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AuthorKAFANOVA, LUDMILA
AuthorKaghan, Theodore
AuthorKAHN, LOTHAR
AuthorKAISER, PHILIP M.
AuthorKAISER, ROBERT G.
AuthorKALB, MADELEINE G.
AuthorKALB, MARVIN
AuthorKALB, MARVIN L.
AuthorKALBE, A.
AuthorKALES, DAVID
AuthorKALES, DAVID S.
AuthorKalin, Arthur
AuthorKalish, Abe
AuthorKALLEN, H. M.
AuthorKALLEN, HORACE M.
AuthorKALNINS, BRUNO
AuthorKAMINE, MARK
AuthorKANEER, STEFAN
AuthorKANER, STEFAN
AuthorKANFER, ETHAN
AuthorKANFER, STEFAN
Paid articleThe New Prohibitionists (March 2010)
Culture Watching The New Prohibitionists By Stefan Kanfer IN 1751, the British artist William Hogarth issued two prints. Designed to be viewed side by side, they were entitled “Gin Lane”...
Paid articleSchadenfreude Like Mother Used to Make (January 2010)
Culture Watching Schadenfreude Like Mother Used to Make By Stefan Kanfer NEWSPAPERS and networks focus on our woes. For every feel-good item there are a dozen feel-bad items, ranging from...
Paid articleKeep Complaining (May 2009)
Culture Watching Keep Complaining By Stefan Kanfer CONGRESSMAN Emanuel Cleaver II (D.-Mo.) has introduced a bill in the House of Representatives that would make every Wednesday before...
Paid articleThe Seniors' Moment (September 2009)
Culture Watching The Seniors’ Moment By Stefan Kanfer In the 1993 film Philadelphia a gay man, Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks), is summarily fired by a white-shoe law firm. Convinced...
Paid articleA Parade of American Charlatans (March 2009)
Culture Watching A Parade of American Charlatans By Stefan Kanfer Judging from the media's shocked accounts, the fraudsters of Wall Street and environs are a new phenomenon. But truth be...
Paid articleThe Trouble with $port$ (January 2009)
Culture Watching The Trouble with $port$ By Stefan Kanfer IN Godfather II, mobster Hyman Roth watches his favorite team on television. With a sly smile he tells Michael Corleone, “I’ve loved...
Paid articleAuthors on the Road (November 2008)
Culture Watching Authors on the Road By Stefan Kanfer “A boy has to peddle his papers," explained Truman Capote to an interviewer in 1966. He had just finished a crosscountry tour,...
Paid articleWireless and/or Clueless (September 2008)
Culture Watching Wireless and/or Clueless By Stefan Kanfer Perhaps the most anthologized, and least insightful, utterance by a Canadian is Marshall McLuhan's "The new electronic...
Paid articleWhy Libraries Still Matter (May 2009)
Culture Watching Why Libraries Still Matter By Stefan Kanfer AS A CHILD, James Baldwin sought to escape from a harsh stepfather and the miseries of Manhattan’s black ghetto. He did...
Paid articleThe Evolution of American Political Humor (March 2008)
Culture Watching The Evolution of American Political Humor By Stefan Kanfer THE OTHER DAY I came across a collection of one-liners written by the greatest standup comedian of them...
Paid articleThe Press and the Wrecking Ball (January 2008)
Culture Watching The Press and the Wrecking Ball By Stefan Kanfer NEW YORK Times reporter David Carr describes himself as a reader with “the attention span of a gnat.” And in a recent...
Paid articlePast, Post and Future (November 2007)
Culture Watching Past, Post and Future By Stefan Kanfer WHEN THE TERM “Postmodernism” caught on, it made me think of a man trying to get ahead of his nose. What could be more...
Paid articleEats, Shoots and Leaves (August 2007)
Eats, Shoots and Leaves Shoot the Widow: Adventures of a Biographer in Search of Her Subject By Meryle Secrest Knopf. 242 pp. $25.95. Reviewed by Stefan Kanfer Meryle Secrest’s title...
Paid articleReplacing Knitting Needles with Scalpels (January 2007)
On Stage Replacing Knitting Needles with Scalpels By Stefan Kanfer “Overnight, almost,” recalled Terence Rattigan, “we were told we were old-fashioned and effete and corrupt and...
