by Douglas Messerli
"Getting Martin's Goat" (on Albee's The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?) by Douglas Messerli
"Explaining Things" (on Albee's At Home at the Zoo) by Douglas Messerli
"Getting Martin's Goat" (on Albee's The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?) by Douglas Messerli
"Living Darwinism" (on Albee's Seascape) by Douglas Messerli
"The Next Invasion" (on Albee's A Delicate Balance) by Douglas Messerli [link]
Peter Allen (Australia)
"I Go to Rio" (performance, link)
"The Next Invasion" (on Albee's A Delicate Balance) by Douglas Messerli [link]
Peter Allen (Australia)
"I Go to Rio" (performance, link)
Eleanor Antin (USA)
"On Credit" (on Before the Revolution) by Douglas MesserliJulie Archer and Lee Breuer (USA)
"The Locked Windows" (on Archer's and Breuer's Peter and Wendy) by Douglas Messerli
John Arden (England/Ireland)
"Pulling Down the Roof" (on Serjeant Musgrave's Dance) by Douglas Messerli
Robert Ashley (USA)
"An American Original" (on the death of Ashley and a concert in 2015 at Redcat in Los Angeles)
Back to Back Theatre (Australia)
"Playing the Play" (on Ganesh Versus the Third Reich) by Douglas Messerli
Béla Balázs see Béla Bartok
Joe Arias (USA)
"Strange Fruit" on Arias' Billie Holiday Centennial Concert) by Douglas Messerli
Joey Arias and Basil Twist (USA)
"This Is It" (on Arias with a Twist and Michael Jackson) by Douglas Messerli
Amiri Baraka (USA)
"Essential Dichotomies" (on Baraka's "The Toilet" and on his life and poetry) by Douglas Messerli
Djuna Barnes (USA)
"Freeling Family" (on Djuna Barnes' Biography of Julie van Bartmann) by Douglas Messerli
Three from the Earth
"The Days on Jig Cook" (on George Cram Cook and the Provincetown Players)
"Djuna Barnes' Roots," (on the short plays of Djuna Barnes) by Douglas Messerli
"The Songs of Synge"
The Antiphon
J. M. Barrie (b. Scotland/England)
"The Old Lady Shows Her Medals" (printed play)
"The Old Lady Shows Her Medals" (radio play with the Barrymores)
"Bond of Age" (on Barrie's "Rosalind" and "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals") by Douglas Messerli
"The Locked Windows" (on Archer's and Breuer's Peter and Wendy, based on a novel by J. M. Barrie) by Douglas Messerli
Béla Bartok (Hungary)
"Locking Up Being" (on Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle) by Douglas Messerli
"What's Love Got To Do with It?" (on Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle) by Douglas Messerli
Tina Bausch (Germany)
"You Know What I Mean" (on Bausch's Ten Chi and Richard Foreman's Deep Trance Behavior in Potatoland) by Douglas Messerli
Samuel Beckett (Ireland/France)
"Be Again" (on Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape)
"Nell's Death" (on Beckett's Endgame) by Douglas Messerli
"Living in the Details" (on Beckett's Waiting for Godot) by Douglas Messerli (Los Angeles Production)
"Little Catastrophes" (on Beckett's Act Without Words II, Come and Go, Catastrophe, Footfalls, and
Krapp's Last Tape) by Douglas Messerli (at Los Angeles' Odyssey Theatre)
"Sweating It: Three Mid-Century Tragi-Comedies) (on Beckett's Waiting for Godot) by Douglas Messerli (New York Production)
"Talking the Tears Away" (on Beckett's Happy Days) by Douglas Messerli
Interview with and performance of Krapp's Last Tape by Harold Pinter
Belarus Free Theatre (Belarus)
"Sunday, Bloody, Sunday (2)" (on the company's Being Harold Pinter) by Douglas Messerli
David Belasco (USA)
The Return of Peter Grimm
Hans Bellmer (Germany)
"Notes on the Ball Joint"
Shelley Berc (USA)
A Girl's Guide to the Divine Comedy
Alban Berg (Germany)
"Desire Severed from Award" (on Berg's Lulu as performed at the MET Opera) by Douglas Messerli
Hector Berlioz (France)
"Delusion and Dream" (on Berlioz' Les troyens) by Douglas Messerli
Felix Bernstein (USA)
Singing "Goodbye Old Girl" from Damn Yankees at age 12
Leonard Bernstein (USA)
"I Can Cook Too" (from Bernstein's On the Town) by Douglas Messerli
"It's Love" (on Bernstein's Wonderful Town) by Douglas Messerli
"Spiritual Uplift" (on Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti)
"Three Bernstein New Yorks" (on Bernstein's On the Town, Wonderful Town, and West Side Story) by Douglas Messerli
Chuck Berry (USA)
Chuck Berry singing "Johnny B. Goode" / live performance [link]
Susan Birkenhead (USA)
see Bob Martin
Georges Bizet (France)
"Love vs. Faith" (on Bizet's The Pearl Fishers) by Douglas Messerli
Jens Bjørneboe (Norway)
The Bird Lovers
"Cataloging Evil" (on Bjørneboe's The Bird Lovers and Semmelweis) by Douglas Messerli
Lily Blau (USA)
"Differential Equations" (on Blau's The Missing Pages of Lewis Carroll) by Douglas Messerli
Marc Blitzstein (USA)
"I Wish It So" (from Juno) My Favorite Musical Theater Songs by Douglas Messerli
Jerry Bock (USA)
