Oklahoma Was Never Really O.K. by Frank Rich

A new production exposes the darkness that's always been at the heart of the musical " and the American experiment.

SOURCE: Vulture at 10:23pm on April 2, 2019☆⚑

Losing Neil Simon, a Writer from a Lost Time by Frank Rich

It 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. Th…

SOURCE: Vulture at 5:57pm on August 26, 2018☆⚑

Frank Rich on Patricia Highsmith’s Carol and the Enduring Invisibility of Lesbian Culture in America by Frank Rich

In 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 Wor…

SOURCE: Vulture at 11:30am on November 18, 2015☆⚑

Chris Rock Talks to Frank Rich About Ferguson, Cosby, and What 'Racial Progress' Really Means by Frank Rich

The 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 9:00pm on November 30, 2014☆⚑

Frank Rich Remembers Mike Nichols by Frank Rich

In 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 member…

SOURCE: Vulture at 2:29pm on November 20, 2014☆⚑

The Greatest Showbiz Book Ever Written by Frank Rich

Act 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 2:57pm on March 18, 2014☆⚑

The Sondheim Puzzle by Frank Rich

A lifetime making sense of the extraordinary songwriter-as young fan; critic and "enemy"; and, by now, old friend.

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 1:20pm on December 2, 2013☆⚑

Post-racial Farce by Frank Rich

New York Magazine Frank Rich: Post-Racial Farce

SOURCE: New York Magazine at 6:21pm on May 21, 2012☆⚑

Theatre The Last Musical | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson by Frank Rich

Frank Rich's 1971 review of the Boston tryout of Follies for the Harvard Crimson.

SOURCE: The Harvard Crimson at 9:34am on September 18, 2011☆⚑