By John Heilpern 6/07/99 12:00am

A Tony Award for Best Award That’s Not a Theater Award

Well now, everyone! It’s that time of the year when the annual convention of the Flat Earth Society takes place-namely, the Tony Awards. And as always, we celebrate in good heart the undeniable fact that everything about the Tonys is completely and wonderfully nuts.

‘Twas ever thus. After all, it was only yesterday when Sam Read More

By John Heilpern 3/02/98 12:00am

Chekhov Without Headphones; Buena Suerte, Mr. Shepard

A word about headphones and the Moscow Art Theater. My point is that the terrible system of simultaneous translation at the Brooklyn Academy of Music is making us all deaf to great drama.

The dated headphones themselves should be put on permanent display in the Museum of Modern Art as charming technological relics. They are Read More