The Talented Mr. Frid
With online streaming has come the opportunity to rewatch beloved television shows from our formative years, and to reassess those …
Category Archives: Theatre
Three Tall Women and Two Short Ones
I recently attended the wonderful revival of Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women, with Glenda Jackson, Laurie Metcalf and Alison Pill, …
Better Angels
I visited the revival of Tony Kushner’s huge and important Angels in America last month, currently running on Broadway, a …
Genius Tales
What is it about stories that demand retelling? We are human, we like stories. We tell them to each other, …
It Tolls for Thee
Bells have been around for as long as people have been on the planet. The actual bell as we know …
An Acerbic Teacher
Last week we lost the playwright Edward Albee, best known for his caustic views of marriage and family relationships, his …
Moneylenders and Merchants
Whenever an opportunity arises to see Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, I leap at it knowing that I will probably find …
What does Golde think?
In the newest revival of the beloved musical “Fiddler on the Roof”, currently running on Broadway, Tevye is played with …
Mr. McNally Goes to the Opera
Fans of the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts on Saturday afternoons, and especially the opera quiz, will remember the playwright Terrence …
Looking to the Linen
In his 1693 treatise A Short View of Tragedy, the English critic Thomas Rymer famously distilled a lesson from Shakespeare’s …
Poets' Sinews 