Contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. En Tennessee Williams is one of the most brilliant play rights. A streetcar names desire, cat on a tin roof. Tennessee williams, mad pilgrimage of the flesh makes it clear its written by john lahr, the only theater critic to win a tony award. Lahr, good to have you on this program. I was asking you, when you came on the show, whether or not it was worth dedicating devoting 12 years of your life to this . Yes, it really was. The job of a critic isnt just to look at the theater, but look after it. Tennessee wrote over 70 plays along with lyric poetry and wonderful letters. This stuff hasnt been wrangled. He said, famously, that his plays were an interior landscape of himself at the time he wrote them. All these famous plays, the ones you mentioned, were written at different times. If you chart using his letters and his diaries, if you chart where he was at any moment, you see him change as his heart opens and flowers and
Issue through comedy and satire. It is called dear white people. A group of black students at a fictional, predominantly white, Ivy League School. We will speak with actor Marque Richardson, an awardwinning firsttime director Justin Simien. I say to all the white people in the audience, on behalf of all of the black people in the world, you have the right to left. You get a free honorary lacquered with the two sundance ticket. It is meant to be a satire. I think if you start with the title for you get the kneejerk reaction it is going to be an hourlong indictment, you miss the point. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama is holding an emergency meeting with g7 leaders in the netherlands today following russias annexation of crimea. The session comes as the russian government continues to strengthen its control of crimea , seizing more bases and attaining detaining ukrainian commanders. The cr
Contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. En Tennessee Williams is one of the most brilliant play rights. A streetcar names desire, cat on a tin roof. Tennessee williams, mad pilgrimage of the flesh makes it clear its written by john lahr, the only theater critic to win a tony award. Lahr, good to have you on this program. I was asking you, when you came on the show, whether or not it was worth dedicating devoting 12 years of your life to this . Yes, it really was. The job of a critic isnt just to look at the theater, but look after it. Tennessee wrote over 70 plays along with lyric poetry and wonderful letters. This stuff hasnt been wrangled. He said, famously, that his plays were an interior landscape of himself at the time he wrote them. All these famous plays, the ones you mentioned, were written at different times. If you chart using his letters and his diaries, if you chart where he was at any moment, you see him change as his heart opens and flowers and
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