"On the Side of the Angels" (on the deaths of Bock, Joseph Stein, and Tom Bosley) by Douglas Messerli
"Writing Tenderly" (on Jerry Bock's, Sheldon Harnick's and Joe Masteroff's She Loves Me) by Douglas Messerli
Maxwell Bodenheim and Ben Hecht (USA)
The Master Poisoner
Tom Bosley (USA)
"On the Side of the Angels" (on the deaths of Bock, Joseph Stein, and Tom Bosley) by Douglas Messerli
Matthew Bourne (England)
"Dance of Surprises" (on Matthew Bourne's Early Adventures) by Douglas Messerli
David Bowie (England)
"My Death" (Jacques Brel's song, "La Mort" sung by Bowie] [link]
"The Port of Amsterdam" ("Amsterdam") (Jacques Brel's song sung by Bowie) [link]
Jane Bowles (USA)
"A Necessary Remedy" (on Bowles' In the Summer House) by Douglas Messerli
Bertolt Brecht (Germany)
"Moon of Alabama" from The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Selected Audio Works
Stephan Brecht (b. Germany/USA)
"Stage and Street" (on the theater writings of Brecht) by Douglas Messerli
Jacques Brel (Belgium)
Douglas Messerli | "Jacques Brel Is Dead and Worth Resurrecting" (on Jacques Brel Is Alive and
Well and Living in Paris)
"Dans le port d'Amsterdam" (sung by Brel) [link]
"Fanette" (sung by Brel) [link]
"La Mort" (sung by Brel) [link]
"Quand on n'a que l'amour" (sung by Brel) [link]
"Les Vieux" ("Old Folks") (sung by Brel) [link]
Lee Breuer (USA)
Porto Morco
"Barnyard Philosophers" (on Breuer's Summa Dramatica and Porco Morto) by Douglas Messerli
Lee Breuer and Maude Mitchell (USA)
"You Great Big Beautiful Doll" (on Mabou Mines Dollhouse) by Douglas Messerli
Marshall Brickman, Rick Elice, Bob Gaudio and Bob Crewe (USA)
"Everybody Leaves" (on Brickman's, Elice's, Gaudio's, and Crewe's Jersey Boys) by Douglas Messerli
Benjamin Britten (England)
"Celebrating Liberation" (on Eric Crozier's and Britten's Albert Herring) by Douglas Messerli
"The Darkness Understands and Suffer" (on E. M. Forster, Eric Crozier, and Britton's Billy Budd) by Douglas Messerli
"The Piper's Son" (on Myfanwy Piper's and Britten's The Turn of the Screw) by Douglas Messerli
Peter Brook (with Marie-Hélène Estienne and based on The Mahabharata, by Jean-Claude Carrière
(England)
"Going On" (on The Battlefield) by Douglas Messerli
Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, Willie Gilbert, and Frank Loesser (USA)
"The Company Way" (on How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying) by Douglas Messerli
see also Frank Loesser
Jez Butterworth (England)
"Sunday, Blood Sunday" (on Butterworth's Jerusalem) by Douglas Messerli
John Cage (USA)
"Nothing on a Lecture (on Robert Wilson's performance of Cage's Lecture on Nothing) by Douglas Messerli
Alexi Kaye Campbell (Greece/England)
"Both Sides of Love" (on Campbell's The Pride) by Douglas Messerli
Karel Čapek (Czechoslavakia/now Czech Republic)
R. U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
Al Carmines (based on Gertrude Stein) (USA)
In Circles
Promenade (with Maria Irene Fornes)
Aimé Césaire (Martinique)
"Trying to Be Everything" (on Césaire's Une Saison Au Congo) by Douglas Messerli
Anton Chekhov (Russia)
"The Dogs Howl" (on Chekhov's The Seagull) by Douglas Messerli
Moose Charlap (music) (with Irene Mecchi (teleplay, based on the play by J. M. Barrie), Carolyn Leigh, Betty Comden and Adolph Green (lyrics, with additional lyrics by Amanda Green) and Jule Styne (music) (USA)
"Walkin' the Plank (on Peter Pan Live! [TV production, 2014]) by Douglas Messrli
Marissa Chibas (with Erik Ehn and Travis Preston) (USA)
Listening (on Chibas', Ehns', and Preston's Brewsie and Willie) by Douglas Messerli
Lucinda Childs (USA)
"Unaltered Images of Movement" (on Childs', Adams', and Gehry's Available Light) by Douglas Messerli
Julia Cho (USA)
"Dead Languagaes" (on Cho's The Language Archive) by Douglas Messerli
Jean Cocteau (France)
Complete recordings of theater, performances and other works (link with UBUWeb)
Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh (USA)
"Hey, Look Me Over" (on Coleman's and Leigh's Wildcat) My Favorite Musical Theater Songs by
Douglas Messerli
Betty Comden and Adolph Green (see also Jule Styne)
Betty Comden and Adloph Green (see also Leonard Bernstein)
Barbara Cook (USA)
"Getting to Know Her" (on Cook singing at the Wallis Annenberg Theatre) by Douglas Messerli
George Cram Cook (USA)
"The Days of Jig Cook" (on Cook and the Provincetown Players) by Djuna Barnes
George Cram Cook and Susan Glaspell (USA)
Suppressed Desires
"Celebration of Suppression" (on Cook's and Glaspell's Suppressed Desires) by Douglas Messerli
David Crosby (USA)
"She's Got To Be Somewhere" (song) [link]
Eric Crosier (England) see Benjamin Britten
Noël Coward (England)
"Breaking Away" (on Coward's Blithe Spirit) by Douglas Messerli
"Why Do the Wrong People Travel?" (from Sail Away) My Favorite Musical Theater Songs by
Douglas Messerli
