Friday, July 23, 2021
Were all the artists involved under the influence of some hallucinogen? This is the least rational movie ever produced by the American studio system.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00AMThursday, June 3, 2021
The legendary Little Tramp spins a fantastical comedy about a serial killer
The post Feingold on Old Movies for Theater Lovers: Charles Chaplin’s ‘Monsieur Verdoux’ appeared first on N…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00AMThursday, March 25, 2021
The unclassifiable supernatural omnibus classic includes a neurotically unforgettable performance by Michael Redgrave, father of Vanessa and Lynn
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00AMTuesday, February 9, 2021
Feingold continues his close examination of the 1936 motion picture version of Kern and Hammerstein's "Show Boat"
The post Feingold on Old Movies for Theater Lovers: James Whale’s ‘Show …
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 12:00PMWednesday, January 13, 2021
(This is the first part of a two-part column. The second part will appear next month.) Warning to my fellow voyagers: This boat ride may take our rickety vessel through some deep and turbule…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 02:00PMThursday, November 26, 2020
Producer Val Lewton's two "Cat People" movies, from World War II, are like nothing you've ever seen.
The post Feingold on Old Movies for Theater Lovers: Val Lewton’s ‘Cat People’ (1942…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 12:00PMTuesday, October 27, 2020
Manic and hectic, New York is full of stories that can drive people to, and sometimes over, the edge. William Wyler's 'Counsellor-at-Law' captures that excess in all its glory.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00AMTuesday, September 29, 2020
If you care about the theater and you’ve never seen ‘Children of Paradise,’ you don’t really know yet what it is you care about.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 06:00PMSunday, August 30, 2020
Death, marital infidelity, egomaniacal actors, and inept totalitarian armies all conspire to produce a glorious absurd comedy.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 12:00PMThursday, August 6, 2020
Though full of witty barbs and sharp bits of reality, the Rouben Mamoulian–directed, Rodgers and Hart–scored musical seems lighter than air—and "Isn't It Romantic"!
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 06:00PMTuesday, July 14, 2020
William Faulkner's novel transformed for the screen in 1949, when racism in America was rarely examined by Hollywood
The post Feingold on Old Movies for Theater Lovers: Clarence Brown’s �…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 11:00AMThursday, June 25, 2020
If you’ve never seen 'The Palm Beach Story,' and are among the lucky folk soon to taste its delights for the first time, what a treat you have in store.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 12:00PMMonday, June 8, 2020
The first—and last—film Charles Laughton ever directed was poorly received and badly marketed in its initial release, though it's now widely, and rightfully, acclaimed
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 03:40PMThursday, May 28, 2020
This is the inaugural column of a new series. While we’re all obliged to shelter in place, for who knows how long, and virtual encounters online are the only safe ones, I’ve decided to p…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00AMTuesday, May 12, 2020
Michael Feingold looks at two popular century-old plays which had enduring afterlives, "Nothing But the Truth" and "The Cat and the Canary"
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00AMSunday, May 3, 2020
From John Barrymore to Fernandel to Peter Sellers, actors all over the world have put their stamp on Marcel Pagnol's Topaze.
The post The Feingold Column: My Recycled Repertoire, and Why (Pa…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 11:05AMThursday, April 9, 2020
I have a notion for what might be a four-play repertory season. The title most likely to be recognized is the British specimen, James M. Barrie’s ‘The Admirable Crichton.’
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 12:00PMFriday, March 27, 2020
The simplicity, even the banality, of a popular tune can be the arresting feature that gives a play its strength
The post The Feingold Column: Songs to Write Plays By–Part 2 appeared first…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 03:00PMFriday, March 13, 2020
How classic American songs worked their way into the plays of Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller, August Wilson, and more
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00AMMonday, December 23, 2019
More summertime adventures working with playwrights and new plays at the O'Neill Conference.
The post The Feingold Column: Recollections of the O’Neill Playwrights Conference – Part 2 a…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00AMMonday, November 18, 2019
To spend two to four weeks enjoying an uncrowded beach and a park full of ancient trees while rehearsing new plays with a crowd of gifted and enthusiastic colleagues was like an invitation t…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00AMThursday, October 3, 2019
The cultural forms and images that make us human, that give shape and meaning and memory to our collective life as a species, are being increasingly forgotten.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00AMWednesday, September 4, 2019
If music, as we’ve often been told, is the universal language, the Broadway musical seems at present to offer that language one of its broadest reaches
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 05:00PMTuesday, July 16, 2019
Ohio's Bowling Green State University removed Lillian and Dorothy Gish's names from a campus theater, and insulted the sisters' legacies in the process.
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 06:15PMSaturday, June 15, 2019
I’m innocent. I had no idea till after it had happened that somebody with access to the now-moribund Village Voice website had decided to celebrate the 28th anniversary of my review of the…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 11:00AMFriday, May 17, 2019
The rise and fall of America's unconvincing answer to Stratford-upon-Avon
The post The Feingold Column: Fire in an Uncrowded Theater appeared first on New York Stage Review.
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 03:00PMFriday, April 12, 2019
Broadway has seen many musicals, but the ones it’s never seen still fascinate
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SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:00AMFriday, March 29, 2019
What objects survive to tell the theater’s vanishing story?
The post The Feingold Column: Of Merch and Memorabilia appeared first on New York Stage Review.
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 10:42AMMonday, February 11, 2019
As the Drama Book Shop staves off its final curtain, a consideration of the magnetism books—and their permanence—hold for theater people
The post The Feingold Column: The Dramas of (and…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 05:00AMThursday, January 24, 2019
When the great, polymathic actor died in December, the theater lost one of its most remarkable artists
The post The Feingold Column: Explaining Alvin Epstein appeared first on New York Stage…
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 05:00AMThursday, December 13, 2018
A drunk yells, a panic starts, a columnist worries. Should he?
The post The Feingold Column: That ‘Fiddler’ Incident appeared first on New York Stage Review.
SOURCE: New York Stage Review at 05:00AM 
