By John Heilpern 5/13/02 12:00am

Let’s Be Superficial And Enjoy The Private Lives Party

If, for some inexcusable reason, you’ve never seen Private Lives , go immediately to jail; do not pass go. But you’ll have a treat in store with the latest Broadway revival of Noël Coward’s 1930 comic masterpiece. If, like most of us, you’ve seen Private Lives three or four times before-including the unforgettable Joan Collins Read More

By John Heilpern 3/08/99 12:00am

A Trip to the Nuthouse With Harold Pinter

About halfway through Ashes to Ashes , which Harold Pinter wrote three years ago, I thought that if I lived with the heroine, Rebecca, I would like to kill her.

To think so halfway through the play, which lasts for only 40 minutes, is, on balance, a rush to judgment and murderous thoughts. It had Read More