Subject:

Thornton Wilder

  • Theater

    March 28, 2012

    The Big Meal: Our Wilder Ways

    Dan LeFranc dishes up some multi-generational family fare

  • Film

    February 15, 2012

    Group Dynamics: A Record of 35-plus Years of Experimental Theater at 33 Wooster

    Dan LeFranc dishes up some multi-generational family fare

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2012

    The Biggest "Gut" Course I Ever Had! You?

    Before you tell me yours, let me reveal what the easiest class I had in college was, way back in the Middle Ages. It was such a breeze I barely had to even stay awake during it. It was art history!

  • Theater

    August 25, 2010

    Albee on Albee

    At 82, he doesn't need reviving, but argues that his plays do

  • Theater

    July 15, 2009

    The Joys of Fantasy Trips Over Itself

    At 82, he doesn't need reviving, but argues that his plays do

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2009

    People Don't Say "I Love You" Enough

    I hear all kinds of trivial utterances all day--"Whatever!"; "Duh"; "Newsflash"--but I never seem to hear those three precious words, "I love you." Is it that hard to break down one's walls of cynicism and actually say them to someone? To anyone? You don't even have to mean it, just say it, for god ... More >>

  • Theater

    August 27, 2008

    The Signature Theatre Revives The First Breeze of Summer

    Thirty-three years after its premiere, Summer faces a different climate

  • Books

    November 6, 2007

    True Crit

    In two new compact volumes, Edmund Wilson still looms large

  • Theater

    May 15, 2007

    1907, 1957, and...Now?

    Welcome to Off-Off-Broadway's newest theatrical discovery—the past

  • Theater

    November 7, 2006

    Omission Accomplished

    Transport Group leaves out the props; The Internationalist leaves out information

  • Theater

    September 12, 2006

    Newport Blues

    Nuanced acting in Thornton Wilder tale

  • Theater

    August 8, 2006

    Balanced Diet

    Gurney's Indian Blood gives food for thought, on a strict nutritional formula

  • Theater

    March 28, 2006

    Getting Better

    All's Well on Broadway, where Mom Kron is prone—to delight

  • Dance

    January 24, 2006

    Born Right Here

    Stories of you and me and anyone in Springsteenland

  • Film

    June 7, 2005

    'The Bridge of San Luis Rey'

    Stories of you and me and anyone in Springsteenland

  • Film

    September 28, 2004

    Film

    Stories of you and me and anyone in Springsteenland

  • Books

    August 10, 2004

    Only Connect . . . and Connect . . .

    A journal within a series of letters within a mystery novel—and that's just the beginning

  • Theater

    June 22, 2004

    Wilder Than You Knew

    Thornton Wilder's warm-ups for Our Town tell the history of the avant-garde, family-style

  • Film

    March 16, 2004

    The Grace Of Wrath

    Failed Christian charity, Old Testament payback: A Danish director's American tragedy

  • News

    March 9, 2004

    No Longer Enfant, Still Terrible

    European cinema's greatest agitator rethinks sin and virtue through extreme melodrama

  • Theater

    November 25, 2003

    Theater

    European cinema's greatest agitator rethinks sin and virtue through extreme melodrama

  • Theater

    September 30, 2003

    Nein, 9-11

    Recipe for disaster: Write a play capitalizing on a disaster while purporting to explain it

  • Film

    August 12, 2003

    Something Wilder: Compton Teens Put On a Thornton Play

    Recipe for disaster: Write a play capitalizing on a disaster while purporting to explain it

  • Film

    May 20, 2003

    Sim City

    Indulging in Cannes's Desserts of the Reel

  • Theater

    December 10, 2002

    Grave Occasions

    Indulging in Cannes's Desserts of the Reel

  • Film

    December 10, 2002

    Only the Young

    Indulging in Cannes's Desserts of the Reel

  • Theater

    November 5, 2002

    Forward in Reverse

    Indulging in Cannes's Desserts of the Reel

  • Columns

    October 10, 2000

    NY Mirror

    Indulging in Cannes's Desserts of the Reel

  • Theater

    July 18, 2000

    Theater

    Indulging in Cannes's Desserts of the Reel

  • Theater

    May 30, 2000

    A Pagan Out of History

    Indulging in Cannes's Desserts of the Reel

  • Theater

    May 25, 1999

    Short Notice

    Indulging in Cannes's Desserts of the Reel

  • Theater

    January 5, 1999

    Divine Comedy

    Indulging in Cannes's Desserts of the Reel

  • Columns

    July 14, 1998

    NY Mirror

    Indulging in Cannes's Desserts of the Reel

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