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Sad to hear of Richard Greenberg’s passing. Three Days of Rain was, I think, the first script I designed for Round House in the season after leaving staff there, with Jerry directing , and I lived the script so much I recently went back to read it again.

Saddened to hear of Richard Greenberg's passing, we comforted ourselves by digging into American Theatre's archives about this major American writer. What a great subject and voice he was!

He first appeared in our pages after he adapted the musical PAL JOEY, in 1993: https://www.americantheatre.org/1993/01/01/richard-greenberg-now-hes-pals-with-joey/

We published his play THREE DAYS OF RAIN in our March 1998 issue. Here's his illuminating Q&A with Steven Drukman: https://www.americantheatre.org/1996/03/01/life-flows-through-it/

Then, in 2002, when TAKE ME OUT was a hit at the Public Theater, Drukman sat down with Greenberg again and dished about baseball and playwriting: https://www.americantheatre.org/2002/10/01/greenbergs-got-game/

In 2006, Terry Hong interviewed Greenberg when his work was in demand all over the U.S., including on Broadway: https://www.americantheatre.org/2006/02/01/the-greenberg-juggernaut/

Finally, in 2016, Lizzie Simon reviewed Greenberg's collection of non-fiction writing, "Rules for Others to Live By: Comments and Self-Contradictions." https://www.americantheatre.org/2016/10/20/richard-greenberg-alone-with-his-thoughts/

Beckett says “A bare interior…”

Director Alan Wade says “a refuge…”

From what? One might ask: from everything. Endgame is not *the end*. But it is something late in the game: Clov says “winding down”…

It was while sitting in tech for The Good Doctor (a very different challenge, in a variety of ways) that I mused about the nature of the actual room the Undercroft Theater is… never meant to be a theater - a lecture hall, really but “bare” enough; and aren’t we all ending with Hamm and Clov? It certainly seems so, more and more, each day. And so was born the nugget for Endgame: We’re All In This Together. Thanks to Marianne Meadows, LD (USA829) for getting the lighting right, and to Nora Brennan for helping me source the plans for the sconces on the walls. TD: Michael Tsaltas; Scenic Charge Meaghan Zettell. Costumes: Stephanie Parks.

Why New Plays Now? A Case for Supporting the Unimaginable One of the nation’s most prolific living playwrights celebrates the theatre that has sustained him, and asks that it recommit to, and expand, its support for new work.