“Act One” is one of the most popular books about theater ever written. It is the autobiography of the early years of the playwright / director Moss Hart (1904-1961), a chronicle of his early life from poverty-stricken Bronx boyhood in a family of immigrant British Jews, to his rise—through passion for theater, extraordinary persistence and resilience—to co-authorship with George S. …
Eye on Theatre: Other Desert Cities By John Simon
Almost all writers are variable, sometimes better, sometimes less so. Jon Robin Baitz is no exception, and his oeuvre has the usual hills and valleys. His new play, Other Desert Cities, in an excellent production, definitely holds the interest and provides a surprise ending. Watched, it is a hill; read, it may be more like halfway up.