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Foreman on PennSound, including new movies and near complete videos

Note: Memorial on Sept. 8, 2025
organized by David Herskovits and Shannon Sindelar
info here

Brooklyn Rail memorial, ed. Charles Bernstein, with John Zorn, Charles Bernstein, John Zorn, Richard Schechner, Kate Valk, Bonnie Marranca, P. Adams Sitney, Shauna Kelly, Susan Bee, Tony Torn, Jay Sanders, Andrew Lampert, Tom Sellar, Travis Just, Felix Bernstein, Ivan Sokolov, Willem Dafoe, and Kate Manheim.

New York Times (Anita Gates)
American Theater (David Herkovits)
Andrew Lampert, Artforum
Jennifer Krasinski, Yale Review
Washington Post. (David Cote)
The New Yorker (Helen Shaw)
Public Theater (Oscar Eustis)
PennSound Daily (Michael Hennessey)
Los Angeles Times (Charles McNulty)
Artforum
Don Shewey Substack

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Anthology Film Archive Tribute, curated by Andrew Lampert:
His Head Was a Sledgehammer: Richard Foreman in Retrospect at AFA & Foreman's Favorites

Writings, Sounds, & Film

Close Listening radio shows at PennSound
Foreman Sound Loops on Ubu
Excerpt from Plays with Films (Contra Mundum, 2013): pdf
Bad Boy Nietzche (pdf file: rehearsal script) at /Ubu Editions
Slice (pdf file: complete poetry ms, 2001) at /Ubu Editions
Now That Comunism Is Dead My Life Feels Empty (pdf file: rehearsal script) at /Ubu editions
Charles Bernstein in conversation with Richard Foreman (TDR, 1992) at Ubu.Com
Eric Boogosian in conversation with Richard Foreman (from Bomb)
Video clip from Permanent Brain Damage (from Bomb)
"Death" and "Don't Know" from Discourse -- 24.1, Winter 2002 -- PDF files
Foreman interview by Ken Jordan (1990)
Cross-Cultural Poetics Radio Show, March 8, 2004: (31:02): MP3 (30MB), RealAudio (16MB)
"Notes to Zomboid!" From Plays with Film (2013)
"Madness and Tranguility": photos of abanoned production with captions by Foreman (1980): pdf
Interview in Arthur Bartow,The Director's Voice: Twenty-One Interviews (New York : Theatre Communications Group. 2012): pdf
"Gaps and Loops": in conversation with Travis Just and Kara Feely (Object Collection), Fall 2023: Culturebot
2001 interview with Magda Romanska
mindFlux (2010): film about Foreman by Ryan Kerrison: website with trailer and outtakes

About Richard Foreman

Production history through 1988 via Arthur Bartow: pdf
Hilton Als review of King Cowboy Rufus Rules the Universe
Village Voice review of King Cowboy Rufus Rules the Universe
New York Times review (Ben Brantly) of King Cowboy Rufus Rules the Universe
Raphael Rubinstein on Foreman (Art in America, July 1999) -- .pdf file
New York Times (Ben Brantly) review of Panic
Village Voice (Michael Feingold) review of Panic
Marc Robinson, "The Mind King Abdicates" (on Panic) -- Theater (Volume 33, Number 3, Fall 2003) -- PDF file
David Kilpatrick on Bad Boy Nietzsche, Theatre Journal (Volume 53, Number 1, March 2001)-- PDF file
Robert F.Gross, review of Permanent Brain Damage, and: The Universe, and: Eddie Goes to Poetry City, Part One, and: Samuel's Major Problems, and: Miss Universal Happiness (Theatre Journal - Volume 52, Number 1, March 2000) -- PDF file

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