Critical Essay by Mel Gussow
["The Idiots Karamazov"] is, more or less, a musical comedy based on "The Brothers Karamazov," which is enough to make Dostoyevsky turn over i...
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Critical Essay by Antonio Chemasi
Christopher Durang is a young playwright out of Harvard and Yale who took the wrong turn at some point and wound up in comedy. While his contemporaries were grimly e...
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Critical Essay by Robert Brustein
[The Vietnamization of New Jersey] is a satire of such ferocity that it runs roughshod not only through the conventions of [David Rabe's] Sticks and Bones, bu...
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Critical Essay by Harold Clurman
A History of the American Film is a great foolery…. It might also be described as a crazy quilt stitched together by a loose thread of a "story" ...
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Critical Essay by John Simon
The idea of A History of the American Film must have seemed enchanting to its young author, Christopher Durang. It takes a few basic characters right through the typical ...
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Canadian-born American theatre director (b. June 29, 1919,
Toronto
, Ont.—d. June 29, 2006,
New York, N.Y.
), exerted a powerful influence on American theatre for four decades as director o...
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American playwright (b. Oct. 18, 1950, Brooklyn,
N.Y.
—d. Jan. 30, 2006,
New York, N.Y.
), probed, with humour and sensibility, the predicament facing educated women who came of age in the ...
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All of Harley Granville-Barker’s great Edwardian plays are about moral corruption, which accounts for the run of timely revivals. In 1999, the excellent Mint Theater Company staged BarkerR...
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For nearly 30 years, theater audiences knew Wendy Wasserstein as the wry mistress of wit who could make them guffaw in their seats or wheeze until they wept. But to her friends, the essence of this...
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For nearly 30 years, theater audiences knew Wendy Wasserstein as the wry mistress of wit who could make them guffaw in their seats or wheeze until they wept. But to her friends, the essence of this...
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Attention television watchers. Put down those remotes and salute. David Hyde Pierce is a genuine Broadway musical-comedy star.OK, his 11-year run on "Frasier" was terrific. So were all the Emmy nom...
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For the last decade acclaimed Upper West Side horror novelist Peter Straub has followed the ABC soap opera One Life to Live with such dogged enthusiasm that earlier this year the producers awarded ...
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Critical Essay by Mel Gussow
Richards, Lloyd
