George S Kaufman

First Nighter: Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along Does and Doesn't

David Finkle | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Celia Keenan-Bolger, City Center Encores! Series, Moss Hart, Lin-Manuel Miranda, James Lapine, Harold Prince, George S. Kaufman, George Furth, Colin Donnell, Merrily We Roll Along, Rob Berman, Wendall K. Harrington, Dan Knechtges, Merrily We Roll Along Review, Stephen Sondheim, Entertainment News
David Finkle

Ever since the Stephen Sondheim-George Furth-Harold Prince Merrily We Roll Along opened in 1981, rolling along merrily is one thing it hasn't done.

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Stage Door: Chinglish, The Man Who Came To Dinner

Fern Siegel | Posted 02.02.2012

Read More: Comedy, Jim Brochu, Moss Hart, Entertainment, George S. Kaufman, Cady Huffman, Theater, Broadway, Off-Broadway, David Henry Hwang, New York, Arts News
Fern Siegel

On a deeper level, Chinglish explores the old and new China. Daniel is selling signage to an arts complex, not the Red Guard. The minister despairs of acrobats, but longs for classical Chinese opera.

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To Preserve and Protect

George Heymont | Posted 06.18.2011

Read More: Barbara Cook, Frederica Von Stade, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, 42nd Street Moon, Tyne Daly, Stephen Hough, George S. Kaufman, Master Class, Zheng Cao, Strike Up the Band, Gershwin, Maria Callas, Arts News
George Heymont

Many professional musicians who give of their time to conduct master classes for young opera singers have a vested interest in passing on the knowledge they have acquired in the course of their own performing careers.

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Four Must-See Christmas Movies of the 1940s

Kathryn McGarr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cary Grant, Moss Hart, You've Got Mail, The Shop Around the Corner, Christmas in Connecticut, George S. Kaufman, Nora Ephron, It's a Wonderful Life, The Man Hwo Came to Dinner, White Christmas, Jimmy Stewart, The Bishop's Wife, Christmas Movies, Entertainment News
Kathryn McGarr

The Bishop's Wife is the best Christmas movie ever made because it's the only one with Cary Grant. As a dapper angel at Christmastime, Grant does that marvelous, unattainable Edward Cullen thing, except not as a vampire.

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