Bob Crewe see Marshall Brickman
Tim Crouch (England)
"The Miracle of Art" (on Crouch's An Oak Tree) by Douglas Messerli
Stan Daniels (USA) see Joseph Stein
Gordon Davidson (USA)
"Creating Los Angeles Theater" (on the death of Gordon Davidson) by Douglas Messerli
Claude Debussy (France)
"The Outsiders" (on Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande) by Douglas Messerli
Shelagh Delaney (England)
"Permanent Outsiders" (on Delaney's A Taste of Honey) by Douglas Messerli
"Thieves of Love" (on Delaney's A Taste of Honey) by Douglas Messerli
Mark Dion (USA)
see David Lang
Gaetano Donizetti (Italy)
"Battling Divas" (on Giuseppe Bardari's and Gaetano Donizetti's Maria Stuarda) by Douglas Messerli
"Scarf and Ring" (on Donizetti's Roberto Dovereaux) by Douglas Messerli
Antonín Dvořák (Czechoslavakia)
"Raping Nature" (on Dvořák's Rusalka) by Douglas Messerli
Elevator Repair Service (USA)
"Problems with the Text" (on Elevator Repair Services' Arguendo) by Douglas Messerli
Rick Elice (USA)
"Wasted on Youth" (on Elice's Peter and the Starcatcher) by Douglas Messerli
see also Marshall Brickman
Everly Brothers (USA)
"Bye Bye Love" (on the Everly Brothers and Phil Everly's death) by Douglas Messerli
Daniel Ezralow (USA)
"Pure Ecastasy" (on Ezralow Dance's Primo Passo) by Douglas Messerli
Cy Feuer (USA)
"The Brotherhood" (on Cy Feuer and his death) by Douglas Messerli
William Finn and James Lapine (USA)
"Something Bad Is Happening" (on Finn's and Lapine's Falsettos) by Douglas Messerli
Ronald Firbank (England)
"The Princess Zoubaroff"
Richard Foreman (USA)
Deep Trance Behavior in Potatoland
"The Unfortunate Truth of My Situtation" (on Foremlan's Old-Fashioned Prostitutes) by Douglas
Messerli
"You Know What I Mean" (on Foreman's Deep Trance Behavior in Potatoland and Tina Bausch's
Ten Chi) by Douglas Messerli
Maria Irene Fornes (b. Cuba/USA)
"The Power of Desperation" (on The Conduct of Life) by Douglas Messerli
"A Very Long Walk" (on Promenade) by Douglas Messerli
"Rain of Summons" (on Fefu on and Her Friends) by Douglas Messerli
Jackson C. Frank (USA)
singing "Milk and Honey" and "Blues Run the Game"
Scott Frankel (USA) see Doug Wright
Max Frisch (Switzerland)
"The Conflagration" (on Frisch's The Arsonists) by Douglas Messerli
George Furth (USA) see Stephen Sondheim
Juan Gabriel (Mexico)
"Amor Eterno" [link]
Armand Gatti (Monaco/France)
Two Plays: The 7 Possibilities from Train 713 Departing from Auschwitz and
Public Song Before Two Electric Chairs
Susan Glaspell (USA)
Trifles
see also George Cook Cram
Betty Garrett (USA)
"I'm Still Here: Two Valentines" (on performances by Garrett and Eliane Stritch) by Douglas Messerli
Bob Gaudio see Marshall Brickman
Jack Gelber (USA)
"Eye to Eye" (on Gelber's Square in the Eye and Arnold Weinstein's Red Eye of Love) by Douglas Messerli
Robin Gibb (an the Bee Gees) (England)
"Close Another Door" [link]
Philip Glass, Robert Wilson, Lucinda Childs, and Christopher Knowles (USA)
"This One Is Being Very America" (on Glass, Wilson, and Child's Einstein on the Beach) by Douglas Messerli
"Send in the Clowns" (on Glass' Akhnaten) by Douglas Messerli
James Goldman (USA)
"Slightly Sour" (on Goldman's and Sondheim's Follies) by Douglas Messerli
Philip Kan Gotanda (USA)
"Mixed Messages" (on Gotanda's Remember the I-Hotel) by Douglas Messerli
Allen Graubard (USA)
"Comment on Gellu Naum's The Taus Watch Repair Shop"
Alice Goodman, Peter Sellars, and John Adams (USA)
"Six Degrees of Insanity" (on Goodman's, Sellars', and Adams' Nixon in China) by Douglas Messerli
David Greenspan (USA)
Son of an Engineer
"Going Nowhere" (on Greenspan's Go Back to Where You Are) by Douglas Messerli
Tammy Grimes (USA)
"Are You Sure?" (on the death of singer/actor Tammy Grimes) by Douglas Messerli
John Guare (USA)
"On Red Eye of Love"
Dan Guerrero (USA)
"Mariachi to Merman" (on ¡Gaytino! ) by Douglas Messerli
Peter Hall (England)
"Animal Uproar" (on George Orwell's Animal Farm) by Douglas Messerli
Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers (USA) see Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
George Frideric Handel (England)
"Tears and Hope" (on Giulio Cesare) by Douglas Messerli
Lorraine Hansberry (USA)
"The Reluctant Warrior" (on Hansberry's Les Blancs) by Douglas Messerli
"Survivors" (on A Raisin in the Sun) by Douglas Messerli
E. Y. Harburg and Burton Lane (USA), My Favorite Theater Songs, "How Are Things in Glocca Mora?" by Douglas Messerli
Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock (USA)
My Favorite Theater Songs,"Will He Like Me" (from Harnick and Bock's She Loves Me) by Douglas Messerli
"Writing Tenderly" (on Harnick's, Bock's and Masteroff's She Loves Me) by Douglas Messerli
James Harris (USA)
"Theater in the Merry-Go-Round" (on James Harris's An Illegal Start) by Pablo Capra
John Hawkes (USA)
