Jeffrey Sweet

Jeffrey Sweet is the author of Flyovers, The Action Against Sol Schumann, Berlin ’45, Bluff, Court-Martial at Fort Devens, Immoral Imperatives, The Value of Names, and many other plays. His book Something Wonderful Right Away is the definitive history of the early days of Chicago improv. He writes a regular monthly column on New York and Chicago theatre for Dramatics.

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Blog: Critic At Large February 2012

Look Back in Anger

4 Comments By Jeffrey Sweet | February 14, 2012

As I was waiting for the bus home, I ran into someone who often writes about the theatre who had also just emerged from seeing Look Back in Anger. She was in a rage. Why was the Roundabout Theatre putting on this old, second-rate British ...

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The theatre hall of fame

5 Comments By Jeffrey Sweet | February 7, 2012

I’m in the middle of casting the New York premiere of Court-Martial at Fort Devens (a production that came about, by the way, because the play was published in Dramatics). I arrived at auditions on Tuesday to hear stories about an event ...

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