Paid articleHello, I Must Be Going (January 2006)
On Stage Hello, I Must Be Going By Stefan Kanfer ON Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off Broadway, every actor, director and playwright, every stage, lighting and costume designer, wants...
Paid articleON STAGE (July 2004)
On Stage Off-Broadway Exposures By Stefan Kanfer Paranoia is defined in the General Health Encyclopedia as "An unwarranted tendency to interpret the actions of other people as...
Paid articleOn Stage (May 2004)
On Stage Putting History to Music By Stefan Kanfer Only a handful of bigname composers have written both the music and the lyrics for Broadway shows: Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Noel...
Paid articleOn stage (March 2004)
On Stage On the Roof and Off By Stefan Kanfer In the biography of her father, Sholem Aleichem, Marie WaifeGoldberg recalls the day she came across a Chinese edition of his stories. Why,...
Paid articleOn Stage (January 2004)
On Stage Wrong Mistakes By Stefan Kanfer DOUG WRIGHT first heard of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf from the Berlin bureau chief of U.S. News and World Report. It was 1990, just after the...
Paid articleWomen at the Edge (November 2003)
On Stage Women at the Edge By Stefan Kanfer Her biography is as unlikely as the saga of her adopted country. A family of Ukrainian Jews immigrates to Milwaukee in 1906. The youngest...
Paid articlePast Imperfect (September 2003)
On Stage Past Imperfect By Stefan Kanfer OMNIUM GATHERUM IS the Latin term for catchall, and as the title of the play at the Off-Broadway Variety Arts Theater it is an example of truth...
Paid articleOn Stage (July 2003)
On Stage Family Affairs By Stefan Kanfer In his view, the death of one person was a tragedy, but the extinction of a million was a statistic. He uttered other memorable thoughts, among...
Paid articlethree Home Runs (May 2003)
On Stage Three Home Runs By Stefan Kanfer In a Parisian suburb, a dinner engagement obeys both the letter and the spirit of Murphy's Law: Everything that can go wrong will go wrong. The host...
Paid articleMeditations on Identity (March 2003)
On Stage Meditations on Identity By Stefan Kanfer Gertrude Rainey died broke in Columbus, Georgia in 1939. A little obituary in the local paper described the 53year-old as a housekeeper....
Paid articleFrom Indignities to Inner Dignity (January 2003)
On Stage From Indignities to Inner Dignity By Stefan Kanfer The evening of October 18,1979, novelist and critic Mary McCarthy appeared on Dick Cavett's television show. The host asked...
Paid articleVoices of the Town (November 2002)
On Stage Voices of the Town By Stefan Kanfer The Signature Theater Company is now in its 11 th year. Each season this admirable organization has presented the body of work of a living...
Paid articleVegas Camp vs. True Love (September 2002)
On Stage Vegas Camp vs. True Love By Stefan Kanfer Las Vegas is the essence of glitz. Over the clang of onearmed bandits and the rustle of croupiers raking in the chips, visitors are...
Paid articleParodies and Parables (July 2002)
On Stage Parodies and Parables By Stefan Kanfer Postmodern painting and sculpture are threatening the theater's satirists. What stage parody could top the vulgarity and insensitivity of...
Paid articleOn Stage (May 2002)
On Stage Antiques Roadshow By Stefan Kanfer As the season winds down, Broadway has come to resemble the PBS program Antiques Roadshow, with its wild mix of baubles, treasures and fakes...
Paid articleOn Stage (March 2002)
On Stage Enigmas and Egos By Stefan Kanfer THE OUTLINE of Edward Albee's life is a matter of record: The infant is taken in by affluent parents in 1928 and named for his adoptive...
Paid articleOn Stage (January 2002)
Choice Cuts Off Broadway By Stefan Kanfer Early in the 19th century much of lower Manhattan was destroyed by a catastrophic fire. Financial losses amounted to over $20 million, an...
Paid articleOn Stage (September 2001)
On Stage Politics and Parody By Stefan Kanfer Last year a modest little tragicomedy opened in London's West End. Its scenery was composed of two items: a large blow-up of film...
Paid articleOn Stage (July 2001)
On Stage Kings and Commoners By Stefan Kanfer For the last 20 years August Wilson has been at work on the most ambitious oeuvre in the history of American theater. When completed,...
