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Playbill Vault's Today in Theatre History: July 29 by David Gewirtzman and Ernio Hernandez and Robert Viagas

1981 An ad in Variety today accuses theatre critic John Simon of being "racist, anti-Semitic, misogynist, vicious, and derisive." Included in the ad/protest are excerpts from Simon's review of Richard III. Simon is quoted as writing in this review that an actress in the show "should never be cast as anything but an itinerant gefilte fish with a nervous condition." Three hundred artists, et…

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM on July 29, 2015

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