Theater March 2021
The most grateful Englishman
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On a new biography of the playwright Tom Stoppard.
Topic: “Theater”
Theater February 2021
Guys & dolls
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A review of Singular Sensation: The Triumph of Broadway, by Michael Riedel.
Theater June 2020
The puritan bohemian
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On the fame of George Bernard Shaw.
May 04, 2020
For the duration
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On recent closures in the performing arts world.
Theater May 2020
Absolutely Agate
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On the theatrical life of James Agate.
Mar 19, 2020
Stephen Sondheim’s felicitous flop
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On the successful failure of the 1981 musical Merrily We Roll Along.
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.