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Terrific New Theatre's Splendid SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE: A Stage Review
Forty years ago, Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine unleashed on the world a difficult, demanding, rapturous musical called Sunday in the...
Dec 6, 20244 min read
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Life, Death, & Politics in 2024
NOTE: This author is neither a member of any form of political party nor does he endorse any political candidate. Some do not believe...
Jul 19, 20244 min read
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Two is the Loneliest Number
Harry Nilsson’s song “One,” most famously covered in two distinct but perfect recordings by Three Dog Night and Aimee Mann (the latter...
Jul 12, 20246 min read
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Stephen Sondheim: A Remembrance
Stephen Sondheim is a musical theatre composer and lyricist from New York City, New York. He wrote the scores for the musicals Here We...
Jun 7, 202433 min read
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EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH: 20th Century Masterpiece
In the mid-1970s, when the country was in a deep malaise over Watergate, Vietnam, the failure of most of the late-60s protests, artists...
May 3, 20245 min read
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Christopher Durang (1949-2024)
Christopher Durang was a playwright and actor from Montclair, New Jersey. He wrote the plays Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Tony...
Apr 12, 20247 min read
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2023 in Perspective
Greetings, readers, writers, and supporters. It’s time once again to recap the year at the writer’s desk. In addition to my first full...
Dec 29, 202312 min read
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Sondheim on Film
Stephen Sondheim was taken from us in late 2021, but since his posthumous cameo in Glass Onion, the wildly uneven follow-up to Knives...
Mar 3, 20239 min read
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On Wagner and Disconnect
I get into obsessions. After weeks of reading Browning’s poetry, I’ll switch to Sondheim and there will be weeks of listening, humming,...
Jan 20, 20235 min read
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The Juvenilia: First Words
Everyone has apprentice plays. Most people don’t know Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams wrote dozens of plays (rarely performed now)...
Jan 13, 202316 min read
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Favorites Part 5: Television/Theatre/Opera
For the last few weeks, I've been sharing my favorite works of art. These were not necessarily my answers to "What is the best movie/tv...
Dec 9, 20223 min read
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Fallen Starman: A Reminiscence of Drama School
I either don’t remember or I don’t care. Not remembering can be forgiven, not being remembered cannot be. Not caring can be freeing, but...
Aug 26, 20229 min read
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