Rob Weinert-Kendt Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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In the Wake
Lisa KronRob Weinert-KendtMy review of THE SIGN IN SIDNEY BRUSTEIN'S WINDOW will go up next week. But I just thought of one play it reminds me of: Lisa Kron's underrated 2010 personal/political drama IN THE WAKE. At the time the common comparison was to Kushner; now I wonder if Kron had Hansberry in mind.
Paperback, 2014
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Tick Tick ... Boom!: The Complete Book and Lyrics
Jonathan LarsonRob Weinert-KendtThe TICK TICK BOOM movie finally almost made me a Jonathan Larson fan. Now my 13-year-old is teaching himself this tune on piano and I don’t hate it. #dailysong https://t.co/sNzCF7mtaB
Paperback, 2008
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August Wilson: A Life
Patti HartiganRob Weinert-KendtReading Patti Hartigan’s excellent new August Wilson bio (out in about a month) and finding myself tearing up at the JOE TURNER chapter. This may or may not make it into my review https://t.co/BZeWJuYFRL
Hardcover, 2023
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Two Trains Running
August WilsonRob Weinert-KendtI finally completed my viewing of August Wilson's Century Cycle with the one play I hadn't seen before with Justin Emeka's masterful, musical production of TWO TRAINS RUNNING at Pittsburgh Public Theatre. 6/12
Paperback, 1993
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Downstate
Bruce NorrisRob Weinert-KendtBruce Norris's contrarian comedy-dramas often drive me nuts, and DOWNSTATE at Playwrights Horizons is no exception. But even with its deck-stacking and straw-manning, this is a play of real moral seriousness, performed within an inch of its life, and I admit it haunts me. 11/12
Paperback, 2019
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Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise BrownRob Weinert-KendtGreat piece about the great Margaret Wise Brown, who was born and partly raised in Greenpoint, just a few doors away from the church I belong to there. In a post-service talk there, a good friend of mine once taught Psalm 139 using “Runaway Bunny” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/02/07/the-radical-woman-behind-goodnight-moon
Board Book, 1991
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The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
Lorraine HansberryRob Weinert-KendtMy review of THE SIGN IN SIDNEY BRUSTEIN'S WINDOW will go up next week. But I just thought of one play it reminds me of: Lisa Kron's underrated 2010 personal/political drama IN THE WAKE. At the time the common comparison was to Kushner; now I wonder if Kron had Hansberry in mind.
Paperback, 2021
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Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
Dana StevensRob Weinert-KendtI’ve read and loved both these books, so is it weird that I found myself nearly weeping near the end of Dana Stevens’ live reading from CAMERA MAN? Beautiful writing will do that, I guess. Also grateful to live in an age of such smart and soulful criticism https://t.co/gm8dHuj9Cf
Paperback, 2023
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Port Authority
Conor McPhersonRob Weinert-Kendt@myopicgirl @capnjoy @AReyP @TheKilroys @JessHutchinson @50playwrights @Csvich Port Authority by Conor McPherson
Paperback, 2001
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Stravinsky
Robert CraftRob Weinert-KendtThis infectious Stravinsky romp, written in 1925 but not premiered till 1946, sounds a bit like a “Petrushka” outtake. Most renditions take it preposterously slow but this jazz band rendition led by Robert Craft rips through it winningly #dailysong https://t.co/NDR32eVujw
Hardcover, 1994
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