Stage to Comics Page: George O’Connor’s Adaptation of Adam Rapp’s Dystopic Play, ‘Ball Peen Hammer’
Adam Rapp's characters have to kill and bag children to earn their keep. How does one depict that on stage and on page?
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Tribeca 2018: ‘Netizens’ and ‘Every Act of Life’
These important documentaries about online abuse and the works of Terrence McNally attempt to illuminate empathy and social awareness at a time when it is being woefully ignored.
Ian Buruma’s ‘A Tokyo Romance’ Is a Timeless Commentary on Cross-cultural Engagement
There's something deeply personal and universalistic about Ian Buruma's writing. He acknowledges the multiplicity of possible perspectives without sliding into the rudderless waters of postmodernism.
Back to Bond Street: An Interview with West End Legend Ray Shell
Forty years after Ray Shell left New York for London, the original Rusty in Starlight Express finds his way home to the East Village.
The Understudy: Theatre Historian Charles Duff on His Memoir, ‘Charley’s Woods’
An unexpurgated account of an extraordinary life could, in lesser hands, have been a misery memoir. But Duff created a delightful literary work throughout which, even when revisiting the darkness of his past, he sprinkles gaiety and humour.
A Nightly Ritual: Bob Dylan’s Never-Changing Set List
Bob Dylan's current show is a book musical without the book, crafted by the American Shakespeare.