Ricky Schroder’s Tears, Sweeney Todd’s Razors
In this excerpt from his memoir ‘Lot Six,’ playwright David Adjmi recalls childhood touchstones and the shape and meaning they gave to his pain.
Category Archives: Book Excerpts
The Bard in Africa: A Proof Test of Universality
Western colonizers thought Shakespeare proved their cultural superiority, but a new book explores what his plays have meant to the colonized.
On Being With and Becoming
Two new books on Alexander technique demonstrate both the power and the pitfalls of conveying a hands-on practice in written form.
Mrs. Worthington’s Daughter’s Dilemma
Actors are subject to both the pleasures of imitation and the rigors of an exalted calling—an excerpt from “Letters to a Young Actor.”
From ‘Midsummer’
Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc.