"The Empty Pool" (on Hawkes' The Innocent Party) by Douglas Messerli
Jake Heggie (USA)
"The Face of God" (On Heggie's and Terrence MacNally's Dead Man Walking) by Douglas Messerli
"Embracing the Cannibal" (on Heggie and Gene Scheer's Moby-Dick) by Douglas Messerli
Matthew S. Hinton (USA)
Drake Disappears
Lucas Hnath (USA)
"What Does It Mean to Believe?" (on Hnath's The Christians)
Billie Holliday (USA)
"Pennies from Heaven" sung by Billie Holiday [link]
"Stormy Weather" sung by Billie Holliday (1952) [link]
Billie Holiday singing "September Song" and others
Hotel Modern (and Arthur Sauer)
"Toy Soldiers" (on their production of The Great War) by Douglas Messerli
Henrik Ibsen (Norway)
"The Man Who Stands Alone" (on Ibsen's An Enemy of the People) by Douglas Messerli
When We Dead Awaken
"When We Dead Awaken" (on Ibsen's play) by C. H. A. Bjerregaard
Hedda Gabler
"Burned Up" (on Ibsen's Hedda Gabler) by Douglas Messerli
"Ibsen's New Drama" by James Joyce
Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa (Italy) see Giacomo Puccini
Eugène Ionesco (Romania/France)
"Sweating It: Three Mid-Century Tragi-Comedies" (on Ionesco's Exit the King, Waiting for Godot and West Side Story) by Douglas Messerli
"Growing Horns" (on Ionesco's Rhinoceros) by Douglas Messerli
Hugh Jackman (Australia) and cast
"I Go to Rio" from The Boy from Oz [link]
Michael Jackson (USA)
"This Is It" (on Jackson's filmed rehearsals and Joey Arias and Basil Twist's Arias with a Twist) by Douglas Messerli
Tom Jacobson (USA)
"Asking Questions" (on Jacobson's Captain of the Bible Team Quiz) by Douglas Messerli
Henry James (USA)
Summersolft
Alfred Jarry (France)
Early chansons, lectures about Jarry, and a film version of Ubu Roi (link to Ubuweb)
Ubu Roi (film version by Jean-Christophe Averty)
David Javerbaum (USA)
"Holy Lite" (on Javerbaum's An Act of God) by Douglas Messerli
Len Jenkin (USA)
"Heart of Darkness" (on Jenkin's Dark Ride) by Douglas Messerli
Dream Express (link with Jenkin's site)
John, Paul, and Mary [Peter Yarrow, Paul Stookey, and Mary Travers] (USA)
"Where Have All the Flowers Gone" [link]
Rajiv Joseph (USA)
"Accidents of History" (on Joesph's Archduke) by Douglas Messerli
"Damaged Goods" (on Joseph's Gruesome Playground Injuries) by Douglas Messerli
"Tyger! Tyger! Burning Bright" (on Joseph's Bengal Tiger in the Baghdad Zoo) by Douglas Messerli
James Joyce (Ireland)
"Ibsen's New Drama"
Dennis Kelly and Tim Minchin (England)
"Loud and Quiet" (on Kelly's and Minchin's Matilda) by Douglas Messerli
Robert Kelly (USA)
"Monologues for Orpheus: A Dance Play"
Adrienne Kennedy (USA)
"Herselves: A Chamber Piece" (on Kennedy's Funnyhhouse of a Negro) by Douglas Messerli
Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II (USA)
"Ol' Man River" (from Showboat) My Favorite Musical Theater Songs by Douglas Messerli
Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach (USA)
"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (sung by The Platters, 1958) [link]
B. B. King (USA)
"The Thrill" (on a performance and King's death) by Douglas Messerli
Oscar Kokoschka (Austria)
Murderer the Women's Hope
Bernard-Marie Koltès (France)
"Men in the Streets" (on the Zeromski Theatre's production of In the Solitude of Cotton Fields) by Douglas Messerli
Michael Korie (USA) see Doug Wright
Alfred Kreymborg (USA)
Jack's House (A Cubic-Play)
Lima Beans
"Food for Love" (on Kreymborg's Lima Beans) by Douglas Messerli
Damish Kudaibergen (Kazakhstan)
"Adagio" (sung by Damish Kudiabergen) [link]
Tony Kushner (USA)
"Crashing Through the Ceiling of Despair" (on Kushner's Angels in America: Millennium Approaches) by Douglas Messerli
Tom La Farge (USA)
Talking While Shaving
Burton Lane (USA) (see E. Y. Harburg)
Jeffrey Lane and David Yazbek (USA)
"No One's Home" (on Lane's and Yazbek's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown) by Douglas Messerli
David Lang (USA)
"Where Is Evil?" (on Lang's and Dion's Anatomy Theater) by Douglas Messerli
James Lapine (USA)
"Out of the Woods" (on Lapine's and Sondheim's Into the Woods) by Douglas Messerli
Miklos Laszlo (Hungary/USA)
"Working Against Love" (on Laszlo's Parfumerie) by Douglas Messerli
Arthur Laurents (USA)
"Three Bernstein New Yorks" (on West Side Story and two other Bernstein musicals) by Douglas Messerli
"Sweating It: Three Mid-Century Tragi-Comedies" (on West Side Story and plays by Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco) by Douglas Messerli
"The Coward's Hand" (on Laurents' Home of the Brave) by Douglas Messerli
"A Necessary Vacuum" (on Laurents' Gypsy) by Douglas Messerli
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee (USA)
"The Gang's Still Here" (on Lawrence's and Lee's The Gang's All Here) by Douglas Messerli
"My Broadway Hit" (on a celebration for Jerome Lawrence) by Douglas Messerli
