How Good is David Mamet, Anyway?: Writings on Theater--and Why It Matters

by JohnHeilpern (Author)

New
Hardcover
1999
$29.68

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

$29.68

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5 in stock

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 02 Dec 1999
ISBN 10: 0415925479
ISBN 13: 9780415925471

Media Reviews

A new collection of [John Heilpern's] essays and reviews showcases the wit, intelligence, compassion, and range of one of theatre's premier critics. Whether he's being a fly-on-the-wall during an amusing luncheon with Sir Ralph Richardson and Sir John Gielgud or praising or damning the acting of Ralph Fiennes and Diana Rigg, Heilpern's prose always suggests a man who is passionately in love with the theatre... In a brilliant opening essay, Heilpern analyzes the differences between American and British theatre and each country's actors... This is a book you can read in small doses if you like-most of the reviews and essays are relatively short-but more likely you'll have a hard time putting it down.
- Dramatics
Lively... It's a nicely varied collection of the theater criticism and essays that the British-bred, New York-based writer has contributed to publications such as Vanity Fair and the New York Observer. The pieces--marked by a seemingly effortless, unpretentious and entertaining style that is full of passion, wit and erudition--range from a comparison of the British and American theater tradition, and profiles of Noel Coward, Alec Guinness and Michael Bennett, to reviews of the work of Samuel Beckett, Tony Kushner and Tennessee Williams, and of Kevin Spacey in The Iceman Cometh and Brian Dennehy in Death of a Salesman..
- Chicago Sun Times
When you come right down to it, reading Heilpern is as much fun as a trip to New York--and that's really saying something.
- Jewish Exponent
... an absolutely marvelous, seriously hilarious compilation of his [Heilpern's] old reviews, along with his essays on the theater and why it matters...a sensational book fortheater lovers everywhere.
- Time Out New York, December 2, 1999
Those eager to take a breezy backward glance at the British and American theater of the past 30 years or so might happily page through John Heilpern's lively book...Marked by a seemingly effortless, unpretentious and entertaining style that is full of passion, wit and erudition.
- Chicago Sun-Times, December 5, 1999