Arthur Levine born on July 14, 1917 in Brooklyn, NY. Accepted at Cornell University, where he nurtured an early love of theater by obsessively reading plays in his spare time. Remembered as a prolific stage director and screenwriter, who was credited for the musicals from there books “West Side Story” (1957) and “Gypsy” (1959). In … Read more
Terrible things happen, that’s a fact, but when they happen, who or what is to blame? In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the famous star-crossed lovers end up committing suicide and dying in each other’s’ arms. Almost every event in this play added up to this result, but the four major events- … Read more
The Love Suicides at Amijima was created by Chikamatsu Monzaemon in 1721. This play was originally written as joruri, better known as puppet theatre but was later performed into kabuki, the form of theater in which a play is interpreted through dance and song. The Love Suicides at Amijima was created during a time period … Read more