Stacey Levine (USA)
"The Good House" (in Levine's Susan Moneymaker, Large and Small) by Douglas Messerli
Susan Moneymaker, Large and Small: A Ten Minute Play
Frank Loesser (USA)
"Chance and Chemistry" (on Loesser's, Swerling's and Burrows' Guys and Dolls) by Douglas Messerli
My Favorite Musical Theater Songs, "Adelaide's Lament" (from Guys and Dolls) by Douglas Messerli
My Favorite Musical Theater Songs, "I Believe in Your" (from How to Succeed in Business without
Really Trying) by Douglas Messerli
My Favorite Theater Songs, "Luck Be a Lady" (from Guys and Dolls) by Douglas Messerli
My Favorite Theater Songs, "Never Will I Mary" (from Greenwillow) by Douglas Messerli
Kirk Lynn (USA)
"Approaching the Real" (on Lynn's The Method Gun) by Douglas Messerli
Tracy Letts (USA)
"Muddy Boots" (on Letts' August: Osage County) by Douglas Messerli
Joshua Logan (USA) see Oscar Hammerstein II
Terrence MacNally (USA) see Jake Heggie
Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgium)
The Intruder
Claudio Magris (Italy)
To Have Been
Voices: Three Plays
F. T. Marinetti (and others) (Italy)
"The Futurist Synthetic Theater"
Bob Martin (USA)
"Warm Up" (on Martin's, Charles Strouse's, and Susan Birkenhead's Minsky's) by Douglas Messerli
Jules Massenet (France)
"Between Duty and the Devil" (on Massenet's Werther) by Douglas Messerli
Joe Masteroff (USA)
'Writing Tenderly" (on Masteroff's, Harnick's and Bock's She Loves Me) by Douglas Messerli
Vladimir Mayakovsky (Russia)
Vladimir Mayakovsky: Tragedy in Two Acts with a Prologue and an Epilogue
The Bathtub (adapted by Paul Schmidt)
Missy Mazzoli (USA)
"Glimpses of a Vaster Landscape" (on Mazzoli's opera Song from the Uproar) by Douglas Messerli
Bob Merrill (USA)
"Mira (Can You Imagine That?)" (on Merrill's song from Carnival!) by Douglas Messerli
see also Jule Styne
Arthur Miller (USA)
"Tearing Down Bridges" (on Miller's A View from the Bridge) by Douglas Messerli
"Whatever Happend to Willy Loman?" (on Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman) by Douglas Messerli
Tim Miller (USA)
"Tokyo Tim"
Jelly Roll Morton (USA)
"An American Epic" (on Poor Dog Group's production of The Murder Ballad [1938]) by Douglas Messerli
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Germany)
Douglas Messerli Bad Day on the Seville Streets (on Lorenzo da Ponte's and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts's Don Giovanni)
Douglas Messerli Terrifying Twists (on Lorenzo da Ponte's and Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro)
Douglas Messerli Emblems of Love (on Emanuel Schikaneder's and Mozart's The Magic Flute)
Gellu Naum (Romania)
The Taus Watch Repair Shop
Jacques Offenbach (Germany/France) (with Jules Barbier and Michael Carre. based on E.T.A.Hoffmann)
"Love and Tears" (on Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann) by Douglas Messerli
John O'Keefe (USA)
Reapers
"What Have We Reaped?" (on O'Keefe's Reapers)
Eugene O'Neill (USA)
"The Awakened Emperor" (on O'Neill's The Emperor Jones) by Douglas Messerli
"Standing in the Moonlight" (on O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness!) by Douglas Messerli
"Life in a Cage" (on O'Neill's The Hairy Ape) by Douglas Messerli
"In Control" (on O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night) by Douglas Messerli
"The Endless Voyage" (on O'Neill's Glencairn Plays) by Douglas Messerli
The Moon of the Caribees
"Written in Tears and Blood" (on O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night) by Douglas Messerli
Jerry Orbach (USA)
"Try to Remember" from The Fantasticks by Jerry Orbach [link]
The Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners (USA)
"Shouts, Screams, Shrieks, Wails and Hoots" (on Luigi Rusolo and The Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners) by Douglas Messerli
Rogelio Orizondo and Teatro El Público
"A Tragic Cabaret" (on Antignón, un contigente Épico) by Douglas Messerli
Joe Orton (England)
"Identity in Dashes" (on Orton's What the Butler Saw) by Douglas Messerli
George Orwell (England) (see Peter Hall)
Eric Overmyer (USA)
"The Fire Within" (on Overmyer's Dark Rapture) by Douglas Messerli
"Past Present Future Tense" (on Overymer's On the Verge) by Douglas Messerli
Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and Matt Stone (USA)
"Look to the Rainbow" (on their musical The Book of Mormon) by Douglas Messerli
Suzan-Lori Parks
"Leap of Faith" (on Parks' Father Comes Home from the Wars, Parts 1, 2 & 3) by Douglas Messerli
Harry Partch (USA)
"Going/Gone Crazy" (on Partch: Windsong at Redcat) by Douglas Messerli
Peter, Paul, and Mary (USA)
"Where Have All the Flowers Gone" (singers) [link]
Kier Peters (Douglas Messerli) (USA)
A Dog Tries to Kiss the Sky
The Rumble
The Confirmation
"Confirming Reality" (on Peters' The Confirmation) by Douglas Messerli
