On a Tuesday night last summer-July 14, Bastille Day-I saw my first play as The Observer‘s new theater reviewer. It was Vanities, an awful Off Broadway musical at the Second Stage, and the evening was memorable only because it was also the night the Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, the trade Read More
Jonathan Demme won the 1991 Academy Award for Best Director, for The Silence of the Lambs. He directed Tom Hanks to the 1993 Academy Award for Best Actor, for Philadelphia. He’s had any number of other critical and commercial successes as a movie director, with concert films, political documentaries, big-budget remakes and indie-style films. Now Read More