Paid articleOn Stage (May 2001)
On Stage Sound and Unsound Judgments By Stefan Kanfer WHEN THE FILM Judgment at Nuremberg opened in 1961,14 years had passed since the highly publicized trial of Nazi war criminals. By...
Paid articleOn Stage (March 2001)
On Stage Soloists with Something to Say By Stefan Kanfer THE ONE-MAN SHOW usually presents a marriage of convenience between economy and ego. The producer welcomes the chance to reduce...
Paid articleOn Stage (January 2001)
On Stage The New Season By Stefan Kanfer "What-if" remains a favorite pastime of historians. What-if Napoleon had been the victor at Waterloo? What-if D-Day had failed? What-if the...
Paid articleOn Stage (November 2000)
On Stage French Dressing By Stefan Kanfer FOR more than three decades Neil Simon has been America's most imitated playwright. From Barefoot in the Park and The Odd Couple in the 1960s to...
Paid articleOn Stage (September 2000)
On Stage Summer in the Rearview Mirror By Stefan Kanfer The end of summer marks the start of a new theater season, so an aura of anticipation hangs over Broadway and Off-Broadway. But...
Paid articleOn Stage (July 2000)
On Stage Comediennes and Classics By Stefan Kanfer This spring, when two of Broadway's most prolific impresarios, Alexander H. Cohen and David Merrick, died within days of each other, the...
Paid articleOn Stage (May 2000)
On Stage Defining Broadway Down By Stefan Kanfer Applied to the stage, "Broadway" has but one definition: A specific group of large theaters in midtown Manhattan offering big productions...
Paid articleOn Stage (December 1999)
On Stage VOUDON ECONOMICS By Stefan Kanfer Most singers undergo a long apprenticeship in their climb to the top, but Andra McDonald arrived as a star. She won a Tony award for her debut in...
Paid articleOn Stage (November 1999)
On Stage SENDING IN THE CLOWNS By Stefan Kanfer In addition to Broadway's other conundrums, a new one was added over the last decade or so: The Sondheim Puzzle. There are Stephen Sondheim...
Paid articleOn Stage (November 1999)
On Stage RHINESTONES AND DIAMONDS By Stefan Kanfer The Booth Theater has a long and honorable record. Named for Edwin Booth, the greatest Shakespearean actor of his time, it has been the...
Paid articleOn Stage (October 1999)
On Stage BIG BUDGETS, SMALL TALENTS By Stefan Kanfer "O.K. Cue the Red Sea!" Cecil B. De Mille reportedly shouted while filming The Ten Commandments. The director with the oversized...
Paid articleOn Stage (September 1999)
On Stage NEW WINE IN OLD BOTTLES By Stefan Kanfer Of ALL the weapons deployed in the Pacific Theater during World War II, none was more scarifying or incomprehensible than Japanese kamikaze...
Paid articleOn Stage (August 1999)
On Stage VICTORIAN VANITIES By Stefan Kanfer The great Victorians, as G. K. Chesterton sagely observed, were "lame giants; the strongest of them walked on one leg shorter than the other."...
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On Stage OFF-BROADWAY ORIGINALITY By Stefan Kanfer Historians researching low points in President Ronald Reagan's Administration have a cornucopia to choose from. Forme the nadir came in...
Paid articleOn Stage (July 1999)
On Stage VERSE IS BETTER By Stefan Kanfer "Extraordinary, how potent cheap music is," said the leading lady in Noël Coward's Private Lives. The playwright was more accurate than he knew....
Paid articleOn Stage (June 1999)
On Stage AMERICAN SECOND ACTS By Stefan Kanfer In A life filled with physical and emotional anguish, Isak Dinesen wrote steadily and well. No matter how bitter the circumstances, she...
Paid articleOn Stage (May 1999)
On Stage BUNDLES FROM BRITAIN By Stefan Kanfer There are two Eugene O'Neills. One is the blundering, alcoholic, tin-eared O'Neill about whom critic John Mason Brown once observed, "Though he...
Paid articleOn Stage (April 1999)
On Stage TAXING IMPORTS By Stefan Kanfer Alice (Anna Friel) is a mysterious waif with close-cropped auburn hair and a permanent pout. She pays the rent by peeling in strip clubs and...
Paid articleOn Stage (April 1999)
On Stage TIME IN REVERSE By Stefan Kanfer Last month all eyes focused on the 1940s, as attention was paid to the blockbuster revival of Death of a Salesman. But in the time machine that is...