"Kier's Secret German Audience" (on Peters' The Confirmation) by Douglas Messerli
The Wonder
Francesco Mari Piave (Italy) see Giuseppe Verdi
Harold Pinter (England)
"Another Room" (on Pinter's The Room) by Douglas Messerli
"The Homecoming Gift" (on Pinter's The Homecoming) by Douglas Messerli
"Talk" (on Pinter's The Collection) by Douglas Messerli
"The Wasps" (on Pinter's A Slight Ache) by Douglas Messerli
"Service" (on Pinter's The Dumb Waiter) by Douglas Messerli
Interview with and performance of Krapp's Last Tape
Cole Porter (USA) [with P. G. Wodehouse, Guy Bolton, Howard Lindsay, Russell Crouse, Timothy Crouse and John Weidman]
"Anything Goes" (from Porter's Anything Goes" My Favorite Musical Theater Songs by Douglas
Messerli
"Pure Poetry" (on Porter's Anything Goes) by Douglas Messerli
Francis Poulenc (France)
"Fanatical Martyrs" (on Poulenc's Dialogue of the Carmelites) by Douglas Messerli
Giacomo Puccini (music), Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa (Italy)
"Facing the Cold" (on La Boheme) by Douglas Messerli
"The Blindfold" (on Madama Butterfly, MET production) by Douglas Messerli
"Fin de siecle" (on Madama Butterfly, LAOpera production) by Douglas Messerli
"A Kind of Turandot" (on Madama Butterfly, MET production, 2016) by Douglas Messerli
"The Barbarian Within" (on Turandot, MET production) by Douglas Messerli
Henry Purcell (England)
"Hello, I Must Be Going" (on Purcell and Nahum Tate's Dido and Aeneas) by Douglas Messerli
Philippe Quesne (France)
"Elemental Theater" (on Quesne's La Mélancolie des dragons) by Douglas Messerli
Peter Quilter (England)
"An Incautious Overdose of Life" (on Quilter's End of the Rainbow) by Douglas Messerli
Nina Raines (England)
"Moonlight" (on Raines' Tribes) by Douglas Messerli
Maurice Ravel (composer) and Colette (libretto)
"Bad Manners" (on Ravel's L'enfant et les sortileges (The Child and the Sorceries) by Douglas Messerli
Vicki Ray (USA)
"It's Elementary" (on Ray's piano concert at Redcat in Feburary 2016) by Douglas Messerli
Elmer Rice (USA)
The Adding Machine
"More Than Zero?" (on the musical version of Rice's The Adding Machine) by Douglas Messerli
Jack Richardson (USA)
"Locked Up" (on Richardson's Gallows Humor) by Douglas Messerli
Paul Robeson (USA)
Robeson singing "The House I Live In" (link)
Mary Rodgers and Marshall Barer (USA)
"Shy" (from Once Upon a Mattress) My Favorite Musical Songs by Douglas Messerli
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II (USA)
"Confused by Paradise" (on Rodgers' and Hammerstein's South Pacific) by Douglas Messerli
"June Is Bustin' Out All Over" (from Rodgers' and Hammerstein's Carousel) My Favorite Musical
Theater Songs by Douglas Messerli
"Taming the Barbarians" (on Rodgers' and Hammerstein's The King and I and the film I Married a
Witch) by Douglas Messerli
Harold Rome (USA)
"I Know Your Kind" (from Destry Rides Again) My Favorite Musical Theater Songs by Douglas
Messerli
"Miss Marmelstein" (from I Can Get It for Your Wholesale) My Favorite Musical Theater Songs by
Douglas Messerli
Jerry Ross (see Richard Adler)
Gioachino Rossini (Italy)
"Hidden in Plain Sight" (on Rossini's La donna del lago) by Douglas Messerli
Lugi Russolo (Italy)
The Art of Noises
"Shouts, Screams, Shrieks, Wails and Hoots" (on Lugi Russolo and The Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners) by Douglas Messerli
Kaija Saariaho (Finland)
"Love Across Space: The Hero as Poet" (on Saariaho's opera L'Amour de loin) by Douglas Messerli
Kamala Sankaram (USA)
"Power Speaks Lies" (on Sankaram's opera Thumbprint) by Douglas Messerli
Sean San Jose (USA)
"Mixed Messages" (on San Jose's Presenting....the Monstress!) by Douglas Messerli
Aram Saroyan (USA)
Gertrude and Lew: A Double Bill
Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik [USA] [see Frank Wedekind]
Gene Scheer (see Jake Heggie)
Janet Schlapkohl (USA)
"The Same but Different" (on Schlapkohl's My Sister) by Douglas Messerli
Roland Schimmelpfennig (Germany)
"Telling the Story As It Is Being Told" (on Schimmelpfennig's The Arabian Night and Woman from the Past)
Arthur Schnitzler (Austria)
Hands Around or La Ronde
"An Endless Dance" (on Schnitzler's La Ronde) by Douglas Messerli
Robert Schenkkan (USA)
"A Bigger Wall Than Ever Imagined" (on Schenkkan's Building the Wall) by Douglas Messerli
Peter Sellars and John Adams (USA)
"A Body Transfixed by the Noonday Sun" (on Sellars' and Adams' The Gosepl According to the Other Mary) by Douglas Messerli
"Six Degrees of Insanity" (on Goodmans', Sellars' and Adams' Nixon in China) by Douglas Messerli
William Shakespeare (England)
"Even the Fool Is Hung" (on Shakespeare's King Lear) by Douglas Messerli
George Bernard Shaw (England)
Heartbreak House
"Keeping the Homefires Burning" (on Shaw's Heartbreak House) by Douglas Messerli
Wallace Shawn (USA)
