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In the 1910s the American theater, long dominated by melodramas, dictatorial producers (most of whom were artless magnates), and an audience more drawn by stars-preferably Britishthan good scripts, was finally ready to establish its own identity. The cha...

In the 1910s the American theatre, long dominated by melodramas, dictatorial producers (most of whom were artless magnates), and an audience more drawn by stars--preferably British--than good scripts, was finally ready to establish its own identity. The...

"I want to be an artist or nothing," wrote aspiring playwright Eugene O'Neill at the age of twenty-five. He pursued his goal relentlessly, and when he died forty years later he had written more than fifty plays, won the Nobel and several Pulitzer prizes,...

THE AGE OF TURBULENCE: ADVENTURES IN A NEW WORLDBy Alan Greenspan The Penguin Press, 531 pages, $35 “Garbo talks.” That was the advertising slogan for Greta Garbo’s first talking picture, Anna Christie. A similar advertising campaign would have been appropriate for the famously cryptic economist...

Devoted readers of this column will need no reminder that the last thing I am is an Anglophile. In the way that we all have complicated relationships with places and people we've left, I've been hating the British for years.Born in England, I came to...

Wednesday 2nd If March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb , where does the Liger fit in? After the whirlwind of February-Fashion Week, dog shows, Valentine's hype, Presidents' birthdays, topless porno stars (Paris Hilton) and the Oscars ( exhale)-maybe the...

Essay is based on the play by Eugene O'Neill called Anna Christie. The essay is about a girl from the sea who seeks personal redemption from her sordid past. Through the sea, her father, and her lover, Anna finally accepts her past of being a prostitute.