American Buffalo, first produced in 1975 in Chicago, then on Broadway in 1977, is noted as the play that established playwright David Mamet as the premiere poet of American speech—emphatic, riddled with profanity, full of vague nouns with referents that change according to context, with meaning guided always by inflection. Mamet’s influence has been so [...]
Continue Reading →Hey, we owe these guys! Kehler Liddell Gallery was more than kind enough to play host to our book party on Tuesday, December 7. At the party, attendees were actually privy to the art exhibit mentioned below prior to its official opening by about five days. (See, there really are benefits to subscribing!)
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Westville’s Kehler Liddell Gallery has long established itself as a place to view masterful paintings, prints and sculptures, but its use as a space for a variety of cultural and community events continues to evolve. Tuesday night the gallery was host to a book launch party by New Haven Review [...]
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“Art” by Yasmina Reza first appeared in Paris in 1995. Shortly afterwards it was translated into English for the British stage and turned up at the Royale Theatre (now the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre) on Broadway on March 1, 1998. The cast was stellar for this three-person play, performed without intermission. The six-month Broadway [...]
Continue Reading →Pulitzer-prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey, who is currently the James Weldon Johnson Fellow at the Beinecke, is reading at that august repository of valuable manuscripts, 121 Wall St., this Wednesday, Nov. 18th, at 4 p.m. Read my discussion of her book Native Guard here.
Local poet Don Barkin, author of That Dark Lake, will be [...]
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