"Even the Thought" (on Shawn's A Thought in Three Parts) by Douglas Messerli
"The Survivor" (on Shawn's The Designated Mourner) by Douglas Messerli
Martin Sherman (USA)
"Talking Sex" (on Sherman's Bent) by Douglas Messerli
Dmitri Shostakovich (USSR)
"Shrill Charm" (on Shostakovich's Nos (The Nose) by Douglas Messerli
Sam Shepard (USA)
"Unburying the Dead" (on Shepard's Buried Child) by Douglas Messerli
Stephen Sondheim (USA)
"The Believers and Those Who Have Lost Faith" (on Furth's and Sondheim's Merrily We Roll
Along) by Douglas Messerli
"Not a Day Goes By" (on the song from Merrily We Roll Along) My Favorite Musical Theater Songs
by Douglas Messerli
"Convincing the Soloist to Join the Band" (on Furth's and Sondheim's Company) by Douglas Messerli
"In Buddy's Eyes" (from Follies) My Favorite Musical Theater Songs by Douglas Messerli
"Into the Woods" (on Lapine's and Sondheim's Into the Woods) by Douglas Messerli
"Sweating It: Three Mid-Century Tragic-Comedies" (on West Side Story, Waiting for Godot and Exit the King) by Douglas Messerli
"A Necessary Vacuum" (on Laurents' and Sondheim's Gypsy) by Douglas Messerli
"Slightly Sour" (on Goldman's and Sondheim's Follies) by Douglas Messerli
James Strah (USA)
"Shadowing the Shadows" (on Strah's and the Wooster Group's North Atlantic) by Douglas Messerli
Gertrude Stein (USA)
Brewsie and Willie (see Marissa Chibis)
Do Let Us Go Away
a short documentary with original photographs of Stein's and Virgil Thomson's Four Saints in Three Acts
In Circles (music by Al Carmines)
a recording from the Santa Fe Opera of Stein's and Virgil Thomson's opera The Mother of Us All
(UBUweb link)
What Happened: A Five Act Play
Mexico
Joseph Stein (USA)
"Moving on Down" (on Stein and Stan Rice's Enter Laughing) by Douglas Messerli
"On the Side of the Angels" (on Stein, Jerry Bock, and Tom Bosley and their deaths) by Douglas Messerli
John Steppling (USA)
Sea of Cortez
"The Verge of Possibility" (on Steppling's Sea of Cortez) by Douglas Messerli
Richard Strauss (Germany)
"A Dance of Death" (on Strauss' Salome, MET Opera production)
"O Terrible Night" (on Strauss' Salome, LAOpera production)
"Taking Up the Axe" (on Strauss' Electra)
"Yes, Yes" (on Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier, MET Opera production)
August Strindberg (Sweden)
Creditors
"Adam and Snake" (on Stridberg's Creditors) by Douglas Messerli
Miss Julie
"The Crazy Lady" (on Strindberg's Miss Julie) by Douglas Messerli
"Strindberg As Absurdist" (on Strindberg's The Ghost Sonata) by Douglas Messerli
Elaine Stritch (USA)
"I'm Still Here: Two Valentines" (on performances by Stritch and Betty Garrett) by Douglas Messerli
Charles Strouse (USA) see Bob Martin
Meg Stuart (USA/lives Belgium)
"What Is Dance?" (on Stuart's Hunter) by Douglas Messerli
Jule Styne (USA)
"The Party's Over" (lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green) (from Bells Are Ringing) My
Favorite Musical Theater Songs by Douglas Messerli
"People" (lyrics by Bob Merrill) (from Funny Girl) My Favorite Musical Theater Songs by Douglas
Messerli
Jule Styne (USA) see Arthur Laurents or Stephen Sondheim
Jule Styne (USA) see Moose Charlap and others
Jo Swerling (USA) see Frank Loesser
John Millington Synge (Ireland)
Riders to the Sea
"The Songs of Synge" (on Synge's plays) by Djuna Barnes
Bill Talen and Savitri D (USA)
"Tigers Got to Hunt" (on Talen's and Savitri D's Reverend Bill and the Life After Shopping Gospel Choir: The Earth-a-Llujah Earth-a-Llujah Revival!) by Douglas Messerli
Booth Tarkington (USA)
Clarence
Nahum Tate see Henry Purcell
Ronald Tavel (USA)
Andy Warhol's Horse
Lives and Loves of Hedy Lamar
Modest Tchaikovsky (see Peter Tchaikovsky)
Peter Tchaikovsky
"What's Love Got To Do with It?" (on Tchaikovsky's Iolanta) by Douglas Messerli
Fiona Templeton (b. Scotland/USA)
"The Poet's Theater of Fiona Templeton: An Enviornmental View" (on Templeton's You, the City) by James Sherry
David Thompson, John Kander and Fred Ebb (USA)
"On the Cusp" (on Thompson's, Kander, and Ebb's The Scottsboro Boys) by Douglas Messerli
Virgil Thomson (USA) see Gertrude Stein
Luis Valdez (USA)
"Dreams Destroyed by Hate" (on Valdez' Zoot Suit) by Douglas Messerli
Aristides Vargas (Argentina)
"The Traveling Table" (on Vargas' La Razón Blindada (Armored Reason) by Douglas Messerli
Royce Vavrek (Canada) [see Missy Mazzoli]
Giuseppe Verdi (Italy)
"Buried Alive" (on AntonioGhislanzoni's and Giuseppe Verdi's Aida) by Douglas Messerli
"Hold My Hand" (on Joseph Méry's, Camille du Locle's and Verdi's Don Carlo) by Douglas Meserli
"Count Down" (on Piave's and Verdi's La Traviata, based on Alexandre Dumas' La Dame aux
Camelias) by Douglas Messerli
"Everybody's Fooled) (on Bioto's and Verdi's Falstaff, based on Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of
Windsor and King Henry IV) by Douglas Messerli