Paid articleOn Stage (March 1999)
On Stage BROADWAY FLASHBACKS By Stefan Kanfer Saving Private Ryan was a prime Academy Award candidate for Best Picture. The Thin Red Line is generating much discussion. Tom Brokaw's...
Paid articleOn Stage (January 1999)
On Stage MURDER IN THE PAST TENSE By Stefan Kanfer In the small hours of April 27, 1913, the body of Mary Phagan, a 13-year-old laborer, was found in the basement of the National Pencil...
Paid articleRearview Mirrors (December 1998)
On Stage REARVIEW MIRRORS By Stefan Kanfer New York, New York, a helluva town, the Bronx is up and the Batten's down, the people ride in a hole in the ground. New York, New York, it's a...
Paid articleTrio and Quintet (November 1998)
On Stage TRIO AND QUINTET By Stefan Kanfer Remittance men are dubious characters whose families pay them to live elsewhere. In the 1880s they could be found in the backwaters of...
Paid articleStep by Step (November 1998)
On Stage STEP BY STEP By Stefan Kanfer Traditionalists regard Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake as the greatest interspecies love story since Leda's. In essence, a young sovereign, played by...
Paid articleLeaps of Faith (October 1998)
On Stage LEAPS OF FAITH By Stefan Kanfer The Academy and the cancer ward share many of the same terms: "exam," "study," "test results," "research," "analysis," "course." Yet as playwright...
Paid articleTime Warps (September 1998)
On Stage TIME WARPS By Stefan Kanfer William Faulkner once told the Paris Review, "If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of...
Paid articleBrandy of the Damned (August 1998)
On Stage BRANDY OF THE DAMNED By Stefan Kanfer Clifford Brown's biography is one of the shortest, saddest entries in the annals of American music. He was still a teenaged brass player when...
Paid articleWasps and Fishes (June 1998)
On Stage WASPS AND FISHES By Stefan Kanfer "Our children are not WASPS. They're the children of WASPS." In those sentences, Ellen (Joyce Van Patten) neatly encapsulates the theme and...
Paid articleWilde and Domestic (May 1998)
On Stage WILDE AND DOMESTIC By Stefan Kanfer If with the literate I am Impelled to try an epigram I never seek to take the credit We all assume that Oscar said it. Dorothy Parker's...
Paid articleBack to the Future (April 1998)
On Stage BACK TO THE FUTURE By Stefan Kanfer Chinese-Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood...from what...
Paid articleBourgeois Dreamers and Schemers (March 1998)
On Stage BOURGEOIS DREAMERS AND SCHEMERS By Stefan Kanfer My father would not let me take up the piano; otherwise I should not doubt have turned into a formidable pianist in company with...
Paid articleReal Artists and Con Artists (February 1998)
On Stage REAL ARTISTS AND CON ARTISTS By Stefan Kanfer A successful French dermatologist. Serge (Victor Garber), radiates a newfound pride and self-confidence. And why not? He has just...
Paid articleAmateur 'Noche' (February 1998)
On Stage AMATEUR 'NOCHE' By Stefan Kanfer There is no such thing as a tragedy if no one cares. Remember our children. Seven victims will be murdered while you watch this play. THOSE ARE...
Paid articleA Collision of Style and Substance (January 1998)
On Stage A COLLISION OF STYLE AND SUBSTANCE By Stefan Kanfer Setting foot in the new Ford Center for the Arts is like entering Oz. Long before the curtain rises, management has made sure...
Paid articleDiverting Sorrows (December 1997)
On Stage DIVERTING SORROWS By Stefan Kanfer In October 1887, Dr. Anton Chekhov wrote his brother: "Our modern playwrights stuff their plays exclusively with angels, villains and...
Paid articleNostalgia Ain't What it used to Be (December 1997)
On Stage NOSTALGIA AIN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE By Stefan Kanfer ?n Broadway, Neil Simon's name is synonymous with Midas. Over the past 40 years the playwright has been responsible for...
Paid articleThe Vagaries of Affection (November 1997)
On Stage THE VAGARIES OF AFFECTION By Stefan Kanfer Robert Ripley, creator of the widely syndicated feature "Believe It Or Not," liked certain subjects more than others. Men with many wives...
