By John Heilpern 7/07/03 12:00am

Magnetic Danny Glover Triumphs In Masterful Master Harold

I’ve been critical of the Roundabout Theatre Company of late-to put it mildly. It’s a pleasure to report how right they’ve got it this time, however, with a first-rate revival of Athol Fugard’s shattering elegy to bigotry and a young man’s coming of age, Master Harold … and the Boys.

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By John Heilpern 2/18/02 12:00am

The Sorrows and Rejoicings Of a Poet Without a Cause

It’s painful to think how an artist as fine and humane as Athol Fugard can see himself as quite suddenly and tragically redundant. You will know that for more than a generation, Mr. Fugard has been the dramatic conscience of South Africa’s agony, and few writers possess a more generous heart. He has never been Read More