PITTSFIELD — Playwright William Luce has fashioned a successful career writing one-person plays about notable figures in the arts — poet Emily Dickinson ("Belle of Amherst"), actor John Barrymore ...
A fierce playwright, a fiery socialist and a pioneering feminist, Lillian Hellman lived unapologetically. But today she's remembered as a fabulist... Lillian Hellman: A 'Difficult,' Vilified Woman ...
I don’t know that I have ever read this good a rescue job. Columbia historian Alice Kessler-Harris’s biography of dramatist and screenwriter Lillian Hellman made me feel like a stupid cliché: just ...
EXCLUSIVE: Lillian Hellman’s 1934 play The Children’s Hour, set in an all-girls boarding school, is getting a shot at the small screen with Anonymous Content and Bess Wohl adapting. The play was ...
If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written; for a great deal is known of men of which proof cannot be brought. What was it, I wondered as I ...
The sleek Thirties appearance of J.R. Sullivan’s production can’t mask the shortcomings of Lillian Hellman’s forgotten drama. A formidable individual and a trenchant writer, Lillian Hellman (1905–84) ...
It’s a common theatrical conceit to imagine confrontations between real-life characters who never met, but should have. Friedrich von Schiller famously invented a rendezvous between Queen Elizabeth I ...
Ever hear of Lillian Hellman? Don’t feel bad if you haven’t because although many of her male contemporaries remain famous, such as her lover Dashiell Hammett, Hellman has all but vanished from ...
The Pasadena Playhouse has a new tribute to Herman, the composer of “Hello, Dolly!,” and Tomei turns up in “Beirut” and “Three Hotels.” By Elisabeth Vincentelli The first coronavirus shutdown caught ...
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