The 101 Greatest Plays: From Antiquity to the Present René Weis FRSA 12/10/2015 4639Michael Billington’s selection of his top 101 plays, from Antiquity to the Present, is a treat worthy of Trimalchio. Surely...
Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare’s Globe René Weis FRSA 01/10/2015 4425Shakespeare is the world’s global literary brand, as popular in Africa, America, and Asia as he is in Europe. For...
John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh Mel Cooper 10/03/2015 3375ohn Lahr is a respected critic and biographer and in his latest book, a definitive life of Tennessee Williams, he...
Allen Shawn, Leonard Bernstein: An American Musician (Jewish Lives) Mel Cooper 10/03/2015 4347llen Shawn’s new book about Leonard Bernstein probably doesn’t replace the magisterial Humphrey Burton tome about the polymath’s extraordinary life,...
Alan Cumming, Not My Father’s Son: A Memoir Mel Cooper 10/03/2015 4206ver Christmas, three books about entertainment folk kept me enthralled, engaged and informed. The first of these was the haunting...
Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare, edited by René Weis Tom Aitken 10/02/2015 3335his is a wide-ranging, seriously argued and expertly presented exploration of Shakespeare’s tragedy about youngsters locked in a doomed love...
Holocaust Drama: The Theater of Atrocity by Gene A. Plunka Emily Derbyshire 10/02/2015 3318ene A. Plunka introduces his book with the disclaimer that ‘Holocaust drama’ must take a form suitable to its subject...
