Critical Essay by Brooks Atkinson
By throwing a few brains around where they are not too conspicuous, Jean and Walter Kerr have written a capital light revue, "Touch and Go."… Be...
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Critical Essay by Judith Crist
["Poor Richard"] is not only marked by the slick style and literate wit to which the playwright has accustomed us. It also boasts, advertently or not, a c...
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Critical Essay by Henry Hewes
The difference between style and front turns out to be precisely the problem that plagues Mrs. Kerr's title character [in Poor Richard], a poet with a vague resem...
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Critical Essay by Richard Watts
Jean Kerr is a skillful playwright, a brilliant wit and one of the most charming and delightful women in the world. All of those qualities have gone into her new comed...
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Critical Essay by Martin Gottfried
"Finishing Touches" is the ghost of Broadway past and, honestly, one of the strangest sights I've ever seen on a stage. In this play, Jean Kerr...
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Critical Essay by Gary Jay Williams
It is Jean Kerr's special mode to create domestic episodes out of the mock-heroic survival of the quiet daily desperations and for this there is an enormous...
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Critical Essay by Phyllis Theroux
Jean Kerr is one of the first women to hitch herself up to a typewriter and spin the straw of her not completely suburban existence into publishing gold. She is now ...
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Critical Essay by Frank Rich
Jean Kerr's, "Lunch Hour," takes place in the present and is set in the hip and swinging Hamptons—but don't give such outward signs of ...
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Critical Essay by Brendan Gill
[In "Lunch Hour"] the playwright has slightly but crucially misjudged the time and the place and the people that her comedy purports to be concerned with....
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Critical Essay by John Simon
The wives of New York Times drama critics should not write plays—at least not such feeble ones as Lunch Hour….
The plot concerns Oliver, a psychiatrist w...
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Critical Essay by Harold Clurman
[If "King of Hearts," a] comedy by Jean Kerr and Eleanor Brooke …, achieves success, it will be because it contains some of the funniest lines to...
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Critical Essay by Brooks Atkinson
Everything basic in "Goldilocks" is on a small scale—the sardonic story of the double-dealing director of silent movies, the diamond-hard wit of...
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Critical Essay by John Mcclain
I was just plain disappointed [with Jean and Walter Kerr's "Goldilocks"]. It is lavish and pretentious and good looking; it is occasionally extreme...
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Critical Essay by Elizabeth Janeway
[Jean Kerr is] not writing about anything new or unusual. In fact, some of the pieces that go to make up [The Snake Has All the Lines] have a definite air of being...
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Critical Essay by Jean Holzhauer
Jean Kerr, who is in the process of becoming one of the country's foremost humorists, would no doubt stand up and scream bloody murder at any implication that ...
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Critical Essay by John Mccarten
Jean Kerr is a witty woman, and the dialogue she has invented for "Mary, Mary" … is frequently fresh and funny. Admittedly, her jests are aimed at...
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“That’s Caitlin Flanagan,” a female journalist hissed to me at a party in Los Angeles, indicating the famously self-proclaimed anti-feminist—then not yet a staff writer for ...
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“That’s Caitlin Flanagan,” a female journalist hissed to me at a party in Los Angeles, indicating the famously self-proclaimed anti-feminist—then not yet a staff writer for...
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Critical Essay by Brooks Atkinson
Caitlin Flanagan to Housewives: Please Eat the Damn Daisies