Paid articleBayou Anguish, Yuppie Angst (October 1997)
On Stage BAYOU ANGUISH, YUPPIE ANGST By Stefan Kanfer There are two kinds of regional theater: the productions staged out of New York, in what the networks are pleased to call "flyover...
Paid articleOn Stage (September 1997)
On Stage MASTERS OF THE MINIATURE By Stefan Kanfer A one-act play is the theatrical equivalent of the short short story, a genre in which, as Irving Howe pointed out, "Writers need to be...
Paid articleOn Stage (August 1997)
On Stage TWO APPROACHES TO TRAGEDY By Stefan Kanfer "The test of a good religion," maintained G.K.Chesterton, "is whether you can make a joke about it." By that elastic standard, Roman...
Paid articleOn Stage (June 1997)
On Stage LI'L BIT O' INCEST By Stefan Kanfer The subject of childhood sexual abuse has gone from tabu to prime time. It has been explored on television shows like NYPD Blue and Law and Order,...
Paid articleBarnium Meets Voltaire (May 1997)
On Stage BARNUM MEETS VOLTAIRE By Stefan Kanfer With typical irony, François Marie Arouet gave his lean novella Candide the subtitle "Optimism." Actually it was a grinning critique of the...
Paid articleFiasco on the Potomac (April 1997)
On Stage FIASCO ON THE POTOMAC By Stefan Kanfer Given the headlines, it becomes increasingly difficult to view Hillary Rodham Clinton as a dupe. Unless, of course, you live in Barbra...
Paid articleThe Man in the Bright Nightgown (March 1997)
On Stage THE MAN IN THE BRIGHT NIGHTGOWN By Stefan Kanfer John Barrymore was fond of saying that an actor's life is writ on water. Perhaps that was why he decided to write his on alcohol....
Paid articleOn Stage (November 1996)
On Stage FLESHED-OUT AND WORN-OUT BY STEFAN KANFER The Schwann Catalogue lists more than 50 recordings made under the baton of Wilhelm Furtwangler. Unquestionably, he was the premier conductor...
Paid articleOn Stage (October 1996)
On Stage POLITICAL CARTOONS BY STEFAN KANFER David Hare's villain never varies Different guises may be assumed, but sooner or later the mask comes off to reveal the evildoer Western capitalist...
Paid articleOn Stage (September 1996)
On Stage BUNDLES OF NERVES BY STEFAN KANFER DURING THE PAST few seasons, the one-man show was very much in fashion This season, the two-man show is coming into its own In films there is American...
Paid articleOn Stage (July 1996)
On Stage WILDE' BY STEFAN KANFER ON JANUARY 3, 1895, the Theater Royal at the Haymarket rocked with laughter and applause. It was the opening night of Oscar Wilde's newest work. An Ideal Husband....
Paid articleOn Stage (June 1996)
On Stage TRAGEDY AND ART BY STEFAN KANFER PLOT A: An earnest polymath— playwright, composer and lyricist— struggles for recognition. He writes a musical and takes it to producer after producer,...
Paid articleOn Stage (May 1996)
On Stage PLAUTUS REDIVIVUS BY STEFAN KANFER "OUR REASON for putting it on was an affectionate one. Low comedy and farce in America are rarely done." The speaker was the late Burt Shevelove....
Paid articleOn Stage (January 1996)
On Stage FROM STOCKHOLM TO DOGPATCH BY STEFAN KANFER ON THE OCCASION of his 70th birthday, Freud paused to give credit to his predecessors. "The poets and philosophers before me discovered the...
Paid articleOn Stage (December 1995)
On Stage LIGHT IN THE DARK BY STEFAN KANFER ON MEASURING her accomplishments vs. Renata Tebaldi's: "It is like comparing champagne with cognac. No?with Coca-Cola." On receiving a subpoena: "I...
Paid articleOn Stage (December 1995)
On Stage A LANDMARK AND A MISSED MARK BY STEFAN KANFER Twenty-five years ago a very different kind of musical opened on Broadway. The show offered neither plot, nor chorus line, nor any major...
Paid articleOn Stage (October 1995)
On Stage BIRDS ' AND MUSIC BY STEFAN KANFER A JL Jk. mid the national backslide there is reason for hope. This year. World War II has filled more column inches and hours of air time than O.J....
