- September 11, 2006
- The Ten-Percent Solution
This fall’s Broadway transfer of Douglas Carter Beane’s The Little Dog Laughed suggests a new subgenre: the Agent Morality Play.
- September 11, 2006
- A Berlitz Guide to BAM
A quickie Shakespeare translator for what you’ll hear onstage—and chat about afterward.
- September 11, 2006
- Company’s Coming
John Doyle made waves when he gave Patti LuPone a tuba for Sweeney Todd. Will it work for “The Ladies Who Lunch”?
- September 11, 2006
- But Is the Cast Album on Vinyl?
Making a Broadway musical from Nick Hornby’s lovely novel High Fidelity, about a lovelorn indie-record-store snob, sounds dubious. But with a script by David Lindsay-Abaire and a star turn from Will Chase—widely considered the only good thing about last year’s Lennon—there is cause for hope.
- September 11, 2006
- Tragicomic
Critics have already begun carping that The Illustrated 9/11 Report, a comic-book condensation of the best-selling document, created by two septuagenarian alumni of the Richie Rich comics, risks trivializing the disaster.
- September 11, 2006
- Richard Ford’s Manly Meditations
Reading Ford, you can feel uplifted and empowered in a way that might make you wonder if his books are really novels at all, and not some sublime species of self-help.
- September 11, 2006
- Waiting for Lefty
Frank Rich connects the dots from the Green Zone to Hollywood.
- September 11, 2006
- Both Sides Now
The big questions, seen from the left and the right.
- September 11, 2006
- Shrink Rap
Heidi Julavits’s twisty tale of Freudian mind games.
- September 11, 2006
- A Hard Look in the Mirror
Beauty Junkies: Inside Our $15 Billion Obsession With Cosmetic Surgery promises a dose of perspective, if only because she is willing to explore her own contradictions—and the uglier side of her vanity.
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