Theater

“filled with passion for his subject, fascinating if sometimes eccentric insights, and delicious backstage gossip.”

While recovering from a serious stroke in 1995, British author, critic, and editor Robert McCrum found that the only words that made sense to him were bits of Shakespeare.

Max Steiner essentially created the concept of composing for the movies. From the start of the sound era, Steiner defined a musical orchestral “cinematic” scoring for the American movies.

We know more about William Shakespeare than we know about the lives and work of most of his contemporaries; the documentary record, though sparse, is substantial.

“Holly van Leuven has written an exhaustively researched, well-written chronicle of Bolger’s life and career.

“Playing to the Gods is a useful entry into the careers and lives of these two extraordinary artists.”

“an extraordinary and thought provoking view on the playwright’s life and works.”

“an important entry into the literature of American dance history. It deserves recognition as a classic.”

New York Times arts journalist Eric Grode’s The Book of Broadway is a lavishly illustrated coffee-table book with capsule histories of each show.

“To this latest book (a collection of good-sized pieces for The New York Review of Books and quite a few, well, bad-sized ones, little nuggets he wrote as speeches or trib

“Imagine a writer with a seemingly endless vocabulary who has somehow convinced himself that he is being paid by the word.

“And so it goes. In the end, Shatner’s Rules, like Shatner’s ego and Shatner’s vocal patterns, are uniquely his own.