It was around this time in the interview that all hell broke loose. After sharing that I had made the trip from Los Angeles expressly to see her Lear, I told her that she had helped me to hear a line from the play as if for the first time. When Lear painfully acknowledges a lifetime of neglecting the vulnerable poor (“Oh, I have taken too little care of this!”), it seemed as if Jackson’s political and artistic commitments merged in a rich understanding of the play. “I didn’t write the line,” she roared. “Why do you dismiss Shakespeare?”
Tag: 04.26.18
They’ve Found Winslow Homer’s Camera, And It May Change The Way We Look At His Art
“Little did the Bowdoin College Museum of Art know that an unsolicited phone call it received in 2014 would lead to an exhibition this summer that may change the way Winslow Homer is viewed in art history.” Judith H. Dobrzynski reports.
The Rotten Tomatoes Of the Theatre
“Show-Score features reviews from both critics and members who are regular theatergoers—each show gets two scores based on what critics and consumers think. The site has about 50,000 members so far, who have written 80,000 reviews of New York City shows.”