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Boys: Perfect Hormone-y!
Alex Bailey
Boys to men: members of an exceptional ensemble cast.
The History Boys is one of the best, most reverent, comprehensive and seamless transfers from stage read more »
This Year's Tony Tip-Offs: Can Jersey Be Stopped?
The June 11 Tony Awards ceremony on CBS is sure to be the usual riveting event, and I’ll certainly read more »
This Year’s Tony Tip-Offs: Can Jersey Be Stopped?
Oliver Platt.
The June 11 Tony Awards ceremony on CBS is sure to be the usual riveting event, and I’ll certa read more »
Bennett's The History Boys: Telling Witty Tales of School
Alan Bennett’s The History Boys is all the good things you’ve surely heard about it. read more »
Bennett’s The History Boys: Telling Witty Tales of School
Joan Marcus
Don
Alan Bennett’s The History Boys is all the good things you’ve surely heard about it. read more »
A Briefly Brilliant Editor, And His Long, Slow Twilight
Courtesy of Susie James
The Yazoo kid: Willie Morris (1934-1999).
The second act of Willie Morris’ life could be a sequel to The Great Gatsby—in which we read more »
A Briefly Brilliant Editor, And His Long, Slow Twilight
The second act of Willie Morris’ life could be a sequel to The Great Gatsby—in which we learn wh read more »
The Shakespeare Code: Is Times Guy Kind Of Bard ‘Creationist’?
The man in the middle: William Shakespeare.
It started out amusing, in a way, but now it’s getting ugly—the little-noticed battle ov read more »
The Shakespeare Code: Is Times Guy Kind Of Bard 'Creationist'?
It started out amusing, in a way, but now it’s getting ugly—the little-noticed battle over The N read more »
A Huge, Risky Royal Farce Hums With Arthurian Reverb
Freddy and Fredericka, by Mark Helprin. read more »
A Huge, Risky Royal Farce Hums With Arthurian Reverb
Jim Harrison
The overachieving Mark Helprin.
Freddy and Fredericka, by Mark Helprin. The Penguin Press, 553
pages, $27.95.
Where read more »
Alan Bennett's Cheats' Charter Inspires Smashing New Play
The hit play of the London season is Alan Bennett's hilarious and touching The History Boys , brilli read more »
I'm an Aging Armchair Soldier Looking for a Fight
I don't know why this should make me so upset. I do not want to go to war. read more »
I'm an Aging Armchair Soldier Looking for a Fight
The Army just rejected me.I don't know why this should make me so upset. read more »
The Invention of Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing
I come reeling a bit from Tom Stoppard's dazzling The Invention of Love , his new play at the Lyceum read more »
Hitchhiker's Guide to The Hamptons
The sight of the two women planing their thumbs along the Amagansett beach road took a few moments t read more »
Fearful Baptist Falls for Sex, Burns for Sin
The Monica interview, like Monica Lewinsky herself, has now been much chewed over and sits among us read more »
Sickbed Secrets Revealed-And a Wife's Trust Betrayed?
Elegy for Iris: A Memoir , by John Bayley. St. read more »
To the Shores of Light-Or, My First Latin Lesson
Actually, it's not my very first lesson, it's my first since my freshman year at Yale when–after f read more »
'C-Day' on East Hampton Only Liberated Doughnuts
Last Notes From the First Visit: This watcher from the shadows prepared for the descent on these par read more »
Dinner, by Legal Contract, With London's Superchef
Like the United States, England has its full complement of celebrity chefs, with their TV shows, coo read more »
