Theater Review: Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Starring Patti LuPone, Sherie Rene Scott
June 29, 2025Patti LuPone, however, does not stumble. In her mesmerizing performance of the show’s best song “Invisible”...
Movie Time Nostalgia, Part 4: We Are All Children Of Paradise
June 25, 2025A movie can do a lot of things to an audience. It may move them, amuse...
Theatre Review: Blood and Gifts at the National Theatre, London
June 16, 2025Pop music functions as a metonym for the cultural appropriations and misunderstandings which occur onstage. Is...
Book Review: Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro
May 19, 2025Beginning around 1800, the hunt started to find the “real” Shakespeare, the noble visionary who had...
Book Review: Shakespeare’s Lost Kingdom: The True History of Shakespeare and Elizabeth by Charles Beauclerk
May 12, 2025I would have thought Shakespeare in Love might have advanced our understanding of the authorship debate,...
A Conversation with Author and McSweeney’s Editor Paul Collins
April 3, 2025"I think most scholars tend to trust the First Folio more than anything else, not because...
Casanova by Ian Kelly
March 15, 2025Ah, Casanova. Men want to be him, and women want to be with him. Or is...
Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews
March 3, 2025Again, it took an intervention, this time by Moss Hart, to point her in the right...
The House That George Built by Wilfrid Sheed
February 6, 2025And in recreating social history, what a star-studded cast he lines up to perform for us!...
Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins by Rupert Everett
February 4, 2025The universe appears to have cheated Rupert Everett. By rights, he belongs to the Edwardian age,...




