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Saturday, January 7, 2017

The scandalous Lillian Hellman by Sarah Churchwell

She was the first woman to be admitted to the club of American dramatists, writing a hit play when she was 29. Her love affair with Dashiell Hammett was a scandal and her memoirs were n…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54AM
Saturday, November 5, 2016

Why Hamilton is making musical history by Sarah Churchwell

Founding father Alexander Hamilton has become the unlikely star of a hit hip-hop Broadway musical. Coming to the UK next year, its portrayal of immigrant inclusiveness could not be more time…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AM
Saturday, September 17, 2016

Eugene O'Neill, master of American theatre by Sarah Churchwell

O'Neill introduced psychological and social realism to the American stage. As his masterpiece Long Day's Journey into Night opens in the West End, Sarah Churchwell assesses his impact on mod…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:40PM
Monday, December 28, 2015

The scandalous Lillian Hellman by Sarah Churchwell

She was the first woman to be admitted to the club of American dramatists, writing a hit play when she was 29. Her love affair with Dashiell Hammett was a scandal and her memoirs were n…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:14PM
Friday, March 30, 2012

Eugene O'Neill, master of American theatre by Sarah Churchwell

O'Neill introduced psychological and social realism to the American stage. As his masterpiece Long Day's Journey into Night opens in the West End, Sarah Churchwell assesses his impact on mod…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:35AM
Friday, October 21, 2011

Exorcism: should Eugene O'Neill's lost play have stayed lost? by Sarah Churchwell

The New Yorker has published a copy of the play O'Neill wanted no one to see. Perhaps they should have respected his wishesIn Act 4 of Long Day's Journey into Night, the protagonist James Ty…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AM
Sunday, April 24, 2011

Smut: Two Unseemly Stories by Alan Bennett – review by Sarah Churchwell

Alan Bennett's witty, sly stories are a delightAlan Bennett once remarked that his stage adaptation of The Wind in the Willows was partly about "keeping it under", in which Toad doesn't actu…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:30AM
Friday, March 18, 2011

Rocket to the Moon revived by Sarah Churchwell

Clifford Odets was the quintessential dramatist of the American depression. A timely revival at the National Theatre should restore him to his place alongside Miller, O'Neill and WilliamsOne…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PM
Friday, January 21, 2011

The scandalous Lillian Hellman by Sarah Churchwell

She was the first woman to be admitted to the club of American dramatists, writing a hit play when she was 29. Her love affair with Dashiell Hammett was a scandal and her memoirs were n…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PM
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