We celebrated 20 (or 40, depending on how you’re counting) years of Vera Wang‘s career at the opening of her Soho store.
Michael Bloomberg and Lauren Bush agreed on recyling strategies at the UNICEF Snowflake Ball at Cipriani.
The Reader screenwriter David Hare told us he preferred Kate Winslet to Nicole Kidman Read More
Wednesday night, at the much buzzed about premiere of The Reader, we asked Kate Winslet what it had been like to replace Nicole Kidman in the film. (Ms. Kidman departed in January due to her pregnancy.)
"Often actors jump in an out of each others parts, you know?" Ms. Winslet was wearing a Read More
There’s at least one outstanding reason to see David Hare’s premiere of The Vertical Hour at the Music Box: Bill Nighy, playing Mr. Hare’s worldly Englishman to Julianne Moore’s idealistic American, is giving one of the most remarkable performances ever seen in a Broadway debut. Standing ovations are a routine on Broadway, as if audiences Read More
The mortal danger of all the political theater I’ve seen this season is whether it preaches pointlessly to the choir—or takes an imaginative leap to exist in its own dynamic right.
All propaganda plays date quickly—unless the play transcends the propaganda. Who today remembers Tim Robbins’ anti-war docudrama, Embedded? But then, who remembered it two Read More
The mortal danger of all the political theater I’ve seen this season is whether it preaches pointlessly to the choir—or takes an imaginative leap to exist in its own dynamic right.
All propaganda plays date quickly—unless the play transcends the propaganda. Who today remembers Tim Robbins’ anti-war docudrama, Embedded? But then, who remembered it Read More
In the history of modern art, nothing dates more rapidly than audacity. Every fresh shock marks a new beginning for a rising generation eager to overtake established elders. The art that challenges orthodoxy in one generation is embraced as a classic by the next and soon absorbed into the realm of established convention. As a Read More
To quote the lusty lyric from the much-loved The Scarlet Pimpernel , “So it’s into the fire we go!” Here, then, are my theater awards for the past season and my wishes for the new.
The award for the worst introduction to any show in the history of theater goes to Spalding Gray. At the Read More
“The more time you have on your hands, the less important you must be,” writes James Gleick in his potent new book, Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything . Well, judging by its timetable this month, the world of fashion must be important. Really, really important.
New York fashion week is unfolding with the Read More
Judi Dench, you may have heard, is starring in David Hare’s Amy’s View , and nothing could give us greater pleasure than the sight of the Dame herself returning to the New York stage for the first time in 40 years. You must forgive the brevity of this love letter to her, but if I Read More
It’s an unexpected pleasure to see David Hare on a Broadway stage, of all peculiar places. As he says at the start of Via Dolorosa , his engaging 90-minute monologue about his trip to Israel, he’s always tried to get Judi Dench “to do this sort of thing.”
There speaks the diffident Englishman, of course–with Read More
