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Laurence Senelick

Book Review: “The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar” — A Formalist Critic’s Picaresque Novel

A new complete translation of the most accomplished novel by Yury Tynyanov, an innovative Russian man of letters during the experimental 1920s.

By: Laurence Senelick Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Anna Kurkina Rush, Christopher Rush, Laurence Senelick, The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar, Yury Tynyanov

Coming Attractions in Theater: October 2010

October brings in epics from the classics (Shakespeare and Dickens), ghost stories from the classics (Poe, Henry James), a tragicomedy from a classic (O’Neill), and a comedy from a classic (Ben Jonson). Annie Baker, Ethan Coen, and the Rude Mechanicals provide some welcome respite from the tried-and-true. Given the state of the economy and the […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Theater Tagged: 11:11 Theater Company, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Actors' Shakespeare Project, Amost an Evening, Annie Baker, ArtsEmerson, Body Awareness, Charlestown Working Theater, Circle Mirror Transformation, Company One, David Edgar, Edgar Allan Poe, Four Places. Ben Jonson, Laurence Senelick, Lyric stage company of boston, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Nora Theatre Company, Robert Hatcher, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Stoneham Theatre, The Alchemist, The Aliens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, The Method Gun, The Turn of the Screw, William-Shakespeare

Theater Interview: Writing about the American Stage

As a theatrical event, The American Stage anthology would have to be classified as a rousing vaudeville show: there are literary routines for all brows—high, middle, and low. The American Stage: Writings on Theater from Washington Irving to Tony Kushner, edited by Laurence Senelick, Library of America, 867 pages, $40. By Bill Marx “There is […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Theater Tagged: george-jean-nathan, Laurence Senelick, The American Stage, The LIbrary of America, Theater, theater-criticism

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