Just Turn Her Loose on Broadway: Our Critics Discuss Forever Female (for Parterre Box)
The lead role is a wonderful fit for Ginger Rogers, who plays it with brassy charm and a laudable sense of humor.
Where the Boys Are: DF and CK on Ryan Murphy’s The Boys in the Band (for Parterre Box)
BOYS could be seen as the gay equivalent of SHOW BOAT—hugely important, and now extremely problematic.
On the Wings of Eagels: More Versions of Maugham’s The Letter on Film (for Parterre Box)
Jeanne Eagels and Siobhan McKenna show that there are many ways to write The Letter.
Mediocrities Everywhere: Amadeus from NT Live (for Parterre Box)
Peter Shaffer’s play is seen here for what it’s always been: a piece of lowbrow camp masquerading as highbrow art.
Youth Comes to the Fore: Katharine Hepburn in Morning Glory (for Parterre Box
In one of her earliest film performances, already: “The girls got something!”
A Necessary Luxury: Katharine Hepburn in Holiday and The Philadelphia Story (for Parterre Box)
David and Cameron discuss some of the greatest comedic performances ever filmed.
Rust, Bones and the Wind: A Delicate Balance with Hepburn and Scofield (for Parterre Box)
The exceptionally fine acting in this film survives the test of time better than Albee’s play.
Martius, Martius, Martius: Coriolanus from Donmar Warehouse via NT Live (for Parterre Box)
This sensational production streams for one week only on YouTube.
Get Off at Elysian Fields: Brando & Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire (for Parterre Box)
Nearly 70 years after its debut, A Streetcar Named Desire remains the greatest stage-to-screen adaptation of all time.
Don’t Turn the Light On!: Jessica Lange in A Streetcar Named Desire (for Parterre Box)
More on the Williams’ classic, this time a 1995 TV adaptation, derived from a Broadway revival.
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