By John Heilpern 11/15/99 12:00am

Singing, Dancing Dubliners: A Lovely, Moody The Dead

What a lovely, mad idea to turn James Joyce’s “The Dead” into a musical! The story itself, a masterpiece of decorous gentility and loss, is famously the last short story in Joyce’s Dubliners , and its elegaic, introspective tone would seem a million miles away from the glitz and dross of Broadway.

That the unusual Read More

By Warren St. John 12/29/97 12:00am

James Joyce and the Nutty Professor

Big academic troublemaker John Kidd, a James Joyce scholar, has been making noises for over 10 years that he was the man who would finally put out the definitive edition of Ulysses . He has an advance of $100,000 from W.W. Norton & Company and grant money galore that is supposed to help him do Read More