Paid articleOn Stage (September 1995)
On Stage AUTUMN IN NEW YORK BY STEFAN KANFER ATRIM, MIDDLE-AGED MAN, Greg (John Cunningham), enters his West Side apartment with a nubile female in tow. Sylvia (Sarah Jessica Parker), who has...
Paid articleOn Stage (July 1995)
On Stage WHEN LESS IS LESS BY STEFAN KANFER SOME WRITERS are masters of the exit line. The Argentinian Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a genius of the opening paragraph. Who, perusing the first words...
Paid articleOn Stage (June 1995)
On Stage THE PRINCE AND THE BUTTERFLY BY STEFAN KANFER A CRESTFALLEN university student comes home. The young man expected to inherit the family business af ter his father's recent death. But...
Paid articleOn Stage (May 1995)
On Stage STRONG PERFORMERS BY STEFAN KANFER ELDERLY PEOPLE often complain that they remember their childhood precisely, but can't for the life of them tell you what they had for dinner yesterday....
Paid articleOn Stage (March 1995)
On Stage PAST PERFECT AND IMPERFECT BY STEFAN KANFER AFTER THE OPENING of Guy Domville. Henry James' only theater piece, the author was led onstage. A handful of Jamesians clapped their hands...
Paid articleOn Stage (February 1995)
On Stage LAUGHTER IN THE DARK BY STEFAN KANFER "Je prends mon bien ouje le trouve." declared Moliere, "I take what belongs tome where I find it." What he took included portions of Plautus' moral...
Paid articleOn Stage (January 1995)
On Stage EGOTISM IN BLACK AND WHITE BY STEFAN KANFER THE JURY is still out on filmmak-er-turned-playwnght Kenneth Branagh In 1989 he chose to adapt, direct and star in Hemy V, a work previously...
Paid articleOn Stage (September 1995)
On Stage SUNSET ON THE MAIN STEM BY STEFAN KANFER The final test of our hardihood came when we were permitted to witness a combat virtually never seen: a fight between a mongoose and a cobra,...
Paid articleOn Stage (November 1994)
On Stage PAST IMPERFECT BY STEFAN KANFER WENDY WASSERSTEIN has yet to become a Nobel Laureate. But she has been given just about every other honor: the Pulitzer Prize, plus the Tony, New York...
Paid articleOn Stage (October 1994)
On Stage THE BOAT THAT CHANGED BROADWAY BY STEFAN KANFER OA WINTER EVENING in 1925 Jerome Kern decided to lull himself to sleep with a new bestseller. Instead, Edna Ferber's novel kept him awake:...
Paid articleOn Stage (September 1994)
On Stage PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SELVES BY STEFAN KANFER BRIAN FRIEL's gift is an ability to write big parts for actors. His curse is the inability to give them enough that is worth saying. The...
Paid articleOn Stage (August 1994)
On Stage CHATTER AND SONG BY STEFAN KANFER ERIC BOGOSIAN has one major distinction: He was in Oliver Stone's worst film, Talk Radio. Anyone who has seen JFK knows just how extraordinary that...
Paid articleOn Stage (July 1994)
On Stage CULT FIGURES BY STEFAN KANFER STEPHEN SONDHEIM'S resume provides a concise history of modern Broadway. Since his 1957 debut with West Side Story, he has written the music and/or lyrics...
Paid articleOn Stage (June 1994)
On Stage MYSTERIOUS TIME MACHINES BY STEFAN KANFER ONE OF MY favorite New Yorker cartoons shows a man on crutches, waiting for a traffic light to change. In the first panel, the signal reads...
Paid articleOn Stage (May 1994)
On Stage TWILIGHT TRAGEDIES BY STEFAN KANFER I AM NOT the only one put off by Medea; Aristotle felt aspects of Euripides' bitter tragedy were "revolting." So I am in good company. Then again, so...
Paid articleOn Stage (April 1994)
On Stage THE FORTIES AND FIFTIES IN THE NINETIES by stefan kanfer Carousel opened on April 15, 1945. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Ham-merstein II had adapted Ferenc Molnar's Hungarian tragedy,...
Paid articleOn Stage (March 1994)
On Stage FAUST AND LAST BY STEFAN KANFER SPORTSWRITERS used to say that there were three things you could always find in the cellar: the furnace, the boiler and the Washington Senators. But...
