by Bryan Waterman | Mar 29, 2011 | Neighborhood Scenes, Odds and Ends, Writing New York
This week in Writing New York we’re still in the early twentieth century, with looks at two artistic enclaves: bohemian Greenwich Village (just before and after World War I) and the Harlem Renaissance, the subject of Cyrus’s lecture Wednesday morning. Over...
by Bryan Waterman | Mar 28, 2011 | Film, People, Writing New York
Today in my lecture to our Writing New York class I talked briefly about James O’Neill’s long run in The Count of Monte Cristo, a role he played over 5,000 times between 1875 and 1917. I promised to post some film clips of late O’Neill performances,...
by Bryan Waterman | Aug 21, 2008 | City on Stage, Resources
I’ve mentioned before my abiding affection for the folks who run the Metropolitan Playhouse. I feel extraordinarily lucky to teach earlier American lit (including 19c drama) and the literary cultures of NYC in a neighborhood — one of the few in the world,...
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