A new production exposes the darkness that’s always been at the heart of the musical — and the American experiment.
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:23PMIt is probably impossible for those theatergoers who didn’t grow up with Neil Simon’s plays to understand how big a deal he was in his prime, both to the theater and American pop culture…
SOURCE: Vulture at 05:57PMIn early December 1948, Patricia Highsmith took a Christmas-season temp job as a shopgirl in the children’s toy department at Bloomingdale’s. Highsmith, a 27-year-old native of Fort…
SOURCE: Vulture at 11:30AMThe last time Frank Rich had a conversation with Chris Rock was in early 1996, when they and the 1950s teen heartthrob Pat Boone were thrown together in a New York television studio as panel…
SOURCE: Vulture at 09:00PMIn February 1965, Mike Nichols was a rising stage-director best known as half of the comedy team of Nichols & May, the riotous byproduct of his and Elaine May’s collision as early memb…
SOURCE: Vulture at 02:29PMAct One is an infectious evocation of a vibrant world written, it turns out, by a chronic depressive who also found the business "pure hell."
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 02:57PMA lifetime making sense of the extraordinary songwriter-as young fan; critic and "enemy"; and, by now, old friend.
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 01:20PMNew York Magazine Frank Rich: Post-Racial Farce
SOURCE: New York Magazine at 06:21PMFrank Rich's 1971 review of the Boston tryout of Follies for the Harvard Crimson.
SOURCE: The Harvard Crimson at 09:34AM