I was fortunate to see the original production of Sam Shepard’s A Lie of the Mind at the Promenade Theatre in New York. When I first moved here, Shepard and David Mamet and Lanford Wilson were turning the NYC theatre… Read the full article
On the Upper West Side of New York, across town from my apartment, rage foments outside of the Metropolitan Opera’s…
While it might still be Spring (okay, Summer…) in my life, it is Fall in the life of the fabulous Elaine Stritch. She is the doyenne of Broadway, an actress, performer, singer, raconteur without peer, in my view. She is… Read the full article
On March 16th I wrote the below Morning Ode to Death of a Salesman after reading about Philip Seymour Hoffman as Willy Loman, one of the great roles in American theatre, in the current Broadway revival. I saw the play… Read the full article
The theatre has the power to change a person’s experience of life within the brief timespan of a few hours. You enter not knowing what to expect, and emerge with all your senses on fire, your intellect and emotions enhanced,… Read the full article
Shelagh Delaney’s play A Taste of Honey had a huge impact on me in my early years in New York. I saw the revival – with Amanda Plummer – and everything about its gritty, bald, fearless depiction of life turned… Read the full article
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