Joe Horowitz on Conrad L. Osborne’s new Opera as Opera: The State of the Art — “the most important English-language treatment of opera in performance ever written.”
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Neil Simon, Called The World’s Most Popular Playwright After Shakespeare, Dead At 91
“Time magazine proclaimed him the ‘patron saint of laughter’” His shows, with an arsenal of sarcastic wit, became highly entertaining staples of high school and community theaters, and they popped up on stages as far away as Beijing and Moscow. But mostly, he dominated Broadway like no other playwright of the past half-century. Hardly a year passed from 1961 to 1993 without a new production by Mr. Simon, whose legacy was a colossally successful run of comedies and comic dramas on topics such as romance, adultery, divorce, sibling rivalry, cancer and the fear of aging.”