Category: people

“A priest came to visit me. I said to him, ‘You know, I forgive them all, let God be their judge. Because man is weak.’ I forgive all those people who were involved.”

“It’s a combination of wanting a change personally and of feeling like I’ve hit a wall in my development that I don’t know how to break through. … Just to be clear, I won’t be directing ‘cinema,’ for lack of a better word. But I still plan to direct – theater stuff, and I’d do a TV series if something great were to come along.”

“On one side stand those who place culpability for Plath’s suicide squarely on the head of her husband, the late English poet Ted Hughes. The other side, equally intransigent, blames her innately tortured psyche, which had led to at least one prior suicide attempt.”

“The tours are really a one-woman show of [Maria] Mansfield’s 45 years as a guide here.”

“She conjured her subject’s life from her years of sifting through records in libraries, church registries, provincial town halls and family archives. The fruit of her labor, reviewers agreed, was a forthright portrait of a complex personality, set against the background of his renown as the composer of Rigoletto.”

“Ms. Jacker came to prominence in Off Broadway, regional and repertory theater in the early 1970s. Over the years more than a dozen of her plays were staged in prominent houses.”

“Mr. Korab captured the romance, moodiness and humanity of even the most austere postwar buildings.”

“Baryshnikov’s first two purchases set a course for his collecting, which has tended toward small, elegant pieces, often with some connection to the world of the theatre, easily transportable, intimate in scale.”