In the November 19, 2007 issue of The New Yorker, in the Onward and Upward with the Arts section, there is an article by Claudia Roth Pierpont entitled The Player Kings – How the Rivalry of Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier made Shakespeare Modern. Along with the stated thesis the article consists mainly of a [...]
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My Life in Theater (seats)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged paul robeson, ralph richardson, richard whorf, shakespeare performances, theater on March 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A Walk in the Park
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It was either the fall of 1981 or the spring of 1982, after Ronald Reagan had been president for about a year, when, after a week in Milan, I went to Rome for a week’s work with our Italian partner Olivetti Consulting. The Olivetti people arranged for me to stay at the Jolly Hotel near [...]
