The National Meningitis Association gala (NMA) Give Kids a Shot, held recently at the New York Athletic Club, attracted people from all over the natio...
In this season of American politics it was especially engaging to witness Ibsen's political engagement of some of the same arguments we are still having in the 21st century -- the tyranny of the majority, and even the morality of trickle-down economics.
How far would you go to do the right thing? What if everyone tried to convince you that it wasn't?
Those are the questions at the center of An Enemy of the People, an Ibsen play brought back to life on Broadway.
I knew what the odds were when we started (though, of course, I was convinced I could beat them). I'd heard the horror stories from filmmakers I'd interviewed over the years: unscrupulous and inept producers, financiers and film companies, and so forth.
"We are dedicated to educating families, medical professionals and others about meningococcal disease and its prevention -- to 'give kids a shot' so no other lives are lost."
GOOD PEOPLE ** out of ****
TIMON OF ATHENS ***
NIGHTINGALE ***
BEAUTIFUL BURNOUT **
GOOD PEOPLE ** out of ****
Manhattan Theatre Club at Samuel J. F...
Mamet's chosen entry into the difficult discussion of race leaves some with ambivalence not over the subject matter at play, but the mechanism to put it on display.
While most conversations about race inspire deep ambivalence if not outright silence, Mamet converts the stage into a raucous racial seminar jacked up on truth serum.