‘A Delicate Balance’: we do what we can
Edward Albee’s 1966 Pulitzer Prize-winner “A Delicate Balance” has the surface appearance of a polite drawing room play, but quickly turns into one of the writer’s darkest and funniest visions of...
View ArticleBehind the scenes of a loved/hated landmark play & movie
Mart Crowley’s play “The Boys in the Band” was controversial when it opened in the spring of 1968 for its frank depiction of a birthday party where all of the guests were gay. Nothing like that had...
View ArticleElizabeth Taylor R.I.P.: pop culture revolutionary
The first phrase that popped into my head when I heard about the death of Elizabeth Taylor this morning was “erotic vagrancy.” That’s what the Vatican charged the actress with while she was conducting...
View Article‘Dropped Names’: reinventing the show-biz memoir
Frank Langella has written just the sort of smart, funny and honest memoir you might expect from the great stage star and dynamic film actor. “Dropped Names” doesn’t really tell the story of the life...
View ArticleFrank Langella knocks ’em dead in Stamford
A good time was had by all at the Avon Theatre Film Center in Stamford Monday night when Frank Langella spent a few hours there talking about his wonderful new memoir “Dropped Names” (Harper) and then...
View ArticleSteppenwolf blows the cobwebs off ‘Virginia Woolf’
As hard as it might be to imagine, the Steppenwolf production of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” finds completely new ways to present Edward Albee’s 50-year-old play about the battling academic...
View ArticleBad Movies We Love: ‘The Sandpiper’ — Liz as the first hippie
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor are frequently referred to now as the “Brangelina” of the 1960s and early 1970s, but the fact is they were much bigger news in their day than Brad Pitt and Angelina...
View ArticleJohn Lithgow’s unusually vigorous ‘King Lear’
I’ve heard people in the theater say that one of the biggest challenges of ‘King Lear’ is that by the time an actor is old enough to play the lost, demented king, he might not have the physical...
View ArticleAn hour with Mike Nichols tonight at 9
PBS is unveiling a new “American Masters” documentary tonight at 9 that focuses on the long and unusually varied career of director Mike Nichols. Nichols was such a potent force on stage, screen and...
View ArticleEdward Albee season in New York
A starry revival of Edward Albee’s “Three Tall Women” – with an ensemble led by Glenda Jackson — is in previews on Broadway, but a sensational production of “At Home at the Zoo: Homelife & The Zoo...
View ArticleThe return of Glenda Jackson
Thirty years after she played Lady Macbeth on Broadway, Glenda Jackson has returned in a new production of Edward Albee’s 1994 Pulitzer Prize-winner “Three Tall Women.” The show, which co-stars two...
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