"Living in a Glass House without Being Able to See In or Out" (on Bioto's and Verdi's Otello,
based on the play by Shakespeare) by Douglas Messerli
Gore Vidal (USA)
"The Compromise" (on Vidal's The Best Man) by Douglas Messerli
Richard Wagner (Germany)
"The Devil Meets His Angel" (on Wagner's The Flying Dutchman) by Douglas Messerli
"The Sacred and the Profane" (on Wagner's Parsifal) by Douglas Messerli
"The Sublime and the Ridiculous" (on Wagner's Tristan und Isolde) by Douglas Messerli
"Casting Out the Self" (on Wagner's Die Walküre) by Douglas Messerli
Enda Walsh (England)
"Keeping to the Script" (on Walsh's The Walworth Farce) by Douglas Messerli
"Pool of Survivors" (on Walsh's Penelope) by Douglas Messerli
Ethel Waters (USA)
"Stormy Weather" sung by Ethel Waters (1933) [link]
The Weavers (US singing group)
"If I Had a Hammer" [link]
Frank Wedekind (Germany) [see also Steven Sater and Duncan Shiek (USA)]
"An Audience of the Deaf and Blind" (on Spring Awakening, the musical)
Kurt Weill (Germany/USA)
Recording of Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera) Berlin, 1930 [link]
Arnold Weinstein (USA)
Red Eye of Love
"Eye to Eye" (on Weinstein's Red Eye of Love and Jack Gelber's Square in the Eye) by Douglas Messerli
Mac Wellman (USA)
Bad Penny
The Hidden Part of the US Constitution
The Offending Gesture
"Apropos of The Offending Gesture"
"Tails/Tales" (on Wellman's Bad Penny) by Douglas Messerli
"What American Abandons Abandons America" (on Wellman's Two September) by Douglas
Messerli
"Harm's Other Way: Some Notes on Mac Wellman's Theater" by Marjorie Perloff
"A Linguistic Fantasia" (on Wellman's A Murder of Crows) by Douglas Messerli
"Music from Another World" (on Wellman's The Hyacinth Macaw) by Douglas Messerli
"You Can't Go Home Again" (on Wellman's Second-Hand Smoke) by Douglas Messerli
"There Are No Such Things as Crows" (on Wellman's The Lesser Magoo) by Douglas Messerli
"Mac Wellman" (interview) by Linda Yablonsky [link]
Arnold Wesker (England)
"Work, Eat, and Die" (on Wesker's Roots) by Douglas Messerli
Oscar Wilde (Ireland)
The Importance of Being Earnest
"Nothing But the Truth" (on Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest) by Douglas Messerli
Thornton Wilder (USA)
"Archetypal America" (on Thornton Wilder's Our Town) by Douglas Messerli
Tennessee Williams (USA)
"Dependent Independents" (on Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire) by Douglas Messerli
"Rise and Shine" (on Williams' The Glass Menagerie) by Douglas Messerli
"Bow Down and Be Dim" (on Williams' Vieux Carre) by Douglas Messerli
"End of the Road" (on Williams' Camino Real) by Douglas Messerli
"Left in the Lurch" (on Williams' play version of Baby Doll) by Douglas Messerli
"Medea's Last Dance" (on Williams' In Masks Outrageous and Austere) by Douglas Messerli
"The Making of Blanche DuBois (on Williams' The Eccentricities of a Nightingale) by Douglas
Messerli
Robert Wilson (USA)
"Nothing on a Lecture (on Robert Wilson's performance of Cage's Lecture on Nothing) by Douglas Messerli
Ermano Wolf-Ferrari (composter) and Enrico Goslisciani (libretto) (Italy)
"Bad Manners" (on Wolf-Ferrari's Il segreto di susanna (Susanna's Secret) by Douglas Messerli
The Wooster Group (USA)
"Bow Down and Be Dim" (on the Wooster Group's performance of Williams' Vieux Carre) by Douglas Messerli
"Forces of Gravity" (on the Wooster Group's production of Cavalli's La Didone) by Douglas Messerli
"Shadowing the Shadows" (on the Wooster Group's production of North Atlantic) by Douglas Messerli
"Shakespeare as Ceremonial Dance" (on the Wooster Group's performance of "Cry, Trojans" based on Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida) by Douglas Messerli
"Forces of Gravity" (on the Wooster Group's production of Cavalli's La Didone) by Douglas Messerli
"Shadowing the Shadows" (on the Wooster Group's production of North Atlantic) by Douglas Messerli
"Shakespeare as Ceremonial Dance" (on the Wooster Group's performance of "Cry, Trojans" based on Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida) by Douglas Messerli
Elizabeth Wray (USA)
Doug Wright (USA)
"Winter in a Summer Town" (on Wright's, Scott Frankel's and Michael Korie's Grey Gardens) by Douglas Messerli
Grzegorz Wróblewski (Poland/Denmark)
Turning Point
Miwa Yanagi (Japan)
"Can You Hear My Voice?" (on Miwa Yanagi's Zero Hour: Tokyo Rose's Last Tape) by Douglas Messerli
Ozaki Yutata (Japan)
尾崎豊 僕が僕であるために(87年 有明コロシアム song by Ozaki Yutata [link]
Ozaki Yutata song by the Japanese pop-singer [link]
William Butler Yeats (Ireland)
Love and Death (manuscript version)
Stefan Zeromski Theatre (Poland)
"Men in the Streets" (on the Zeromski Theatre's production of In the Solitude of Cotton Fields) by Douglas Messerli
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