Portrait of the Drama Critic As a Stage-Struck Boy

Ghost Light: A Memoir , by Frank Rich. Random House, 315 pages, $24.95.

The theater, Moss Hart explained, is the “inevitable refuge of the unhappy child.” Hart, one of the most successful playwrights and directors of the 20th century, endured severe poverty in his Bronx childhood before he reached the heights of Broadway success. Once Read More