American Theatre, May 1st, 2001
Why has Gertrude Stein become a recurrent character on America's stages?
"THE NAME OF GERTRUDE STEIN IS BETTER KNOWN in New York today than the name of God!" a society hostess marveled in 1913, when a mete handful of gnomic, published writings had already catapulted the modernist doyenne to literary notoriety. Ninety years and dozens of plays and prose works later, that megastar wattage has not entirely waned. While seminal, exasperating texts like The Making of Americans float paychecks in academia, Stein the celebrity--the champion of the Cubists; the mentor of Hemingway; the ultimate Ame...
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