Tag Archives: American/General
Miss Witherspoon & Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge
by Christopher Durang“An endearingly meditative farce . . . It’s a pleasure to note that [Durang] hasn’t lost his screwball.” –Richard Corliss, Time
The Mill Is Burning
by Richard Matthews“A very assured, and, I think, auspicious debut. . . . [Matthews’] desire to be artful is supplied with delicate and stringless artistry, and…
Meditations in an Emergency
by Frank O'Hara“Moving in the way that only simple communication can be moving… His poems always manage a fresh start free from the dreadful posturings of the conventional verse of his generation.”—Kenneth Rexroth, New York Times Book Review…
March Book
by Jesse Ball“Ball displays an otherworldly virtuosity in rendering the uncanny. . . . His luminous, arresting, uncanny dreamscapes call the reader. . . . Coolly…
Marie and Bruce
by Wallace Shawn“In the picture of Marie’s unchanneled forcefulness entangled fatally with Bruce’s blank affability, Shawn finally does achieve a kind of Strindbergian stature . ….
The Marriage of Bette and Boo
by Christopher Durang“A remorselessly sad, achingly funny assault on the vanities, inanities, and insanities of family life . . . a new poignancy has entered his…
Madame Melville and The General from America
by Richard Nelson“Nelson revels in and shrewdly manipulates the conventions of the memory play in ways that are hard to resist.” —Ben Brantley, The New York…
Love Had a Compass
by Robert Lax“Among America’s greatest poets, a true minimalist who can weave awesome poems from remarkably few words.” –Richard Kostelanetz, The New York Times Book Review
Louise in Love
by Mary Jo Bang“Louise is a brilliant poetic creation. The poems that chart her “career” in all its vicissitudes are delicious language games. It is the exactitude…