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On Stage TIME--AND AGAIN BY STEFAN KANFER HESIOD was the first to note that "right timing is in all things the important factor," and his observation has held true for two millennia. The latest...
Paid articleOn Stage (January 1994)
On Stage TWO QUARTETS BY STEFAN KANFER no' man's land'; n. 1. a piece of land, usually wasteland, to which no one has a recognized title. 2. the area on a battlefield separating the combatants....
Paid articleON STAGE (December 1993)
On Stage THE SOUND OF MUSICALS BY STEFAN KANFER Henry Higgins (attempting to surmise the background of a bystander): Cheltenham, Harrow, Cambridge and India. Colonel Pickering (astonished):...
Paid articleOn Stage (November 1993)
On Stage BROADWAY IN TWILIGHT BY FTEFAN KANFER "I'M NOT DISCOURAGED-that's not the right word—but I'm disappointed." The speaker is Gerald Schoenfeld, chairman of the Shubert Organization,...
Paid articleOn Stage (October 1993)
On Stage LIVES IN THE THEATER BY STEFAN KANFER "We are the latter-day Lunts," chortled Rod Steiger a generation ago when he and his wife, Claire Bloom, were appearing together onstage and on...
Paid articleOn Stage (September 1993)
On Stage QUESTIONS WITHOUT ANSWERS BY STEFAN KANFER A Acurrent story: A boy asks his father what "business ethics" means. The man responds: "Someone comes into my shop, hands me a bill, buys a...
Paid articleOn Stage (September 1993)
On Stage ODD COUPLES BY STEFAN KANFER IN 1966 a modest volume appeared in bookstores, received some respectful attention, and then vanished. Its title was The Collected Works of Jane Bowles, as...
Paid articleOn Stage (July 1993)
On Stage SOUVENIRS OF THE SIXTIES BY STEFAN KANFER The Shop A round the Corner is one of those projects that keep rising without a trace. The first version, filmed in 1940, offered great...
Paid articleThe Love That Will Not Lower It's Voice (June 1993)
On Stage THE LOVE THAT WILL NOT LOWER ITS VOICE BY STEFAN KANFER wV Then Angels in America received the Pulitzer Prize before its New York debut, the results were inevitable. Ever since...
Paid articleAn Anthology of the Execrable (May 1993)
Culture Watching AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE EXECRABLE BY STEFAN KANFER Ever since graduate school I have longed for an anthology of execrable prose. It would serve as a companion volume to Wyndham...
Paid articleOn Stage (May 1993)
On Stage THE BOTTOM OF THE SEASON BY STEFAN KANFER Somerset Maugham once slyly observed that to write simply is as difficult as to be good. Few authors have ever mastered the uncluttered style...
Paid articleOn Stage (May 1993)
On Stage THE TRIVIAL, THE TRAUMATIC, THE TRULY BAD BY STEFAN KANFER Sisterhood is powerful. Take Chekhov's The Three Sisters. Wendy Wasserstein did. The playwright transported a trio of siblings...
Paid articleOn Stage (March 1993)
On Stage THE SOUND OF SILENCE BY STEFAN KANFER In 1879 Johan Martin Schleyer, a Bavarian pastor, invented an international language. Missed communications were the way to misunderstandings, he...
Paid articleON STAGE (January 1993)
On Stage TWO SIDES OF JEWISH CHARACTER BY STEFAN KANFER T n he jester—badkhn in Yiddish— first appears in the Middle Ages, amusing the guests and annoying the leaders with his impudent...
Paid articleOn Stage (January 1993)
On Stage FRONTLINE VS. FLAPDOODLE BY STEFAN KANFER There are two Larry Kramers. One is the quiet, intense author of fiction, plays and film scenarios, including a memorable adaptation of...
Paid articleOn Stage (December 1992)
On Stage PROBLEMS OF CRAFT BY STEFAN KANFER Hero is the surprising word that men employ when they speak of Jack the Ripper. Susan Brownmtller, Against Our Will Women have very little idea of...
Paid articleOn Stage (November 1992)
On Stage CAPTIVES AND CLOWNS BY STEFAN KANFER Irecently addressed a conference of the Elie Wiesel Foundation, convened to examine the sources of hate. Among the other speakers was former...
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On Stage TOXIC FAMILY VALUES BY STEFAN KANFER Last year at about this time I predicted that the star of Mambo Mouth would be rich and famous. 1 got the outcome of the World Series wrong,...
