A word in the deaf ears of Oscar Eustis, the new artistic director of the Public Theater:
When you produced Macbeth in Central Park last summer, your claim that it was a timely war play for “our divided and war-torn nation” was made, I can only imagine, in the spirit of over-exuberance. The theme Read More
was there at the double-super-secret rehearsal. And my reaction was: Do it, Kevin!
I would have kept silent if word hadn’t leaked (in Michael Riedel’s piece in the Post of June 23), about the secret rehearsal of King Lear the previous week, with Kevin Kline playing the mad king.
“[O]ff limits to all but a Read More
was there at the double-super-secret rehearsal. And my reaction was: Do it, Kevin!
I would have kept silent if word hadn’t leaked (in Michael Riedel’s piece in the Post of June 23), about the secret rehearsal of King Lear the previous week, with Kevin Kline playing the mad king.
“[O]ff limits to all but Read More
It was a small but emblematic drama of The Way We Live Now. One that played itself out on a Web-based discussion list for Shakespeare scholars. It was the kind of dilemma that I suspect many other people in many other niches are going through in their lives, in one way or another: a conflict Read More
Shakespeare’s 21st-Century Economics: The Morality of Love and Money , by Frederick Turner. Oxford University Press, 223 pages, $35.
Every economic and political system needs a philosopher to stamp the lives of the rank and file with meaning, a wise man to tell the people who they are. There could be no true Romans before Read More
