Author: Henrik Eger

HENRIK EGER, editor of Drama Around the Globe. Bilingual playwright, author of Metronome Ticking. Born and raised in Germany. Ph.D. in English, University of Illinois, Chicago. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s German Nobel Peace Prize mail translator. Producer-director: Multilingual Shakespeare, London. Conceptualized and co-wrote Handbook for Barrymore Judges and Nominators. Longtime Philadelphia theatre correspondent for AAJT, the world’s largest Jewish theatre website. Articles, interviews, and reviews published by Broad Street Review, Classical Voice, The Forward, HowlRound, Indian Express, Kayhan International, New Jersey Stage, Philadelphia Gay News, Philadelphia Jewish Voice, Phindie, The Progressive, Talkin’ Broadway, The Theatre Times, etc. Professor of English and Communication who taught in six countries on three continents, including four universities and one college in the U.S. Author of several books, including four college text books. He died January 3, 2021, aged 79.
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BARE: A Pop Opera – In Concert: Bare-bones budget but not a bare-bones sound. Interview with Fernando Gonzales, artistic director of Truth Be Told, Philadelphia

Henrik Eger June 12, 2015 2 Comments

Fernando Gonzales, Philadelphia theater artist and co-director of Truth Be Told Productions, made his regional directing debut with The Shape of Things at the Ritz…

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LAST CHANCE: From law to lyrics, from classics to folk, interview with Jack Scott and Ingrid Rosenback, Philadelphia’s popular duo.

Henrik Eger March 24, 2015 6 Comments

Last Chance, the musical duo of singer-songwriter Jack Scott (banjo and guitar) and fiddler-vocalist Ingrid Rosenback, has been playing together since 2011 and as a duo since 2012.

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A “real” American isn’t just a white American: Jeanne Sakata and the Journey of Gordon Hirabayashi. Part 2 of the interview with the playwright of HOLD THESE TRUTHS (Plays & Players

Henrik Eger February 27, 2015 No Comments

Jeanne Sakata gives another interview on her moving play HOLD THESE TRUTHS, about Gordon Hirabayashi’s battle with the Supreme Cour to stop the injustices of Japanese American internment camps.

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“We are not nearly as special as we think we are!”: Denise Shubin gives a candid interview about the Philadelphia theater community

Henrik Eger February 25, 2015 25 Comments

For almost three decades, hundreds of theater artists and young companies spread their wings at the Shubin Theatre, Denise Shubin’s converted house on Bainbridge Street.

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Being Howard Zinn: Interview with Bob Weick, who plays the historian in VOICES OF A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES (Plays & Players)

Henrik Eger January 29, 2015 No Comments

Henrik Eger interviews Bob Weick, who is taking on the role of the brilliant, if much maligned Howard Zinn in VOICES OF A PEOPLE’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.

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