Friday, May 24, 2013

Longtime Village Voice Theatre Critic Axed

Playbill 05/21/13

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British Equity Worries About Increase In Nudity Requests

The Stage (UK) 05/22/13

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L.A.'s UnCabaret At 25

NPR 05/20/13 (includes audio)

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Thursday, May 23, 2013

TT: Almanac

"'But Larry,' she smiled. 'People have been asking those questions for thousands of years. If they could be answered, surely...

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TT: Modernism and the test of time

In today's Wall Street Journal "Sightings" column I reflect on two recent opera productions, one modern and the other postmodern....

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TT: Truth is scarier

In today's Wall Street Journal I review two major off-Broadway revivals of Conor McPherson's The Weir and Henrik Ibsen's The...

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Casting Directors: The Unknown, The Powerful

The Guardian (UK) 05/21/13

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Scotland's Oldest Theatre is Saved

The Guardian (UK) 05/22/13

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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

TT: Almanac

"It is very difficult to know people and I don't think one can ever really know any but one's own...

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Making Up Kurt Vonnegut's Mind After 20 Years

The New York Times 05/20/13

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A Tie At The Obie Awards

The New York Times 05/20/13

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A Venture Capital Fund For Young Theatre Producers

The Guardian (UK) 05/20/13

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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

TT: Snapshot

Benno Moiseiwitsch plays excerpts from Schumann's Fantasiestücke, Op. 12: (This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that...

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TT: Almanac

"I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and...

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TT: Excelsior!

In 2010 Mrs. T and I moved to Hudson Heights, the highest natural point on the island of Manhattan. To...

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TT: The face of Duke

Emily Wunderlich of Gotham Books just sent me the final version of the front cover of Duke: A Life of...

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Monday, May 20, 2013

TT: Almanac

"I saw a tall man, evidently an Englishman, come in with a young rough. He had the long, washed-out face...

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TT: Lookback

From 2005: Somewhere along the way, I muttered the all-too-familiar mantra of the busy New Yorker returned from a brief...

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Man Falls From Broadway Window To Marquee

New York Daily News 05/19/13

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Bring Your Own Canoe To the Theatre In Minnesota

Minnesota Public Radio 05/19/13

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TT: Almanac

"Of all the cants that are canted in this world, though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, the...

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TT: "Thus I turn my back"

Today's Wall Street Journal drama column is devoted in its entirety to a Washington show, the Shakespeare Theatre Company's new...

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TT: Just because

Donald Wolfit and Hildegarde Knef in a scene from Svengali, the 1954 film version of George Du Maurier's novel, written...

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TT: Almanac

"The author should shut his mouth when his work opens its mouth." Friedrich Nietzsche, Mixed Opinions and Maxims (courtesy of...

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TT: In the beginning

When Mrs. T and I went to see Francis Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites at the Metropolitan Opera last week,...

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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

TT: Almanac

"Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense." Samuel Johnson, The Idler (June...

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TT: So you want to see a show?

BROADWAY: • Annie (musical, G, reviewed here) • Matilda (musical, G, all performances sold out last week, reviewed here) •...

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