I feel conflicted about writing a review of Antony Sher’s embodiment of the Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi in Primo, although Sir Antony’s achievement is very fine, magnificent even, restrained, important, honest and uncorrupted.
An actor, however great, relating the horrors of the death camps on Broadway is nothing I relish seeing. I can’t even accept Read More
I feel conflicted about writing a review of Antony Sher’s embodiment of the Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi in Primo, although Sir Antony’s achievement is very fine, magnificent even, restrained, important, honest and uncorrupted.
An actor, however great, relating the horrors of the death camps on Broadway is nothing I relish seeing. I can’t even accept Read More
Richard III isn’t a complex play for us. It’s a popular melodrama about a world unhinged by a deformed, royal psychopath. Rousing, murderous stuff! But the role of the king—the “bunch-backed toad” himself—is a hell of a challenge for an actor.
Richard owns the play. Compared to his dominating contribution—and our weird complicity in his Read More
One Macbeth in a week is reasonable; two looks like conscientiousness. But I’m afraid we must blame the unfortunate Kelsey Grammer, whose brief appearance as Macbeth on Broadway had me speeding up Interstate 95 to catch Anthony Sher’s lauded Macbeth at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven. Mr. Sher is a true Shakespearean and Read More
