Mar 19, 2020
Stephen Sondheim’s felicitous flop
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On the successful failure of the 1981 musical Merrily We Roll Along.
Topic: “Theater”
Theater April 2020
The United States of Shakespeare
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On Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future by James Shapiro.
Theater March 2020
Sex, race, ethnicity
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On Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice at the Signature Center, A Soldier’s Play at the American Airlines Theater, and West Side Story at the Broadway Theater.
Jan 31, 2020
Race-, gender-, and time-blind
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On the consequences of pretending not to care.
Jan 24, 2020
Week in review
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On Troy, self-help & the First Folio.
Theater February 2020
Seems like old times
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On Harry Townsend’s Last Stand at Stage II at City Center, The Inheritance at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, and MsTrial at New World Stages.
Jan 21, 2020
All in a day’s work
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On Greater Clements at the Lincoln Center Theater.
Theater January 2020
The bijou from Peru
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On The Letters of Cole Porter, edited by Cliff Eisen and Dominic McHugh.
Dec 14, 2019
A Heroes of our time
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On Heroes of the Fourth Turning at Playwrights Horizons.
Theater December 2019
Preoccupations present & past
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On The Sound Inside at Studio 54, Slave Play at the Golden Theatre & The Rose Tattoo at the American Airlines Theatre.