April 2016
Understanding Shakespeare
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On attempting to “translate” Shakespeare.
Topic: “Theater”
April 2016
Give sorrow words
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On the many stagings of Macbeth.
April 2016
“Transposingly in love”: Hecht & Shakespeare
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On Anthony Hecht’s engagement with Shakespeare.
April 2016
Chambers of horror
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On Blackbird, at the Belasco Theatre; The Royale, at the Mitzi E. Newhouse at Lincoln Center; and Eclipsed, at the Golden Theatre.
March 2016
Minding the gaps
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On Fiddler on the Roof at the Broadway Theatre, Kinky Boots at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, and Prodigal Son at City Center.
February 2016
Remembrance of flings past
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On Our Mother’s Brief Affair at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre & The Color Purple at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre.
January 2016
Depths & shallows
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On A View from the Bridge at The Lyceum Theatre; School of Rock at the Winter Garden Theatre & Misery at the Broadhurst Theatre.
December 2015
Navigating choppy seas
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On The Humans at the Laura Pels Theatre, Colin Quinn The New York Story at the Cherry Lane Theatre & Dames at Sea at the Helen Hayes Theatre.
November 2015
Love fools
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On Spring Awakening at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, Fool for Love at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, and Old Times at the American Airlines Theatre.
October 2015
Dueling misfits
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On Hamilton at the Richard Rodgers Theatre and Finding Neverland at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.