FREDRIC DANNEN

By Fredric Dannen In 1902, the French author André Gide was invited to name the greatest poet his country had produced in the previous century. His reply is often quoted: …

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By Fredric Dannen I met Stephen Sondheim once. It was a party at the home of Anthony Tommasini, classical music critic for The New York Times, sometime in the mid-1990s …

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The author with Michelle Yeoh, New York City, 1995

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By Fredric Dannen There’s an early episode of “The Sopranos” I can’t get out of my mind these days. Two members of a Mafia crew, Paul “Paulie Walnuts” Gualtieri and …

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By Fredric Dannen Long before American Idol, even before the advent of television, home audiences across North America were captivated by a broadcasted singing competition. It was called the Metropolitan …

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By Fredric Dannen “There’s a double meaning in that!” exclaims Benedick in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, after the sharp-tongued Beatrice disdainfully summons him to dinner. Convinced that Beatrice is …

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By Fredric Dannen My previous two columns were devoted to an unpleasant truth about the German playwright Bertolt Brecht, namely that he had cheated his most important collaborator, Elisabeth Hauptmann, …

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By Fredric Dannen In my column two weeks ago, I wrote about the German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), one of the giants of modern theater, and raised a …

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By Fredric Dannen No one with more than a passing interest in modern theater can overlook the contributions of the German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956). In plays such …

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