Broadway Stars Broadway Stars

Los Angeles Theater Review: DEATH OF THE AUTHOR (Geffen Playhouse) by Jason Rohrer

DEARTH OF DRAMA Steven Drukman’s Death of the Author takes its name, premise, and some of the devices in its dialogue from a Roland Barthes essay on postmodernism.  It’s wonderful to see Drukman adapt Gore Vidal’s riposte to William Buckley about crypto-Nazis and fold it into a pun on Marxist literary theory.  But there’s nothing […]

SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 12:50PM on May 29, 2014

« Back to BroadwayStars