Newsletter Articles
DIRECTING GATSBY: An Interview with director Stephen Wrentmore
“The fundamental thing for me is that Gatsby’s world is an illusion. It is inherently theatrical. Everything he has created and does is a performance designed to seduce Daisy. So everything in Gatsby’s world is, in a sense, artifice.”
The Jazz Age and What We Got Out of It
“With hardships of wartime behind them, many Americans began to demand an easier life, full of fun, prosperity and modern conveniences. As we know now, inflation and financial disaster were just around the corner, but for those who lived in the third decade of the 20th century, it was a heady time of freedom and independence.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s New York
“Like all great authors, F. Scott Fitzgerald combined elements of the real world in which he lived with his own fictitious creations to create his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby.”
Envisioning The Great Gatsby for the Stage: An Interview with Simon Levy
“The challenge of honoring Fitzgerald and this massively iconic novel, as well as honoring the craft of theatre, required getting deep into the novel, into Fitzgerald himself, into all the essays and books written about the symbolism and metaphors and themes.”
