Email Author Michael Feingold

Awards

• 2010 - The Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism/Columbia University

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1998 Stories by Michael Feingold

• Rites of Man

  published December 29, 1998

  The desire of American musical comedy to shed its laughter and become "music theater" has always puzzled me. There was never anything to prevent... More >>

• Guare the Heart Is

  published December 22, 1998

  All great plays, they say, are about love— the countless ways people care for each other, and the equally countless terrible things they do... More >>

• Midtown Tragedy

  published December 15, 1998

  Those of you who just tuned in probably think my headline alludes to Sophocles's play. On the other hand, my regular readers—all junior... More >>

• Broadways and Means

  published December 8, 1998

  In another era, on a different Broadway, I might not be so enthused about this revival of On the Town; you'll find quibbles in plenty... More >>

• Felt and Unfelt

  published December 1, 1998

  When Waiting for Godot arrived in America in 1956, even amid the glossy materialism of boom-time suburbia its barren landscape seemed a... More >>

• Pick a Rescue

  published November 24, 1998

  Broadway playgoers, unite. Throw away your overpriced tickets and head downtown to the Irish Rep; you have nothing to lose but your boredom. Next... More >>

• Less Easy Pieces

  published November 17, 1998

  Karl Philipp Emanuel Bach, I think, was the son who always wrote to old Johann Sebastian, begging his dad to give up all that dreary counterpoint,... More >>

• Three Easy Pieces

  published November 10, 1998

  In the old days, Broadway-goers called them "nice little plays"— tidy, sequential, small-scale items about a crisis in the life of one little... More >>

• Pure Presentation

  published November 3, 1998

  Judy the artist, Judy the icon, Judy the obsession: Trying to tell them apart can seem an uphill struggle. The eternal little girl who was born... More >>

• Zombie Aerobics

  published November 3, 1998

  Footloose is sad because its intentions are so good: It's like a well-meaning child trying to teach a lame dog to jump through hoops.... More >>

• Watch This Space

  published October 27, 1998

  Lately a quote keeps floating to the surface of my mind: "Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those who have no... More >>

• Texas Nativity

  published October 20, 1998

  The issues come thickly layered, and by no means easy to disentangle. Terrence McNally has written a play on the story of Jesus, at points in... More >>

• Victoria's Public

  published October 13, 1998

  We make too much, nowadays, of Victorian repression. Like us, the Victorians loved crime and sexual scandal; to study the newspaper reports of... More >>

• Past Shock

  published October 6, 1998

  Written in 1978, John Guare's Marco Polo takes place in a 1999 that still seems fairly distant, though some of Guare's predictions are... More >>

• Culture Shakes

  published September 29, 1998

  Spiritually as well as geographically on opposite sides of the same street, Ping Chong's Kwaidan and Anne Bogart's Culture of Desire... More >>

• Clinton's Sex Scandal

  published September 22, 1998

  Like the Christian morality plays of the late Middle Ages, the quasi-improvised piece of Republican dramatic literature currently being performed... More >>

• Puppet States

  published September 22, 1998

  Puppets: The word summons up joy, animation, and magic when it means us watching them, humiliation and confinement when it means someone else... More >>

• Another Bow

  published September 15, 1998

  I got so much mail about "Bowing Out" (Voice, August 4) that I thought I'd better expand on it.... More >>

• A Deep Brecht

  published September 8, 1998

  He was born 100 years ago (February 10, 1898), and in the U.S. the celebrations have been minimal: If the Drama League hadn't elected to fund... More >>

• Telling Actions

  published August 25, 1998

  Things you'd never guess if you didn't already know them: Uta Hagen's turning 80, and Collected Stories isn't being presented for the first... More >>

• Bowing Out

  published August 4, 1998

  The phone rang, and I knew it was going to be another of those phone calls: an actor / writer / director friend announcing his/her intention to... More >>

• Ross Wetzsteon, 1932­1998

  published March 3, 1998

  Ross Wetzsteon, the Voice's longtime theater editor, died at 3:20 a.m. on Friday, February 20. He succumbed to pulmonary complications... More >>