Word: woolcott
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Algonquin Round Table, a grand gathering of playwrights, critics, writers and comics. Dorothy Parker, George S. Kaufman, Robert Benchley were all there; the Marx Brothers dropped by occasionally. Sherwood Anderson and Moss Hart were frequently in attendance. Knowing that anything witty would be printed, repeated and quoted, Woolcott directed the conversation toward the four topics that interested him: "Theater, friends, murder and anything else that interests me." The Round Table flourished. Only the flight of New York's sharpest tongues to Hollywood forced it to disband in the late 1930s. Woolcott remained in New York, writing, commenting, and broadcasting...
...sleek combination of biography and gossip, Howard Teichman has placed Woolcott firmly in his time. His light direction conveys Woolcott's manner and speech, lapsing melodramatically out of character only at the end of the first act. The lighting, by Vincent DiGabriele, is discrete, the set, by Tony Cooper, comfortable and prepossessing. But most important is Peter Boyden's admirable characterization, which he carries with a presence and manner that convey every nuance of the man. Woollcott would have been flattered...