Forty years later, people still swear they can hear his offstage scream.
Forty years later, people still swear they can hear his offstage scream.
Theatergoing is a communal act, moviegoing a solitary one.
The love that previously dared not speak its name has now grown hoarse from screaming it
Without an elite in the arts, we have no leaders, which is to say we have no vision, which is to say we have no arts.
The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.
When ghosts begin resolving realistic plays, you can be sure the playwright has failed to master his material, ... The Piano Lesson.
Laurence Olivier once made the rather cruel remark that when you've got the strength to play Lear you're too young, but when you're old enough, you haven't got the strength. Well, Alvin is well muscled and trained.
His last days, a noble confrontation with death, made his life as much a work of art as his plays.
Alvin had the most startling blue eyes and blond hair at the time. He also had an extraordinary physical grace that made him an actor early on.
The people who spoke those lines were inhabitants of the earth, not brocaded humanoids from some far-flung planet.
The invention of film has given our generation the dubious advantage of watching our acting heroes deteriorate before our eyes.
On Laurence Olivier as Hamlet in a 1948 film Olivier's idea of introspection was to hood his eyes, dentalize his consonants and let the camera circle his blondined head like a sparrow looking for a place to deposit its droppings.
No enlightened person would deny its premise, but as an ongoing program it is monotonous, limited, locked in a perception of victimization.
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