Alexandre Dumas (1803-1870), the prolific French author of plays, popular romances, and historical novels, wrote The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. Alexandre Dumas is generally called Dumas père to distinguish him from his illustr...
Despite their unflagging worldwide popularity, their perennial availability, and their innumerable cinematographic adaptations, the works of Alexandre Dumas père have been largely unappreciated by critics. There has been, for some time now, a spec...
The dramatic writings of Alexandre Dumas père, long absent from publishers' booklists and often granted little more than la portion congrue (an extremely small place) in critical assessments of his literary corpus, seem today to be experiencing so...
DONIZETTI: Mary Stuart * Baker, Plowright, Bostock; Rendall, Tomlinson, Opie; Chorus and Orchestra of the English National Opera, Mackerras. Kultur DVD D2808, 138 mins., 4:3 picture format, subtitled For her farewell to opera in 1982, Janet Baker repeated her 1973 English-language Mary Stuart...
Bloody Mary By Rachel Shukert Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center 107 Suffolk Street 212-868-4444 Mary Stuart By Friedrich Schiller Pearl Theatre 80 St. Marks Place 212-598-9802 Proud Marys Three queens and a pair...
Peter Masterson starred in the The Stepford Wives, that 70’s classic about murderous suburban Connecticut lady robots, and he co-wrote The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas—his wife Carlin Glynn starred in its first two Broadway runs. But for the past three decades the couple...
Today is Wednesday, Feb. 28, the 59th day of 2007. There are 306 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Feb. 28, 1849, the ship California arrived at San Francisco, carrying the first of the gold-seekers.On this date:In 1827, the first U.S. railroad chartered...