Paid articleOn Stage (September 1992)
On Stage THEATRICS OF THE ABSURD by stefan kanfer For more than 20 years, Tom Stop-pard has been praised as an absurdist of major stature, a playwright who belongs in the company of Luigi...
Paid articleFrom Berlin to Long Island (August 1992)
On Stage FROM BERLIN TO LONG ISLAND BY STEFAN KANFER Irving Berlin died in 1989 at the age of 101, gifted, beloved and mingy to the end. No matter how many millions he earned, the old man would...
Paid articleStretching, Kvetching and Morals (June 1992)
On Stage STRETCHING, KVETCHING AND MORALS BY STEFAN KANFER John O'Hara was once asked if he would attend a Frank Sinatra concert. "Why should I go to see him?" the au-thor snapped. "I invented...
Paid articleA Hit and Three Misses (May 1992)
On Stage A HIT AND THREE MISSES BY STEFAN KANFER Re-viv-al n. ...a series of meetings characterized by public revelation of sins, or professions of renewed faith. Webster's definition may be...
Paid articleOn Stage (April 1992)
On Stage FLASHBACKS AND THROWAWAYS BY STEFAN KANFER Early or late, almost every playwright gets around to confronting his family onstage. Frequently, as in Neil Simon's Jake's Women, the result...
Paid articleFantastic Voyages (March 1992)
On Stage FANTASTIC VOYAGES BY STEFAN KANFER Alomst every Neil Simon work is marked by two conflicts: one between male and female, the other between the playwright's technical skills and his...
Paid articleOn Stage (March 1992)
On Stage MINING THE MASTERS BY STEFAN KANFER THE SPECTERS of Fred Astaire and Claudio Monteverdi are currently haunting Broadway. Astaire's footprints are all over Crazy for You, a restyling of...
Paid articleFour Postmortems (February 1992)
On Stage FOUR POSTMORTEMS BY STEFAN KANFER on Thursday morning, May 10, 1849, handbills were passed out all over Manhattan. "Workingmen," they demanded, "Shall Americans or English rule this...
Paid articleOn Stage (December 1991)
On Stage NOTHING NEW ON BROADWAY BY STEFAN KANFER Joe Allen's restaurant on 46th Street features a celebrated Flop Wall: posters of Broadway musicals that bombed big time. Kelly is there,...
Paid articleOn Stage (November 1991)
On Stage GHOSTS OF THE THIRTIES BY STEFAN KANFER In a 1985 New Yorker cartoon by Sidney Harris, men acknowledge the influences on their careers. A baseball player salutes his high school...
Paid articleOn Stage (August 1991)
On Stage HOSTS AND PARASITES BY STEFAN KANFER REAL estate and AIDS remain the prime components of New York chatter, and by battening on both subjects Terence McNally has...
Paid articleOn Stage (May 1991)
On Stage OFF AND OFF-OFF BROADWAY BY STEFAN KANFER Sometime during the Roaring Twenties, Damon Runyon convinced the American public that thugs were funny. Men like Nathan Detroit and...
Paid articleOn Stage (May 1991)
On Stage THE LAST ROUNDUP BY STEFAN KANFER True patriots all, for be it understood We left our country for our country's good... And none will doubt but that our emigration Has prov'd...
Paid articleOn Stage (April 1991)
On Stage STAR WARS BY STEFAN KANFER GRAHAM Greene predicted that long after the war was over, Americans would be paying a high price for their Vietnam adventure. He was right. They are now...
Paid articleOn Stage (February 1991)
On Stage LOOKING BACKWARD BY STEFAN KANFER Neil Simon's 26th stage play, Lost in Yonkers, at the Richard Rodgers Theater, could operate under many of his previous titles. The Odd...
Paid articleFast Backward (December 1990)
Fast Backward Being Red By Howard Fast Houghton Mifflin. 370 pp. $22.95. Reviewed by Stefan Kanfer Contributor, "Time," "New Republic" Thanks to such works as Lillian Hellman's memoirs,...
Paid articleWell-Groomed Housepet (December 1987)
Well-Groomed Housepet Corruptions of Empire By Alexander Cock burn Verso. 479pp. $22.95. Reviewed by Stefan Kanfer Contributor, "Time, " "New Republic" It is a triumph of packaging. On...
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